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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: tree

This article spotlights alternative tools to tree, a utility that lists the contents of directories in a tree-like format.

lstr is a fast, minimalist directory tree viewer. Inspired by the command line program tree, with a powerful interactive mode.

lstree is a wrapper script around ls to display a nice tree structure.

Demolito is a UCI chess engine. As such, it is a command line program, which is not designed to be used directly.

diceware is a passphrase generator. It generates passphrases by concatenating words randomly picked from wordlists.

ADIF Multitool is a command-line tool to validate, modify, and convert ham radio log files.

Sysprof is a sampling profiler that uses a kernel module to generate stacktraces which are then interpreted by the userspace program “sysprof”.

Kibi is a configurable text editor with UTF-8 support, incremental search, syntax highlighting, line numbers and more

The systemd init system provides the systemd-analyze tool that can help find performance problems and other important systemd information.

We focus on open source text-based bookmark managers. Most of the tools featured in this article let you manage your bookmarks for websites.