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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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File Managers

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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Monitoring

vim-tree – use tree for quick navigation

December 27, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

vim-tree integrates good old tree into Vim and Nvim for all common operating systems.

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Monitoring

Hop – terminal based file explorer

December 23, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

Hop is a terminal based file explorer designed to be fast, simple and user friendly. Hop runs on any operating system.

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Shutdown

4 Best Free and Open Source Shutdown Timers

December 21, 2024 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

Linux is blessed with an abundance of useful utilities. We feature interesting shutdown timers. Open source goodness as you’d expect.

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Find Duplicates

littleutils – utilities for file compression, file manipulation, text cleanup

December 21, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

littleutils include duplicate file finders, image optimizers, file rename tools, archive recompressors, a tempfile utility, and others.

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Shutdown

Shutdown Scheduler – schedule shutdown and restart tasks

December 21, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Shutdown Scheduler is a simple cross-platform application that uses system utilities for scheduling shutdown and restart tasks.

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Monitor System

Plasma System Monitor – monitoring tool

December 20, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Plasma System Monitor provides an interface for monitoring system sensors, process information and other system resources.

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