walk is billed as a terminal file manager and a terminal navigator.
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grump – CLI audio player written in Go
grump is a billed as a very minimal CLI audio player. It’s free and open source software written in the Go language.
Read moreCue Is A Command Line Music Player With Gapless Playback
Cue is a command line music player written in the C programming language. It’s free and open source software.
Read moreAlternatives to popular CLI tools: ftp
We spotlight alternative tools to ftp, a network protocol used for transferring files from one computer system to another.
Read more10 Top Free and Open Source Console Based IRC Clients
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of real-time Internet text messaging (chat) or synchronous conferencing. We recommend the finest console-based IRC clients.
Read moretiny – terminal IRC client
tiny is an IRC client for the console written in the Rust programming language. It’s published under the MIT license.
Read morecatgirl – terminal IRC client
catgirl is a terminal IRC client. It requires ncurses and libtls, provided by either LibreTLS (for OpenSSL) or by LibreSSL.
Read moreircc – minimal curses IRC client
ircc is a simple IRC client. It’s written in the C programming language and requires the ncurses library to compile.
Read moreglirc – advanced console IRC client
glirc is built around a philosophy that the client maintains a model of the IRC connection state and provides various views of that model.
Read more6 Small Free and Open Source Console Menu Utilities
This article looks at six tiny utilities that offer menu facilities.
Read moreAlternatives to popular CLI tools: telnet
This article spotlights alternative tools to telnet, a tool to login to a remote system.
Read morepercol – interactive grep tool in your terminal
percol is an interactive grep tool in your terminal. This tool is written in the Python programming language and is open source software.
Read moreAlternatives to popular CLI tools: talk
This article spotlights alternative tools to talk, a venerable talk client.
Read moreYTalk – multi-user chat program
YTalk is in essence a multi-user chat program supporting both talk and ntalk protocols.
Read moreutalk – UDP-based talk
utalk is a one-to-one text chat program alternative to the Unix ‘talk’ client, which uses a more responsive protocol built over UDP (instead of TCP).
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