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Calculators

orpie – curses-based RPN calculator

June 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

orpie is a curses-based RPN calculator. The interface is similar to that of modern Hewlett-Packard calculators.

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Calculators

wcalc – command-line calculator

June 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

wcalc is a command-line calculator designed to accept all valid mathematical expressions. It’s written in C.

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Calculators

kalker – calculator with math syntax

June 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

Kalker (or “kalk”) is a calculator program. It supports user-defined variables, functions, differentiation, and integration.

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calc – interactive calculator

June 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

calc is an interactive calculator which provides for easy large numeric calculations, but can be programmed for complex calculations.

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bc-gh – implementation of dc and bc

June 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

bc-gh is an implementation of Unix dc and POSIX bc with GNU and BSD extensions. It’s free and open source software.

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cpc – text calculator

June 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cpc is a text calculator with support for units and conversion. cpc parses and evaluates strings of math. It’s written in Rust.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: bc

June 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to bc, an arbitrary precision calculator language.

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eva – simple calculator REPL

June 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

eva is a simple calculator REPL, similar to bc, with syntax highlighting and persistent history. It’s free and open source software.

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Linguist – Ruby library

June 3, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Linguist detects blob languages, ignore binary or vendored files, suppress generated files in diffs, and generate language breakdown graphs.

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enry – command-line tool based on enry

June 3, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

enry is a programming language detector based on go-enry/go-enry/v2 library. enry is free and open source software.

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sloc – simple tool to count SLOC

June 3, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

sloc is a simple tool to count source lines of code. It’s free and open source software written in CoffeScript.

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polyglot – command-line tool that determines project contents

June 3, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

The goal of poly is to able to point it to any directory and get an accurate, complete, and informative summary of its contents.

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skim – fuzzy finder

June 1, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

skim is a fuzzy finder. It can be used as a general filter (like grep) or as an interactive interface for invoking commands.

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Administrators in action

please – polite regex-first sudo alternative

June 1, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

please is a small utility to delegate accurate least privilege access with ease. It’s written in the Rust programming language.

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Fast Unix Commands – provides alternatives for rm and cp

June 1, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Fast Unix Commands provides modern UNIX commands.The goals of the project are to provide performance, efficiency, and usability.

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Sed-Go – an implementation of sed in Go

June 1, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Sed-Go is an implementation of sed in Go. This sed engine can be embedded in your program.

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sd – find and replace CLI

June 1, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

sd is an intuitive find and replace CLI. sd uses regex syntax that you already know from JavaScript and Python.

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bropages – readable supplement to man pages

June 1, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

bropages is a highly readable supplement to man pages. The CLI tool shows simple, concise examples for commands with syntax highlighting.

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tlrc – tldr client written in Rust

June 1, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

tlrc is a tldr client written in Rust. The tldr-pages project is a collection of community-maintained help pages for command-line tools.

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tcount – cloc alternative

May 31, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

tcount is a utility to count your code by tokens and patterns in the syntax tree. It’s written in the Rust language.

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