Category: CLI

There are a number of reasons why browsing the web within Emacs may be useful. Browsing is fast, and the user can focus on reading.

Lynx – text web browser

Lynx is a fully-featured free and open source web browser running cursor-addressable, character-cell terminals or emulators.

ELinks – feature-rich text mode web browser

ELinks is an advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web (HTTP/FTP/..) browser. ELinks can render both frames and tables.

w3m – text-based web browser and terminal pager

w3m is a text-based web browser as well as a pager like ‘more’ or ‘less’. w3m is free and open source software.

Links – open source text and graphic web browser

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Links is a graphics and text mode web browser. Links is free and open source software written in the C language.

fio – scriptable I/O tool for storage benchmarks and drive testing

fio allows benchmarking specific disk IO workloads. It can issue its IO requests using one of many synchronous and asynchronous IO APIs.

sysbench – scriptable database and system performance benchmark

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

sysbench is a scriptable multi-threaded benchmark tool based on LuaJIT. sysbench is free and open source software. It’s written in C.

weather – via the command line

Weather via the command line. It uses the darksky.net API. It also includes any current weather alerts in the output.

wthrr – weather companion for the terminal

wthrr lives in your terminal and her passion is meteorology. It’s free and open source software written in Rust.

weather-cli

weather-cli is an app made to get weather information through the terminal. This is free and open source software.

weather – quick access to current weather conditions and forecasts

weather is a command-line utility is intended to provide quick access to current weather conditions and forecasts.

AnsiWeather – current weather conditions in your terminal

AnsiWeather is a shell script for displaying the current weather conditions, with support for ANSI colors and Unicode symbols.

ctt – time tracking for geeks

ctt is a free and open source utility that tracks time while you are working and stores the values in a cconfig database.

utt – command-line time tracking application

Ultimate Time Tracker (utt) is a simple free and open source command-line time tracking application written in Python.

doing – keep track of what you’re doing

doing is a free and open source command line tool for keeping track of what you’re doing and tracking what you’ve done.

timetrap – command line time tracker

Timetrap is a simple open source command line time tracker written in Ruby. It provides an easy to use interface for tracking time.

Watson – CLI to track your time