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Category: Utilities

SSD

godu – disk usage analyzer

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

godu is a simple golang utility helping you to discover large files/folders. This is a terminal based tool.

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erdtree – multi-threaded file-tree visualizer and disk usage analyzer

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

erdtree is multi-threaded file-tree visualizer and disk usage analyzer that respects hidden files and .gitignore rules by default.

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SSD

dua – disk usage analyzer

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dua (Disk Usage Analyzer) is a tool to conveniently learn about the usage of disk space of a given directory.

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SSD

gdu – disk usage analyzer

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gdu is a disk usage analyser with console interface. gdu is free and open source software.

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ncdu – disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

NCurses Disk Usage (ncdu) is a ncurses-based du viewer. It provides a fast and easy-to-use interface through the well known du utility.

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SSD

Duc – inspect and visualize disk usage

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Duc is a library and suite of tools for inspecting disk usage.

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Documents

k – Directory listings for zsh with git features

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

k is a zsh script / plugin to make directory listings more readable, adding color and some git status information on files and directories.

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Documents

ls-go – colorful user-friendly implementation of ls

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ls-go is a more colorful, user-friendly implementation of ls.

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Documents

ls++ – colorized ls on steroids

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ls++ is an alternative to the ls command found in coreutils. ls++ bills itself as colorized ls on steroids.

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Diff Tools

dwdiff – diff program that operates at the word level

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dwdiff is a diff program that operates at the word level instead of the line level.

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Diff Tools

ydiff – coloured incremental side-by-side diff viewer

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ydiff is a coloured incremental diff viewer with side-by-side display, automatic paging, custom themes and Git, Mercurial and Jujutsu.

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Diff Tools

diffr – word-by-word diff highlighting utility

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

diffr refines unified diff output with word-level highlighting, configurable colours, line numbers and Git integration in the terminal.

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Diff Tools

colordiff – colourise diff output

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

colordiff is a configurable wrapper for diff that adds ANSI colour highlighting to unified, context, side-by-side and other diff formats.

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Diff Tools

diffoscope – in-depth comparison of files, archives and directories

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

diffoscope recursively compares files, archives and directories, transforming many binary formats into human-readable text or HTML reports.

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Diff Tools

icdiff – side-by-side coloured diff

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

icdiff is a side-by-side terminal diff tool with coloured word-level changes, recursive directory comparison, line numbers and Git support.

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Diff Tools

delta – syntax-highlighting pager for Git and diff output

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

delta is a syntax-highlighting pager for Git, diff, grep and blame output with side-by-side views, navigation, hyperlinks and themes.

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Diff Tools

diff-so-fancy – human-readable diff output

October 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

diff-so-fancy makes Git and unified diff output easier to read with refined highlighting, cleaner headers, rulers, and patch mode.

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Password Managers

Rooster – simple password manager for geeks

October 18, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Rooster stores usernames and passwords in one encrypted local file, with password generation, fuzzy search and CSV/JSON import and export.

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Password Managers

pass – standard Unix password manager

October 18, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pass stores individual passwords in GPG-encrypted files, with Git synchronisation, password generation, clipboard support and extensions.

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Password Managers

Bitwarden – encrypted password manager and vault sharing

October 18, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

Bitwarden protects and synchronizes passwords, passkeys and sensitive records, with browser autofill, secure sharing and self-hosting.

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