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Font Tools

ftCLI – edit fonts using FontTools

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ftCLI is a command line interface built with click to edit fonts using FontTools. Python 3.7 or later is required to install ftCLI.

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Shell prompt

Zi – Swiss Army Knife for Zsh

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Zi is a high-performance Zsh plugin manager and toolkit for loading plugins, snippets, completions, themes and command-line tools.

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Clipboard

GPaste – clipboard management system

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

GPaste is a clipboard management system. GPaste is free and open source software written in the C programming language.

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Documents

g – powerful and cross-platform ls

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

g is an alternative to ls with lots of configurability. It’s written in Go and published under an open source license.

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Compression

ncompress – traditional Unix LZW file compressor

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ncompress handles traditional Unix .Z files using LZW, with recursive processing, configurable code sizes and stdout output.

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Compression

plzip – massively parallel lossless data compressor

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

plzip brings multithreaded lzip compression, configurable dictionaries, integrity testing, multimember files and damage recovery.

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Compression

lbzip2 – parallel bzip2 compression utility

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lbzip2 offers parallel bzip2-compatible compression and decompression, configurable worker threads and convenient pipeline processing.

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Compression

lrzip – long-range compression for large files

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lrzip compresses large files using long-range redundancy reduction, multiple backends, multithreading, standard streams and encryption.

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Compression

BZip3 – high-ratio lossless data compressor

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

BZip3 is a high-ratio compressor with configurable blocks, multithreaded processing, data-integrity checks and a command-line utility.

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Compression

PBZIP2 – parallel implementation of bzip2

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

PBZIP2 speeds up bzip2-compatible compression using multiple threads, configurable block sizes, integrity checks and standard streams.

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Compression

bzip2 – block-sorting lossless file compressor

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

bzip2 compresses files with Burrows-Wheeler coding, adjustable block sizes, integrity testing and recovery tools for damaged data.

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Compression

gzip – standard lossless file compression utility

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gzip provides command-line compression with Deflate, stream processing, integrity testing, recursive operation and rsyncable output.

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Compression

pixz – parallel and indexed xz compressor

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pixz enables parallel xz compression with tar indexing, fast archive listings, selective extraction and multicore decompression.

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Compression

pigz – parallel implementation of gzip

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pigz accelerates gzip-compatible compression across CPU cores, with independent blocks, zlib and ZIP output, and rsync-friendly mode.

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Compression

brotli – general-purpose lossless compression algorithm

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

brotli provides lossless compression with configurable quality, custom dictionaries, streaming support and compact web content delivery.

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Compression

Zstandard – fast lossless compression algorithm

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Zstandard offers fast lossless compression with multithreading, trained dictionaries, adjustable levels and streaming support.

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Compression

LZ4 – extremely fast lossless data compression

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

LZ4 is a fast lossless compressor with dictionary support, streaming APIs, adjustable acceleration and a high-compression mode.

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SSD

dirstat-rs – disk usage cli

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dirstat-rs is a command-line disk usage utility, similar to windirstat. The tool can output sorted JSON.

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SSD

tdu – top disk usage

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

This command-line tool estimates the disk space occupied by all files in a given path.

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SSD

pdu – parallel disk usage utility

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Parallel Disk Usage (pdu) is a highly parallelized, fast directory tree analyzer.

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