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Category: Utilities

Best Free and Open Source Navigation Tools

HSTR – bash and zsh shell history suggest box

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

HSTR is a command line utility that brings improved BASH command completion from the history. HSTR is free and open source software.

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fasd – quick access to files and directories for POSIX shells

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Fasd is a very convenient, open source command-line productivity booster. This utility offers quick access to files and directories.

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fzy – simple, fast fuzzy finder for the terminal

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fzy is a fast, simple fuzzy text selector for the terminal with an advanced scoring algorithm. fzy is free and open source software

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v – z for vim

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

v is z for vim, a clone of Bill Joy’s vi editor for Unix.v uses viminfo’s list of recently edited files. It’s free and open source software.

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Best Free GUI Diff Tools

Meld – visual diff and merge tool

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

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

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Kompare – graphical difference viewer

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

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

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TkDiff – graphical front end to diff

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

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

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Diffuse – merge tool written in Python

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

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

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KDiff3 – graphical text difference analyzer

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

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

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DiffPDF – compare two PDF files

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

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.

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