MapSCII – The World Map In Your Terminal
Howdy! I just stumbled upon an interesting utility. The World map in your Terminal! Yes, It is so cool. Say hello to MapSCII, a Braille and ASCII world map renderer for your xterm-compatible terminals. It...
Category: Command line utilities
Ccat – Colorize Cat Command Output
As you might already know, Cat, acronym for concatenate, is an Unix command to view, combine, and copy text files. This command is one of the most frequently used command in GNU/Linux and Unix-like operating...
How To Manage Vim Plugins Using Vundle On Linux
Vim, undoubtedly, is one of the powerful and versatile tool to manipulate text files, manage the system configuration files and writing code. The functionality of Vim can be extended to different levels using plugins. Usually,...
How To Find Installed Applications With Installed Size In Linux
The other day I witnessed that my hard drive is running out of space. I opened the file manager (I am using Caja file manager right now), and examined the files and folders in my...
Delayed Admin – Temporarily Drop Admin Privileges To Administrators
Today, I stumbled upon an interesting utility named “Delayed Admin”. As the name says it all, this utility will temporarily drop admin privileges to administrators. Delayed Admin will not remove the admin privileges of an...
Download Packages With Dependencies Locally In Ubuntu
A while ago, we published an article that described how to Install Softwares offline in Ubuntu. In that guide, we explained how can you download packages in an Internet-enabled system, and install them offline in another...
GNU Aspell – A Free, Open Source And Independent Spell Checker
Today, we are going to talk about GNU Aspell, a free, open source and independent spell checker. You can use it either as a library or an independent spell checker on your Unix-like operating systems....
Pinfo – A CLI Program To Read Info And Man Pages In Color
Man pages, abbreviation for manual pages, needs no introduction. Man pages are the form of software documentation that is available in almost all Unix-like operating systems by default. Using man pages, you can read the...
How To Find The Installed Proprietary Packages In Arch Linux
Are you an avid free software supporter who is currently using any Arch based distribution? I’ve got a small tip for you! You can now easily find the installed proprietary packages in Arch Linux and...
So-notify – A Stack Overflow Question Notifier
Stack Overflow needs no introduction. It is one of the largest Q&A portal site for Programmers to learn, search and post questions and get answers from millions of users around the world. A while ago,...
Cylon-deb : The Debian Linux Maintenance Program
A couple months ago, we published an article about Cylon, a maintenance program for Arch Linux and derivatives. Today, we are going to see yet another maintenance program for Debian-based systems from the same developer...
HeRM’s – A Commandline Food Recipes Manager
Cooking is love made visible, isn’t? Indeed! Either cooking is your passion or hobby or profession, I am sure you will maintain a cooking journal. Keeping a cooking journal is one way to improve your...
