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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: df

This article spotlights alternative tools to df, a utility that reports file system space usage in Linux and other UNIX operating systems.

moccasin is a TUI feed reader for RSS, Atom, and (eventually) Podcasts. It’s written in the Rust language.

see is a powerful file visualization tool for the terminal, offering advanced code viewing capabilities, Markdown rendering, and more.

dfc is a tool to report file system space usage information. When the output is a terminal, it uses color and graphs by default.

We recommend the finest free and open source console-based file managers for Linux and other operating systems.

cdu (Colour du) is a du like command but displays an attractive histogram with optional colours.

far2l is a Linux fork of FAR Manager v2. This is software which lets you manage files and archives.

battery-wallpaper is a bash script to set an animated battery as desktop wallpaper showing charging animation.

Scans to PDF lets you create small, searchable PDFs from scanned documents.

jpeg2pdf is a command-line tool which lets you convert images to PDF. It supports a variety of different image formats.

pdfposter can be used to create a large poster by building it from multiple pages and/or printing it on large media.

VisiData is a tool that lets you quickly open, explore, summarize, and analyze datasets in your computer’s terminal.

hullcaster is a terminal-based podcast manager built in Rust.

This article spotlights alternative tools to ping. All software featured here is free and open source goodness.

Python comes with several different libraries that allow you to write a command line interface for your scripts.