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aestheticpermalink
License ReferenceThe aesthetic tool "turns text a e s t h e t i c" with a single command, either at the command line or in HexChat.
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- COIL
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batpermalink
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The bat utility is a cat clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration. Whenever bat detects a non-interactive terminal (i.e. when you pipe into another process or into a file), bat will act as a drop-in replacement for cat and fall back to printing the plain file contents.
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- MIT/X11 License
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BeastieBoxpermalink
License ReferenceBeastieBox is an attempt to bring a Busybox-like tool to the BSD world, aiming to be small while keeping as many features as possible.
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- Revised BSD License
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ConEmupermalink
License ReferenceConEmu-Maximus5 aims to be a handy, comprehensive, fast, and reliable terminal window where you may host any console application developed for either WinAPI (cmd, powershell, far) or Unix PTY (cygwin, msys, wsl bash). As a Windows console window enhancement (local terminal emulator), ConEmu presents multiple consoles and simple GUI applications (like PuTTY for example) as one customizable, tabbed GUI window with various features.
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- Revised BSD License
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crocpermalink
License ReferenceThe croc tool allows any two computers to simply and securely transfer files and folders via shared key.
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- MIT/X11 License
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cURLpermalink
License ReferenceThe cURL project provides a command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET and TFTP, with a myriad of powerful features.
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- ISC License
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Datpermalink
License ReferenceDat is an open source, decentralized data tool for distributing datasets small and large, inspired by the best parts of Git and BitTorrent.
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- Revised BSD License
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dcrctl [1]permalink
License ReferenceThe dcrctl client is used to control dcrd and dcrwallet daemons, providing the command line interface for both Decred node and wallet functionality.
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- ISC License
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Diagon [1]permalink
License ReferenceDiagon is an interactive interpreter that transforms markdown-style expressions into ascii-art representations.
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- MIT/X11 License
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Editlinepermalink
License ReferenceEditline is an autotoolized and libtoolized port of the NetBSD Editline library (libedit). This Berkeley-style licensed command line editor library provides generic line editing, history, and tokenization functions, similar to those found in GNU Readline.
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- Simplified BSD License
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exa [1]permalink
License ReferenceThe exa utility is an improved file lister with more features and better defaults. It uses colours to distinguish file types and metadata. It knows about symlinks, extended attributes, and Git. It's small, fast, and just one single binary.
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- MIT/X11 License
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ezjailpermalink
License ReferenceThe ezjail project provides a "zero dependency" FreeBSD Jail management framework with optional ZFS integration that saves storage space, inodes, and administrative overhead, and even memory usage via its "basejail" capability.
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- ezjail beerware license
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fdupespermalink
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FDUPES is a program for identifying duplicate files residing within specified directories.
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- MIT/X11 License
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finance-visualizerpermalink
License ReferenceThe finance-visualizer toolset can be used to organize CSV financial data and generate graphs in SVG format, which can be viewed in the browser via a generated HTML file.
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- COIL
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fzfpermalink
License ReferenceThe fzf project provides a command-line fuzzy finder, blazing fast, with no dependencies, including a comprehensive feature set, flexible tmux pane layout script, shell extensions, and a plugin for Neovim and Vim -- but you can get it without the extras.
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- MIT/X11 License
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gokrazypermalink
License ReferenceWith gokrazy, you get a pure-Go userland on top of the Linux kernel for your Raspberry Pi appliances.
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- Revised BSD License
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hexylpermalink
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The hexyl program is a simple hex viewer for the terminal. It uses a colored output to distinguish different categories of bytes (NULL bytes, printable ASCII characters, ASCII whitespace characters, other ASCII characters and non-ASCII).
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- MIT/X11 License
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Hyperpermalink
License ReferenceHyper is a terminal emulator built on web technologies.
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- MIT/X11 License
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imagepilepermalink
License ReferenceThe imagepile project provides disk image block-level de-duplication.
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- MIT/X11 License
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iocagepermalink
License ReferenceThe iocage project provides a "zero dependency" (notably excepting ZFS) drop in jail/container manager amalgamating some of the best features and technologies the FreeBSD operating system has to offer.
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- Simplified BSD License
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ipfs-pastepermalink
License ReferenceThis project provides a command line utility for pasting from STDIN or a clipboard to IPFS.
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- MIT/X11 License
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ipfs-screencappermalink
License ReferenceThis project provides two utilities, ipfs-screencap, which takes a screenshot and publishes it to IPFS, and portable-screencap, which takes a screenshot and passes it to STDOUT.
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- MIT/X11 License
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jdupespermalink
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JDUPES is a powerful duplicate finder and an enhanced fork of "fdupes".
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- MIT/X11 License
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jqpermalink
License ReferenceThe jq project provides a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor.
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- MIT/X11 License
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Kovidpermalink
License ReferenceKovid is a CLI app that fetches and compares coronavirus pandemic statistics. It also fetches historical data and attempts to draw histograms of it to visualise the rate of infections.
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- MIT/X11 License
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libeditpermalink
The libedit library spin-off from NetBSD code is a non-GPL replacement for the readline library.
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- Simplified BSD License
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libpwqualitypermalink
License ReferenceThe libpwquality library provides functions for password quality checking and scoring. It also provides a password generation function, and supports a configuration file. The project's reference utilities include pwmake (CLI password generator) and pwscore (CLI password scoring).
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- Revised BSD License
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Linenoisepermalink
License ReferenceLinenoise is a small, self-contained, minimal, zero-config, BSD licensed, alternative to libedit and readline used in Redis, MongoDB, and Android.
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- Simplified BSD License
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mcstatpermalink
License ReferenceThe mcstat project provides a PHP class, web page, CLI tool, and Munin plugin to get information from a Minecraft server.
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- MIT/X11 License
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mltermpermalink
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- Revised BSD License
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OpenRsync [1]permalink
License ReferenceOpenRsync is a copyfree reimplementation of the venerable rsync command, with similar command arguments and usage. It has been merged into the OpenBSD source tree as usr.bin/rsync, but is available separately in PkgSrc and can thus be installed on other OSes.
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- ISC License
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pcipspermalink
License ReferenceThe pcips project provides a portable C IPS patch utility. It implements the IPS patching format, including such functions as applying patches to binaries, generating new patch files from modified binaries, and joining multiple patch files together in order.
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- COIL
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pkgin [1]permalink
License ReferenceThe pkgin package utility aims to be an apt/yum-like tool for managing pkgsrc binary packages. It relies on pkg_summary(5) for installation, removal, and upgrade of packages and associated dependencies, using a remote repository.
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- Simplified BSD License
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PuTTYpermalink
License ReferencePuTTY is a free implementation of SSH and Telnet for Windows and Unix platforms, along with an XTerm terminal emulator.
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- MIT/X11 License
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Qpermalink
License ReferenceQ, or Queuer, is a simple todo-queue management tool. It is exactly what it says on the tin, and it is (almost) nothing more.
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- COIL
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qr-filetransferpermalink
License ReferenceThe qr-filetransfer project provides software to transfer files over Wi-Fi from your computer to a mobile device by scanning a QR code without leaving the terminal.
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- MIT/X11 License
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rclonepermalink
License ReferenceThe rclone project provides functionality like "rsync for cloud storage" -- Google Drive, Amazon Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Cloudfiles, Google Cloud Storage, and Yandex Files.
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- MIT/X11 License
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Relinepermalink
License ReferenceReline is is a pure Ruby implementation compatible with the API of Ruby's stdlib "readline", GNU Readline, and Editline.
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- Simplified BSD License
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Sewerpermalink
License ReferenceSewer is a Let's Encrypt (ACME) command line and Python library client.
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- MIT/X11 License
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Slypermalink
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Sly is a nice terminal interface for the Sprint.ly task management tool.
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- CC0
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snorepermalink
License ReferenceThe snore utility implements sleep with feedback.
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- MIT/X11 License
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Sprungepermalink
License ReferenceSprunge is a pastebin for Google's app engine, with a command-line interface.
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- WTFPL
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stpermalink
License ReferenceThe st project provides a simple terminal emulator implementation for X.
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- MIT/X11 License
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STermpermalink
License ReferenceSTerm is a minimalistic terminal emulator based on the VTE library.
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- MIT/X11 License
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Taskwarriorpermalink
License ReferenceTaskwarrior is a GTD, todo list, task management, command line utility with a multitude of features.
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- MIT/X11 License
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Terminologypermalink
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- Simplified BSD License
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Tile38permalink
License ReferenceTile38 is an open source, in-memory geolocation data store, spatial index, and realtime geofence. It supports a variety of object types including lat/lon points, bounding boxes, XYZ tiles, Geohashes, and GeoJSON.
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- MIT/X11 License
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Toyboxpermalink
License ReferenceToybox combines common command line utilities together into a single executable that's simple, small, fast, reasonably standards-compliant, and powerful enough to turn Android into a development environment.
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- Toybox License
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uclcmdpermalink
License ReferenceThe uclcmd project provides a command line tool for working with UCL config files, with a syntax somewhat compatible with jq.
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- Simplified BSD License
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uutils coreutilspermalink
License ReferenceWritten in Rust, uutils is an attempt at writing universal (as in cross-platform) CLI utils in Rust; uutils coreutils is a complete rewrite of GNU Coreutils.
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- MIT/X11 License
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XTermpermalink
License ReferenceThe xterm program is the default terminal emulator for the X Window System.
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- MIT/X11 License
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ZsHeropermalink
License ReferenceZsHero is a simple helper to manage dotfiles configuration.
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- MIT/X11 License