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tere – terminal file explorer

December 28, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

tere is a terminal file explorer. It is a faster alternative to using cd and ls to browse folders in your terminal.

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ansi-colors – add ANSI colors to terminal text

December 28, 2024 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

ansi-colors is a fast Node.js library for terminal styling. It’s billed as a more performant drop-in replacement for chalk, with no dependencies.

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Treemacs – tree layout file explorer for Emacs

December 28, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

Treemacs is a file and project explorer similar to NeoTree or vim’s NerdTree, but largely inspired by the Project Explorer in Eclipse.

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vim-tree – use tree for quick navigation

December 27, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

vim-tree integrates good old tree into Vim and Nvim for all common operating systems.

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Hop – terminal based file explorer

December 23, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

Hop is a terminal based file explorer designed to be fast, simple and user friendly. Hop runs on any operating system.

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talking-clock – highly configurable talking clock

December 22, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

talking-clock is a highly configurable clock written in bash with soundpack and voice options. It’s written in Bash.

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Find Duplicates

littleutils – utilities for file compression, file manipulation, text cleanup

December 21, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

littleutils include duplicate file finders, image optimizers, file rename tools, archive recompressors, a tempfile utility, and others.

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gtree – generate trees and directories

December 19, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gtree is a CLI-based utility which uses Markdown to generate directory trees and directories itself, and also verifies directories.

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Files

lscoltui – change the colors of ls

December 19, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lscoltui is a TUI program that lets you configure the colors of ls.

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sty – string styling for your terminal

December 19, 2024 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Sty provides a simple, customizable and performant string styling markup, which is decoupled from color palettes and terminal implementations.

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as-tree – print a list of paths as a tree of paths

December 18, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

as-tree is a command-line utility that prints a list of paths as a tree of paths. It’s written in Rust.

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Archive Manager

zpaqfranz – deduplicating archiver with encryption and paranoid-level tests

December 18, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

zpaqfranz is a deduplicating archiver with encryption and paranoid-level tests.

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yachalk – terminal string styling done right

December 17, 2024 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

yachalk is a feature-complete clone of the Chalk (JavaScript) library.

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10 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Weather Tools

December 16, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Scientific

This article focuses on terminal-based weather tools for Linux. We only feature free and open source software here.

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colored – simple Python library for color and formatting in terminal

December 15, 2024 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

colored is a simple Python library for color and formatting in terminal

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Folder

ddh – fast duplicate file finder

December 15, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ddh (the Directory Differential hTool) traverses input directories and their subdirectories.

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ansicolors – ANSI colors for Python

December 15, 2024 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

ansicolors add ANSI colors and decorations to your strings. This is free and open source software written in Python.

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sdupes – fast duplicate file detection

December 15, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

sdupes is a command-line fast duplicate file detection utility. It’s written in C.

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termcolor – ANSI color formatting for output in the terminal

December 15, 2024 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

termcolor offers ANSI color formatting for output in the terminal. It’s written in Python.

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Metadata

mat2 – metadata anonymisation toolkit

December 15, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mat2 is a metadata removal tool, supporting a wide range of commonly used file formats.

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