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Category: Utilities

File Managers

fex – command-line file explorer prioritizing quick navigation

December 29, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

fex is a command-line file explorer inspired by Vim, exa and fzf, built with quick exploration and navigation in mind.

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Image of Files

tere – terminal file explorer

December 28, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

tere is a terminal file explorer. It is a faster alternative to using cd and ls to browse folders in your terminal.

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Treemacs – tree layout file explorer for Emacs

December 28, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

Treemacs is a file and project explorer similar to NeoTree or vim’s NerdTree, but largely inspired by the Project Explorer in Eclipse.

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vim-tree – use tree for quick navigation

December 27, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

vim-tree integrates good old tree into Vim and Nvim for all common operating systems.

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Hop – terminal based file explorer

December 23, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

Hop is a terminal based file explorer designed to be fast, simple and user friendly. Hop runs on any operating system.

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Find Duplicates

littleutils – utilities for file compression, file manipulation, text cleanup

December 21, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

littleutils include duplicate file finders, image optimizers, file rename tools, archive recompressors, a tempfile utility, and others.

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gtree – generate trees and directories

December 19, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gtree is a CLI-based utility which uses Markdown to generate directory trees and directories itself, and also verifies directories.

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Files

lscoltui – change the colors of ls

December 19, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lscoltui is a TUI program that lets you configure the colors of ls.

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Monitoring

as-tree – print a list of paths as a tree of paths

December 18, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

as-tree is a command-line utility that prints a list of paths as a tree of paths. It’s written in Rust.

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Archive Manager

zpaqfranz – deduplicating archiver with encryption and paranoid-level tests

December 18, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

zpaqfranz is a deduplicating archiver with encryption and paranoid-level tests.

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Folder

ddh – fast duplicate file finder

December 15, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ddh (the Directory Differential hTool) traverses input directories and their subdirectories.

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sdupes – fast duplicate file detection

December 15, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

sdupes is a command-line fast duplicate file detection utility. It’s written in C.

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Metadata

mat2 – metadata anonymisation toolkit

December 15, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mat2 is a metadata removal tool, supporting a wide range of commonly used file formats.

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rmdupes – find and remove duplicate files

December 15, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rmdupes is a command-line utility to scan a directory for duplicate files and remove them.

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Folder

dupefi – duplicate file finder

December 14, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dupefi is a command-line duplicate file finder designed with Linux philosophy.

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Diff Tools

csvdiff – fast diff tool for comparing CSV files

December 14, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

csvdiff is a fast diff tool for comparing CSV files. It finds out the additions and modifications.

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fclones – efficient duplicate file finder and remover

December 14, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fclones is an efficient duplicate file finder and remover. It’s written in Rust.

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Diff Tools

csv-diff – diffing CSV and JSON files

December 13, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

csv-diff is a tool for viewing the difference between two CSV, TSV, or JSON files.

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Selection of utilities

rare – fast regex parser, extractor and realtime aggregator

December 13, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rare aggregates and displays information parsed from text files using regex and a simple handlebars-like expressions.

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Diff Tools

dirdiff – compute the differences between two directories

December 12, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dirdiff efficiently computes the differences between two directories. It’s written in Rust.

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