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Documentation

uptimed – daemon for tracking system uptime records

March 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

uptimed tracks the longest system uptimes, with historical records, sortable rankings, milestone notifications and configurable limits.

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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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Application Launchers

AppMan – manage AppImages and portable Linux applications

March 21, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

AppMan manages AppImages and portable Linux apps without sudo, with updates, rollback, sandboxing, backups and desktop integration.

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Compression

crabz – parallel compression utility written in Rust

March 18, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

crabz provides a Rust-based parallel compressor with gzip and related formats, adjustable compression levels and worker controls.

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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 with historical snapshots

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 controls X10 lighting and appliances from the command line, with CM11A schedules, radio receivers, signal monitoring and automation.

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Home Automation

BottleRocket – home automation software for the X10 FireCracker kit

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

BottleRocket controls legacy X10 FireCracker transmitters from the Linux command line, including appliance switching and lighting.

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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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Wallpaper Setter

wpgtk – colorscheme, wallpaper and template manager

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

wpgtk creates matching wallpaper and application colour schemes with pywal, editable palettes, templates and graphical or command-line control.

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Wallpaper Setter

flowy – privacy-preserving dynamic wallpaper changer

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

flowy changes desktop wallpapers using timed rotation or sunrise and sunset schedules, with local image collections and preset backgrounds.

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Wallpaper Setter

xwallpaper – wallpaper setting utility for X

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

xwallpaper sets X11 desktop backgrounds from JPEG, PNG and XPM files, with minimal dependencies and support for transparency effects.

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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

sysstat – collection of performance monitoring utilities

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

The sysstat utilities are a collection of open source performance monitoring tools for Linux. Utilities include mpstat, iostat, nfsiostat-sysstat.

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