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Category: Utilities

Documentation

Miller – small and powerful CLI tool to do all your data processing

June 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for data formats such as CSV, TSV, JSON, JSON Lines, and positionally-indexed.

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Software to help you sleep

Opal – listen to relaxing background music

June 30, 2023 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Opal is a small utility that’s designed to do one thing — listen to relaxing background music. It’s written in Java.

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CPU

Premake – simple build configuration

June 29, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Premake is a command line utility which reads a scripted definition of a software project and uses it to generate project files for toolsets.

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CPU

just – save and run project-specific commands

June 29, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

just is a handy way to save and run project-specific commands. This is free and open source software written in Rust.

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pgcli – Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting

June 27, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pgcli is a Postgres client that does auto-completion and syntax highlighting.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: psql

June 27, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to psql, a PostgreSQL interactive terminal.

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Documentation

Trippy – network diagnostic tool

June 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Trippy is a network diagnostic tool. It combines the functionality of traceroute and ping and helps in the analysis of networking issues.

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SSH

Eternal Terminal – remote shell

June 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Eternal Terminal (ET) is a remote shell that automatically reconnects without interrupting the session. It’s written in C++.

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SSH

Mosh – replacement for interactive SSH terminals

June 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Mosh is a replacement for interactive SSH terminals. It’s more robust and responsive, especially over Wi-Fi and cellular.

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Encrypted Files

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: age

June 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

This article spotlights free and open source alternative tools to age, a popular utility to encrypt and decrypt.

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Encrypted Files

rage – simple encryption tool

June 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rage is a simple, modern, and secure file encryption tool. It features small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.

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Calculators

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Calculator

June 22, 2023 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Apple’s Calculator app lets users perform basic arithmetic calculations with the standard calculator. With the scientific calculator you can also perform exponential, logarithmic, and trigonometric functions.

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xjobs – similar to xargs with enhanced support for multiprocessor machines

June 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

xjobs reads job descriptions line by line and executes them in parallel. It limits the number of parallel executing jobs.

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Find

kindd – dd GUI

June 18, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

kindd is billed as a kindful dd. It’s written using Qt Quick, a software application framework. Open source software.

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Find

dd_rescue – data recovery and data protection tool

June 18, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dd_rescue copies data from one file or block device to another. You can specify file positions (called seek and Skip in dd).

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Documentation

Hypercalc – interpreted calculator

June 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Hypercalc is an interpreted calculator program designed to calculate extremely large numbers.

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Find

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: time

June 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to time, a simple tool that provides timing statistics about a program run.

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Find

perf – performance analysis tools

June 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Performance counters for Linux are a kernel-based subsystem that provide a framework for all things performance analysis.

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Emojis

Flemozi – lightweight emoji picker

June 14, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Flemozi is a simple, fast, and lightweight picker for desktop operating systems. It’s written in Dart.

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Find

rust-parallel – execute commands in parallel

June 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rust-parallel is a command-line utility to execute commands in parallel and aggregate their output. It’s written in Rust.

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