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Emacs Software

ce – Chet’s Editor – small, fast, Emacs-like text editor

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

ce is a customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor similar to the GNU version of Emacs.

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Emacs Software

mg – Micro Emacs derivative

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

mg is a Micro Emacs derivative. It’s a portable version of mg maintained by the OpenBSD team.

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Emacs Software

Remacs – community-driven port of Emacs to Rust

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Remacs is a community-driven port of Emacs to Rust. Emacs is an extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.

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Emacs Software

JOE – Joe’s Own Editor

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

JOE or Joe’s Own Editor is a full-featured ncurses-based text editor for Unix systems.

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Zile – small Emacs alternative

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Zile Is Lossy Emacs (Zile) is a small Emacs clone. Zile is a customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.

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Compression

ncompress – traditional Unix LZW file compressor

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ncompress handles traditional Unix .Z files using LZW, with recursive processing, configurable code sizes and stdout output.

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Compression

p7zip-zstd – p7zip fork with additional codecs and improvements

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

p7zip-zstd is a p7zip fork with additional codecs and improvements. It’s written in the C and C++ programming languages.

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Compression

XZ Utils – data compression software

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

XZ Utils is open source general-purpose data compression software with high compression ratio.

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Compression

lbzip2 – parallel bzip2 compression utility

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lbzip2 offers parallel bzip2-compatible compression and decompression, configurable worker threads and convenient pipeline processing.

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Compression

lrzip – long-range compression for large files

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lrzip compresses large files using long-range redundancy reduction, multiple backends, multithreading, standard streams and encryption.

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Compression

BZip3 – high-ratio lossless data compressor

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

BZip3 is a high-ratio compressor with configurable blocks, multithreaded processing, data-integrity checks and a command-line utility.

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Compression

bzip2 – block-sorting lossless file compressor

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

bzip2 compresses files with Burrows-Wheeler coding, adjustable block sizes, integrity testing and recovery tools for damaged data.

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Compression

gzip – standard lossless file compression utility

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gzip provides command-line compression with Deflate, stream processing, integrity testing, recursive operation and rsyncable output.

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Compression

pixz – parallel and indexed xz compressor

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pixz enables parallel xz compression with tar indexing, fast archive listings, selective extraction and multicore decompression.

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Compression

lzop – fast file compressor using LZO

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

lzop is an LZO-based file compressor offering adjustable compression levels, stream processing, integrity tests and metadata preservation.

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Compression

pigz – parallel implementation of gzip

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pigz accelerates gzip-compatible compression across CPU cores, with independent blocks, zlib and ZIP output, and rsync-friendly mode.

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Compression

brotli – general-purpose lossless compression algorithm

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

brotli provides lossless compression with configurable quality, custom dictionaries, streaming support and compact web content delivery.

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Compression

Zstandard – fast lossless compression algorithm

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Zstandard offers fast lossless compression with multithreading, trained dictionaries, adjustable levels and streaming support.

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Compression

LZ4 – extremely fast lossless data compression

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

LZ4 is a fast lossless compressor with dictionary support, streaming APIs, adjustable acceleration and a high-compression mode.

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Images

jpegoptim – optimize JPEG files from the command line

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

jpegoptim is a command-line JPEG optimizer supporting lossless and lossy recompression, metadata control, progressive JPEGs and parallel processing.

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