lsd is billed as the next gen ls command. It’s free and open source software. Here’s our review of the program.
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Category: Utilities
Essential System Tools: dust – more intuitive version of du
dust gives an instant overview of which directories are using disk space. It’s name derives from the du command and that dust is written in Rust.
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lfs – list your filesystems
lfs is an open source utility that lists your file systems improving on the venerable df utility in a number of ways.
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Excellent Utilities: tldr – simplified and community-driven man pages
The tldr project is a collection of community-maintained help pages for command-line tools that aims to be a simpler, more approachable complement to traditional man pages.
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Excellent Utilities: duf – disk usage utility
duf is a simple disk usage utility that offers a more attractive representation than the classic df utility. It’s written in Go.
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Compact Text Editors Great for Remote Editing and Much More
A text editor is software used for editing plain text files.
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GoTTy – turn CLI tools into web applications
GoTTY turns CLI tools into web applications. GoTTY uses xterm.js and hterm to run a JavaScript based terminal on web browsers.
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Excellent System Utilities: CPU-X – system profiler tool
CPU-X is a similar tool to the Windows utility CPU-Z. Unlike CPU-Z, CPU-X is free and open source Linux software. Here’s our review.
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Terminal Image Viewer – display images in a terminal
Terminal Image Viewer is a small program to display images in a (modern) terminal using RGB ANSI codes and unicode block graphics characters. It’s free and open source software.
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Annie – video downloader built with Go
Annie is an open source video downloader. It’s written in the Go programming language. Here’s our verdict on this tool.
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cointop – monitor cryptocurrencies in the terminal
cointop is a fast and lightweight interactive terminal based UI application for tracking and monitoring cryptocurrency coin stats in real-time.
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Termgraph – draw basic graphs in the terminal
Termgraph is a command-line tool which draws basic graphs in the terminal. Termgraph is free and open source software and written in Python.
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Excellent System Utilities: Glances – CLI curses-based monitoring tool
Glances is a system administration tool that replaces a whole host of command-line utilities. Here’s our review of Glances.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Dear Diary – Week 32
Keeping a diary of your daily life is an activity that is held dear by many people. In this week’s blog, Luke checks out RedNotebook, Lifeograph, jrnl, and Org on the Raspberry Pi 4.
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Minase – SIXEL-based terminal file manager
Minase is a terminal file manager that uses libsixel, an encoder/decoder implementation for DEC SIXEL graphics. Minase is free and open source software.
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Excellent Utilities: fontpreview – search and preview fonts
Are you looking for a simple command-line tool that lets you search for fonts and preview them with no fuss and bother? fontpreview might just be the ticket.
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Excellent Utilities: OCRmyPDF – add OCR text layer to scanned PDFs
OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched. It’s free and open source software. OCRmyPDF uses Tesseract, GhostScript and other tools.
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Linux Candy: gti – typo-based curio inspired by Steam Locomotive
gti catches accidental typos of ‘gti’ instead of ‘git’. It displays an animation of a car driving by, and then launches git.
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Beets – music tagger and library organizer using the MusicBrainz database
Beets is a media library management system. Beets is free and open source software. It’s a tool for getting your music into shape. Here’s my verdict.
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Excellent System Tools: nnn – portable terminal file manager
nnn is a free and open source terminal file manager written in the C programming language. nnn focuses on performance over features.
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