toipe is a trusty terminal typing tester. toipe looks best on a nice terminal (such as Alacritty) with color and style support.
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thokr – sleek typing TUI
thokr is a sleek typing TUI with visualized results and historical logging. It’s written in the Rust programming language.
Read morett – terminal based typing test
tt is a terminal based typing test. By default tt creates a test consisting of 50 randomly generated words from the top 1000 English words.
Read moreAlternatives to popular CLI tools: compress
This article spotlights alternative tools to compress, a utility that reduces the size of files.
Read morerename.pl – rename files using Perl expressions
rename.pl allows renaming files using Perl code, such as regular expression replaces (s/old/new/), character translation, and other code.
Read morerenameutils – programs designed to make renaming of files faster and less cumbersome
The file renaming utilities (renameutils for short) are a set of programs designed to make renaming of files faster and less cumbersome.
Read morerename – rename multiple files
This program renames files according to modification rules specified on the command line.
Read moreAlternatives to popular CLI tools: date
This article spotlights alternative tools to date, a utility that prints or sets the system date and time.
Read morehodie – prints the date in Latin
hodie brings new functionality to your UNIX installations. It prints out the current date and time in Roman digits.
Read moredatemath – date and time math utility
datemath is a command line date and time math utility. This is free and open source software written in the C language.
Read moreqtime – clock coded in Rust
qTime is a simple command-line application that retrieves the current user’s name and displays it along with the current date and time.
Read morerdate – retrieve date and time from other machines
rdate connects to an RFC 868 time server over a TCP/IP network, printing the returned time and/or setting the system clock.
Read moreAlternatives to popular CLI tools: cmp
This article spotlights alternative tools to cmp, a utility that compares two files of any type and writes the results to the standard output.
Read moreAlternatives to popular CLI tools: cal
We spotlight alternatives tools to cal, a utility for displaying calendars on the command-line.
Read morekhal – calendar program
khal is a calendar program for the terminal for viewing, adding and editing events and calendars.
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