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Linux Candy: Steam Locomotive – fun command for your terminal

March 30, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews

Steam Locomotive is a fun command that’s designed to teach you one thing. Stop mistyping ls!

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youtube-viewer – lightweight application that searches and streams videos from YouTube

March 16, 2020 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

youtube-viewer is a lightweight application for searching and streaming videos from YouTube. youtube-viewer is free and open source software.

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Linux Candy: tetris – terminal interface for Tetris

March 2, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Games, Reviews, Software

tetris is a terminal interface for Tetris, a tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov.

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Excellent System Tools: nnn – portable terminal file manager

February 24, 2020 Luke Baker CLI, Reviews, Utilities

nnn is a free and open source terminal file manager written in the C programming language. nnn focuses on performance over features.

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dutree – reclaim precious hard disk space

February 10, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

dutree is a command line tool to analyze disk usage. It’s written in the Rust programming language. It’s free and open source software. How does it compare to other disk usage analyzers?

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17 Best Free Console Based Linux Multimedia Apps

January 10, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Software

The vast majority of Linux users would never be satisfied without access to a graphical user interface. However, even in 2020 there remain many reasons why console based applications can be extremely desirable. Although console applications are very useful for updating, configuring, and repairing a system, their benefits are not only confined to system administration.

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conrad – conferences and meetups on your terminal

January 6, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Education, Reviews

conrad is a free and open source command-line tool designed to help you track conferences and meetups. The tool is written in Python.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: exa – replacement for ls

December 30, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

exa is a replacement for the venerable ls command. exa sports more features and arguably better defaults than ls.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: nyancat – Terminal-based Pop Tart Cat Animation

December 16, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews

nyancat is an animated, color, ANSI-text program that renders a loop of the classic Nyan Cat animation. It’s free and open source candy.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: ripgrep – recursively search directories for a regex pattern

November 25, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

ripgrep is a line-oriented search tool that recursively searches your current directory for a regex pattern. It’s free and open source software.

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