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Terminal Image Viewer

Terminal Image Viewer – display images in a terminal

September 18, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews, Software, Utilities

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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Download manager

Annie – video downloader built with Go

August 24, 2020 Luke Baker CLI, Internet, Multimedia, Reviews, Software, Utilities

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

cointop – monitor cryptocurrencies in the terminal

August 14, 2020 Luke Baker CLI, Financial, Reviews, Software, Utilities

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

Termgraph – draw basic graphs in the terminal

August 7, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Scientific, Software, Utilities

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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System Administration

Excellent System Utilities: Glances – CLI curses-based monitoring tool

July 27, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, System Software, Utilities

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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Diary software

Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Dear Diary – Week 32

June 3, 2020 Luke Baker Blog, CLI, Desktop, Software, Utilities

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

Minase – SIXEL-based terminal file manager

May 25, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

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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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: fontpreview – search and preview fonts

May 18, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

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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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: OCRmyPDF – add OCR text layer to scanned PDFs

April 27, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Office, Reviews, Utilities

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

Linux Candy: gti – typo-based curio inspired by Steam Locomotive

April 20, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

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

Beets – music tagger and library organizer using the MusicBrainz database

April 6, 2020 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software, Utilities

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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System Administration

Excellent System Tools: nnn – portable terminal file manager

February 24, 2020 Luke Baker CLI, Reviews, Utilities

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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M.2 Solid State Drives

dutree – reclaim precious hard disk space

February 10, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

dutree is a command line tool to analyze disk usage. It’s written in the Rust programming language. It’s free and open source software. How does it compare to other disk usage analyzers?

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: exa – replacement for ls

December 30, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

exa is a replacement for the venerable ls command. exa sports more features and arguably better defaults than ls.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: ripgrep – recursively search directories for a regex pattern

November 25, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

ripgrep is a line-oriented search tool that recursively searches your current directory for a regex pattern. It’s free and open source software.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: cheat.sh – community driven cheat sheet

October 21, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

cheat.sh offers unified access to the best community driven documentation repositories of the world via curl/browser interface. There’s also an installable utility for more flexibility.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: ponysay – cowsay reimplemention for ponies

September 30, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ponysay is a rewrite of cowsay with lots of full-color characters from My Little Pony. There’s over 400 characters and character combinations.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: Liquid Prompt – adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh

September 23, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Liquid Prompt gives you a nicely displayed prompt with useful information when you need it. It shows you what you need when you need it.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: peco – interactive filtering tool

August 9, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

peco is a CLI utility that filters text interactively. The tool is written in the Go programming language. It’s free and open source software.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: McFly – navigate through your shell history

July 26, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

McFly is a tiny utility that replaces the functionality offered by Bash’s ctrl-r with an intelligent search engine.

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