Nmap is a utility for network discovery, administration and security auditing. Nmap also offers flexible target and port specification.
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Category: CLI
Netcat – networking utility
Netcat is a networking utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using the TCP/IP protocol.
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Snownews – command-line RSS feed reader
Snownews is a text mode RSS/RDF newsreader (similar to what lynx is for web-browsing).
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Canto – Atom/RSS feed reader
Canto is an Atom/RSS feed reader for the console that is meant to be quick, concise, and colorful. It’s free and open source software.
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newsroom – modern software to read the news
newsroom is command line software that lets you read RSS feeds. newsroom is written in the JavaScript programming language.
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GNU Typist – universal typing tutor
GNU Typist (gtypist) is a simple, free and open source, interactive, ncurses based universal touch typing tutor.
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speedread – terminal-based open source Spritz-alike
speedread is a simple terminal-based open source Spritz-alike. This kind of input mode allows reading text at a much more rapid pace.
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uniread – Spritz like CLI fast reading software
Uniread is Spritz like CLI fast reading software. The software is written in JavaScript. The application uses Node.js.
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pdmenu – full screen menuing system
pdmenu is a simple open source console menu program. It’s designed to be easy to use, and is suitable for a login shell.
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sentaku – full-screen menu
sentaku is a small open source utility in which you pipe at the command line into sentaku, and it presents a full-screen menu.
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pmenu – dynamic terminal-based menu inspired by dmenu
pmenu is dynamic terminal-based menu inspired by dmenu written in Python without dependencies with an optional MRU ordering.
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tmenu – fuzzy completion for anything in the terminal
tmenu is an open source dynamic menu for tty devices. The utility reads a list of newline-separated items from standard input.
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WeeChat – extensible chat client
WeeChat (Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) is a fast and light IRC client for many operating systems including Linux.
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Irssi – text mode chatting client
Irssi is a terminal based IRC client for UNIX systems. It also supports SILC and ICB protocols via plugins.
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ERC – Emacs Internet Relay Chat client
ERC is a powerful, modular, and extensible IRC client for Emacs. It supports multiple channel-buffers, nick completion, and more.
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ScrollZ – advanced IRC client
ScrollZ is an advanced IRC client based on ircII. It adds features found in ircII scripts like Toolz, PhoEniX, GargOyle or Lice.
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EPIC – console based IRC client
EPIC (Enhanced Programmable ircII Client) is a free and open source console based IRC client based on ircII.
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BarnOwl – curses-based IM client forked from the ​ktools owl project
BarnOwl is a curses-based instant messenger client.The software is forked from the ktools owl project. It’s free and open source software.
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fzf – command-line fuzzy finder
fzf is a general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder released under an open source license. It’s an interactive Unix filter for command-line.
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z – jump around the filesystem
z is a shell script that maintains a jump-list of the directories you actually use. It tracks your most used directories, based on ‘frecency’.
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