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XMPP

mcabber – small XMPP (Jabber) console client

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

mcabber is a small XMPP (Jabber) console client that’s extensible.

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XMPP

Freetalk – console based Jabber client

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Freetalk is a console based chat client for Google Hangout and other XMPP servers. It has context sensitive auto-completion for buddy names.

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XMPP

BitlBee – cross-platform instant messaging gateway

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

BitlBee is an open source IRC gateway program for a variety of instant messaging protocols.

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XMPP

CenterIM – text-mode multi-protocol instant messaging client

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

CenterIM is a text-mode multi-protocol instant messaging client for Linux, *BSD, Solaris and other Unices.

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Coding

Python Fire – library for automatically generating command line interfaces

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Python Fire is a library for automatically generating command line interfaces (CLIs) from absolutely any Python object.

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Coding

Click – Python package to create beautiful command line interface

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Click is a Python package for creating beautiful command line interfaces in a composable way with as little code as necessary.

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Coding

argparse – parser for command-line options, arguments and sub-commands

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

argparse is a parser for command-line options, arguments and sub-commands.

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Coding

Gooey – convert console programs into end-user-friendly GUI software

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Gooey turns (almost) any Python 2 or 3 Console Program into a GUI application with one line.

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Coding

Python Prompt Toolkit – library for building powerful interactive command line applications

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Python Prompt Toolkit is a library for building powerful interactive command line applications in Python.

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Coding

Typer – library for building CLI applications

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Typer is an open source library for building CLI applications that users will love using and developers will love creating.

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Coding

Asciimatics – create full-screen text UIs

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Asciimatics is a package to help people create full-screen text UIs (from interactive forms to ASCII animations) on any platform.

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Coding

cement – CLI application framework for Python

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Cement is an advanced application framework for Python, with a primary focus on Command Line Interfaces (CLI).

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cliff – framework for building command line programs

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

cliff is a framework for building command line programs. It uses entry points to provide subcommands, output formatters, and more.

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Console MPD Clients

mpq – minimalist viewer and manipulator for MPD

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

With mpq you can view and manipulate songs in the mpd queue. mpq is free and open source software. Console based.

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Text Editor

ne – text editor

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

ne is a full screen open source text editor. It is intended to be an easier to learn alternative to vi, yet still portable across POSIX-compliant OS.

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Text Editor

Textadept – text editor software

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Textadept is a fast, minimalist, and extensible cross-platform text editor for programmers. Version also available for the terminal.

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Text Editor

nano – text editor

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

nano is a curses-based text editor. It is a clone of Pico, the editor of the Pine email client.

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Text Editor

Vim – highly configurable text editor

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the editor ‘Vi’, with a more complete feature set.

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Log Analyzers

logrifle – console-based logviewer

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

logrifle is a free console-based logviewer. The program is designed to “rifle through” large logfiles.

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plotting-software

gnuplot – interactive plotting software

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

gnuplot is a command-driven interactive function plotting program. Plot functions and data points in both 2D and 3D plots in many formats.

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