A tool like `grep` optimized for programmers; written in Perl, it speeds up searches thanks to skipping non-interesting directories, such as `.git`.
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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.
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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.
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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.
text-processing:
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name:ccat
url:https://github.com/jingweno/ccat
description:|
A `cat` command with colorized output.
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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`.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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`).
font:
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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.
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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.
editors:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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name:nano
url:https://www.nano-editor.org/
description:|
Easy to use, lightweigth text editor; no complex keybindings to remember.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. <span class="label label-success">Tool's choice</span>
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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.
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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."
terminals:
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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`.
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name:screen
url:https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/
description:|
Terminal multiplexer that split a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells. <span class="label label-success">Tool's choice</span>
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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.
monitor:
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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".
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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".
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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. <span class="label label-primary">recommended</span>
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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name:top
url:http://www.unixtop.org/
description:|
The classical Unix utility that provides a rolling display of top cpu using processes.
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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.
shells:
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name:Bash
url:https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/
description:|
(Bourne Again SHell) The most widespread system shell to date. <span class="label label-success">Tool's choice</span>
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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).
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name:Zsh
url:http://www.zsh.org/
description:|
Alternative shell designed for interactive use.
system:
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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.
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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.
security:
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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.
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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.
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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). <span class="label label-success">Tool's choice</span>
spreadsheet:
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name:Teapot
url:https://www.syntax-k.de/projekte/teapot/
description:|
Compact ncurses-based spreadsheet with original syntax, 3D-style and built-in functions.
presentations:
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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.
organizers:
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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.
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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).
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name:khard
url:https://github.com/lucc/khard
description:|
Console carddav client written in Pyhton.
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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.
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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.
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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. <span class="label label-success">Tool's choice</span>
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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 with possibility to set complex rules to define events; custom, powerful text-based storage format.
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name:TaskWarrior
url:https://taskwarrior.org/
description:|
Todo manager with advanced features; dedicated synchronization server available; many plugins and related tools; healthy software project.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
productivity:
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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.
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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.
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name:Qalculate
url:https://qalculate.github.io/
description:|
Multi-purpose calculator with customizable functions, units, arbitrary precision, plotting (it includes a GUI).
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name:Translate Shell
url:https://www.soimort.org/translate-shell/
description:|
Command-line translator using Google Translate, Bing Translator, Yandex.Translate, etc.
viewers:
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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.
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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.
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name:mupdf
url:http://mupdf.com/
description:|
Lightweight graphical PDF visualizer; strong key-based control; fast and accurate rendering.
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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.
ALSA mixer with curses interfaces. <span class="label label-success">Tool's choice</span>
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name:cmus
url:https://cmus.github.io/
description:|
A fast and lightweight audio player with configurable keybindings and playlist support.
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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. <span class="label label-success">Tool's choice</span>
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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.
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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. <span class="label label-primary">recommended</span>
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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.
graphics:
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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".
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name:scrot
url:https://github.com/dreamer/scrot
description:|
A simple CLI tool to capture screenshots.
versioning:
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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. <span class="label label-success">Tool's choice</span>
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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.
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name:Mercurial
url:https://www.mercurial-scm.org/
description:|
Free, distributed source control management tool.
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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.
file-systems:
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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.
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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.
file-manager:
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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. <span class="label label-primary">recommended</span>
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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.
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name:ncursesFM
url:https://github.com/FedeDP/ncursesFM
description:|
File manager written in C; rather complete in terms of features; especially lightweight and responsive.
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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.
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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.).
Command line converter from Microsoft Word to plain text; output is sent to the standard output.
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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.
Command line converter from Excel to CSV file format.
backup:
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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. <span class="label label-success">Tool's choice</span>
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name:duplicity
url:http://duplicity.nongnu.org/
description:|
Creates GPG encrypted, compressed backups; client-side encryption allows to upload the backup onto untrusted servers.
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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.
file-system:
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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.
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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.
Included in `util-linux`, allows bulk rename of files with regex support. <span class="label label-primary">recommended</span>
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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.
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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.
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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.
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name:tree
url:http://mama.indstate.edu/users/ice/tree/
description:|
"Recursive directory listing command that produces a depth indented listing of files". <span class="label label-primary">recommended</span>
funny:
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name:cmatrix
url:http://www.asty.org/cmatrix/
description:|
ncurses program that display the scrolling lines found in the movie `The matrix`.
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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).
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name:cowthink
url:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowsay
description:|
Same as `cowsay`, but uses a "think" bubble instead of a speech bubble.
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name:fortune
url:http://software.clapper.org/fortune/
description:|
Generates random messages feched from a quotation database.
A steam locomotive traverses the screen from right to left if `sl` is typed instead of `ls`.
games:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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name:Oldrunner
url:http://culot.org/public/Code/oldrunner.html
description:|
Character-based remake of Lode Runner; includes all the original 150 levels.
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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.
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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. <span class="label label-primary">recommended</span>
webdev:
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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.
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name:nanoc
url:http://nanoc.ws/
description:|
Static site generator written in Ruby; extremely powerful and customizable; support many formats to generate HTML content. <span class="label label-success">Tool's choice</span>
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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.
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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.
browser:
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name:Links
url:http://www.jikos.cz/~mikulas/links//
description:|
A textual Web browser with tables and frames.
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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.
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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.
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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.
email:
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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".
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name:alot
url:https://github.com/pazz/alot
description:|
MUA written in Python using the [NotMuch](https://notmuchmail.org/) backend; MailDir format support.
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name:mbsync
url:http://isync.sourceforge.net/mbsync.html
description:|
Mailboxes synchronization tool; allows to download email locally; MailDir format supported.
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name:Mutt
url:http://www.mutt.org/
description:|
Mail client with tons of features, customization chances, support for IMAP, POP3, multiple storage formats.
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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.
transfer:
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name:aria2
url:https://github.com/aria2/aria2
description:|
Lightweight and easy-to-use download utility; it
supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent,
Metalink and multiple sources; cross-platform.
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name:curl
url:https://curl.haxx.se/
description:|
A tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax; supports a lot of protocols.
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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. <span class="label label-success">Tool's choice</span>
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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.
Mirror directories across networked machines; handles diffs/changed files; works across SSH; plenty of parameters. <span class="label label-success">Tool's choice</span>
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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. <span class="label label-success">Tool's choice</span>
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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".
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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.
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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.
chat:
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name:finch
url:http://www.pidgin.im/
description:IM program supporting many protocols,
including Yahoo!, AIM, IRC, or WLM; comes with
the `Pidgin` project.
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name:irssi
url:http://www.irssi.org
description:The most popular IRC client for the
command-line; a flexible program, with many
options and supporting many protocols.
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name:RainbowStream
url:http://www.rainbowstream.org/
description:Twitter client for the terminal; allows
almost all the operations that can be done from
GUI and Web clients.
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name:WeeChat
url:http://weechat.org/
description:A "fast, light and extensible chat client".
misc-or-to-classify:
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name:PSSH
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url:https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat
description:Ruby Gem to colorize the output of the
cat command.
utility:
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name:termsaver
url:http://termsaver.brunobraga.net/
description:|
termsaver to enjoy fancy ASCII screensavers like
matrix, clock, starwars, and a couple of
not-safe-for-work screens.
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name:dateutils
url:http://www.fresse.org/dateutils/
description:|
Dateutils are a bunch of tools that revolve around
fiddling with dates and times in the command line
with a strong focus on use cases that arise when
dealing with large amounts of financial data.
file-managers:
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name:classifier
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the shell. Titan is written in C and is available
under the MIT license.
organizers:
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name:calendar
url:
description:|
/usr/bin/calendar on Debian/Ubuntu is a modification
of the BSD calendar, but it omits the moon and sun phases.
Tullio Facchinetti
7 years ago