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battery-wallpaper – script to set wallpaper according to battery percentage

November 9, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

battery-wallpaper is a bash script to set an animated battery as desktop wallpaper showing charging animation.

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Best Free and Open Source Navigation Tools

fastdiract – quick shell navigation and command execution

September 27, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fastdiract offers deterministic shell navigation, saved commands, editor shortcuts and GDB contexts through compact memory slots.

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menucd – curses directory browser and changer

September 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

menucd provides a curses directory browser with bookmarks, incremental filtering and shell integration for fast terminal navigation.

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Folder navigation

slingshot – quickly navigate across folders

September 25, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

slingshot is a lightweight tool to browse files in the terminal.

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Folder navigation

fz – adds fuzzy search to tab completion of z

September 23, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fz is a shell plugin that seamlessly adds fuzzy search to tab completion of z, and lets you easily to jump around.

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Documentation

rm-trash – replacement for rm

September 23, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

The rm-trash utility puts the files you delete in a shell safely into the Trash (Recycle bin).

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pm – switch between projects

September 22, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pm offers an easy way to switch to your projects on Shell. Add your projects to pm and switch between them with a command.

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Documentation

zoxide – smarter cd command for fast directory navigation

September 22, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

zoxide learns frequently used directories and combines ranked history, fuzzy selection, shell integration and ordinary cd-style navigation.

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Documentation

trashbhuwan – CLI trashing utility

September 22, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

trashbhuwan is a simple CLI application for trashing and restoring files.

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Documentation

del – delete command with integrated undelete function

September 22, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

With del you have a delete command with integrated undelete function.

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Best Free and Open Source Navigation Tools

jmp – the superior cd

September 21, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

jmp is a Python utility billed as the superior cd.

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Files

Brash – trash manager

September 21, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Brash is a command-line trash manager.

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Folder navigation

qcd – quickly change directory

September 21, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

qcd is a utility which lets you quickly change directory on the command line. It’s written in Rust.

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Best Free and Open Source Navigation Tools

Navita – fast history-aware directory navigation

September 20, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Navita adds history-aware directory search, frecency ranking, parent and child traversal, PCRE matching and fzf selection to the shell.

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Folder navigation

pazi – fast autojump helper

September 19, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pazi is an autojump utility. This tool remembers visited directories in the past and makes it easier to get back to them.

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Folder navigation

zm – improved cd

September 18, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

zm is cd for lazy people who don’t care where they are, or how to get where they’re going. It’s written in Rust.

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Folder navigation

ff – manage favourite folders

September 17, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ff is a command-line tool to manage favorite folders, creating an alias, to be used via shell directly with the cd command.

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Documentation

gtrash – trash CLI manager

September 17, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gtrash is a trash CLI manager that fully complies with the FreeDesktop.org specification. gtrash moves files to the system trash can.

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Best Free and Open Source Navigation Tools

nav – quickly navigate through directories

September 16, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

nav offers a way of quickly navigating through directories in the CLI. It uses dialog and fzf.

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Folder navigation

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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