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categories:
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label: utility
name: Utilities
description:
-
label: organizers
name: Organizers and calendars
description: Todo managers, calendar managers
-
label: file-managers
name: File management
description:
-
label: transfer
name: Data transfer
description:
-
label: chat
name: Chat and instant messaging (IM)
description:
-
label: email
name: Email
description: |
Email clients ([Mail User
Agents](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_client) -
MUA), mail synchronization
-
label: browser
name: Web browser
description:
-
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.
-
label: games
name: Games and funny
description:
-
label: funny
name: Funny tools
description:
-
label: file-system
name: File and file system management
description: file managers, tagging, bookmarking, directory traversal
-
label: backup
name: Backup
description:
-
label: conversion
name: Conversion
description:
-
label: file-manager
name: File manager
description:
-
label: file-systems
name: File systems
description:
-
label: versioning
name: Versioning
description:
-
label: graphics
name: Graphics
description:
-
label: music
name: Sound and music
description:
-
label: viewers
name: Viewers
description:
-
label: productivity
name: Productivity
description:
-
label: presentations
name: Presentations
description:
-
label: spreadsheet
name: Spreadsheet
description:
-
label: security
name: Security and encryption
description: cryptography, ciphered archive managers, encrypted file-systems, password managers
-
label: system
name: System tools
description:
-
label: shells
name: Shells
description:
-
label: monitor
name: System monitoring
description:
-
label: terminals
name: Terminals
description:
-
label: editors
name: Editors
description:
-
label: font
name: Font management
description:
-
label: text-processing
name: Text processing
description:
-
label: text-search
name: Text search
description:
apps:
text-search:
-
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`.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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:
-
name: ccat
url: https://github.com/jingweno/ccat
description: |
A `cat` command with colorized output.
-
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`.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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:
-
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.
-
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:
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
name: nano
url: https://www.nano-editor.org/
description: |
Easy to use, lightweigth text editor; no complex
keybindings to remember.
-
name: micro
url: https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/
description: |
A terminal-based text editor written in Go that aims to be easy to use
and intuitive, while also taking advantage of the full capabilities of
modern terminals.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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:
-
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`.
-
name: screen
url: https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/
description: |
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.
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".
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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".
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
name: top
url: http://www.unixtop.org/
description: |
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.
shells:
-
name: Bash
url: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/
description: |
(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).
-
name: Zsh
url: http://www.zsh.org/
description: |
Alternative shell designed for interactive use.
system:
-
name: Ntfy
url: https://github.com/dschep/ntfy
description: |
Ntfy is a simple yet serviceable cross-platform Python
utility that enables you to automatically get desktop
notifications on demand or when long running commands
complete. It can as well send push notifications to
your phone once a particular command completes.
-
name: task-spooler
url: http://vicerveza.homeunix.net/~viric/soft/ts/
description: |
As the name implies, Task spooler is a Unix batch system
that can be used to add the Linux commands to the queue
and execute them one after the other in numerical order
(ascending order, to be precise). This can be very useful
when you have to run a lots of commands, but you don't want
to waste time waiting for one command to finish and run the
next command. You can queue it all up and Task Spooler will
execute them one by one. In the mean time, you can do other
activities.
-
name: ttyload
url: http://www.daveltd.com/src/util/ttyload/
description: |
ttyload is a lightweight utility which is intended to offer
a color-coded graph of load averages over time on Linux and
other Unix-like systems. It enables a graphical tracking of
system load average in a terminal (“tty“).
-
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.
-
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:
-
name: hashcat
url: https://hashcat.net/hashcat/
description: |
A robust and efficient password cracking tool that can help
you recover lost passwords, audit password security, benchmark,
or just figure out what data is stored in a hash.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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).
-
name: titan
url: https://www.byteptr.com/titan/
description: |
Password management belongs to the
command line, deep into the Unix heartland,
the shell. Titan is written in C and is available
under the MIT license.
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.
-
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.
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.
-
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).
-
name: ppl addressbook
url: http://ppladdressbook.org/
description: |
"``ppl`` is free software made out of other free software.
It's built on top of Ruby and Git, and the completely free
vcard address book format."
-
name: khard
url: https://github.com/lucc/khard
description: |
Console carddav client written in Pyhton.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
name: TaskWarrior
url: https://taskwarrior.org/
description: |
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
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.
-
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.
-
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:
-
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.
-
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.
-
name: Qalculate
url: https://qalculate.github.io/
description: |
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.
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.
-
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.
-
name: mupdf
url: http://mupdf.com/
description: |
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.
-
name: mpv
url: https://mpv.io/
description: |
A cross-platform media player with many features such as frame timing, MKV chapters and subtitles. It is a responsive video player with minimal layout customizable with themes. A good alternative media player to VLC since it can handle almost all the media formats as VLC, but using much less resources.
-
name: zathura
url: https://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/
description: |
Plugin based document file visualizer (PDF, DejaVu, PS);
strongly key-based control.
music:
-
name: ncmpcpp
url: https://rybczak.net/ncmpcpp/
description: |
NCurses Music Player Client (Plus Plus) - featureful
ncurses based MPD client inspired by ncmpc. Relevant
features: tag editor, playlist editor, easy to use
search engine, media library, music visualizer,
ability to fetch artist info from [last.fm](https://www.last.fm/),
new display mode, alternative user interface,
ability to browse and add files from outside of MPD
music directory.
-
name: Alsamixer
url: http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Main_Page
description: |
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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:
-
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".
-
name: scrot
url: https://github.com/dreamer/scrot
description: |
A simple CLI tool to capture screenshots.
versioning:
-
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.
-
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.
-
name: Mercurial
url: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/
description: |
Free, distributed source control management tool.
-
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:
-
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.
-
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:
-
name: lfm
url: https://inigo.katxi.org/devel/lfm/
description: |
(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.
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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.).
conversion:
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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.
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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.
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name: xls2csv
url: http://www.wagner.pp.ru/~vitus/software/catdoc/
description: |
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.
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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:
-
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.
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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.
-
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.
-
name: tree
url: http://mama.indstate.edu/users/ice/tree/
description: |
"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`.
-
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).
-
name: cowthink
url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowsay
description: |
Same as `cowsay`, but uses a "think" bubble instead of
a speech bubble.
-
name: fortune
url: http://software.clapper.org/fortune/
description: |
Generates random messages feched from a quotation database.
-
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`.
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
name: Oldrunner
url: http://culot.org/public/Code/oldrunner.html
description: |
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.
-
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.
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.
-
name: nanoc
url: http://nanoc.ws/
description: |
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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:
-
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".
-
name: alot
url: https://github.com/pazz/alot
description: |
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.
-
name: Mutt
url: http://www.mutt.org/
description: |
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.
transfer:
-
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.
-
name: curl
url: https://curl.haxx.se/
description: |
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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".
-
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.
-
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:
-
name: finch
url: http://www.pidgin.im/
description: IM program supporting many protocols,
including Yahoo!, AIM, IRC, or WLM; comes with
the `Pidgin` project.
-
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.
-
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.
-
name: WeeChat
url: http://weechat.org/
description: A "fast, light and extensible chat client".
-
name: ssh-chat
url: https://github.com/shazow/ssh-chat
description: "Custom SSH server written in Go. Instead of a
shell, you get a chat prompt."
misc-or-to-classify:
-
name: PSSH
url: https://code.google.com/archive/p/parallel-ssh/
description: PSSH provides parallel versions of OpenSSH
and related tools. Included are pssh, pscp, prsync,
pnuke, and pslurp. The project includes psshlib which
can be used within custom applications.
-
name: powerline
url: https://github.com/powerline/powerline
description: Powerline is a statusline plugin
for vim, and provides statuslines and prompts
for several other applications, including zsh,
bash, tmux, IPython, Awesome and Qtile.
-
name: rtop
url: http://www.rtop-monitor.org/
description: rtop is a simple, agent-less, remote
server monitoring tool that works over plain SSH.
Written in golang, it does not need any software
to be installed on the server that you want to
monitor. It works by establishing an SSH session,
and running commands on the remote server to collect
system metrics.
-
name: geoiplookup
url: https://github.com/maxmind/geoip-api-c
description: a little application to find geographical
and network information of an IP address based no
the geoip C API.
-
name: quickserve
url: https://github.com/charliesome/quickserve
description: Quickserve is a very simple HTTP server
written in Python that is intended for quickly
sharing files on an ad-hoc basis. Aside from
opening a port in your firewall if you have one,
quickserve requires no set-up and should work with
no hassle.
-
name: goobook
url: https://gitlab.com/goobook/goobook
description: The purpose of GooBook is to make
it possible to use your Google Contacts from
the command-line and from MUAs such as Mutt.
It can be used from Mutt the same way as abook.
-
name: lolcat
url: https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat
description: Ruby Gem to colorize the output of the
cat command.
utility:
-
name: fasd
url: https://github.com/clvv/fasd
description: |
A Commandline Tool That Offers Quick Access to
Files and Directories. Fasd (pronounced similar to "fast")
is a command-line productivity booster. Fasd offers
quick access to files and directories for POSIX shells.
It is inspired by tools like autojump, z and v. Fasd
keeps track of files and directories you have accessed,
so that you can quickly reference them in the command line.
-
name: gcp
url: https://github.com/petronny/gcp
description: |
`gcp` (Goffi’s cp) is an advanced file copier tool,
heavily inspired from the traditional `cp` command
utility, but with some additional features: Displays
the copy progress indicator, with estimated time,
current file speed; logs of all actions; resume of
interrupted copy processes.
-
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.
-
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:
-
name: classifier
url: https://github.com/bhrigu123/classifier
description: |
Organize files in your current directory,
by classifying them into folders of music, pdfs,
images, etc.
resources:
-
title: "The Art of Command Line"
url: https://github.com/jlevy/the-art-of-command-line
description: A wonderful summary from Joshua Levy
regarding command line (Bash in particular) tools,
programs, tips and tricks; contains many pointers
to resources and repositories, in the form of
"to do this you must know that", which gives great
pointers but requires further investigation from
different sources; translated in many languages.
-
title: "Inconsolation blog"
url: https://inconsolation.wordpress.com/
description: >
"Adventures with lightweight and minimalist
software for Linux": reviews of many command-line
programs; many programs reviewed (400+, at least),
with screenshots and animated GIFs; the style of
presentation is ironic and funny, but requires some
effort to figure out the real contribution of a program.
-
title: "CLIapps blog table"
url: http://www.jaredandcoralee.com/CLIapps.html
description: >
A long list of CLI apps from Jared Bernard;
some are quite outdated; pros: some CLI apps are put
side-by-side with GUI counterparts; cons: no comments
to the apps.
-
title: "A little collection of cool unix terminal/console/curses tools"
url: https://kkovacs.eu/cool-but-obscure-unix-tools
description: >
"Some are little-known, some are just too
useful to miss, some are pure obscure..." from
Kristof Kovacs; nice list with screenshot; mostly
oriented to system administration; unfortunately
there are no clickable links.
-
title: "Caleb Xu shell awesome"
url: https://github.com/alebcay/awesome-shell
description: Focused on UNIX shell tools.
-
title: "Adam Harris awesome CLI apps"
url: https://github.com/aharris88/awesome-cli-apps
description: Nice list of tools; somehow too much
Javascript/Node.js-centered for my tastes.
-
title: "Marcel Bischoff awesome commandd line apps"
url: https://github.com/herrbischoff/awesome-command-line-apps
description: Nice up-to-date list of useful tools.
-
title: "CLI-Apps"
url: http://cli-apps.org/
description: A site that aims at collecting and organizing
CLI apps information from user contributions;
considering its social-oriented nature, it misses
several mainstream apps.
-
title: "Awesome CLI by sintaxi"
url: https://github.com/sintaxi/awesome-cli/blob/master/README.md
description: Relatively short list with short descriptions;
with some original entries.
articles:
-
ref: wordgrinder
title: "WordGrinder: Distraction-Free Writing From the Command Line"
url: http://fossforce.com/2017/03/wordgrinder-distraction-free-writing-command-line/
description: WordGrinder is an old fashioned command line
program that doesn’t try to do a lot of things. Its
purpose is to get the job done, and stay out of the
user’s way while doing it.
-
ref: titan
title: "A Command line Password Manager For Linux"
url: https://www.ostechnix.com/titan-command-line-password-manager-linux/
description: There are plethora of GUI based password managers.
A quick google search will lead you to pick one suitable for
you. But the command line password managers are very few.
The one today we talk about is Titan. It is written using
C programming language. It uses SQlite ...
-
ref: classifier
title: "Automatically Organize Your Downloads Folder In Linux Using Classifier"
url: http://www.webupd8.org/2017/03/automatically-organize-your-downloads.html?m=1
description: My downloads folder is pretty messy but I
can't just delete things because I still need most
of the stuff I download. To "fix" this, I was looking
for an app that can automatically organize my downloads,
and I stumbled upon Classifier, an easy to use command line
tool that can organize files in any directory.
-
ref: watch
title: "Watch command to execute script/shell command repeatedly"
url: http://kerneltalks.com/commands/watch-command-to-execute-scriptshell-command-repeatedly/
description: “watch” command is small utility using which
you can execute shell command or script repetitively
and after every n seconds. Its helpful in automation
or monitoring.
-
ref: file-conversion
title: "Command-line document conversion tools for writers"
url: https://opensource.com/article/17/3/document-conversion-tools-writers
decription: Find out how Markdown with Pandoc and Org-mode
make writing documents a lot easier.
rating: poor-information
-
ref: lolcat
title: "lolcat : tool to rainbow color linux terminal"
url: http://kerneltalks.com/linux/lolcat-tool-to-rainbow-color-linux-terminal/
description: Paint your command outputs with rainbow color!
Use lolcat (Ruby gem) tool and add some spice to black
putty terminal!
-
ref: goobook
title: "GooBook - Access Your Google Contacts From Commandline In Linux"
url: https://www.ostechnix.com/goobook-access-google-contacts-commandline-linux/
description: Here is an useful and handy utility called
GooBook that allows you to access your Google contacts
from commandline. The main purpose of Goobook is to access
google contacts from commandline or a command line Email
client like Mutt.
-
ref: quickserve
title: "quickserve"
url: https://xyne.archlinux.ca/projects/quickserve/
description: A simple HTTP server for quickly sharing files.
-
ref: geoiplookup
title: "How To Find The Geolocation Of An IP Address From Commandline"
url: https://www.ostechnix.com/find-geolocation-ip-address-commandline/
description: geoiplookup is a command line utility that
can be used to find the Country that an IP address
or hostname originates from. It uses the GeoIP library
and database to collect the details of an IP address.
-
ref: rtop
title: "rtop - A Nifty Tool to Monitor Remote Server Over SSH"
url: http://www.2daygeek.com/rtop-monitor-remote-linux-server-over-ssh/#
description: rtop is a simple, agent-less, remote server
monitoring tool that works over SSH. It doesn’t
required any other software to be installed on
remote machine, except openSSH server package &
remote server credentials.
-
ref: battery-tools
title: "Linux Laptop: Display Battery Status And Thermal Temperature From Command Line"
url: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-laptop-battery-status-temperature/
description: How do I find out details about my
Linux Laptops temperature, battery status and
other information from the command prompt?
How can I check battery status using the terminal
on Linux?
-
ref: PSSH
title: "PSSH - Execute Commands on Multiple Linux Servers in Parallel"
url: http://www.2daygeek.com/pssh-parallel-ssh-run-execute-commands-on-multiple-linux-servers/
description: By default everyone prefers openSSH to connect
remote Linux servers. openSSH is one of the best tool
to connect remote server securely and doing the job perfectly
but it doesn’t have the features to execute commands on multiple
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
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