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z – jump around the filesystem

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

z is a shell script that maintains a jump-list of the directories you actually use. It tracks your most used directories, based on ‘frecency’.

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autojump – easily navigate directories from the command line

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

autojump is a tool which offers a faster way to navigate your filesystem. It maintains a database of the directories you use the most.

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z.lua – command line tool which helps you navigate faster by learning your habits

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

z.lua is a command line tool which helps you navigate faster by learning your habits. z.lua is free and open source software.

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fasd – quick access to files and directories for POSIX shells

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Fasd is a very convenient, open source command-line productivity booster. This utility offers quick access to files and directories.

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fzy – simple, fast fuzzy finder for the terminal

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fzy is a fast, simple fuzzy text selector for the terminal with an advanced scoring algorithm. fzy is free and open source software

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v – z for vim

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

v is z for vim, a clone of Bill Joy’s vi editor for Unix.v uses viminfo’s list of recently edited files. It’s free and open source software.

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tar – create tar archives

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Tar is console based software for packaging a set of files as a single archive in tar format. Free and open source software.

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patool – portable archive file manager

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Various archive formats can be created, extracted, tested, listed, searched, repacked and compared with patool.

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TUI Archiver – list / manage archives

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

TUI Archiver is a terminal application to list / manage archives. It’s written in Go and published under an open source license.

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tarnation – backup/restore utility based on tar

October 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

tarnation is a simple, extensible tar backup/restore utility. It’s free and open source software written in Bash.

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