Tiny but useful tools that complement the cd command. Free and open source goodness.
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Category: Utilities
chwp – change background wallpaper from the command line
chwp is a Rust-based tool to change the wallpaper without leaving the command-line.
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Pamac – Gtk and CLI front ends of libpamac
Pamac offers lpm, AUR, Appstream, Flatpak, and Snap support.
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aurto – Arch Linux AUR tool
aurto is an Arch Linux AUR tool for managing an auto-updating local ‘aurto’ package repository using aurutils.
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aurutils – helper tools for the AUR
aurutils is a collection of scripts to automate usage of the Arch User Repository, with different tasks such as package searching, and more.
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trizen – lightweight AUR package manager
trizen is a lightweight AUR package manager that’s written in the Perl programming language.
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pikaur – AUR helper with minimal dependencies
pikaur is an AUR helper with minimal dependencies. Review PKGBUILDs all in once, next build them all without user interaction.
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Pakku – pacman wrapper with additional features
Pakku is a pacman wrapper with additional features, such as AUR support. It’s written in Nim.
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Aura – package manager for Arch Linux
Aura is a package manager for Arch Linux. Its original purpose was in supplementing Pacman to support the building of AUR packages
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Zpm – Zsh plugin manager
Zpm is a plugin manager for Zsh that combines the imperative and declarative approach. At first run, zpm will do complex logic and generate cache, after that will be used cache only, so it makes this framework to be very
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33 Useful Free and Open Source Git Tools
Git is an open source distributed version control system which was originally designed by Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux.
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ntpd-rs – synchronizing your computer’s clock
ntpd-rs is a tool for synchronizing your computer’s clock, implementing the NTP and NTS protocols. It is written in Rust.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: more
This article spotlights alternative tools to more.
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peep – CLI text viewer tool
peep is the CLI text viewer tool which runs on Linux and macOS. This tool works interactively like the less command.
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ls-lint – fast file and directory name linter
ls-lint is an extremely fast directory and filename linter. Bring some structure to your project filesystem.
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rdict – offline CLI dictionary
rdict is an offline CLI dictionary using data from wiktionary. It’s written in the Rust programming language.
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cambd – Cambridge dictionary CLI app
cambd is a Cambridge dictionary cli app which can automatically suggests related words when a typo is detected.
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psrecord – record the CPU and memory activity of a process
psrecord is a small utility that uses the psutil library to record the CPU and memory activity of a process.
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vet – curl sanity checker
vet is a command-line tool that acts as a safety net for the common but risky curl | bash pattern.
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cxt – extract and aggregate project context
cxt is a command-line tool that aggregates file and directory contents into your clipboard.
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