Recently I realize I've accumulated quite a few packages and wanted to do some cleaning and organizing.

These are the ones I kept and find useful.

Translate Shell (formerly Google Translate CLI) is a command-line translator powered by Google Translate (default), Bing Translator, Yandex.Translate, and Apertium.

It can also be used like an interactive shell; input the text to be translated line by line. It can translate a file or a website, and has a text-to-speech feature.

This is really the first #cli-app listed here that is written in AWK :-)

An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line.

Are you sick of all those colorful and chaotic launchers?
Did Icons, App Drawer and Dock bother you enough?
Do you miss those times when you could do whatever you wanted with a simple command?
Then, T-UI Launcher and its Linux-like CLI (Command Line Interface) is exactly what you need.

A distributed data community. Dat is a nonprofit-backed community & open protocol for building apps of the future.

Use Dat command line to share files with version control, back up data to servers, browse remote files on demand, and automate long-term data preservation.

Tomb is an 100% free and open source system for file encryption on GNU/Linux. It simply makes gpg dm-crypt and cryptsetup usable in a variety of situations.

Written in bash.

Fabulously kill processes. Cross-platform.

Why?

• It makes it easier to understand the structure of JSON files.
• The output is valid JavaScript which can be used directly in code.
• It's very helpful when writing queries for tools like jq.

If you're living life at your terminal emulator anyway, why not have a little fun while you're there?

Just because you prefer working in a text-mode interface doesn't mean you're not entitled to a little fun here and there.

Last December, I took some time out before the holidays to explore some of my favorite command-line diversions into a series for Opensource.com. It ended up being a bit of an advent calendar for terminal toys, and I got some great suggestions from readers.

This article will give a brief introduction to SSMTP and steps to install it and use the same to send emails from Linux terminal.

The Topgrade utility will upgrade everything in Linux and Unix operating systems. It is free, open source and written using Rust.

Treating everything as a string is the way through which the great power and versatility of UNIX tools is achieved. However, sometimes the constant parsing of strings gets a bit cumbersome.

UXY is a tool to manipulate UXY format, which is a basically a two-dimensional table that's both human- and machine-readable.

The format is deliberately designed to be as similar to the output of standard tools, such as ls or ps, as possible.

UXY tool also wraps some common UNIX tools and exports their output in UXY format. Along with converters from/to other common data formats (e.g. JSON) it is meant to allow for quick and painless access to the data.

The Linux fd command is an quick and efficient way to find files in the terminal. Like the find command, it comes in handy often, however, the find command can be a bit tricky for those new to Linux and especially it's command line. This guide will help you get up to speed with this very useful command line tool.

A command line tool that recreates the famous data decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers.