Rofi started as a clone of simpleswitcher, written by Sean Pringle - a popup window switcher roughly based on superswitcher. Simpleswitcher laid the foundations, and therefore Sean Pringle deserves most of the credit for this tool. Rofi (renamed, as it lost the simple property) has been extended with extra features, like an application launcher and ssh-launcher, and can act as a drop-in dmenu replacement, making it a very versatile tool.

Rofi, like dmenu, will provide the user with a textual list of options where one or more can be selected. This can either be running an application, selecting a window, or options provided by an external script.

You're doing some work, and as part of that you need to run a command on the terminal that takes a little while to finish. You run the command, watch it for maybe a second and then switch to doing something else – checking email or something.

You get so deeply involved in your email that twenty minutes fly by. When you switch back to your terminal the command has finished, but you've got no idea whether it was nineteen seconds ago or nineteen minutes ago.

This happens to me a lot. I'm just not disciplined enough to sit and watch commands, and I'm not prescient enough to add something to each invocation to tell me. What I want is something that alerts me whenever long running commands finish.

This is it.

View colored, incremental diff in workspace or from stdin with side by side and auto pager support (was "cdiff").

A Minimalistic CLI Tool for Managing and Running Bash Snippets.

GNU recutils is a set of tools and libraries to access human-editable, text-based databases called recfiles. The data is stored as a sequence of records, each record containing an arbitrary number of named fields. Advanced capabilities usually found in other data storage systems are supported: data types, data integrity (keys, mandatory fields, etc.) as well as the ability of records to refer to other records (sort of foreign keys). Despite its simplicity, recfiles can be used to store medium-sized databases.

Broot, a new way to navigate directory trees on linux, made in rust.

Features

• Group dotfiles into units (stow packages)
• Automatically symlink (stow) files
• Backup dotfiles with git
• Keep track of simultaneous dotfile configurations for multiple environments
• Supports shell autocompletion

Make your diffs human readable instead of machine readable. This helps improve code quality and helps you spot defects faster.

A command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors.

From the creators of ack, a list of tools that are related with ack. In particular they list:

• Tools that work with ack
• Other grep-like tools
• Indexing tools

Periodically runs a command in the console while temporarily clearing the screen content; it makes it easy to check differences between the output of two subsequent commands; it provides "diff" functionality to highlight the changing characters between outputs.

Dateutils are a bunch of tools that revolve around fiddling with dates and times in the command line with a strong focus on use cases that arise when dealing with large amounts of financial data.

termsaver to enjoy fancy ASCII screensavers like matrix, clock, starwars, and a couple of not-safe-for-work screens.

Tiny date, time diff calculator.

A little application to find geographical and network information of an IP address based on the geoip C API

"ipcalc takes an IP address and netmask and calculates the resulting broadcast, network, Cisco wildcard mask, and host range."

Bookmark directories inside your shell.