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enhancd – next-generation cd command

September 15, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

enhancd is an enhanced cd command integrated with a command line fuzzy finder based on UNIX concept.

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kn – navigate folders quickly

September 13, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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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Monitoring

inotail – inotify-based implementation of tail

August 21, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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

August 21, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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

August 21, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ptail is a small, and likely useless, utility that truncates the output from processes.

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retail – tail with regular expressions

August 21, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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

August 20, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

This article spotlights alternatives tools to watch. The software featured here is free and open source goodness.

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22 Delightful Free and Open Source ASCII Art Tools

August 20, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

ASCII art is a graphic design technique that relies primarily on computers for presentation and consists of pictures.

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rename-CLI – rename files quickly

August 20, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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

August 19, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ren is a command-line utility that takes find-formatted lines via standard input, and batch renames them.

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