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Category: Utilities

Monitor System

vtop – graphical activity monitor for the command line

December 2, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

vtop uses drawille to draw CPU and memory charts with Unicode braille characters, helping you visualize spikes.

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Documentation

cpy-cli – command-line utility to copy files

December 1, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cpy-cli is a user-friendly command-line tool which copies files. It accepts globs and creates non-existent destination directories.

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Monitor System

TTV – term-task-viewer

December 1, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

TTV is a lightweight terminal tool to manage processes in Unix machines.

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Monitor System

tiptop – command-line system monitoring

November 30, 2024 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

tiptop provides a colourful terminal dashboard for CPU, memory and network activity, using Python, Textual and psutil.

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Monitor System

below – time traveling resource monitor

November 29, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

below is an interactive tool to view and record historical system data.

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Documentation

del-cli – delete files and directories

November 27, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

del-cli is a command-line utility that lets you delete files and directories.

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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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