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Category: Utilities

JSON Tools

faq – more flexible jq

April 22, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

faq is a tool intended to be a more flexible jq, supporting additional formats. The formats are converted into JSON and processed with libjq.

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JSON Tools

unqery – command line tool for querying and transforming JSON data

April 22, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

unq is a stand-alone free and open source command-line tool for querying, transforming and analyzing JSON files using Unquery.

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JSON Tools

emuto – manipulate JSON files

April 22, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Emuto is a small language for manipulating and restructuring JSON and other data files. Emuto is inspired by jq and GraphQL.

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Small Image Tools

10 Small Image Tools that Pack a Real Punch

April 15, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

Linux offers a vast collection of open source small utilities that perform functions ranging from the obvious to the bizarre.

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5 Best Free and Open Source Linux Font Renderers

April 3, 2024 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

This article focuses on font renderers for Linux. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion.

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Font Tools

LibICU – libraries for Unicode and internationalization

April 3, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

ICU is a mature, widely used set of C/C++ and Java libraries providing Unicode and Globalization support for software applications.

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FriBidi – implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm

April 3, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

FriBidi is the free Implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm.

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Font Tools

Fontconfig – library for configuring and customizing font access

April 3, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Fontconfig is a library designed to provide system-wide font configuration, customization and application access.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: chmod

April 3, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to chmod, software that changes file mode bits.

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Documentation

setfacl – set file access control lists

April 3, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

setfacl sets (replaces), modifies, or removes the access control list (ACL) to regular files and directories.

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chmod-cli – brings the chmod command in tui format

April 3, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

chmod-cli is a simple tool that brings the chmod command in tui format.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: ASCII Art Converter

April 1, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews, Utilities

ASCII Art Converter converts images into ASCII art. It’s free and open source software written in Rust.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: uptime

March 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to uptime, a utility which tells you how long the system has been running.

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Documentation

tuptime – report historical and statistical real time of the system

March 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

tuptime is a utility that reports historical and statistical real time of the system, keeping it between restarts.

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Documentation

ruptime – poor man’s ruptime

March 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ruptime is a program that reports uptime to a server, making the information remotely accessible using the ruptime client.

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Documentation

downtimed – system downtime monitoring and reporting tool

March 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

downtimed is a program for monitoring operating system downtime, uptime, shutdowns and crashes and for keeping record of such events.

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Documentation

lastwake – wake/suspend time system journal analyzer

March 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lastwake parses the systemd journal to find out: time of last cold boot, and start/end times of each sleep/resume cycle and their duration.

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Documentation

uptimed – uptime record daemon

March 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

uptimed is an uptime record daemon keeping track of the highest uptimes a computer system ever had.

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Documents

logo-ls – modern ls command

March 29, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

logo-ls is billed as a modern ls command with vscode like File Icon and Git Integrations. It’s free and open source software.

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Batch Renamers

Flut Renamer – bulk file renamer

March 26, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Flut Renamer is a powerful yet easy-to-use tool designed to help users manage and rename files and directories.

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