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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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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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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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Documentation

Clapgrep – app to search through all your files

November 3, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Clapgrep is a GUI utility which lets you search through your files.

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Laptop

Touchégg – Linux multi-touch gesture recognizer

November 2, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Touchégg is a program that runs in the background and transform the gestures on your touchpad/touchscreen into visible actions in your desktop.

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XClicker – GUI autoclicker for x11 desktops

October 29, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

XClicker is an easy to use, feature-rich, blazing fast autoclicker for Linux desktops using x11.

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Selection of utilities

Picker – randomly pick something to do

October 14, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Picker is a simple program that can pick something for you from a list of things.

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Collector – drag and drop to the next level

October 11, 2024 Steve Emms Desktop, Utilities

Collector is software that lets you drag multiple files and folders on to a Collection window. It’s an alternative to Dropover for macOS.

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Clipboard

Greenclip – recycle your clipboard selections

October 10, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Recycle your clipboard selections with Greenclip and don’t waste your time anymore to reselect things over and over.

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Clipboard

cliphist – clipboard history manager for Wayland

October 4, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

cliphist is a clipboard history “manager” for Wayland. It’s written in Go.

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Best Free and Open Source Navigation Tools

fastdiract – quick shell navigation and command execution

September 27, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fastdiract (fastdir + fastaction) is a pair of shell tools based on key-value storage for quick shell navigation and command execution.

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Best Free and Open Source Navigation Tools

menucd – directory browser and changer

September 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

menucd is a directory browser and changer for the command line.

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Folder navigation

slingshot – quickly navigate across folders

September 25, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

slingshot is a lightweight tool to browse files in the terminal.

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Folder navigation

fz – adds fuzzy search to tab completion of z

September 23, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fz is a shell plugin that seamlessly adds fuzzy search to tab completion of z, and lets you easily to jump around.

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Documentation

rm-trash – replacement for rm

September 23, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

The rm-trash utility puts the files you delete in a shell safely into the Trash (Recycle bin).

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