Skip to content

LinuxLinks

The Linux Portal Site

  • Home
  • Best Software
  • Reviews
  • Series
  • Info
  • Search

Category: Utilities

Documentation

plocate – much faster locate

May 25, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

plocate is a locate based on posting lists, completely replacing mlocate with a much faster (and smaller) index.

Read more
Documentation

mlocate – locate/updatedb implementation

May 25, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mlocate is a locate/updatedb implementation, a utility for finding files by name quickly. This is free and open source software.

Read more
Documents

Natls – ls alternative

May 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Natls is an `ls` alternative with useful info and a splash of color. It’s an easy to use utility written in Rust.

Read more
Monitoring

alder – minimal implementation of tree

May 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

alder is a recursive directory listing program that supports file-size reporting, and pattern matching. Written in JavaScript.

Read more
Monitoring

twf – standalone tree view explorer inspired by fzf

May 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

twf is a standalone tree view explorer inspired by fzf. twf stands for Tree View Find. It’s written in the Go language.

Read more
Monitoring

ictree – interactive tree

May 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ictree is like tree but interactive. This terminal-based program takes a list of contents of directories and displays them in a pager/

Read more
Monitoring

tre – tree command, improved

May 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

tre is a modern alternative to the tree command. tre provides a -e flag that, when used, turns on the “editor aliasing” feature.

Read more
Monitoring

Tree – display a tree view of directories

May 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Tree is a handy little utility to display a tree view of directories. This is free and open source software written in C.

Read more
Find

ddi – wrapper for dd

May 18, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ddi (or dd-interactive) is a wrapper for dd. It’s free and open source software written in the Rust programming language.

Read more
Documentation

xcp – extended cp

May 18, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

xcp is a (partial) clone of the Unix cp command .It is not intended as a full replacement, but as a companion utility. Written in Rust.

Read more

Posts pagination

«Previous Posts 1 … 104 105 106 107 108 … 135 Next Posts»

Best Free Software

Document Management Systems
Documents
Web Browsers
Internet
Education
Education
Internet Radio
Audio
YouTube Tools
Video
Paint Palette
Graphics
System Administration
Admin
Docks
Desktop
Productivity
Productivity
Genome Browsers - Web Based
Science
Games
Games
Vulnerability detection
Security
Replacements for du
Utilities
Object Relational Mapping
Coding
Stockmarket
Finance
Web Delivery
Web Apps
Crafting
Other
Programming Books
Books

Data Science

Data ScienceTake our free interactive courses in data science. There are courses for Python using pandas and plotnine and R using ggplot2.

Get up to speed in 20 minutes. No programming knowledge is required.

Recent Comments

  • martin on BOSGAME M4 Plus Mini PC running Linux: Power Consumption
  • Steve Emms on zomodoro – simple pomodoro
  • Torin Doyle on zomodoro – simple pomodoro
  • Steve Emms on Whispering – speech recognition tool
  • Torin Doyle on Whispering – speech recognition tool
  • Steve Emms on Useful Ubuntu Touch Apps – Music Recognition
  • Torin Doyle on Useful Ubuntu Touch Apps – Music Recognition
  • Kile on BOSGAME M4 Plus Mini PC running Linux: Power Consumption
  • Leith on BOSGAME M4 Plus Mini PC running Linux: Power Consumption
  • Steve Emms on LinuxLinks: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Programming Books

Read our curated lists of great free programming books. Learn Java, C, Python, C++, C#, JavaScript, PHP, and many more languages.

Alternatively, check out our series of great free programming tutorials.

Feedback

Help expand our coverage of Linux software by completing our:

  • Open-source software form
  • Linux distro form

Your feedback is very much appreciated. Complete our contact form.

Support Us


Donate
to LinuxLinks

Thank you for supporting LinuxLinks. If you like our site, the best way to ensure it remains available is to make a donation.

Small Devices

We’re publishing a series of articles for each of these Linux-based phones, Mini PCs, SBCs, and NAS devices.

BOSGAME M4 Plus – AMD Ryzen
Minisforum AI X1 Pro – AMD Ryzen
Volla Phone Quintus with UT (ARM)
ASRock NUC BOX-255H (x86_64)
Aiffro K100 All-SSD NAS (x86_64)
Radxa Cubie A7A (ARM)
Radxa ROCK 5T (ARM)
Radxa ROCK 4D (ARM)
Firefly AIBOX-3588S (ARM)
Banana Pi BPI-F3 (RISC-V)
Orange Pi R2S (RISC-V)
Orange Pi RV2 (RISC-V)
Orange Pi 5 Ultra and Max (ARM)
Raspberry Pi 5 (ARM)

Replace Proprietary Software

Migrate from large multinational software companies and embrace free and open source solutions.

Google
Google
Microsoft
Microsoft
Apple
Apple
Adobe
Adobe
IBM
IBM
Autodesk
Autodesk
Oracle
Oracle
Atlassian
Atlassian
Corel
Corel
Cisco
Cisco
Intuit
Intuit
SAS
SAS
Progress
Progress
Salesforce
Salesforce
Citrix
Citrix

Reviews

ReviewsWe’ve written tons of in-depth and completely impartial reviews of open source software. Read our reviews.

New to Linux?

NewbieBegin your Linux journey with our easy-to-understand guide designed for newcomers.

Mega Compilations

100 GUI Apps
100 TUI Apps
100 CLI Apps

Recent Posts

  • Cyrethium – Debian-based Linux distribution focused on privacy and security
  • 17 Best Free and Open Source Email Servers
  • SLADE3 – modern editor for Doom-engine based games
  • hyprwhspr – native speech-to-text
  • Karapulse – karaoke player
  • bibman – CLI/TUI bibliography manager
  • sshtool – simple interactive SSH session manager
  • 6 Best Free and Open Source Haskell Linter Tools
  • 20 Best Free and Open Source Audio Analyzers
  • Alien-OS – Debian-based Linux distribution

Desktops

9 Best Desktops
24 KDE Themes
33 KDE Widgets
42 GNOME Extensions
Pantheon, Trinity, LXDE

Archives

Related

Contact us
Link us
FAQ
ForFOSS.com
OSSBlog.org
Privacy Policy

© LinuxLinks 1998-2025: Designed by LinuxLinks.