pxv is a terminal image viewer with truecolour, ANSI, ASCII and animated GIF modes; its upstream repository was archived in April 2026.
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Category: CLI
iv – command-line image viewer
iv is a command-line image viewer using Sixel, iTerm and Kitty graphics protocols, with packages available for Linux, macOS and Windows.
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imv – X11/Wayland image viewer
imv is a lightweight X11 and Wayland image viewer with configurable controls, slideshows, recursive navigation and scriptable commands.
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inotail – inotify-based implementation of tail
inotail is a replacement for the ‘tail’ program found in the base installation of every Linux system.
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colortail – like the tail command line utility but with colors
colortail works like tail but can optionally read one or more config files where it’s specified which patterns results in which colors.
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ptail – tail but dynamic
ptail is a small, and likely useless, utility that truncates the output from processes.
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retail – tail with regular expressions
retail can output that part of a file (or pipe) following the last match of a regular expression,
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: watch
This article spotlights alternatives tools to watch. The software featured here is free and open source goodness.
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rename-CLI – rename files quickly
rename-CLI is a cross-platform tool for renaming files quickly, especially multiple files at once.
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ren – takes find-formatted lines via standard input, and batch renames them
ren is a command-line utility that takes find-formatted lines via standard input, and batch renames them.
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Stakkr – Docker Compose development stack tool
Stakkr is a command-line tool for assembling Docker Compose development stacks from simple configuration files; it is now inactive.
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VisioNomicon – leverages GPT-4o to rename image files
VisioNomicon is a powerful Python-based command-line utility tool designed to rename image files using the capabilities of GPT-4o.
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Yash – yet another shell
Yash, yet another shell, is a POSIX-compliant command line shell written in C99 (ISO/IEC 9899:1999).
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moove – manipulate file names and locations
moove is a command line tool for renaming and moving files and directories using a text editor.
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Rash – Reckless Racket Shell
Rash is a language, library, and shell REPL for Racket. Rash combines the convenience of simple shell-like syntax with the power of Racket.
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oksh – Portable OpenBSD ksh
oksh is a portable OpenBSD ksh, based on the Public Domain Korn Shell (pdksh).
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Murex – intuitive, typed and content aware shell
Murex is a shell, like bash / zsh / fish / etc however Murex supports improved features and an enhanced UX.
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ksh – Unix shell
KornShell (ksh) is a Unix shell which was developed by David Korn at Bell Labs in the early 1980s.
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ion – modern system shell
ion is a modern system shell that features a simple, yet powerful, syntax.
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es – extensible shell
es is an extensible shell with higher-order functions. The language was derived from the Plan 9 shell, rc, and functional languages.
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