kn is an alternative to cd. kn doesn’t track frequency or any other statistics. It searches the disk for paths matching the abbreviation.
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Category: Utilities
inotail – inotify-based implementation of tail
inotail is a replacement for the ‘tail’ program found in the base installation of every Linux system.
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colortail – like the tail command line utility but with colors
colortail works like tail but can optionally read one or more config files where it’s specified which patterns results in which colors.
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ptail – tail but dynamic
ptail is a small, and likely useless, utility that truncates the output from processes.
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retail – tail with regular expressions
retail can output that part of a file (or pipe) following the last match of a regular expression,
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: watch
This article spotlights alternatives tools to watch. The software featured here is free and open source goodness.
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rename-CLI – rename files quickly
rename-CLI is a cross-platform tool for renaming files quickly, especially multiple files at once.
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ren – takes find-formatted lines via standard input, and batch renames them
ren is a command-line utility that takes find-formatted lines via standard input, and batch renames them.
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Yash – yet another shell
Yash, yet another shell, is a POSIX-compliant command line shell written in C99 (ISO/IEC 9899:1999).
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moove – manipulate file names and locations
moove is a command line tool for renaming and moving files and directories using a text editor.
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Rash – Reckless Racket Shell
Rash is a language, library, and shell REPL for Racket. Rash combines the convenience of simple shell-like syntax with the power of Racket.
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oksh – Portable OpenBSD ksh
oksh is a portable OpenBSD ksh, based on the Public Domain Korn Shell (pdksh).
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Murex – intuitive, typed and content aware shell
Murex is a shell, like bash / zsh / fish / etc however Murex supports improved features and an enhanced UX.
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ksh – Unix shell
KornShell (ksh) is a Unix shell which was developed by David Korn at Bell Labs in the early 1980s.
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ion – modern system shell
ion is a modern system shell that features a simple, yet powerful, syntax.
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es – extensible shell
es is an extensible shell with higher-order functions. The language was derived from the Plan 9 shell, rc, and functional languages.
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tempren – template-based file renaming utility
tempren is a powerful file renaming utility that uses flexible template expressions to generate names for your files.
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cosh – concatenative command-line shell
cosh is a concatenative command-line shell.
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nomino – batch rename utility for developers
nomino is a batch rename utility for developers written in Go.
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9 Best Free and Open Source Terminal Emoji Tools
An emoji is a pictogram, logogram, ideogram or smiley embedded in text and used in electronic messages and web pages. We recommend terminal based emoji tools.
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