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Category: Utilities

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pycp – cp and mv with a progressbar

August 24, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pycp is an alternative to the cp and mv commands. pycp adds a progress bar. pycp is inspired by the library progressbar.

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Excellent Utilities: lsd – next gen ls command

August 18, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

lsd is billed as the next gen ls command. It’s free and open source software. Here’s our review of the program.

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System Administration

Essential System Tools: dust – more intuitive version of du

August 11, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

dust gives an instant overview of which directories are using disk space. It’s name derives from the du command and that dust is written in Rust.

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lfs

lfs – list your filesystems

August 6, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

lfs is an open source utility that lists your file systems improving on the venerable df utility in a number of ways.

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Excellent Utilities: tldr – simplified and community-driven man pages

July 14, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

The tldr project is a collection of community-maintained help pages for command-line tools that aims to be a simpler, more approachable complement to traditional man pages.

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vizex

vizex – visualize disk space and disk usage

July 8, 2021 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

vizex is a command line interface program that shows how much free disk space you have. vizex is free and open source software.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: duf – disk usage utility

June 25, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

duf is a simple disk usage utility that offers a more attractive representation than the classic df utility. It’s written in Go.

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Video Tools

qytdl – Qt frontend for Youtube-DL

May 28, 2021 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Utilities

qytdl (long-form: qYoutube-DL) is a Qt frontend to Youtube-DL. Here’s our verdict on this open source program.

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ebook tools

Foliate – simple and modern GTK eBook viewer

May 26, 2021 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Foliate is a simple and modern eBook viewer written in JavaScript. Here’s our review of this free and open source software.

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Text Editor

Compact Text Editors Great for Remote Editing and Much More

May 6, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

A text editor is software used for editing plain text files.

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