All of the time trackers featured in this roundup are console applications, using a command-line interface.
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Category: Utilities
7 Best Free and Open Source GUI Image Compression Tools
Data compression is the process of storing data in a format that uses less space than the original representation would use.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: tail
This article spotlights alternative tools to the command-line tail utility.
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15 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Batch Renamers
This article showcases terminal based batch renamers. We only feature free and open source software.
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inotail – inotify-based implementation of tail
inotail is a replacement for the ‘tail’ program found in the base installation of every Linux system.
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colortail – like the tail command line utility but with colors
colortail works like tail but can optionally read one or more config files where it’s specified which patterns results in which colors.
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ptail – tail but dynamic
ptail is a small, and likely useless, utility that truncates the output from processes.
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retail – tail with regular expressions
retail can output that part of a file (or pipe) following the last match of a regular expression,
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: watch
This article spotlights alternatives tools to watch. The software featured here is free and open source goodness.
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22 Delightful Free and Open Source ASCII Art Tools
ASCII art is a graphic design technique that relies primarily on computers for presentation and consists of pictures.
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Save Time and Effort with these Excellent Free and Open Source Batch Image Processors
Batch image processors are often underrated and don’t get the attention they deserve. Here’s our verdict.
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rename-CLI – rename files quickly
rename-CLI is a cross-platform tool for renaming files quickly, especially multiple files at once.
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ren – takes find-formatted lines via standard input, and batch renames them
ren is a command-line utility that takes find-formatted lines via standard input, and batch renames them.
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19 Best Free and Open Source Shells
The shell is a program that takes commands from the keyboard and gives them to the operating system to perform. We recommend the finest free and open source shells.
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Yash – yet another shell
Yash, yet another shell, is a POSIX-compliant command line shell written in C99 (ISO/IEC 9899:1999).
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