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Category: Utilities

Best Free and Open Source Navigation Tools

Navita – rapid directory traversal

September 20, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Navita is a Bash/Zsh utility for rapid directory traversal, employing fuzzy matching, history tracking, and path validation.

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pazi – fast autojump helper

September 19, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pazi is an autojump utility. This tool remembers visited directories in the past and makes it easier to get back to them.

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zm – improved cd

September 18, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

zm is cd for lazy people who don’t care where they are, or how to get where they’re going. It’s written in Rust.

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Folder navigation

ff – manage favourite folders

September 17, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ff is a command-line tool to manage favorite folders, creating an alias, to be used via shell directly with the cd command.

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Documentation

gtrash – trash CLI manager

September 17, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gtrash is a trash CLI manager that fully complies with the FreeDesktop.org specification. gtrash moves files to the system trash can.

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Best Free and Open Source Navigation Tools

nav – quickly navigate through directories

September 16, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

nav offers a way of quickly navigating through directories in the CLI. It uses dialog and fzf.

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Folder navigation

enhancd – next-generation cd command

September 15, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

enhancd is an enhanced cd command integrated with a command line fuzzy finder based on UNIX concept.

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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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Monitoring

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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