diff --git a/cli-apps.yaml b/cli-apps.yaml index bbbd913..1d8acaa 100644 --- a/cli-apps.yaml +++ b/cli-apps.yaml @@ -26,7 +26,10 @@ categories: - label: email name: Email - description: Email clients ([Mail User Agents](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_client) - MUA), mail synchronization + description: | + Email clients ([Mail User + Agents](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_client) - + MUA), mail synchronization - label: browser name: Web browser @@ -34,7 +37,11 @@ categories: - label: webdev name: Web development - description: static site generators ([staticgen.com](https://www.staticgen.com/) reports a comprehensive list of available options), load test tools. + description: | + static site generators + ([staticgen.com](https://www.staticgen.com/) reports a + comprehensive list of available options), load test + tools. - label: games name: Games and funny @@ -138,22 +145,33 @@ apps: name: ack url: http://beyondgrep.com/ description: | - A tool like `grep` optimized for programmers; written in Perl, it speeds up searches thanks to skipping non-interesting directories, such as `.git`. + A tool like `grep` optimized for programmers; written + in Perl, it speeds up searches thanks to skipping non + interesting directories, such as `.git`. - name: ag url: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher description: | - (The silver searcher) is a text search utility targeted to source code; it skips versioning systems data directories; it is inspired by `ack`, but faster. + (The silver searcher) is a text search utility + targeted to source code; it skips versioning systems + data directories; it is inspired by `ack`, but faster. - name: paragrep url: http://software.clapper.org/paragrep/ description: | - Greps regular expressions in a text file(s) and prints out the paragraphs containing those expressions; a paragraph is defined as a block of text delimited by an empty or blank line; fully customizable via command line parameters. + Greps regular expressions in a text file(s) and prints + out the paragraphs containing those expressions; a + paragraph is defined as a block of text delimited by + an empty or blank line; fully customizable via command + line parameters. - name: sift url: https://sift-tool.org/ description: | - Fast and powerful open source alternative to grep; it targets flexibility and performance: can be as fast as "regular" grep and allows to specify complex expressions to find text. + Fast and powerful open source alternative to grep; it + targets flexibility and performance: can be as fast as + "regular" grep and allows to specify complex + expressions to find text. text-processing: - name: ccat @@ -164,184 +182,278 @@ apps: name: fzf url: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf description: | - (FuZzy Finder) is a general-purpose command-line finder with fuzzy search/filter capabilities; good integration with `vim`. + (FuZzy Finder) is a general-purpose command-line + finder with fuzzy search/filter capabilities; good + integration with `vim`. - name: grc url: https://github.com/pengwynn/grc description: | - (Generic Colouriser) can be configured to parse a given text stream and to colorize it according to regexp written in configuration files; different patterns can be associated to file types. + (Generic Colouriser) can be configured to parse a + given text stream and to colorize it according to + regexp written in configuration files; different + patterns can be associated to file types. - name: jq url: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/ description: | - (JSON Query?) is sed-like processor for JSON data; can be used to process JSON files and data streams and perform operations such as those allowed by `cat`, `sed`, `grep` and `awk` on regular text files. + (JSON Query?) is sed-like processor for JSON data; can + be used to process JSON files and data streams and + perform operations such as those allowed by `cat`, + `sed`, `grep` and `awk` on regular text files. - name: percol url: https://github.com/mooz/percol description: | - A Python script that "1) receives input lines from `stdin` or a file, 2) lists the input lines and waits for input that filter/select the line(s), 3) outputs the selected line(s) to `stdout`"; can be used to add interactivity to many regular shell commands. + A Python script that "1) receives input lines from + stdin` or a file, 2) lists the input lines and waits + for input that filter/select the line(s), 3) outputs + the selected line(s) to `stdout`"; can be used to add + interactivity to many regular shell commands. - name: q url: http://harelba.github.io/q/ description: | - Executes SQL-like queries on CSVs/TSVs tabular data files; each tabular file is treated as a database table; support to all SQL constructs (`WHERE`, `GROUP BY`, `JOIN`). + Executes SQL-like queries on CSVs/TSVs tabular data + files; each tabular file is treated as a database table; + support to all SQL constructs (`WHERE`, `GROUP BY`, + `JOIN`). font: - name: FIGlet url: http://www.figlet.org/ description: | - Not exactly a font manager, but a nice program for making large letters out of ordinary text; an astonishing number of different fonts is available. + Not exactly a font manager, but a nice program for + making large letters out of ordinary text; an + astonishing number of different fonts is available. - name: toilet url: http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/toilet description: | - A program that tries to improve `FIGlet`; can load FIGlet fonts; supports Unicode input and output, colour fonts and output, and various output formats, including HTML, IRC and ANSI; uses `libcaca` to produce nice textual effects. + A program that tries to improve `FIGlet`; can load + FIGlet fonts; supports Unicode input and output, + colour fonts and output, and various output formats, + including HTML, IRC and ANSI; uses `libcaca` to + produce nice textual effects. editors: - name: Emacs url: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ description: | - One of the godfathers of text editors; free long-standing software project; tons of extensions and funcionalities; the biggest drawback (my taste): it needs [E-Lisp](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/eintr.html) for being programmed. + One of the godfathers of text editors; free + long-standing software project; tons of extensions + and funcionalities; the biggest drawback (my taste): + it needs [E-Lisp](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/eintr.html) + for being programmed. - name: jed url: http://www.jedsoft.org/jed/index.html description: | - A text editor with a drop-down menu facility that make it especially user-friendly. + A text editor with a drop-down menu facility that make + it especially user-friendly. - name: joe url: http://joe-editor.sourceforge.net/ description: | - (Joe's Own Editor) is a compact text editor written in C; a detailed list of features and missing ones is explicitly reported in the website; this editor is mentioned in several web sources for its capability in handling large files. + (Joe's Own Editor) is a compact text editor written in + C; a detailed list of features and missing ones is + explicitly reported in the website; this editor is + mentioned in several web sources for its capability in + handling large files. - name: nano url: https://www.nano-editor.org/ description: | - Easy to use, lightweigth text editor; no complex keybindings to remember. + Easy to use, lightweigth text editor; no complex + keybindings to remember. - name: neovim url: https://neovim.io/ description: | - A work in progress attempt to improve [vim](http://www.vim.org/), dropping older/unused OS compatibility, improving the codebase readability, modularity and maintainability; it has chances to become the next choice of vim users. + A work in progress attempt to improve [vim](http://www.vim.org/), + dropping older/unused OS compatibility, improving the + codebase readability, modularity and maintainability; + it has chances to become the next choice of vim users. - name: slap url: https://github.com/slap-editor/slap description: | - Text editor inspired by [Sublime Text](https://www.sublimetext.com/) written in NodeJS; extedable in Javascript. + Text editor inspired by [Sublime Text](https://www.sublimetext.com/) + written in NodeJS; extedable in Javascript. - name: vai url: https://github.com/stefanoborini/vai description: | - A text editor similar to `vim` written in Python; many feature are nicely replicated, some are still missing; however, the advantage of this implementation is its simplicity, maintainability and extensibility, thanks to the Python implementation. + A text editor similar to `vim` written in Python; many + feature are nicely replicated, some are still missing; + however, the advantage of this implementation is its + simplicity, maintainability and extensibility, thanks + to the Python implementation. - name: vim url: http://www.vim.org/ description: | - Historically one of the preferred text editors; behavior based on editing modes; plenty of plugins and tips to address every possible editing problem. Tool's choice + Historically one of the preferred text editors; + behavior based on editing modes; plenty of plugins and + tips to address every possible editing problem. - name: vis url: https://github.com/martanne/vis description: | - "a modern, legacy free, simple yet efficient vim-like editor", and more: "The intention is not to be bug for bug compatible with vim, instead a similar editing experience should be provided. The goal could thus be summarized as 80% of vim's features implemented in roughly 1% of the code"; the editor is scriptable in LUA and supports editing large files. + "a modern, legacy free, simple yet efficient vim-like + editor", and more: "The intention is not to be bug for + bug compatible with vim, instead a similar editing + experience should be provided. The goal could thus be + summarized as 80% of vim's features implemented in + roughly 1% of the code"; the editor is scriptable in + LUA and supports editing large files. - name: WordGrinder url: https://cowlark.com/wordgrinder/ description: | - From the website: "WordGrinder is a word processor for processing words. It is not WYSIWYG. It is not point and click. It is not a desktop publisher. It is not a text editor. It does not do fonts and it barely does styles. What it does do is words. It's designed for writing text. It gets out of your way and lets you type." - - + From the website: "WordGrinder is a word processor for + processing words. It is not WYSIWYG. It is not point + and click. It is not a desktop publisher. It is not a + text editor. It does not do fonts and it barely does + styles. What it does do is words. It's designed for + writing text. It gets out of your way and lets you + type." terminals: - name: byobu url: http://byobu.co/ description: | - A text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer; it features enhanced profiles, convenient keybindings, configuration utilities, and toggle-able system status notifications; compatible with `screen` and `tmux`. + A text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer; + it features enhanced profiles, convenient keybindings, + configuration utilities, and toggle-able system status + notifications; compatible with `screen` and `tmux`. - name: screen url: https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ description: | - Terminal multiplexer that split a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells. Tool's choice + Terminal multiplexer that split a physical terminal + between several processes, typically interactive shells. - name: tmux url: https://tmux.github.io/ description: | - Terminal multiplexer; born to improve `screen`; client-server architecture, `vi` and `emacs` key-bindings, search in window feature and many more. + Terminal multiplexer; born to improve `screen`; + client-server architecture, `vi` and `emacs` + key-bindings, search in window feature and many + more. monitor: - name: cv url: https://github.com/Xfennec/progress description: | - (Coreutils Progress Viewer) "looks for coreutils basic commands (`cp`, `mv`, `dd`, `tar`, `gzip/gunzip`, `cat`, etc.) currently running on your system and displays the percentage of copied data. It can also show estimated time and throughput". + (Coreutils Progress Viewer) "looks for coreutils basic + commands (`cp`, `mv`, `dd`, `tar`, `gzip/gunzip`, + `cat`, etc.) currently running on your system and + displays the percentage of copied data. It can also + show estimated time and throughput". - name: glances url: https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/ description: | - A comprehensive and detailed system monitoring tool; monitored parameters include: CPU, memory, load, process list, network interfaces, disk I/O, sensors, filesystems, docker, system info, uptime. + A comprehensive and detailed system monitoring tool; + monitored parameters include: CPU, memory, load, + process list, network interfaces, disk I/O, sensors, + filesystems, docker, system info, uptime. - name: GoTTY url: https://github.com/yudai/gotty description: | - A program to turn CLI tools into web applications; basically, it runs a command and starts a server so that the output can be displayed in a web page. + A program to turn CLI tools into web applications; + basically, it runs a command and starts a server so + that the output can be displayed in a web page. - name: inxi url: http://smxi.org/docs/inxi.htm description: | - A comprehensive system information script; provides information about CPU, graphics, audio and network devices, drives and partitions, sensors; implemented as a Bash script. + A comprehensive system information script; provides + information about CPU, graphics, audio and network + devices, drives and partitions, sensors; implemented + as a Bash script. - name: iotop url: http://guichaz.free.fr/iotop/ description: | - "A Python program with a top like UI used to show of behalf of which process is the I/O going on". + "A Python program with a top like UI used to show of + behalf of which process is the I/O going on". - name: htop url: http://hisham.hm/htop/ description: | - An interactive process viewer for Unix; improves the UI of `top`, by adding real-time meters and colors. recommended + An interactive process viewer for Unix; improves the + UI of `top`, by adding real-time meters and colors. - name: multitail url: https://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/ description: | - A command to open multiple log files in a single terminal window and monitor them in real-time. + A command to open multiple log files in a single + terminal window and monitor them in real-time. - name: ngrep url: http://ngrep.sourceforge.net/ description: | - (Network grep) applies the `grep` logic to the network layer, allowing to match regular expressions against data payloads of packets; it recognizes IPv4/6, TCP, UDP, ICMPv4/6, IGMP and Raw across Ethernet, PPP, SLIP, FDDI, Token Ring and null interfaces. + (Network grep) applies the `grep` logic to the network + layer, allowing to match regular expressions against + data payloads of packets; it recognizes IPv4/6, TCP, + UDP, ICMPv4/6, IGMP and Raw across Ethernet, PPP, + SLIP, FDDI, Token Ring and null interfaces. - name: progress url: https://github.com/Xfennec/progress description: | - A tool to monitor the progress of common Coreutils command-line tools (cp, mv, dd, tar, rsync, etc.); it uses an ncurses interface to display the percentage of data copied; it works by reading from system files and retrieving the necessary information for the estimation. + A tool to monitor the progress of common Coreutils + command-line tools (cp, mv, dd, tar, rsync, etc.); it + uses an ncurses interface to display the percentage of + data copied; it works by reading from system files and + retrieving the necessary information for the estimation. - name: powertop url: https://01.org/powertop description: | - A `top`-like utility to monitor the sources of power consumption; allows to turn on/off many components; quite useful to track possible power-related issues. + A `top`-like utility to monitor the sources of power + consumption; allows to turn on/off many components; + quite useful to track possible power-related issues. - name: smem url: https://www.selenic.com/smem/ description: | - Python program that reports memory usage; it can report the "proportional set size" (PSS), a meaningful representation of the amount of memory used by libraries and applications in a virtual memory system; it has built-in chart generation. + Python program that reports memory usage; it can + report the "proportional set size" (PSS), a meaningful + representation of the amount of memory used by + libraries and applications in a virtual memory system; + it has built-in chart generation. - name: top url: http://www.unixtop.org/ description: | - The classical Unix utility that provides a rolling display of top cpu using processes. + The classical Unix utility that provides a rolling + display of top cpu using processes. - name: watch url: http://www.linfo.org/watch.html description: | - Periodically runs a command in the console while temporarily clearing the screen content; it makes it easy to check differences between the output of two subsequent commands; it provides "diff" functionality to highlight the changing characters between outputs. + Periodically runs a command in the console while + temporarily clearing the screen content; it makes it + easy to check differences between the output of two + subsequent commands; it provides "diff" functionality + to highlight the changing characters between outputs. shells: - name: Bash url: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/ description: | - (Bourne Again SHell) The most widespread system shell to date. Tool's choice + (Bourne Again SHell) The most widespread system shell to date. - name: Fish url: https://fishshell.com/ description: | - "A command line shell for the 90s"; focused on user-friendliness, with powerful autosuggestions, colors, "sane scripting" (w.r.t. to Bash). + "A command line shell for the 90s"; focused on + user-friendliness, with powerful autosuggestions, + colors, "sane scripting" (w.r.t. to Bash). - name: Zsh url: http://www.zsh.org/ @@ -352,51 +464,77 @@ apps: name: hstr url: https://github.com/dvorka/hstr description: | - A tool for managing the history; powerful visual search and execution of previous commands; history editing capabilities. + A tool for managing the history; powerful visual + search and execution of previous commands; history + editing capabilities. - name: parallel url: https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/ description: | - A shell tool from GNU for executing jobs in parallel using one or more computers; it can split the input and pipe it into commands in parallel. + A shell tool from GNU for executing jobs in parallel + using one or more computers; it can split the input + and pipe it into commands in parallel. security: - name: encfs url: http://www.arg0.net/#!encfs/c1awt description: | - Encrypted filesystem in user-space based on [FUSE](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/FUSE); mounts an encrypted directory into a clear one. + Encrypted filesystem in user-space based on + [FUSE](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/FUSE); mounts an + encrypted directory into a clear one. - name: LUKS url: https://guardianproject.info/code/luks/ description: | - Hard disk encryption tool; it stores all setup information in the partition header, enabling easy data transport or migration. + Hard disk encryption tool; it stores all setup + information in the partition header, enabling easy + data transport or migration. - name: safe.sh url: https://github.com/windowsrefund/safe description: | - Pure Bash script to manage secure archives; simple and clean; uses [gnugpg](https://gnupg.org/) for encryption/decryption, thus can leverage tools like [GPG Agent](https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/Invoking-GPG_002dAGENT.html). Tool's choice + Pure Bash script to manage secure archives; simple and + clean; uses [gnugpg](https://gnupg.org/) for + encryption/decryption, thus can leverage tools like + [GPG Agent](https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/Invoking-GPG_002dAGENT.html). spreadsheet: - name: Teapot url: https://www.syntax-k.de/projekte/teapot/ description: | - Compact ncurses-based spreadsheet with original syntax, 3D-style and built-in functions. + Compact ncurses-based spreadsheet with original + syntax, 3D-style and built-in functions. + - + name: sc-im + url: https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im + description: Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised -- An + ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal. It is rich + in functionalities, but the syntax of functions and + other details are different from the common spreadsheets + such as Excel and Calc, making difficult to "re-cycle" + existing knowledge on these programs to work proficiently + with sc-im. Neverthless, a nice piece of software. presentations: - name: tpp url: http://www.ngolde.de/tpp.html description: | - (text presentation program) a ncurses Ruby program that allows to produce nice text-based presentation with simple markup language. + (text presentation program) a ncurses Ruby program + that allows to produce nice text-based presentation + with simple markup language. organizers: - name: gcalcli url: https://github.com/insanum/gcalcli description: | - CLI to access Google Calendars; allows to do the main tasks: create, delete, and list events. + CLI to access Google Calendars; allows to do the main + tasks: create, delete, and list events. - name: khal url: https://github.com/pimutils/khal description: | - CLI and terminal calendar program, able to synchronize with CalDAV servers through [vdirsyncer](https://github.com/pimutils/vdirsyncer). + CLI and terminal calendar program, able to synchronize + with CalDAV servers through [vdirsyncer](https://github.com/pimutils/vdirsyncer). - name: khard url: https://github.com/lucc/khard @@ -406,136 +544,197 @@ apps: name: iKog url: https://sites.google.com/site/henspace/ikog/ description: | - A fully-featured task manager incapsulated within a Python script (just carry around the script to retain all the TODOs). When the script is run, a Python shell is opened, where task-related commands can be entered (ADD, LIST, etc.); a pity that commands are uppercase, which requires the annoying use of the Shift key. + A fully-featured task manager incapsulated within a + Python script (just carry around the script to retain + all the TODOs). When the script is run, a Python shell + is opened, where task-related commands can be entered + (ADD, LIST, etc.); a pity that commands are uppercase, + which requires the annoying use of the Shift key. - name: Yokadi url: https://yokadi.github.io/ description: | - Project-based todo manager: every task must be specified with a mandatory project indication. Tasks are stored within a SQLlite DB. Written in Python. + Project-based todo manager: every task must be + specified with a mandatory project indication. Tasks + are stored within a SQLlite DB. Written in Python. - name: Org mode url: http://orgmode.org/ description: | - Super-powerful [Emacs](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) plugin to manage outlines with associated timestamps, priorities, labels, etc.; available views grouped by time (agenda), tags, etc.; plain text storage format. Tool's choice + Super-powerful [Emacs](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) + plugin to manage outlines with associated timestamps, + priorities, labels, etc.; available views grouped by + time (agenda), tags, etc.; plain text storage format. - name: pal url: http://palcal.sourceforge.net/ description: | - Calendar program for Unix/Linux systems that can keep track of events; custom, plain text storage format; interesting and fully functional. + Calendar program for Unix/Linux systems that can keep + track of events; custom, plain text storage format; + interesting and fully functional. - name: Remind url: https://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind description: | - Calendar program with possibility to set complex rules to define events; custom, powerful text-based storage format. + Calendar program with possibility to set complex rules + to define events; custom, powerful text-based storage + format. - name: TaskWarrior url: https://taskwarrior.org/ description: | - Todo manager with advanced features; dedicated synchronization server available; many plugins and related tools; healthy software project. + Todo manager with advanced features; dedicated + synchronization server available; many plugins and + related tools; healthy software project. - name: todo.txt url: https://ginatrapani.github.io/todo.txt-cli/ description: | - Minimalistic todo manager that uses a simple plain text file to keep track of items; implemented as a chell script. + Minimalistic todo manager that uses a simple plain + text file to keep track of items; implemented as a + shell script. - name: todolist url: http://todolist.site/ description: | - A minimal clone of [Wunderlist](https://www.wunderlist.com/), with 30% of its features. GTD oriented. It stores the task list in a hidden JSON file in the home directory, making it easy to backup or share them. + A minimal clone of [Wunderlist](https://www.wunderlist.com/), + with 30% of its features. GTD oriented. It stores the + task list in a hidden JSON file in the home directory, + making it easy to backup or share them. - name: TuDu url: https://code.meskio.net/tudu/ description: | - A comand line interface to manage hierarchical todos. Each task has a title, a long text description, a deadline (tudu warns you when the date is close), and a scheduled date. There are categories and priorities. + A comand line interface to manage hierarchical todos. + Each task has a title, a long text description, a + deadline (tudu warns you when the date is close), and + a scheduled date. There are categories and priorities. - name: Wyrd url: http://freecode.com/projects/wyrd/ description: | - Curses front-end for [Remind](https://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind) written in OCaml with vertically scrollable time table. + Curses front-end for [Remind](https://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind) + written in OCaml with vertically scrollable time table. productivity: - name: arbtt url: http://arbtt.nomeata.de/ description: | - (automatic, rule-based time tracker) runs in background, collecting information regarding open windows, focussed ones, etc.; it can be configured to display statistics on the collected data, e.g., figuring out the time spent on one specific window. + (automatic, rule-based time tracker) runs in + background, collecting information regarding open + windows, focussed ones, etc.; it can be configured to + display statistics on the collected data, e.g., + figuring out the time spent on one specific + window. - name: ledger url: http://ledger-cli.org/ description: | - A powerful, double-entry accounting system from the command-line; it uses a simple yet powerful text syntax to specify the items to account. + A powerful, double-entry accounting system from the + command-line; it uses a simple yet powerful text + syntax to specify the items to account. - name: Qalculate url: https://qalculate.github.io/ description: | - Multi-purpose calculator with customizable functions, units, arbitrary precision, plotting (it includes a GUI). + Multi-purpose calculator with customizable functions, + units, arbitrary precision, plotting (it includes a + GUI). - name: Translate Shell url: https://www.soimort.org/translate-shell/ description: | - Command-line translator using Google Translate, Bing Translator, Yandex.Translate, etc. + Command-line translator using Google Translate, Bing + Translator, Yandex.Translate, etc. viewers: - name: cacaview url: http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca description: | - A library and a program to display JPG, PNG, GIF or BMP images in the terminal using ASCII characters. + A library and a program to display JPG, PNG, GIF or + BMP images in the terminal using ASCII characters. - name: feh url: https://feh.finalrewind.org/ description: | - "X11 image viewer aimed mostly at console users" (cit.); with no fancy GUI, it is controlled via commandline arguments and configurable key/mouse actions. + "X11 image viewer aimed mostly at console users" + (cit.); with no fancy GUI, it is controlled via + commandline arguments and configurable key/mouse + actions. - name: mupdf url: http://mupdf.com/ description: | - Lightweight graphical PDF visualizer; strong key-based control; fast and accurate rendering. + Lightweight graphical PDF visualizer; strong key-based + control; fast and accurate rendering. - name: mplayer url: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html description: | - One of the most popular video/audio players around; plays most audio and video formats (using ASCII characters) in the shell; provides a GUI for graphical visualization. + One of the most popular video/audio players around; + plays most audio and video formats (using ASCII + characters) in the shell; provides a GUI for graphical + visualization. - name: zathura url: https://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/ description: | - Plugin based document file visualizer (PDF, DejaVu, PS); strongly key-based control. Tool's choice + Plugin based document file visualizer (PDF, DejaVu, PS); + strongly key-based control. music: - name: Alsamixer url: http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Main_Page description: | - ALSA mixer with curses interfaces. Tool's choice + ALSA mixer with curses interfaces. - name: cmus url: https://cmus.github.io/ description: | - A fast and lightweight audio player with configurable keybindings and playlist support. + A fast and lightweight audio player with configurable + keybindings and playlist support. - name: MOC url: https://moc.daper.net/ description: | - (music on console) is a powerful and easy to use console audio player; user interface a la Midnight Commander; plenty of features; fully controllable from the keyboard. Tool's choice + (music on console) is a powerful and easy to use + console audio player; user interface a la Midnight + Commander; plenty of features; fully controllable from + the keyboard. - name: mpg123 url: http://mpg123.org/ description: | - Quick `mp3` sound file player; no visual interface, just a command-line audio file player for `mp3` files. + Quick `mp3` sound file player; no visual interface, + just a command-line audio file player for `mp3` files. - name: mps-youtube url: https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube description: | - A curses player for music tracks from Youtube; it allows to search for songs and playlists; it downloads the video, extracts the audio track and plays it; handles local playlists and many configuration parameters. recommended + A curses player for music tracks from Youtube; it + allows to search for songs and playlists; it downloads + the video, extracts the audio track and plays it; + handles local playlists and many configuration + parameters. - name: ogg123 url: https://www.xiph.org/downloads/ description: | - Quick `ogg` sound file player; no visual interface, just a command-line audio file player for the free and open `ogg` file format. + Quick `ogg` sound file player; no visual interface, + just a command-line audio file player for the free and + open `ogg` file format. graphics: - name: ImageMagick url: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php description: | - Software suite to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images; it handles many file formats (including PDF and SVG) and provides processing tools to "resize, flip, mirror, rotate, distort, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves". + Software suite to create, edit, compose, or convert + bitmap images; it handles many file formats (including + PDF and SVG) and provides processing tools to "resize, + flip, mirror, rotate, distort, shear and transform + images, adjust image colors, apply various special + effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and + Bézier curves". - name: scrot url: https://github.com/dreamer/scrot @@ -546,12 +745,18 @@ apps: name: git url: https://git-scm.com/ description: | - The winner across all the existing file versioning tools; distributed versioning; fully controllable from the command-line; plenty of configuration and usage options; behind a number of related project that leverage git as backend. Tool's choice + The winner across all the existing file versioning + tools; distributed versioning; fully controllable from + the command-line; plenty of configuration and usage + options; behind a number of related project that + leverage git as backend. - name: git-annex url: https://git-annex.branchable.com/ description: | - Manages files with `git`, without checking the file contents into git; very useful to manage large/binary files. + Manages files with `git`, without checking the file + contents into git; very useful to manage large/binary + files. - name: Mercurial url: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/ @@ -561,55 +766,82 @@ apps: name: tig url: https://github.com/jonas/tig description: | - An ncurses-based text-mode interface for `git` that can act as a repository browser, but can also assist in staging changes for commit at chunk level. + An ncurses-based text-mode interface for `git` that + can act as a repository browser, but can also assist + in staging changes for commit at chunk level. file-systems: - name: sshfs url: https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs description: | - Locally mount a remote file-system through SSH and access files and directory as they would be on the local machine. + Locally mount a remote file-system through SSH and + access files and directory as they would be on the + local machine. - name: TMSU url: http://tmsu.org/ description: | - A tool for tagging files; it provides a simple command-line tool for applying tags and a virtual filesystem so that you can get a tag-based view of your files from within any other program. + A tool for tagging files; it provides a simple command + line tool for applying tags and a virtual filesystem + so that you can get a tag-based view of your files + from within any other program. file-manager: - name: lfm url: https://inigo.katxi.org/devel/lfm/ description: | - (Last File Manager) is a file manager written in Python; it comes lots of features, including 1-pane or 2-pane view, files filters and bookmarks, tree view, virtual file-systems to open compressed archives, serch in files, customizable keybindings and themes. recommended + (Last File Manager) is a file manager written in Python; + it comes with lots of features, including 1-pane or 2-pane + view, files filters and bookmarks, tree view, + virtual file-systems to open compressed archives, + serch in files, customizable keybindings and + themes. - name: Midnight Commander url: http://www.midnight-commander.org/ description: | - a visual file manager, full-screen text mode application that allows you to copy, move and delete files and whole directory trees and search for files; includes an internal viewer and editor. + a visual file manager, full-screen text mode + application that allows you to copy, move and delete + files and whole directory trees and search for files; + includes an internal viewer and editor. - name: ncursesFM url: https://github.com/FedeDP/ncursesFM description: | - File manager written in C; rather complete in terms of features; especially lightweight and responsive. + File manager written in C; rather complete in terms of + features; especially lightweight and responsive. - name: ranger url: http://ranger.nongnu.org/ description: | - Console file manager with vi key bindings; curses interface with a view on the directory hierarchy; comes a file launcher that automatically finds out which program to use for a given file type. + Console file manager with vi key bindings; curses + interface with a view on the directory hierarchy; + comes a file launcher that automatically finds out + which program to use for a given file type. - name: vifm url: https://vifm.info/ description: | - "ncurses based file manager with vi like keybindings/modes/options/commands/configuration, which also borrows some useful ideas from mutt" (cit.). + "ncurses based file manager with vi like + keybindings/modes/options/commands/configuration, + which also borrows some useful ideas from mutt" + (cit.). conversion: - name: catdoc url: http://www.wagner.pp.ru/~vitus/software/catdoc/ description: | - Command line converter from Microsoft Word to plain text; output is sent to the standard output. + Command line converter from Microsoft Word to plain + text; output is sent to the standard output. - name: Pandoc url: http://pandoc.org/ description: | - Universal document file converter; handles input/output from/to a number of formats: HTML, PDF, LaTeX, docx, odt, AsciiDoc, Markdown, Textile, just to mention a few; the quality of conversion strongly depends on the combination of input/output formats. + Universal document file converter; handles input + output from/to a number of formats: HTML, PDF, LaTeX, docx, odt, + AsciiDoc, Markdown, Textile, just to mention a few; the + quality of conversion strongly depends on the combination of + input/output formats. - name: xls2csv url: http://www.wagner.pp.ru/~vitus/software/catdoc/ @@ -620,69 +852,99 @@ apps: name: borg url: https://github.com/borgbackup description: | - Encrypted backups with a clean and simple interface; easy to use and set up; possibility to mount the backup archive with FUSE and inspect it as a regular file system. Tool's choice + Encrypted backups with a clean and simple interface; easy to use + and set up; possibility to mount the backup archive + with FUSE and inspect it as a regular file system. - name: duplicity url: http://duplicity.nongnu.org/ description: | - Creates GPG encrypted, compressed backups; client-side encryption allows to upload the backup onto untrusted servers. + Creates GPG encrypted, compressed backups; client-side + encryption allows to upload the backup onto untrusted + servers. - name: Duply url: http://duply.net/ description: | - Simplifies the use of [duplicity](http://duplicity.nongnu.org/) by keeping clean configuration files to automate the backup. + Simplifies the use of [duplicity](http://duplicity.nongnu.org/) + by keeping clean configuration files to automate the backup. file-system: - name: detox url: http://detox.sourceforge.net/ description: | - A utility designed to easily clean up filenames; it replaces characters like spaces with standard equivalents; it also replace UTF-8 or Latin-1 (or CP-1252) characters with more handy ones. + A utility designed to easily clean up filenames; it + replaces characters like spaces with standard + equivalents; it also replace UTF-8 or Latin-1 (or CP + 1252) characters with more handy ones. - name: dtrx url: https://brettcsmith.org/2007/dtrx/ description: | - (Do The Right eXtraction) aims at taking "all the hassle out of extracting archives"; allows to use one command to extract archives in different formatsl supports tar, zip, deb, rpm, 7z, rar, gz, bz2, xz; supports recursive extraction (files into file) and extracts files into dedicated directories. + (Do The Right eXtraction) aims at taking "all the + hassle out of extracting archives"; allows to use one + command to extract archives in different formatsl + supports tar, zip, deb, rpm, 7z, rar, gz, bz2, xz; + supports recursive extraction (files into file) and + extracts files into dedicated directories. - name: rename url: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/ description: | - Included in `util-linux`, allows bulk rename of files with regex support. recommended + Included in `util-linux`, allows bulk rename of files + with regex support. - name: renameutils url: http://www.nongnu.org/renameutils/ description: | - A set of programs to change file and directory names by editing them inplace; I find `imv` especially useful to edit a filename at the program prompt. + A set of programs to change file and directory names + by editing them inplace; I find `imv` especially + useful to edit a filename at the program prompt. - name: rmlint url: https://github.com/sahib/rmlint/ description: | - A tool to recursively scan a directory tree looking for duplicate and broken files; it outputs statistics and save the list of files in JSON format; it produce a shell script that can be inspected before running it to delete the desire files. + A tool to recursively scan a directory tree looking + for duplicate and broken files; it outputs statistics + and save the list of files in JSON format; it produce + a shell script that can be inspected before running it + to delete the desire files. - name: PathPicker url: https://facebook.github.io/PathPicker/ description: | - A tool from Facebook that parses the output from a command and presents a UI to select files and directories; can be used to apply a command of a interactively selected files or to move across directories. + A tool from Facebook that parses the output from a + command and presents a UI to select files and + directories; can be used to apply a command of a + interactively selected files or to move across + directories. - name: tree url: http://mama.indstate.edu/users/ice/tree/ description: | - "Recursive directory listing command that produces a depth indented listing of files". recommended + "Recursive directory listing command that produces a + depth indented listing of files". funny: - name: cmatrix url: http://www.asty.org/cmatrix/ description: | - ncurses program that display the scrolling lines found in the movie `The matrix`. + ncurses program that display the scrolling lines found + in the movie `The matrix`. - name: cowsay url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowsay description: | - A program that generates a ASCII art of a cow with a bubble containing the specified message (I provide the Wikipedia link since at the moment the link to the author's homepage results to be unreachable). + A program that generates a ASCII art of a cow with a + bubble containing the specified message (I provide the + Wikipedia link since at the moment the link to the + author's homepage results to be unreachable). - name: cowthink url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowsay description: | - Same as `cowsay`, but uses a "think" bubble instead of a speech bubble. + Same as `cowsay`, but uses a "think" bubble instead of + a speech bubble. - name: fortune url: http://software.clapper.org/fortune/ @@ -692,64 +954,87 @@ apps: name: Steam Locomotive url: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/displays-animations-when-accidentally-you-type-sl-instead-of-ls.html description: | - A steam locomotive traverses the screen from right to left if `sl` is typed instead of `ls`. + A steam locomotive traverses the screen from right to + left if `sl` is typed instead of `ls`. games: - name: bastet url: http://fph.altervista.org/prog/bastet.html description: | - (Bastard Tetris) implements the classical Tetris but with a logic to generate the next block which maximizes the difficulty for the player. + (Bastard Tetris) implements the classical Tetris but + with a logic to generate the next block which + maximizes the difficulty for the player. - name: Dwarf fortress url: http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/ description: | - A fantasy game using ASCII art graphical representation of the game environment; it features a rich environment with many options and possibilities. + A fantasy game using ASCII art graphical + representation of the game environment; it features a + rich environment with many options and possibilities. - name: freesweep url: http://www.upl.cs.wisc.edu/~hartmann/sweep/ description: | - A Minesweeper clone for the terminal which allows you to configure settings such as table rows and columns (up to 1024x1024!), percentage of bombs, colors and also has a highscores table. + A Minesweeper clone for the terminal which allows you + to configure settings such as table rows and columns + up to 1024x1024!), percentage of bombs, colors and + also has a highscores table. - name: Nethack url: http://nethack.org/ description: | - Single player rogue-like dungeon exploration game; I'm currently addicted to [Pixel Dungeon](http://pixeldungeon.watabou.ru/) and its derivatives (Android apps), thus I find nethack a little bit too graphically poor. + Single player rogue-like dungeon exploration game; I'm + currently addicted to [Pixel Dungeon](http://pixeldungeon.watabou.ru/) + and its derivatives (Android apps), thus I find + nethack a little bit too graphically poor. - name: Oldrunner url: http://culot.org/public/Code/oldrunner.html description: | - Character-based remake of Lode Runner; includes all the original 150 levels. + Character-based remake of Lode Runner; includes all + the original 150 levels. - name: Slash'EM url: http://slashem.sourceforge.net/ description: | - Rogue-like game derived from `nethack` offering extra features, monsters, and items; includes a GUI version. + Rogue-like game derived from `nethack` offering extra + features, monsters, and items; includes a GUI version. - name: Typespeed url: http://typespeed.sourceforge.net/ description: | - Type words that are flying by from left to right as fast as you can; features different word sets, e.g., UNIX commands, English words, Non-English words. recommended + Type words that are flying by from left to right as + fast as you can; features different word sets, e.g., + UNIX commands, English words, Non-English words. webdev: - name: Metalsmith url: http://www.metalsmith.io/ description: | - An extremely simple static site generator; all functionalities are provided by plugins that can be combined and chained; written and extendable in Javascript. + An extremely simple static site generator; all + functionalities are provided by plugins that can be + combined and chained; written and extendable in + Javascript. - name: nanoc url: http://nanoc.ws/ description: | - Static site generator written in Ruby; extremely powerful and customizable; support many formats to generate HTML content. Tool's choice + Static site generator written in Ruby; extremely + powerful and customizable; support many formats to + generate HTML content. - name: siege url: https://www.joedog.org/siege-home/ description: | - An http load testing and benchmarking utility designed to let web developers stress their code. + An http load testing and benchmarking utility designed + to let web developers stress their code. - name: Tsung url: http://tsung.erlang-projects.org/ description: | - A multi-protocol distributed load testing tool that can be used to stress HTTP, WebDAV, SOAP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, LDAP and Jabber/XMPP servers. + A multi-protocol distributed load testing tool that + can be used to stress HTTP, WebDAV, SOAP, PostgreSQL, + MySQL, LDAP and Jabber/XMPP servers. browser: - name: Links @@ -760,43 +1045,60 @@ apps: name: Elinks url: http://elinks.cz/ description: | - "Advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web browser"; started as a fork of `Links`; it supports background download with queueing, some support from CSS, text box editing in external text editor. + "Advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode + web browser"; started as a fork of `Links`; it + supports background download with queueing, some + support from CSS, text box editing in external text + editor. - name: Linx url: http://lynx.invisible-island.net/ description: | - A highly configurable text-based web browser; one of the oldest CLI browser I'm aware of. + A highly configurable text-based web browser; one of + the oldest CLI browser I'm aware of. - name: w3m url: http://w3m.sourceforge.net/ description: | - A text-based web browser as well as a pager like `less`; it can be used as a text formatting tool which typesets HTML into plain text. + A text-based web browser as well as a pager like + `less`; it can be used as a text formatting tool which + typesets HTML into plain text. email: - name: alpine url: http://www.washington.edu/alpine/ description: | - Mail client which aims at being "fast, easy to use email client that is suitable for both the inexperienced email user as well as for the most demanding of power users". + Mail client which aims at being "fast, easy to use + email client that is suitable for both the + inexperienced email user as well as for the most + demanding of power users". - name: alot url: https://github.com/pazz/alot description: | - MUA written in Python using the [NotMuch](https://notmuchmail.org/) backend; MailDir format support. + MUA written in Python using the + [NotMuch](https://notmuchmail.org/) backend; MailDir + format support. - name: mbsync url: http://isync.sourceforge.net/mbsync.html description: | - Mailboxes synchronization tool; allows to download email locally; MailDir format supported. + Mailboxes synchronization tool; allows to download + email locally; MailDir format supported. - name: Mutt url: http://www.mutt.org/ description: | - Mail client with tons of features, customization chances, support for IMAP, POP3, multiple storage formats. + Mail client with tons of features, customization + chances, support for IMAP, POP3, multiple storage + formats. - name: sup url: http://sup-heliotrope.github.io/ description: | - MUA written in Ruby; specifically developed for accounts with "a lot of emails"; nice thread-based presentation. + MUA written in Ruby; specifically developed for + accounts with "a lot of emails"; nice thread-based + presentation. transfer: - name: aria2 @@ -809,42 +1111,60 @@ apps: name: curl url: https://curl.haxx.se/ description: | - A tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax; supports a lot of protocols. + A tool and library for transferring data with URL + syntax; supports a lot of protocols. - name: Deluge url: http://deluge-torrent.org/ description: | - A lightweight, Free Software, cross-platform BitTorrent client; a terminal curses interface, web interface and command line client can connect to a running daemon to manage torrent downloads. Tool's choice + A lightweight, Free Software, cross-platform + BitTorrent client; a terminal curses interface, web + interface and command line client can connect to a + running daemon to manage torrent downloads. - name: lftp url: https://lftp.yar.ru/ description: | - "Sophisticated ftp/http client, and a file transfer program supporting a number of network protocols"; support for bookmarks and mirroring features. + "Sophisticated ftp/http client, and a file transfer + program supporting a number of network protocols"; + support for bookmarks and mirroring features. - name: rsync url: https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/rsync.html description: | - Mirror directories across networked machines; handles diffs/changed files; works across SSH; plenty of parameters. Tool's choice + Mirror directories across networked machines; handles + diffs/changed files; works across SSH; plenty of + parameters. - name: sitecopy url: http://www.manyfish.co.uk/sitecopy/ description: | - Synchronizes a local copy of a website with a remote copy on a server; does not use SSH/scp but FTP for file copy; useful when the remote server does not support secure copy. Tool's choice + Synchronizes a local copy of a website with a remote + copy on a server; does not use SSH/scp but FTP for + file copy; useful when the remote server does not + support secure copy. - name: stftp url: http://stftp.sourceforge.net/ description: | - (simple terminal FTP) aims to be a "easy-to-use and unbloated client for the UNIX (and UNIX-like) console". + (simple terminal FTP) aims to be a "easy-to-use and + unbloated client for the UNIX (and UNIX-like) + console". - name: Woof url: http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/woof.html description: | - (Web Offer One File) sets up an HTTP webserver to serve files from a given local directory; all the users connected to the network can see and download the files. + (Web Offer One File) sets up an HTTP webserver to + serve files from a given local directory; all the + users connected to the network can see and download + the files. - name: youtube-dl url: http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ description: | - Downloads videos from [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/) and some other sites; useful for automated bulk downloads. + Downloads videos from + [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/) and some other + sites; useful for automated bulk downloads. chat: - name: finch @@ -883,16 +1203,6 @@ apps: for vim, and provides statuslines and prompts for several other applications, including zsh, bash, tmux, IPython, Awesome and Qtile. - - - name: sc-im - url: https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im - description: Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised -- An - ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal. It is rich - in functionalities, but the syntax of functions and - other details are different from the common spreadsheets - such as Excel and Calc, making difficult to "re-cycle" - existing knowledge on these programs to work proficiently - with sc-im. Neverthless, a nice piece of software. - name: rtop url: http://www.rtop-monitor.org/ @@ -1157,3 +1467,25 @@ articles: Linux servers simultaneously, this is where Parallel SSH came to picture. +tools: + - Deluge + - rsync + - sitecopy + - borg + - screen + - zathura + - vim + - safe.sh + - nanoc + - git + - Bash + - Alsamixer + - MOC +recommended: + - Typespeed + - rename + - tree + - htop + - mps-youtube + - lfm +