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Category: Utilities

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downtimed – system downtime monitoring and reporting tool

March 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

downtimed is a program for monitoring operating system downtime, uptime, shutdowns and crashes and for keeping record of such events.

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Documentation

lastwake – wake/suspend time system journal analyzer

March 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lastwake parses the systemd journal to find out: time of last cold boot, and start/end times of each sleep/resume cycle and their duration.

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Documentation

uptimed – uptime record daemon

March 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

uptimed is an uptime record daemon keeping track of the highest uptimes a computer system ever had.

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Documents

logo-ls – modern ls command

March 29, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

logo-ls is billed as a modern ls command with vscode like File Icon and Git Integrations. It’s free and open source software.

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File Managers

15 Best Free and Open Source Linux File Managers

March 23, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

A file manager is software which provides a user interface to assist in the organisation of files. It helps users manage their files.

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Compression

crabz – like pigz but written in Rust

March 18, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

crabz is a fast, compression and decompression tool. crabz is just a wrapper for the gzp library.

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Log Analyzers

angle-grinder – slice and dice logs

March 14, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

angle-grinder is a command-line tool which lets you slice and dice log files. This is free and open source software written in Rust.

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Think outside the box

Machine Learning: Shell Genie – interact with the terminal in plain English

March 11, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

Shell Genie is a command-line tool that lets you interact with the terminal in plain English.

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Monitor System

ttop – system monitoring tool

November 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

ttop is a system monitoring tool with historical snapshots and alerts. It has a top-like TUI. It’s written in Nim.

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Home Automation

HEYU – X10 automation software

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

HEYU is a text-based console program that allows your computer to control devices by transmitting information over your house’s power lines.

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Home Automation

BottleRocket – home automation software for the X10 FireCracker kit

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

BottleRocket is a command-line utility to interact with the Firecracker version of X10’s home control devices.

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Batch Renamers

edir – command line utility to rename, remove, and copy filenames and directories

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

edir is a command line utility to rename, remove, and copy filenames and directories using your text editor.

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Batch Renamers

vidir – edit of the contents of a directory in a text editor

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

vidir allows editing of the contents of a directory in a text editor. If no directory is specified, the current directory is edited.

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Batch Renamers

rename – rename multiple files using Perl expressions

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rename is a utility that renames multiple files using Perl expressions.

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Batch Renamers

F2 – Command-line batch renaming tool

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

F2 is a cross-platform command-line tool for batch renaming files and directories quickly and safely.

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Monitor System

htop – interactive process viewer

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

htop is an interactive and real time process monitoring application similar to the venerable top utility. This application is written in C.

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Monitor System

bottom – cross-platform graphical process/system monitor

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

bottom is customizable cross-platform graphical process/system monitor for the terminal. The tool is inspired by gtop, gotop, and htop.

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Monitor System

Conky – system monitor

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Conky is an open source system monitor that can display just about anything, either on your root desktop or in its own window.

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Monitor System

atop – ASCII full-screen performance monitor

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

atop is an ASCII full-screen performance monitor, similar to the top command, but atop only shows the active system-resources and processes.

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Monitor System

gotop – terminal based graphical activity monitor

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gotop is a terminal base graphical activity monitor which seeks inspiration from gtop and vtop.

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