Meet moreutilis, a growing collection of more useful Unix utilities. The moreutils can be installed on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, openBSD and Mac OS.

peco is a CLI utility that filters text interactively. The tool is written in the Go programming language. It's free and open source software.

The timeout script is a useful resource monitoring program for limiting time and memory consumption of processes in Linux. It allows you to run programs under control, and enforce time and memory limits, terminating the program upon violation of these parameters.

Lets you sub-divide a PDF page(s) into smaller pages so you can print them on small form printers.

A personal terminal-based dashboard utility, designed for displaying infrequently-needed, but very important, daily data.

For the longest time I did not know what everything meant in htop.

I thought that load average 1.0 on my two core machine means that the CPU usage is at 50%. That's not quite right. And also, why does it say 1.0?

I decided to look everything up and document it here.

They also say that the best way to learn something is to try to teach it.

How does it work?

User registers directory aliases, for example:

goto -r dev /home/iridakos/development

and then cds to that directory with:

goto dev

There are numerous file encryption tools available on the market to protect your files. We have already reviewed some encryption tools such as Cryptomater, Cryptkeeper, CryptGo, Cryptr, Tomb, and GnuPG etc. Today, we will be discussing yet another file encryption and decryption command line utility named “Toplip”.

It is a free and open source encryption utility that uses a very strong encryption method called AES256, along with an XTS-AES design to safeguard your confidential data. Also, it uses Scrypt, a password-based key derivation function, to protect your passphrases against brute-force attacks.

FSearch is a fast file search utility for GNU/Linux operating systems, inspired by Everything Search Engine. It’s written in C and based on GTK+3.

Features

• Instant (as you type) results
• RegEx support
• Wildcard support
• Filter support (only search for files, folders or everything)
• Fast sort by filename, path, size or modification time
• Include and exclude specific folders to be indexed
• Ability to exclude certain files/folders from index using wildcard expressions
• Customizable interface

Features

• supports syntax highlighting for a large number of programming and markup languages
• communicates with git to show modifications with respect to the index (see left side bar)
• can pipe its own output to less if the output is too large for one screen
• concatenate files: whenever bat detects a non-interactive terminal, it will fall back to printing the plain file contents

restic is a program that does backups right.

Features

• Easy: Doing backups should be a frictionless process, otherwise you are tempted to skip it. Restic should be easy to configure and use.
• Fast: Backing up your data with restic should only be limited by your network or hard disk bandwidth so that you can backup your files every day.
• Verifiable: restic enables you to easily verify that all data can be restored.
• Secure: Restic uses cryptography to guarantee confidentiality and integrity of your data. The location where the backup data is stored is assumed to be an untrusted environment.
• Efficient: With the growth of data, additional snapshots should only take the storage of the actual increment.
• Free: restic is free software and licensed under the BSD 2-Clause License and actively developed on GitHub.

TimeShift for Linux is an application that provides functionality similar to the System Restore feature in Windows and the Time Machine tool in Mac OS. TimeShift protects your system by taking incremental snapshots of the file system at regular intervals. These snapshots can be restored at a later date to undo all changes to the system.

Snapshots are taken using rsync and hard-links. Common files are shared between snapshots which saves disk space. Each snapshot is a full system backup that can be browsed with a file manager.

TimeShift is similar to applications like rsnapshot, BackInTime and TimeVault but with different goals. It is designed to protect only system files and settings. User files such as documents, pictures and music are excluded. This ensures that your files remains unchanged when you restore your system to an earlier date. If you need a tool to backup your documents and files please take a look at the excellent BackInTime application which is more configurable and provides options for saving user files.

Just draw the symbol you are looking for into the square area above and look what happens!

Like for every thing, there are plenty of commands to check information about the hardware of your linux system. Some commands report only specific hardware components like cpu or memory while the rest cover multiple hardware units.

This post takes a quick look at some of the most commonly used commands to check information and configuration details about various hardware peripherals and devices. The list includes lscpu, hwinfo, lshw, dmidecode, lspci etc.

Il portale dell'Automobilitsta

Autojump utility learns from user and helps in easy and faster directory navigation from Linux command line, as compared to traditional 'cd' command.