Category: Utilities

Meld is a graphical diff viewer and merge application for the Gnome desktop. It supports 2 and 3-file diffs, recursive directory diffs.

Kompare – graphical difference viewer

Kompare is an open source GUI front-end program that enables differences between source files to be viewed and merged.

TkDiff – graphical front end to diff

TkDiff is a graphical front end to the diff program. It’s written in the Tcl programming language and under active development.

Diffuse – merge tool written in Python

Diffuse is a graphical tool for merging and comparing text files. Diffuse is implemented in Python and runs on platforms with PyGTK.

KDiff3 – graphical text difference analyzer

KDiff3 is a graphical text difference analyzer for up to 3 input files, provides character-by-character analysis and a text merge tool.

DiffPDF – compare two PDF files

DiffPDF is a GUI tool that’s used to compare two PDF files. This program is written in C++ and is free and open source.

xxdiff – graphical file and directories comparator and merge tool

xxdiff is a free and open source graphical file and directories comparator and merge tool. Compare two files, three files, or two directories.

tar – create tar archives

Tar is console based software for packaging a set of files as a single archive in tar format. Free and open source software.

patool – portable archive file manager

Various archive formats can be created, extracted, tested, listed, searched, repacked and compared with patool.

TUI Archiver – list / manage archives

TUI Archiver is a terminal application to list / manage archives. It’s written in Go and published under an open source license.

tarnation – backup/restore utility based on tar

tarnation is a simple, extensible tar backup/restore utility. It’s free and open source software written in Bash.

tarlz – massively parallel (multi-threaded) combined implementation of the tar archiver and the lzip compressor

tarlz is a massively parallel (multi-threaded) combined implementation of the tar archiver and the lzip compressor.

KCron – graphical front end to the standard cron utility

KCron is KDE’s task scheduler. It is written in the C++ programming language and is published under an open source license.

KTimer – execute programs after some time

KTimer is a little tool to execute programs. The software lets you to enter several tasks and to set a timer for each of them.

FcronQ – Fcron GUI

FcronQ is an Fcron GUI for Linux. Fcron is an advanced periodic command scheduler. This is free and open source software.

Zeit – Qt frontend to crontab and at