This article spotlights alternative tools to chmod, software that changes file mode bits.
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Category: CLI
setfacl – set file access control lists
setfacl sets (replaces), modifies, or removes the access control list (ACL) to regular files and directories.
Read morechmod-cli – brings the chmod command in tui format
chmod-cli is a simple tool that brings the chmod command in tui format.
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Linux Candy: ASCII Art Converter
ASCII Art Converter converts images into ASCII art. It’s free and open source software written in Rust.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: uptime
This article spotlights alternative tools to uptime, a utility which tells you how long the system has been running.
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tuptime – report historical and statistical real time of the system
tuptime is a utility that reports historical and statistical real time of the system, keeping it between restarts.
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ruptime – poor man’s ruptime
ruptime is a program that reports uptime to a server, making the information remotely accessible using the ruptime client.
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downtimed – system downtime monitoring and reporting tool
downtimed is a program for monitoring operating system downtime, uptime, shutdowns and crashes and for keeping record of such events.
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lastwake – wake/suspend time system journal analyzer
lastwake parses the systemd journal to find out: time of last cold boot, and start/end times of each sleep/resume cycle and their duration.
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uptimed – uptime record daemon
uptimed is an uptime record daemon keeping track of the highest uptimes a computer system ever had.
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wl-screenrec – wlroots screen recording
wl-screenrec is billed as a high performance screen/audio recorder for wlroots.
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ucollage – extensible command line image viewer
ucollage is an extensible command line image viewer inspired by vim, a famous text editor.
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logo-ls – modern ls command
logo-ls is billed as a modern ls command with vscode like File Icon and Git Integrations. It’s free and open source software.
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chess-tui – text-based chess game
There are many open source chess clients for Linux. What’s unusual about chess-tui is that the program has no fancy graphics.
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Jomon – network forensics and passive sniffer
Jomon is a network forensics and passive sniffer tool. It monitors all incoming/outgoing network traffic, without the use of libpcap
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15 Best Free and Open Source Linux File Managers
A file manager is software which provides a user interface to assist in the organisation of files. It helps users manage their files.
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Tag Editor – tag editor with Qt GUI and command-line interface
Tag Editor is a tag editor offering both a Qt GUI and a command-line interface.
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crabz – like pigz but written in Rust
crabz is a fast, compression and decompression tool. crabz is just a wrapper for the gzp library.
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angle-grinder – slice and dice logs
angle-grinder is a command-line tool which lets you slice and dice log files. This is free and open source software written in Rust.
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Machine Learning: Shell Genie – interact with the terminal in plain English
Shell Genie is a command-line tool that lets you interact with the terminal in plain English.
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