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Utilities

ntfyme – notification tool on completion of commands and processes

August 4, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ntfyme is a simple terminal command line notification tool on completion of your commands and processes.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: sed

August 3, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative open source tools to sed, a stream editor for filtering and transforming text.

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Documentation

teip – masking tape to help commands “do one thing well”

July 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

teip is a command-line utility billed as masking tape to help commands “do one thing well”.

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Files

massren – rename multiple files using a text editor

July 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

massren is a command line tool that can be used to rename multiple files using your own text editor.

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Impression – create bootable drives

July 30, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

Impression is a straightforward and modern application to create bootable drives.

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Documentation

srgn – code surgeon

July 30, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

srgn is a code surgeon for searching and manipulating text and source code with enhanced precision.

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Files

brename – batch renaming safely

July 29, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

brename is a practical cross-platform command-line tool for safely batch renaming files/directories via regular expression.

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Documentation

repgrep – interactive replacer for ripgrep

July 29, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

repgrep is an interactive command line tool to make find and replacement easy. It uses ripgrep.

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Find

rawhide – find files using pretty C expressions

July 29, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rawhide (rh) lets you search for files on the command line using expressions and user-defined functions.

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Monitoring

rwatch – terminal command monitoring with diff highlighting

July 28, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rwatch repeatedly executes commands with output diff highlighting, configurable intervals, ANSI colours and change-based exit rules.

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Documentation

rep – perform find and replace on grep-formatted lines

July 28, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rep is a command-line utility that takes grep-formatted lines via standard input, and performs a find-and-replace on them.

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Find

findpick – general purpose file picker combining “find” command with a fuzzy finder

July 27, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

findpick is a general purpose file picker combining “find” command with a fuzzy finder. It’s written in Bash.

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Documentation

amber – code search and replace tool

July 27, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

amber is a code search and replace tool written by Rust. Two commands (ambs/ambr) are provided

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Monitoring

reflex – rerun commands when files change

July 27, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

reflex watches filesystem changes and reruns commands using glob or regex filters, service restarts and multi-command configuration.

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Monitoring

wfh – synchronise local files with remote development hosts

July 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

wfh watches local development files and synchronises modifications to a remote host using rsync for editing locally and building remotely.

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Monitoring

watchexec – execute commands when filesystem changes occur

July 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

watchexec monitors filesystem changes and reruns commands with file filters, ignore rules, debouncing, process control and notifications.

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Monitoring

watcher – rerun development commands when files change

July 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

watcher monitors directory changes and reruns commands with ignore rules, startup execution, delays and long-running process support.

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Monitoring

chokidar-cli – monitor filesystem changes and execute commands

July 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

chokidar-cli watches files and folders using glob patterns, triggers commands on changes, and offers debouncing, ignoring and polling modes.

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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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Utility Software

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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