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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: Wget

January 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

We spotlight alternatives tools to Wget, a non-interactive network downloader.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: curl

January 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

We spotlight alternatives tools to curl, a utility for transferring data from or to a server, supporting many protocols.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: history

January 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

history is a command which displays or manipulates the history list. We recommend alternatives to this command.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: November and December 2024 Updates

December 31, 2024 Steve Emms Software

November and December 2024 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: tar

December 29, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

We showcase free and open source alternatives to tar, the most widely used archiving utility in Linux systems.

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Help The Site: Suggest an Open Source Program

December 24, 2024 Steve Emms Software

Please complete the form if you’d like us to add an open source program to our compilations.

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Waybox – minimalist Wayland compositor

December 16, 2024 Steve Emms Software

Waybox is a *box-style (minimalist) Wayland compositor modeled largely on Openbox.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cat

December 13, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

cat derives its name from concatenation and provides other nifty options too. This article spotlights alternative tools to cat.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: rename

December 11, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to rename which renames the specified files by replacing the first occurrence of expression in their name by replacement.

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detox – clean up filenames

December 10, 2024 Steve Emms Software

The detox utility renames files to make them easier to work with under Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.

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