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Diff Tools

diff2html-cli – generate HTML diffs

December 11, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

diff2html generates pretty HTML diffs from unified and git diff output in your terminal.

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yoctocolors – tiny command-line coloring package

December 10, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

yoctocolors bills itself as the smallest and fastest command-line coloring package.

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Backup

autorestic – easy backup CLI for restic

December 9, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

autorestic is a wrapper around the restic backup program. The restic cli can be a bit overwhelming and difficult to manage

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smash – find duplicate files super fast

December 8, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

smash is a CLI tool to smash through to find duplicate files efficiently.

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Diff Tools

dyff – diff tool for YAML files

December 7, 2024 Steve Emms CLI

dyff is a diff tool for YAML files, and sometimes JSON.

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SSD

sn – sniff out build artifacts

December 6, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

sn is a tool to help you find build artifacts. It’s also a replacement for the du command.

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Monitor System

Zenith – turbo-charged top utility

December 5, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews

Zenith is software that’s similar to top but displays histograms, and a wealth of other information such as CPU, GPU, network, and disk usage.

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SSD

space – disk space analyzer and cleaner

December 4, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

space analyses disk usage with an interactive terminal tree, size and path filters, non-interactive reporting and selective deletion.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: yosay – like cowsay but less cow

December 4, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

yosay is a tiny utility that displays a picture of Yeoman with accompanying text.

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SSD

diskus – compute disk usage

December 3, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

diskus is a very simple program that computes the total size of the current directory. It is a parallelized version of du -sh..

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Washington

wttr.in – curl the weather

December 3, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Scientific

wttr.in is a console-based weather forecast service that offers lots of options including various information representation methods.

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Monitor System

vtop – graphical activity monitor for the command line

December 2, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

vtop is a terminal process monitor with braille CPU and memory graphs, process grouping, keyboard navigation and colour themes.

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Documentation

cpy-cli – command-line utility to copy files

December 1, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cpy-cli is a user-friendly command-line tool which copies files. It accepts globs and creates non-existent destination directories.

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Monitor System

TTV – lightweight terminal task viewer

December 1, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

TTV is a lightweight terminal process viewer with Vim-style navigation, live process search and a two-step process termination shortcut.

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Monitor System

below – time traveling resource monitor

November 29, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

below records and replays Linux system activity, with cgroup trees, process statistics, pressure metrics and script-friendly exports.

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cpupower – examine and tune processor settings

November 29, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

cpupower lets Linux users inspect CPU frequencies, adjust scaling governors, monitor idle states and configure processor behaviour.

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Documentation

del-cli – delete files and directories

November 27, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

del-cli is a command-line utility that lets you delete files and directories.

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Batch Renamers

Bren – bulk file renaming program for the shell

November 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Bren is a program for renaming multiple files at once. Bren is versatile and offers support for post-rename scripting with Guile,

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Backup software

Syncthing – continuous file synchronization program

November 25, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Syncthing is a peer-to-peer file synchronisation tool for Linux, with encrypted transfers, folder versioning and flexible device sharing.

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Georgia

metar – weather report tool

November 23, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

metar is a simple utility to find wweather stations and get METAR reports. Most METAR stations are airports.

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