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Category: Utilities

Batch Renamers

Bren – bulk file renaming program for the shell

November 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Bren is a program for renaming multiple files at once. Bren is versatile and offers support for post-rename scripting with Guile,

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Folder navigation

Concessio – understand file permissions

November 13, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Concessio is a graphical tool that’s designed to help you understand file permissions in Linux. It’s written in JavaScript.

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SSD

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: df

November 12, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to df, a utility that reports file system space usage in Linux and other UNIX operating systems.

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Documentation

see – cute cat replacement

November 12, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

see is a powerful file visualization tool for the terminal, offering advanced code viewing capabilities, Markdown rendering, and more.

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dfc – report file system space usage information

November 11, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dfc is a tool to report file system space usage information. When the output is a terminal, it uses color and graphs by default.

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File Managers

20 Best Free and Open Source Console Linux File Managers

November 11, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

We recommend the finest free and open source console-based file managers for Linux and other operating systems.

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vizex

cdu – du like command

November 11, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cdu (Colour du) is a du like command but displays an attractive histogram with optional colours.

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Laptop

battery-wallpaper – script to set wallpaper according to battery percentage

November 9, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

battery-wallpaper is a bash script to set an animated battery as desktop wallpaper showing charging animation.

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SSD

diskonaut – TUI disk space navigator

November 7, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

diskonaut is a TUI-based terminal disk space navigator. It’s written in Rust.

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Google Translate Alternatives

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Translate

November 4, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Translate is a translation app. It functions as a service for translating text sentences or speech between several languages.

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