fre is a CLI tool for tracking your most-used directories and files.
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Category: Utilities
Alternatives to popular CLI tools: ping
This article spotlights alternative tools to ping. All software featured here is free and open source goodness.
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4 Best Free and Open Source Shutdown Timers
Linux is blessed with an abundance of useful utilities. We feature interesting shutdown timers. Open source goodness as you’d expect.
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9 Best Free and Open Source Terminal Emoji Tools
An emoji is a pictogram, logogram, ideogram or smiley embedded in text and used in electronic messages and web pages. We recommend terminal based emoji tools.
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zerobrew – fast Homebrew-compatible package manager
zerobrew is a fast Homebrew-compatible package manager.
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yamldiff – diff between two YAML files
yamldiff is a CLI tool to diff two YAML/JSON files. Supports multi-document YAML files (documents separated by —).
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ecscope – monitor AWS ECS resources from the terminal
ecscope lets you monitor AWS ECS resources from the terminal. It provides a TUI which shows services, tasks and containers in a single view.
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Cursus – stores your history and makes it searchable
Cursus writes your commands into an sqlite database.
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11 Best Free and Open Source GUI Batch Renamers
A batch renamer lets you renames files and folders without having to click on every single file individually. Here’s some open source goodies.
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taproom – TUI for Homebrew
taproom is a terminal user interface (TUI) for Homebrew. It provides a way to explore formulae and casks directly in your terminal.
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awtwall – fast TUI wallpaper picker for Wayland
awtwall is a fast TUI wallpaper picker for Wayland with image previews, saved settings, and a keyboard-first workflow.
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cargo-seek – search, add and install cargo crates
cargo-seek is a terminal user interface (TUI) for searching, adding and installing cargo crates.
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Wallrus – generate colorful abstract wallpapers
Wallrus is a user-friendly GNOME (GTK4) application for generating colorful abstract wallpapers based on different patterns and effects.
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SPM – simple package manager
SPM is a TUI wrapper for pacman and yay that makes package management visual and interactive.
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RVVM – RISC-V virtual machine
RVVM is a virtual machine / emulator for RISC-V guests, which emphasizes on performance, security, lean code and portability.
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9 Best Free and Open Source Tools to Search the Filesystem
Desktop search is a software application which searches the contents of computer files, rather than searching the internet.
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fzf – command-line fuzzy finder
fzf is a general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder released under an open source license. It’s an interactive Unix filter for command-line.
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FSearch – inspired by Everything Search Engine
FSearch is a fast file search open source utility for Linux operating systems, inspired by Everything Search Engine, a desktop search utility.
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ANGRYsearch – Linux version of Everything Search Engine
ANGRYsearch is a fast file search open source utility written in Python for Linux operating systems, inspired by Everything Search Engine.
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renux – terminal-based bulk file renamer
renux is a tool with a text-based (terminal) user interface (TUI) that automates file renaming.
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