Kronos is a terminal-based music player that’s designed for playing locally stored audio files. It’s written in Rust.
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Category: CLI
Alternatives to popular CLI tools: strings
Alternative tools to strings, a utility that prints the sequences of printable characters in files.
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stringsext – search for multi-byte encoded strings in binary data
stringsext is a Unicode enhancement of the strings tool with additional functionalities.
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sad – Space Age seD
sad is a batch file edit tool. It will show you a really nice diff of proposed changes before you commit them.
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45 Outstanding Linux Utilities to Maximize your Productivity
This is a series of cornerstone articles highlighting essential utilities. These are small, indispensable tools, useful for anyone running a Linux machine.
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Excellent Utilities: pastel – generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors
pastel is a command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors. This tool supports a variety of color formats and color spaces.
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ccat – colorizing cat
ccat is the colorizing cat. It works similar to cat but displays content with syntax highlighting. Written in Go.
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tempy – visually pleasing weather report
tempy will render a simple, visually pleasing weather report for current and near-future conditions to your terminal.
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touche – touch command
touche is a Rust implementation of the touch utility. This tool was inspired by bonk, another Rust implementation.
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bonk – fast touch alternative
bonk is billed as a blazingly fast touch alternative with a sprinkle of mkdir. It’s written in the Rust programming language.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: touch – change file timestamps
This article spotlights alternative tools to touch, a command to change file timestamps.
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subedit – command-line subtitle editor
subedit is a command-line subtitle editor written in Bash. The script generally works with srt (SubRip) and sub (MicroDVD) subtitle files.
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htmlq – like jq but for html
htmlq is like jq, but for HTML. It uses CSS selectors to extract bits of content from HTML files. This is free and open source software.
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zet – command-line utility for doing set operations on files considered as sets of lines
zet is a command-line utility for doing set operations on files considered as sets of lines. It’s free and open source software.
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JavaSnoop – tool for testing Java desktop applications or applets
JavaSnoop is a tool for testing (re: hacking) Java desktop applications or applets.
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killport – kill processes running on a specified port
killport is a command-line utility for killing processes listening on specific ports. It’s designed to be simple, fast, and effective.
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mawk – pattern scanning and text processing language
mawk is an interpreter for the awk programming language. It’s free and open source software written in the C programming language.
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tuifeed – news feed reader with a fancy terminal user interface
tuifeed is a news feed reader with a fancy terminal user interface. It allows you read news from your favourite RSS and Atom sources,
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Elfeed – extensible web feed reader for Emacs, supporting both Atom and RSS
Elfeed is an Emacs Web Feed Reader whose design inspired by notmuch, an email client. It’s written in Emacs Lisp.
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gema – general purpose macro processor
gema is a general purpose text processing utility based on the concept of pattern matching. It’s free and open source software.
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