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Files

massren – rename multiple files using a text editor

July 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

massren is a command line tool that can be used to rename multiple files using your own text editor.

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Impression – create bootable drives

July 30, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

Impression is a straightforward and modern application to create bootable drives.

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Documentation

srgn – code surgeon

July 30, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

srgn is a code surgeon for searching and manipulating text and source code with enhanced precision.

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Files

brename – batch renaming safely

July 29, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

brename is a practical cross-platform command-line tool for safely batch renaming files/directories via regular expression.

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repgrep – interactive replacer for ripgrep

July 29, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

repgrep is an interactive command line tool to make find and replacement easy. It uses ripgrep.

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Find

rawhide – find files using pretty C expressions

July 29, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rawhide (rh) lets you search for files on the command line using expressions and user-defined functions.

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Monitoring

rwatch – Rust implementation of watch

July 28, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rwatch is a command-line utility written in Rust that allows you to run a command repeatedly and watch its output.

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Documentation

rep – perform find and replace on grep-formatted lines

July 28, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rep is a command-line utility that takes grep-formatted lines via standard input, and performs a find-and-replace on them.

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Find

findpick – general purpose file picker combining “find” command with a fuzzy finder

July 27, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

findpick is a general purpose file picker combining “find” command with a fuzzy finder. It’s written in Bash.

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Documentation

amber – code search and replace tool

July 27, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

amber is a code search and replace tool written by Rust. Two commands (ambs/ambr) are provided

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Monitoring

reflex – run a command when files change

July 27, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

reflex is a small tool to watch a directory and rerun a command when certain files change.

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Monitoring

wfh – rsync as you edit

July 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

wfh continuously watches your local directories and rsync them against a remote host.

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Monitoring

watchexec – run a command when files in the current directory change

July 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

watchexec is a simple, standalone tool that watches a path and runs a command whenever it detects modifications.

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Monitoring

watcher – watch files in a directory for changes

July 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

watcher is a simple command line app to watch files in a directory for changes.

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Monitoring

chokidar – watch file system changes

July 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

chokidar is a cross-platform command line utility to watch file system changes.

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Find

treegrep – pattern matcher frontend or backend

July 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

treegrep is a frontend for existing pattern matchers or a standalone pattern matcher which presents results in a tree format.

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Utility Software

Xterm.js – build terminals in the browser

July 23, 2024 Steve Emms Programming, Utilities

Xterm.js is a front-end component that lets applications bring fully-featured terminals to their users in the browser.

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System Administration

Flatpak KCM – Flatpak Permissions Management

July 22, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Flatpak KCM allows changing what permissions have been granted to installed Flatpak applications.

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Emoji

Feeling Finder – help convey emotion in text communication

July 21, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

Feeling Finder is software to help convey emotion in text communication. It’s written in Dart and C++.

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System Administration

malcontent – implements parental controls support

July 21, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

malcontent implements support for restricting the type of content accessible to non-administrator accounts on a Linux system.

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