fzy is a fast, simple fuzzy text selector for the terminal with an advanced scoring algorithm. fzy is free and open source software
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Category: Utilities
v – z for vim
v is z for vim, a clone of Bill Joy’s vi editor for Unix.v uses viminfo’s list of recently edited files. It’s free and open source software.
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tar – create tar archives
Tar is console based software for packaging a set of files as a single archive in tar format. Free and open source software.
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patool – portable archive file manager
Various archive formats can be created, extracted, tested, listed, searched, repacked and compared with patool.
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TUI Archiver – list / manage archives
TUI Archiver is a terminal application to list / manage archives. It’s written in Go and published under an open source license.
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tarnation – backup/restore utility based on tar
tarnation is a simple, extensible tar backup/restore utility. It’s free and open source software written in Bash.
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tarlz – massively parallel (multi-threaded) combined implementation of the tar archiver and the lzip compressor
tarlz is a massively parallel (multi-threaded) combined implementation of the tar archiver and the lzip compressor.
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fio – scriptable I/O tool for storage benchmarks and drive testing
fio allows benchmarking specific disk IO workloads. It can issue its IO requests using one of many synchronous and asynchronous IO APIs.
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sysbench – scriptable database and system performance benchmark
sysbench is a scriptable multi-threaded benchmark tool based on LuaJIT. sysbench is free and open source software. It’s written in C.
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Linux Candy: pscircle visualizes Linux processes in a form of radial tree
pscircle is a different take on the venerable ps command. It visualizes Linux processes in a form of radial tree.
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s-tui is a terminal-based stress test and monitoring tool
Stress-Terminal UI, s-tui, is a monitoring tool for your CPU’s temperature, frequency, power and utilization
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: vi
This article spotlights alternative tools to vi, a screen-oriented text editor originally created for the Unix operating system.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: uname
This article spotlights alternative tools to uname, a command-line utility that prints system information.
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Fastfetch – neofetch-like tool for fetching system information
Fastfetch is a neofetch-like tool for fetching system information and displaying them in a pretty way.
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Freshfetch – fresh take on Neofetch
Freshfetch is an alternative to Neofetch written in Rust with a focus on customization. It’s MIT licensed software.
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whoami – user information
whoami displays the username, full name, email address and GitHub username of the current user. It’s written in R.
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w – displays information about the users currently on the machine
w displays information about the users currently on the machine, and their processes. w is written in the C language.
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Walk is a simple and minimalistic terminal navigator
walk is billed as a terminal file manager and a terminal navigator.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: ftp
We spotlight alternative tools to ftp, a network protocol used for transferring files from one computer system to another.
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YTalk – multi-user chat program
YTalk is in essence a multi-user chat program supporting both talk and ntalk protocols.
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