The shell is a program that takes commands from the keyboard and gives them to the operating system to perform. We recommend the finest free and open source shells.
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Category: Utilities
direnv unclutters your .profile
direnv is an extension for your shell that manages your environment.
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quickenv is an unobtrusive environment manager
quickenv is a replacement for direnv. It works with existing .envrcs, and as such is a drop-in replacement.
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Shadowenv performs a set of manipulations to the process environment
Shadowenv provides a way to perform a set of manipulations to the process environment upon entering a directory in a shell.
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asdf is an extendable version manager
asdf is a CLI tool that can manage multiple language runtime versions on a per-project basis.
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zsh-autoenv automatically sources .autoenv.zsh files
zsh-autoenv automatically sources (known/whitelisted) .autoenv.zsh files, typically used in project root directories.
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16 Best Free and Open Source CLI Tools to Find and Delete Duplicate Files
This roundup focuses on free and open source command-line tools that help you find and remove duplicate files.
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OptimusUI is a GUI for nVidia Optimus
OptimusUI is a graphical user interface for Laptops with nVidia Optimus Technology (e.g. switchable graphics).
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duple finds and removes duplicate files
duple will iterate through all files and directories that is given and find duplicate files (files are compared on their contents).
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Text Pieces is a developer’s scratchpad
Text Pieces is a small tool for quick text transformations such as checksums, encoding, decoding and so on.
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Wardrobe is a GNOME customization tool
Wardrobe is a utility for installing community made Gnome Shell, Gtk3/4, icon, and cursor themes as well as wallpapers.
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8 Best Free and Open Source Emacs-Like Text Editors
The original program was written in 1976 as a set of macros for an existing text editor called TECO.
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ast-grep performs structural search, lint and rewriting
ast-grep (sg) is a CLI tool for code structural search, lint, and rewriting.
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10 Best Free and Open Source Subtitle Editors
A subtitle editor is software that lets users create and edit subtitles. We pick the finest open source software.
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serpl is a TUI to search and replace keywords
serpl is a terminal user interface (TUI) application that allows users to search and replace keywords in an entire folder,
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10 Best Free and Open Source OCR Tools
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the conversion of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into searchable, editable documents.
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facad is a modern colorful directory listing tool
facad is a modern, colorful directory listing tool for the command line. It’s written in C.
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svu is a small helper for release scripts and workflows
svu provides utility commands and functions to increase specific portions of the version.
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concurrently lets you run multiple commands concurrently
concurrently is similar to the command npm run watch-js & npm run watch-less but better.
ddrescueview examines ddrescue’s mapfiles
ddrescueview is a small tool that allows users to graphically examine ddrescue’s mapfiles in a user friendly GUI application.
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