yabd is a simple (~300 lines of python) daemon that sets the brightness of the screen depending on ambient brightness.
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Category: CLI
Decman – declarative package and configuration manager for Arch
Decman lets you manage installed packages, your dotfiles, enabled systemd units, and run commands automatically.
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13 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Task Managers
A task manager is software which enables users to compile a list of tasks to be completed. This list is also known as a to-do list.
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liz-desktop – Rust-based shortcut helper
liz-desktop is a Rust-based shortcut helper to remember, customize and autorun shortcuts or commands. Developed via Tauri 2.0.
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22 Best Free and Open Source Replacements for du
du is a standard program used to estimate file space usage—space used under a particular directory or files on a file system. We recommend alternative commands to du.
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IsMyArchFree – identify licenses
IsMyArchFree is a simple program that analyzes pacman-installed packages’ licenses and flags them as free, permissive, …
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Calcol – wrapper to colorize cal
Calcol is a wrapper around the cal command from util-linux that allows you to display a colorized calendar.
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folsy – folder synchronization script
folsy is simple shell script which performs a job similar to other (folder) synchronization tools, but with nearly no resource consumption
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Linux Candy: shuffle – ASCII art with a cool shuffle effect
The shuffle command prints an ASCII art picture with a cool shuffle effect.
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8 Best Free and Open Source Linux Terminal-Based Archive Managers
Useful terminal-based archive managers.
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lssh – list-based ssh, scp, sftp client
This CLI utility can read a prepared list in advance and connect ssh/scp/sftp the selected host.
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FLAM3 – cosmic recursive fractal flames
FLAM3 is an original fractal flame renderer and genetic language.
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10 Best Free and Open Source Linux GUI-Based Bibliography Tools
A common misconception is that bibliography tools are really only useful for academics. However, this type of software is a type of reference manager offering the ability to collect large amounts of metadata.
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QuickBib – fetch BibTeX for DOIs and arXiv identifiers
QuickBib fetches BibTeX entries from DOIs, arXiv IDs, and known journal URLs. Quickly convert identifiers into usable BibTeX records.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cksum
This article spotlights alternative tools to cksum, a tool to compute and verify file checksums.
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ii – minimalist FIFO and filesystem-based IRC client
ii creates an irc directory tree with server, channel and nick name directories.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cp
This article spotlights alternative tools to cp, a tool for copying files and directories.
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pkgdu – display Arch packages disk usage size
pkgdu is a tool to display packages disk usage size for Arch Linux.
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14 Best Free and Open Source Replacements for ls
When invoked without any arguments, ls lists the files in the current working directory. We recommend some great replacements.
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duviz – render ASCII-art representation of disk space usage
duviz is a (Python 3) command-line tool to visualize disk space usage.
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