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ntalk – chat application

ntalk is a chat application. It is designed to be much more friendly than Unix talk and provide a nice console interface.

This article spotlights alternative tools to less. All of the tools are free and open source and sport a command-line interface.

ttyper is a terminal-based typing test. It supports a good range of languages including English, German, Norwegian, Ukrainian, and Spanish.

toipe is a trusty terminal typing tester. toipe looks best on a nice terminal (such as Alacritty) with color and style support.

thokr is a sleek typing TUI with visualized results and historical logging. It’s written in the Rust programming language.

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.

This article spotlights alternative tools to compress, a utility that reduces the size of files.

rename.pl allows renaming files using Perl code, such as regular expression replaces (s/old/new/), character translation, and other code.

The file renaming utilities (renameutils for short) are a set of programs designed to make renaming of files faster and less cumbersome.

This program renames files according to modification rules specified on the command line.

This article spotlights alternative tools to date, a utility that prints or sets the system date and time.

hodie brings new functionality to your UNIX installations. It prints out the current date and time in Roman digits.

datemath is a command line date and time math utility. This is free and open source software written in the C language.

qTime is a simple command-line application that retrieves the current user’s name and displays it along with the current date and time.

rdate connects to an RFC 868 time server over a TCP/IP network, printing the returned time and/or setting the system clock.