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Flemozi – lightweight emoji picker

June 14, 2023 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Flemozi is a simple, fast, and lightweight picker for desktop operating systems. It’s written in Dart.

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rust-parallel – execute commands in parallel

June 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rust-parallel is a command-line utility to execute commands in parallel and aggregate their output. It’s written in Rust.

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rargs – xargs + awk with pattern matching support

June 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Think of rargs as similar to xargs and awk with pattern-matching support. It’s written in the Rust programming language.

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parallel – shell tool for executing jobs in parallel

June 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

parallel is a shell tool for executing jobs in parallel using one or more computers. This tool is written in Perl.

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xxd – make a hexdump or do the reverse

June 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

xxd creates a hex dump of a given file or standard input. It can also convert a hex dump back to its original binary form.

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uq – removes duplicate lines from the output, regardless of the order

June 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

uq is a simple, user-friendly alternative to sort | uniq. It removes duplicate lines from the output, regardless of the order.

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semiuniq – uniq-like tool

June 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

The semiuniq program reads over lines of input and write lines of output that are “semi-unique” by eliminating repeated lines that are close.

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runiq – filter duplicate lines from input

June 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

runiq offers an efficient way (in both time and space) to filter duplicate entries (lines) from textual input.

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nauniq – non-adjacent uniq

June 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

nauniq is similar to the Unix command uniq but detects repeated lines even if they are not adjacent. It’s written in Perl.

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huniq – removes duplicates from stdin using a hash table

June 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

huniq remove duplicates from the given input. Note that huniq does not sort the input, it just removes duplicates.

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Diff Tools

difftastic – structural diff tool that compares files based on their syntax

June 10, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

difftastic is a structural diff tool that understands syntax. It uses tree-sitter to build a parse tree.

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process

procs – modern replacement for ps

June 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

procs is a replacement for ps. It has cross-platform support running under Linux and Windows, with experimental support for macOS.

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process

pstree – display a tree of processes

June 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pstree shows the currently running processes as a tree. This is free and open source software written in the C programming language.

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fuser – identifies processes using files or sockets

June 6, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fuser identifies processes using files or sockets. It’s written in the C programming language and published under the GPL.

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lsfd – modern replacement for lsof

June 6, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lsfd is intended to be a modern replacement for lsof on Linux systems. It’s free and open source software written in C.

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fend – arbitrary-precision unit-aware calculator

June 5, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fend is an arbitrary-precision unit-aware calculator. fend supports a few different output formats. It’s free and open source software.

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bcal – storage expression calculator

June 5, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

bcal (Byte CALculator) is a REPL CLI utility for storage expression evaluation, SI/IEC conversion, byte address calculation, and more.

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Music sketch

Resonance – Rust-based music player

June 5, 2023 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Resonance is an intuitive music player application written in Rust (with a smattering of Python), built with a clean user interface using GTK4 / Libadwaita.

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Calculators

kalc – arbitrary precision calculator

June 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

kalc is a complex numbers, 2d/3d graphing, arbitrary precision, CLI calculator with real-time output. It’s written in Rust.

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Calculators

clac – stack-based calculator with postfix notation

June 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

clac is a command line, stack-based calculator with postfix notation that displays the stack contents at all times.

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