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Category: CLI
Herrie – minimalistic music player
Herrie is a minimalistic music player that uses the command line. It is written to support a variety of operating systems, audio subsystems.
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GoTTy – turn CLI tools into web applications
GoTTY turns CLI tools into web applications. GoTTY uses xterm.js and hterm to run a JavaScript based terminal on web browsers.
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asciiworld – world map depicted in ASCII
asciiworld offers world maps depicted in ASCII. asciiworld is free and open source.
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colorls – turbocharged alternative to ls
colorls is a Ruby script that enhances ls with color and font-awesome icons. colorls is free and open source software.
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TermTrack – Track satellites in your terminal
TermTrack is a terminal-based program that lets you track the orbits of artificial satellites. The program is written in Python.
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Excellent System Utilities: CPU-X – system profiler tool
CPU-X is a similar tool to the Windows utility CPU-Z. Unlike CPU-Z, CPU-X is free and open source Linux software. Here’s our review.
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Terminal Image Viewer – display images in a terminal
Terminal Image Viewer is a small program to display images in a (modern) terminal using RGB ANSI codes and unicode block graphics characters. It’s free and open source software.
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Annie – video downloader built with Go
Annie is an open source video downloader. It’s written in the Go programming language. Here’s our verdict on this tool.
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cointop – monitor cryptocurrencies in the terminal
cointop is a fast and lightweight interactive terminal based UI application for tracking and monitoring cryptocurrency coin stats in real-time.
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Termgraph – draw basic graphs in the terminal
Termgraph is a command-line tool which draws basic graphs in the terminal. Termgraph is free and open source software and written in Python.
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Excellent System Utilities: Glances – CLI curses-based monitoring tool
Glances is a system administration tool that replaces a whole host of command-line utilities. Here’s our review of Glances.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Dear Diary – Week 32
Keeping a diary of your daily life is an activity that is held dear by many people. In this week’s blog, Luke checks out RedNotebook, Lifeograph, jrnl, and Org on the Raspberry Pi 4.
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Minase – SIXEL-based terminal file manager
Minase is a terminal file manager that uses libsixel, an encoder/decoder implementation for DEC SIXEL graphics. Minase is free and open source software.
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Excellent Utilities: fontpreview – search and preview fonts
Are you looking for a simple command-line tool that lets you search for fonts and preview them with no fuss and bother? fontpreview might just be the ticket.
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Excellent Utilities: Watson – CLI tool to track time
Watson is a CLI-based open source utility that helps you track the time spent on projects. It’s free and open source goodness.
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Excellent Utilities: OCRmyPDF – add OCR text layer to scanned PDFs
OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched. It’s free and open source software. OCRmyPDF uses Tesseract, GhostScript and other tools.
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Linux Candy: gti – typo-based curio inspired by Steam Locomotive
gti catches accidental typos of ‘gti’ instead of ‘git’. It displays an animation of a car driving by, and then launches git.
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Beets – music tagger and library organizer using the MusicBrainz database
Beets is a media library management system. Beets is free and open source software. It’s a tool for getting your music into shape. Here’s my verdict.
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Linux Candy: Steam Locomotive – fun command for your terminal
Steam Locomotive is a fun command that’s designed to teach you one thing. Stop mistyping ls!
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