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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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Files

vim-fern – asynchronous tree viewer

January 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

vim-fern is a general purpose asynchronous tree viewer written in VimL.

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lsv – Vlang implementation of ls

January 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lsv is a modern alternative to ls in the spirit of exa, eza, lsd, pls, natls, ls-go and others.

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Batch Renamers

Inviska Rename – batch rename utility

January 8, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Inviska Rename is a batch file rename utility that allows you to give meaningful names to groups of files.

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StygianSift – terminal file explorer

January 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

StygianSift will navigate you through the rivers of data and forests of directories with unparalleled ease.

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File Managers

kupo – terminal file browser

January 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

kupo is a terminal file browser written in Python.

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nvim-tree – file explorer for Neovim

January 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

nvim-tree.lua is a file explorer / filesystem tree view plugin for Neovim. It’s written in Lua.

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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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hiSHtory – better shell history

January 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

hiSHtory is a better shell history. It stores your shell history in context.

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xplr – hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer

January 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

xplr is a terminal UI based file explorer that aims to increase your terminal productivity. It’s written in Rust.

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Bevel – command line history in an SQLite database

January 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Bevel is a tool which offers command line history in an SQLite database for effective re-use.

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Files

browsr – file explorer in your terminal

January 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

browsr is a a pleasant file explorer in your terminal supporting all filesystems.

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File Managers

Rust-Traverse – terminal based file explorer

January 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

Rust-Traverse is a terminal based file explorer. It is inspired by the NNN file manager. It uses Ratatui for the terminal UI.

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faint – extensible TUI fuzzy file explorer

December 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

faint is a fuzzy file explorer for the CLI that supports various extensible features.

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transgender – minimalistic terminal file explorer

December 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

transgender is a minimalistic TUI file explorer with minimal dependencies, written by a Ranger hater.

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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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fex – command-line file explorer prioritizing quick navigation

December 29, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

fex is a command-line file explorer inspired by Vim, exa and fzf, built with quick exploration and navigation in mind.

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tere – terminal file explorer

December 28, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

tere is a terminal file explorer. It is a faster alternative to using cd and ls to browse folders in your terminal.

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Treemacs – tree layout file explorer for Emacs

December 28, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

Treemacs is a file and project explorer similar to NeoTree or vim’s NerdTree, but largely inspired by the Project Explorer in Eclipse.

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