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fclones – efficient duplicate file finder and remover

December 14, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fclones is an efficient duplicate file finder and remover. It’s written in Rust.

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Security

ffuf – fast web fuzzer

December 14, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, Security

ffuf is a fast web fuzzer. Essentially , fuzzing is an automated method designed to see how an application handles strange inputs.

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Diff Tools

csv-diff – diffing CSV and JSON files

December 13, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

csv-diff is a tool for viewing the difference between two CSV, TSV, or JSON files.

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Selection of utilities

rare – fast regex parser, extractor and realtime aggregator

December 13, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rare aggregates and displays information parsed from text files using regex and a simple handlebars-like expressions.

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Diff Tools

dirdiff – compute the differences between two directories

December 12, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dirdiff efficiently computes the differences between two directories. It’s written in Rust.

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Diff Tools

diff2html-cli – generate HTML diffs

December 11, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

diff2html generates pretty HTML diffs from unified and git diff output in your terminal.

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yoctocolors – tiny command-line coloring package

December 10, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

yoctocolors bills itself as the smallest and fastest command-line coloring package.

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Backup

autorestic – easy backup CLI for restic

December 9, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

autorestic is a wrapper around the restic backup program. The restic cli can be a bit overwhelming and difficult to manage

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smash – find duplicate files super fast

December 8, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

smash is a CLI tool to smash through to find duplicate files efficiently.

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Diff Tools

dyff – diff tool for YAML files

December 7, 2024 Steve Emms CLI

dyff is a diff tool for YAML files, and sometimes JSON.

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SSD

sn – sniff out build artifacts

December 6, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

sn is a tool to help you find build artifacts. It’s also a replacement for the du command.

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Monitor System

Zenith – turbo-charged top utility

December 5, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews

Zenith is software that’s similar to top but displays histograms, and a wealth of other information such as CPU, GPU, network, and disk usage.

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SSD

space – disk space analyzer and cleaner

December 4, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

space is a command line interface (CLI) utility that can be used to visualize and manage disk space.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: yosay – like cowsay but less cow

December 4, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

yosay is a tiny utility that displays a picture of Yeoman with accompanying text.

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SSD

diskus – compute disk usage

December 3, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

diskus is a very simple program that computes the total size of the current directory. It is a parallelized version of du -sh..

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Washington

wttr.in – curl the weather

December 3, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Scientific

wttr.in is a console-based weather forecast service that offers lots of options including various information representation methods.

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Monitor System

vtop – graphical activity monitor for the command line

December 2, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

vtop uses drawille to draw CPU and memory charts with Unicode braille characters, helping you visualize spikes.

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Documentation

cpy-cli – command-line utility to copy files

December 1, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cpy-cli is a user-friendly command-line tool which copies files. It accepts globs and creates non-existent destination directories.

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Monitor System

TTV – term-task-viewer

December 1, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

TTV is a lightweight terminal tool to manage processes in Unix machines.

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Monitor System

tiptop – command-line system monitoring

November 30, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

tiptop is a command-line system monitoring tool in the spirit of top. It displays various interesting system stats and graphs them.

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