tetris is a terminal interface for Tetris, a tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov.
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Category: CLI
Excellent System Tools: nnn – portable terminal file manager
nnn is a free and open source terminal file manager written in the C programming language. nnn focuses on performance over features.
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dutree – reclaim precious hard disk space
dutree is a command line tool to analyze disk usage. It’s written in the Rust programming language. It’s free and open source software. How does it compare to other disk usage analyzers?
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17 Best Free Console Based Linux Multimedia Apps
The vast majority of Linux users would never be satisfied without access to a graphical user interface. However, even in 2020 there remain many reasons why console based applications can be extremely desirable. Although console applications are very useful for updating, configuring, and repairing a system, their benefits are not only confined to system administration.
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conrad – conferences and meetups on your terminal
conrad is a free and open source command-line tool designed to help you track conferences and meetups. The tool is written in Python.
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Excellent Utilities: exa – replacement for ls
exa is a replacement for the venerable ls command. exa sports more features and arguably better defaults than ls.
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Linux Candy: nyancat – Terminal-based Pop Tart Cat Animation
nyancat is an animated, color, ANSI-text program that renders a loop of the classic Nyan Cat animation. It’s free and open source candy.
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Excellent Utilities: ripgrep – recursively search directories for a regex pattern
ripgrep is a line-oriented search tool that recursively searches your current directory for a regex pattern. It’s free and open source software.
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Linux Candy: CMatrix – terminal based “The Matrix”
CMatrix is an ncurses program that simulates the display from “The Matrix”, and is based on the screensaver from the movie’s website.
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Siren – text-based audio player
Siren is a text-based audio player with one of the lowest system footprints. Luke Baker reviews this free and open source music player.
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Excellent Utilities: cheat.sh – community driven cheat sheet
cheat.sh offers unified access to the best community driven documentation repositories of the world via curl/browser interface. There’s also an installable utility for more flexibility.
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Linux Candy: Ternimal – animated lifeform in the terminal
Ternimal simulates a lifeform in the terminal using Unicode block symbols. It’s a script written in Rust with no dependencies and consumes few resources.
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starship – elegant cross-shell prompt at your fingertips
starship is an intelligent and non-intrusive prompt for anyone who spends time at a shell. It’s free and open source software. Read our verdict.
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kitty – hardware-accelerated terminal emulator
kitty offers GPU-acceleration and is targeted at power keyboard users. It’s billed as a modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL based terminal emulator. Here’s a concise review of this terminal emulator.
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Linux Candy: ponysay – cowsay reimplemention for ponies
ponysay is a rewrite of cowsay with lots of full-color characters from My Little Pony. There’s over 400 characters and character combinations.
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Excellent Utilities: Liquid Prompt – adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh
Liquid Prompt gives you a nicely displayed prompt with useful information when you need it. It shows you what you need when you need it.
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cmus – free terminal-based audio player
This review looks at an alternative to musikcube. It’s called cmus. It shares many similarities with musikcube. Both are designed to run on a text-only user interface, reducing the resources required to run the application.
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Excellent Utilities: peco – interactive filtering tool
peco is a CLI utility that filters text interactively. The tool is written in the Go programming language. It’s free and open source software.
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cli-visualizer – command line visualizer for MPD, ALSA and PulseAudio
cli-visualizer is a command line visualizer inspired by C.A.V.A, ncmpcpp, and rainbow. It’s free and open source software.
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Excellent Utilities: McFly – navigate through your shell history
McFly is a tiny utility that replaces the functionality offered by Bash’s ctrl-r with an intelligent search engine.
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