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File Managers

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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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 – customisable system monitoring tool

December 20, 2024 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Plasma System Monitor lets KDE users monitor processes and hardware sensors with configurable pages, graphs and custom system dashboards.

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Monitoring

gtree – generate and verify directory trees from Markdown

December 19, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gtree generates trees from Markdown, creates and verifies directory layouts, and supplies reusable tree functions for Go applications.

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Clocks

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Clock

December 19, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

Apple Clock helps you manage your time. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Files

lscoltui – change the colors of ls

December 19, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lscoltui is a TUI program that lets you configure the colors of ls.

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Monitor System

System Monitor – view and manage system resources

December 19, 2024 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

System Monitor shows GNOME users CPU, memory, swap and network activity, with process controls, memory maps and filesystem information.

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Monitoring

as-tree – print a list of paths as a tree of paths

December 18, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

as-tree is a command-line utility that prints a list of paths as a tree of paths. It’s written in Rust.

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Archive Manager

zpaqfranz – deduplicating archiver with encryption and integrity checks

December 18, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

zpaqfranz is a deduplicating backup archiver with snapshots, encryption, verification, archive mounting and export to ZIP64.

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Monitor System

Resources – monitor hardware activity and running processes

December 16, 2024 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Resources monitors CPU, GPU, NPU, memory, disks, networks and batteries with detailed graphs, app management and process controls.

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Folder

ddh – command-line duplicate file finder

December 15, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ddh searches directories for duplicate file content, hashes candidates and reports matches through a command-line interface.

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sdupes – fast duplicate file detection

December 15, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

sdupes accepts file paths on standard input and reports duplicate files, with grouping, delimiter and comparison controls.

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Monitor System

Monitorets – compact desktop system resource monitor

December 15, 2024 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Monitorets provides compact Linux desktop resource monitoring for CPU, GPU, memory, network, disks, system pressure and temperatures.

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Metadata

mat2 – metadata anonymisation toolkit

December 15, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mat2 removes hidden metadata from images, documents, archives and media files, preserving originals and supporting modern image formats.

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rmdupes – find and remove duplicate files

December 15, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rmdupes detects duplicate files within a target or against a reference directory, with dry runs, backups and selective removal options.

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Folder

dupefi – command-line duplicate file finder

December 14, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dupefi finds duplicate files and formats the results for shell pipelines, with reference-directory matching and regex filters.

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Diff Tools

csvdiff – fast diff tool for comparing CSV files

December 14, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

csvdiff is a fast diff tool for comparing CSV files. It finds out the additions and modifications.

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