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miniserve – CLI tool to serve files and dirs over HTTP

April 10, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

miniserve is a small, self-contained cross-platform CLI tool that allows you to just grab the binary and serve some file(s) via HTTP.

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Compression

PXZ – parallel LZMA compressor using liblzma

April 7, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Parallel XZ (PXZ) is a compression utility that takes advantage of running LZMA compression of different parts of an input file.

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arbtt – automatic rule-base time tracker

April 6, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

arbtt, the Automatic Rule-Based Time Tracker is time tracking software.

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Durdraw

Durdraw – ASCII, Unicode and ANSI art editor

April 6, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews

Durdraw is an ASCII, Unicode and ANSI art editor which seeks inspiration from classic ANSI software such as TheDraw, Aciddraw and Pablodraw.

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setfacl – set file access control lists

April 3, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

setfacl sets (replaces), modifies, or removes the access control list (ACL) to regular files and directories.

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chmod-cli – brings the chmod command in tui format

April 3, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

chmod-cli is a simple tool that brings the chmod command in tui format.

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Linux Candy: ASCII Art Converter

April 1, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews, Utilities

ASCII Art Converter converts images into ASCII art. It’s free and open source software written in Rust.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: uptime

March 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to uptime, a utility which tells you how long the system has been running.

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Documentation

tuptime – report historical and statistical real time of the system

March 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

tuptime is a utility that reports historical and statistical real time of the system, keeping it between restarts.

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Documentation

ruptime – poor man’s ruptime

March 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ruptime is a program that reports uptime to a server, making the information remotely accessible using the ruptime client.

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Documentation

downtimed – system downtime monitoring and reporting tool

March 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

downtimed is a program for monitoring operating system downtime, uptime, shutdowns and crashes and for keeping record of such events.

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Documentation

lastwake – wake/suspend time system journal analyzer

March 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lastwake parses the systemd journal to find out: time of last cold boot, and start/end times of each sleep/resume cycle and their duration.

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Documentation

uptimed – uptime record daemon

March 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

uptimed is an uptime record daemon keeping track of the highest uptimes a computer system ever had.

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Recording Studio

wl-screenrec – wlroots screen recording

March 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

wl-screenrec is billed as a high performance screen/audio recorder for wlroots.

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Image Compression Tools

ucollage – extensible command line image viewer

March 29, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

ucollage is a Vim-inspired terminal image browser with ratings, categories and editing tools; its upstream repository is now archived.

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Documents

logo-ls – modern ls command

March 29, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

logo-ls is billed as a modern ls command with vscode like File Icon and Git Integrations. It’s free and open source software.

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Linux Chess Apps

chess-tui – text-based chess game

March 27, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Games, Reviews

There are many open source chess clients for Linux. What’s unusual about chess-tui is that the program has no fancy graphics.

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Security

Jomon – network forensics and passive sniffer

March 25, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Jomon is a network forensics and passive sniffer tool. It monitors all incoming/outgoing network traffic, without the use of libpcap

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Music

Tag Editor – tag editor with Qt GUI and command-line interface

March 19, 2024 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia

Tag Editor is a tag editor offering both a Qt GUI and a command-line interface.

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Compression

crabz – like pigz but written in Rust

March 18, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

crabz is a fast, compression and decompression tool. crabz is just a wrapper for the gzp library.

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