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Linux Candy: pscircle visualizes Linux processes in a form of radial tree

September 27, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

pscircle is a different take on the venerable ps command. It visualizes Linux processes in a form of radial tree.

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s-tui is a terminal-based stress test and monitoring tool

September 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Stress-Terminal UI, s-tui, is a monitoring tool for your CPU’s temperature, frequency, power and utilization

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: vi

September 17, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to vi, a screen-oriented text editor originally created for the Unix operating system.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: uname

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to uname, a command-line utility that prints system information.

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Fastfetch – neofetch-like tool for fetching system information

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Fastfetch is a neofetch-like tool for fetching system information and displaying them in a pretty way.

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Freshfetch – fresh take on Neofetch

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Freshfetch is an alternative to Neofetch written in Rust with a focus on customization. It’s MIT licensed software.

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whoami – user information

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

whoami displays the username, full name, email address and GitHub username of the current user. It’s written in R.

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w – displays information about the users currently on the machine

September 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

w displays information about the users currently on the machine, and their processes. w is written in the C language.

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Best Free and Open Source Navigation Tools

Walk is a simple and minimalistic terminal navigator

August 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

walk is billed as a terminal file manager and a terminal navigator.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: ftp

August 24, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Software, Utilities

We spotlight alternative tools to ftp, a network protocol used for transferring files from one computer system to another.

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YTalk – multi-user chat program

August 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

YTalk is in essence a multi-user chat program supporting both talk and ntalk protocols.

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utalk – UDP-based talk

August 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

utalk is a one-to-one text chat program alternative to the Unix ‘talk’ client, which uses a more responsive protocol built over UDP (instead of TCP).

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ntalk – chat application

August 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ntalk is a chat application. It is designed to be much more friendly than Unix talk and provide a nice console interface.

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rename.pl – rename files using Perl expressions

August 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rename.pl allows renaming files using Perl code, such as regular expression replaces (s/old/new/), character translation, and other code.

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renameutils – programs designed to make renaming of files faster and less cumbersome

August 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

The file renaming utilities (renameutils for short) are a set of programs designed to make renaming of files faster and less cumbersome.

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rename – rename multiple files

August 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

This program renames files according to modification rules specified on the command line.

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hodie – prints the date in Latin

August 10, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

hodie brings new functionality to your UNIX installations. It prints out the current date and time in Roman digits.

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datemath – date and time math utility

August 10, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

datemath is a command line date and time math utility. This is free and open source software written in the C language.

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qtime – clock coded in Rust

August 10, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

qTime is a simple command-line application that retrieves the current user’s name and displays it along with the current date and time.

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rdate – retrieve date and time from other machines

August 10, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rdate connects to an RFC 868 time server over a TCP/IP network, printing the returned time and/or setting the system clock.

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