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Category: Utilities

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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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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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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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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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Notepad

July 17, 2024 Steve Emms Utilities

Notepad is a simple text editor; it creates and edits plain text documents. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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lsix – ls for images

July 16, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, Utilities

lsix is like the ls command but for images.The tool shows thumbnails in a terminal using sixel graphics. It’s written in Bash.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: navi – interactive cheatsheet tool

July 16, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

navi lets you to browse through cheatsheets (that you may write yourself or download from maintainers) and execute commands.

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