Given the time of year, it seems only appropriate to start decorating the desktop. ctree offers a Christmas tree right on your terminal.
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Category: CLI
40 Excellent Ways to Manage Your System – Essential System Tools
This is a series of cornerstone articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small, indispensable utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems.
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spotify-player – command driven Spotify player
spotify-player is a command-line Spotify client that’s written in Rust. It’s published under an open source license.
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ncspot – ncurses Spotify client
ncspot is a command-line Spotify client that’s written in Rust. It’s published under an open source license.
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Spotify TUI – Spotify client for the terminal
For this review, we’re looking at Spotify TUI. It’s a Spotify client for the terminal written in Rust.
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yt-dlp – fork of youtube-dl
yt-dlp is a fork of youtube-dl that’s under active development. It focuses on adding new features and patches and maintaining compatibility.
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Chafa – terminal graphics image viewer
This review looks at a terminal-based image viewer that supports the Kitty Graphics Protocol. It’s named Chafa, shorthand for Character Art Facsimile.
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timg – Terminal Image and Video Viewer
timg is an image and video viewer with support for high resolution graphics in the terminal.
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viu – Terminal Image Viewer with Kitty Graphics Protocol support
viu is different from the vast majority of image viewers. It’s a small command-line program to view images from the terminal.
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Essential System Tools: btop++ – resource monitor
btop++ is an alternative to top. It’s a resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes.
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Excellent Utilities: horcrux – file splitter with encryption and redundancy
horcrux is an open source tool that’s designed to split files and keep them secure with encryption.
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termusic – terminal-based music player
termusic is a music player written in Rust. Here’s our review of this open source software.
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Linux Candy: terminal-parrot – party parrot time
terminal-parrot displays a parrot in your terminal. There’s even an Australian option for those living down under!
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Excellent Utilities: croc – securely transfer files and folders
croc is a command-line utility to send files and folders from one computer to another.
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Quoter – The Console Based Stock Quote Tool
Quoter is a command-line tool that fetches stock prices. It’s written in Java and published under an open source license.
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tickrs – terminal realtime ticker data
tickrs is a terminal-based realtime ticker. It’s written in Rust and sources data from Yahoo! Finance.
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Gamestonk Terminal – investment research tool
Gamestonk Terminal provides a modern Python-based integrated environment for financial investment research. Here’s our review of this open source software.
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ticker – terminal stock ticker
ticker is simple software that lets you track stocks, currencies, cryptocurrencies, commodities and indexes.
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15 Utilities, Scripts and Ways to Interrogate Your PC
There are many ways of obtaining information about the hardware you are using. The simplest and most reliable source is your system itself.
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Getting Started with Docker: Dry – interactive CLI for Docker containers
Dry is a terminal application to manage and monitor Docker containers. It’s free and open source software.
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