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Category: CLI

Painting tools

BlockPaint – terminal-based painting tool

October 1, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

BlockPaint is a painting program that allows you to draw pixel graphics in the terminal using the mouse.

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Linux Candy: PyBonsai – generates procedural ASCII art trees

October 1, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews

PyBonsai is a Python script that generates procedural ASCII art trees in the comfort of your terminal.

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jot – note management for the terminal

October 1, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

Jot is a feature-stripped version of Obsidian focused on rapid note management through the terminal.

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Chipmunk – logfile viewer and analyzer

October 1, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Chipmunk is a fast logfile viewer that can deal with huge logfiles (>10 GB).

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Art

Artem – convert images to ASCII art

September 30, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

Artem is a small cli program to easily convert images to ascii art, named after the Latin word for art.

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fastdiract – quick shell navigation and command execution

September 27, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fastdiract (fastdir + fastaction) is a pair of shell tools based on key-value storage for quick shell navigation and command execution.

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Rucola – terminal-based markdown note manager

September 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Rucola is a terminal-based markdown note manager to view statistics, explore connections and launch apps.

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menucd – directory browser and changer

September 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

menucd is a directory browser and changer for the command line.

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Radio Recorder – command line internet radio player and recorder

September 25, 2024 Luke Baker CLI, Internet, Multimedia, Reviews

Radio Recorder is a command line internet radio player and recorder. This is free and open source software written in Java.

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Folder navigation

slingshot – quickly navigate across folders

September 25, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

slingshot is a lightweight tool to browse files in the terminal.

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