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Category: Utilities

Best Free and Open Source Navigation Tools

kn – navigate folders quickly

September 13, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

kn is an alternative to cd. kn doesn’t track frequency or any other statistics. It searches the disk for paths matching the abbreviation.

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Monitoring

inotail – inotify-based implementation of tail

August 21, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

inotail is a replacement for the ‘tail’ program found in the base installation of every Linux system.

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colortail – like the tail command line utility but with colors

August 21, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

colortail works like tail but can optionally read one or more config files where it’s specified which patterns results in which colors.

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ptail – tail but dynamic

August 21, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ptail is a small, and likely useless, utility that truncates the output from processes.

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retail – tail with regular expressions

August 21, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

retail can output that part of a file (or pipe) following the last match of a regular expression,

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: watch

August 20, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

This article spotlights alternatives tools to watch. The software featured here is free and open source goodness.

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Save Time and Effort with these Excellent Free and Open Source Batch Image Processors

August 20, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

Batch image processors are often underrated and don’t get the attention they deserve. Here’s our verdict.

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Batch Renamers

rename-CLI – rename files quickly

August 20, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rename-CLI is a cross-platform tool for renaming files quickly, especially multiple files at once.

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Batch Renamers

ren – takes find-formatted lines via standard input, and batch renames them

August 19, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ren is a command-line utility that takes find-formatted lines via standard input, and batch renames them.

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Images of shells by the sea

Yash – yet another shell

August 15, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Yash, yet another shell, is a POSIX-compliant command line shell written in C99 (ISO/IEC 9899:1999).

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Art

Letterpress – create attractive ASCII art

August 14, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

Letterpress converts your images into a picture made up of ASCII characters. Save the output to a file, copy it, and change its resolution.

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Files

moove – manipulate file names and locations

August 14, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

moove is a command line tool for renaming and moving files and directories using a text editor.

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Rash – Reckless Racket Shell

August 13, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Rash is a language, library, and shell REPL for Racket. Rash combines the convenience of simple shell-like syntax with the power of Racket.

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oksh – Portable OpenBSD ksh

August 13, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

oksh is a portable OpenBSD ksh, based on the Public Domain Korn Shell (pdksh).

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Calligraphy – turn text into ASCII banners

August 12, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

Calligraphy is a small utility which converts short texts into large, imposing banners made up of ASCII characters.

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Murex – intuitive, typed and content aware shell

August 12, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Murex is a shell, like bash / zsh / fish / etc however Murex supports improved features and an enhanced UX.

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mksh – MirBSD Korn shell

August 11, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

MirBSD Korn Shell, an implementation of the Korn Shell programming language and a successor to the Public Domain Korn Shell (pdksh).

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ksh – Unix shell

August 10, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

KornShell (ksh) is a Unix shell which was developed by David Korn at Bell Labs in the early 1980s.

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ion – modern system shell

August 9, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ion is a modern system shell that features a simple, yet powerful, syntax.

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es – extensible shell

August 8, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

es is an extensible shell with higher-order functions. The language was derived from the Plan 9 shell, rc, and functional languages.

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