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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 – 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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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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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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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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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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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: 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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