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System Administration

Essential System Tools: Czkawka – data cleaner

October 22, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, System Software

Czkawka is a free and open source multi functional program to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images, and more.

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Learning

Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Managing Users – Part 15

August 31, 2021 Steve Emms Beginners, CLI, Desktop

We investigate how to manage users using both the GUI and the command-line. This article is part of the Linux for Starters Guide.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: broot – next gen tree explorer and customizable launcher

August 27, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

broot is a utility that gives an overview of a directory, and much much more.

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pycp – cp and mv with a progressbar

August 24, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pycp is an alternative to the cp and mv commands. pycp adds a progress bar. pycp is inspired by the library progressbar.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: lsd – next gen ls command

August 18, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

lsd is billed as the next gen ls command. It’s free and open source software. Here’s our review of the program.

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System Administration

Essential System Tools: dust – more intuitive version of du

August 11, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

dust gives an instant overview of which directories are using disk space. It’s name derives from the du command and that dust is written in Rust.

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Learning

Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Manipulating Files – Part 13

August 9, 2021 Steve Emms Beginners, CLI

This article explains the fundamentals of manipulating files from the shell. We explore cp, mv, rm and mkdir using Ubuntu 21.04.

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lfs

lfs – list your filesystems

August 6, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

lfs is an open source utility that lists your file systems improving on the venerable df utility in a number of ways.

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Learning

Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Understanding the File System – Part 12

August 2, 2021 Steve Emms Beginners, CLI

Ubuntu has a very different file system compared to Windows. It’s organized in a completely different way designed to offer more security.

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Learning

Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Files and Permissions – Part 10

July 21, 2021 Steve Emms Beginners, CLI

In this article we’ll take you through the basics of files and permissions. We’ll use the ls command. Part of the Linux for Starters series.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: tldr – simplified and community-driven man pages

July 14, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

The tldr project is a collection of community-maintained help pages for command-line tools that aims to be a simpler, more approachable complement to traditional man pages.

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Learning

Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Get Started with the Terminal – Part 9

July 12, 2021 Steve Emms Beginners, CLI, Software

What’s a shell? What’s a terminal? The shell is a program that takes commands from the keyboard and gives them to the operating system to perform.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: duf – disk usage utility

June 25, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

duf is a simple disk usage utility that offers a more attractive representation than the classic df utility. It’s written in Go.

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Text Editor

Compact Text Editors Great for Remote Editing and Much More

May 6, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

A text editor is software used for editing plain text files.

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mmtc

mmtc – minimal mpd terminal client

April 16, 2021 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

mmtc is billed as a minimal MPD terminal client that aims to be simple yet highly configurable.

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vimpc

vimpc – vi/vim inspired client for mpd

February 22, 2021 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

vimpc is a vi/vim inspired client for the Music Player Daemon (mpd). vimpc is free and open source software.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: cornyjokes – corny jokes for the terminal

January 22, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software

Harmless fun with corny jokes in your terminal. Part of the Linux Candy series.

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ncmpcpp

ncmpcpp – featureful ncurses based MPD client inspired by ncmpc

January 18, 2021 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

ncmpcpp is a terminal-based MPD client with a user interface that seeks inspiration from ncmpc and shares a lot of similarities.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: BobRossQuotes – collection of quotes from Bob Ross

January 1, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software

Robert Norman Ross (Bob Ross) was an American painter, art instructor and television personality.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: chucknorris – Chuck Norris jokes in your terminal

December 21, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software

Raise a smile reading these awesome Chuck Norris jokes from your terminal.

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