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Documentation

amber – code search and replace tool

July 27, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

amber is a code search and replace tool written by Rust. Two commands (ambs/ambr) are provided

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Monitoring

reflex – run a command when files change

July 27, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

reflex is a small tool to watch a directory and rerun a command when certain files change.

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Monitoring

wfh – rsync as you edit

July 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

wfh continuously watches your local directories and rsync them against a remote host.

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Monitoring

watchexec – run a command when files in the current directory change

July 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

watchexec is a simple, standalone tool that watches a path and runs a command whenever it detects modifications.

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Monitoring

watcher – watch files in a directory for changes

July 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

watcher is a simple command line app to watch files in a directory for changes.

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Monitoring

chokidar – watch file system changes

July 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

chokidar is a cross-platform command line utility to watch file system changes.

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Find

treegrep – pattern matcher frontend or backend

July 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

treegrep is a frontend for existing pattern matchers or a standalone pattern matcher which presents results in a tree format.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: navi – interactive cheatsheet tool

July 16, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

navi lets you to browse through cheatsheets (that you may write yourself or download from maintainers) and execute commands.

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System Administration

Essential System Tools: HyFetch – neofetch with LGBTQ+ pride flags

June 28, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, System Software, Utilities

HyFetch is a fork of neofetch that displays distro ASCII art in LGBTQ+ pride colours. It’s written in Python.

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Files

vimv – mass rename files using Vim

June 23, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

vimv is a terminal-based file rename utility that lets you easily mass-rename files using Vim.

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Odilia – Rust-based screen reader

April 29, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Odilia is a screen reader for the Linux desktop. It’s fast and easy to build from the source code.

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Find Duplicates

duff – command-line utility for finding duplicate files

April 24, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

duff is a command-line utility for identifying duplicates in a given set of files

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Find Duplicates

samanlainen – delete duplicate files

April 24, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

samanlainen is a CLI tool that deletes duplicate files. It’s written in the Rust programming language and published under the Apache license.

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Find

jless – command-line JSON viewer

April 22, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

jless is a command-line JSON viewer. Use it as a replacement for whatever combination of less, jq, cat, and text editor.

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Find

fx – JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) viewer

April 22, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fx is a sublime JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) viewer. There’s support for streaming and for the mouse.

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JSON Tools

gojq – Pure Go implementation of jq

April 22, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gojq is a pure Go implementation of jq.You can also embed gojq as a library to your Go products. This is free and open source software.

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JSON Tools

jello – filter JSON and JSON lines data

April 22, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

jello is similar to jq in that it processes JSON and JSON Lines data except jello uses standard python dict and list syntax.

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JSON Tools

faq – more flexible jq

April 22, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

faq is a tool intended to be a more flexible jq, supporting additional formats. The formats are converted into JSON and processed with libjq.

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JSON Tools

unqery – command line tool for querying and transforming JSON data

April 22, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

unq is a stand-alone free and open source command-line tool for querying, transforming and analyzing JSON files using Unquery.

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JSON Tools

emuto – manipulate JSON files

April 22, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Emuto is a small language for manipulating and restructuring JSON and other data files. Emuto is inspired by jq and GraphQL.

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