noice is a minimal file browser for those who don’t like to type cd ... to reach a file, then open it; or one who doesn’t like to open a file browser and keep clicking to find and open a file. noice reduces the effort to pressing the arrow keys. Originally noice is written as a utility having minimal interactions with X. For example, image files are opened with feh. Considering most people use X and love to use to GUI apps when it makes sense, I have forked a branch with some changes of my own. Continue reading Hacking noice: fast cmdline file browser
Tag: useful cli tools
sbm: monitor network traffic
$ sbm -i wlp2s0 -c 10 wlp2s0: 0.00 bps Rx 0.00 bps Tx 0 pps Rx 0 pps Tx wlp2s0: 5.54 kbps Rx 18.94 kbps Tx 6 pps Rx 8 pps Tx wlp2s0: 2.78 Mbps Rx 122.69 kbps Tx 256 pps Rx 141 pps Tx wlp2s0: 433.54 kbps Rx 45.22 kbps Tx 55 pps Rx 35 pps Tx wlp2s0: 528.00 bps Rx 752.00 bps Tx 1 pps Rx 1 pps Tx wlp2s0: 10.94 kbps Rx 5.50 kbps Tx 6 pps Rx 4 pps Tx wlp2s0: 0.00 bps Rx 0.00 bps Tx 0 pps Rx 0 pps Tx wlp2s0: 13.34 kbps Rx 26.10 kbps Tx 11 pps Rx 13 pps Tx wlp2s0: 384.64 kbps Rx 57.70 kbps Tx 57 pps Rx 49 pps Tx wlp2s0: 553.67 kbps Rx 51.35 kbps Tx 69 pps Rx 56 pps Tx
sbm (Simple Bandwidth Monitor) is a tiny utility to track your network traffic. It’s similar to slurm in functionality but shows a continuous log of transfer rates (upstream and downstream). The best use-case is the situation in which you want to figure out how much data an application transmits in isolation. With constant monitoring, you can also figure out easily if any application is sending information home. Continue reading sbm: monitor network traffic
imgd: multiprocessing image resizer and rotator
Nautilus Image Converter is a popular extension among Ubuntu users to batch resize and rotate images. While it’s handy, it’s tied to the Nautilus file manager and is not available for users who use other flavours of Ubuntu e.g. Xubuntu or Lubuntu. imgd (read imaged) is a multiprocessing command-line alternative written in Python3. It uses the PIL (Pillow) library and has many more additional features. Continue reading imgd: multiprocessing image resizer and rotator
fmedia: play, record, convert audio
With the abundance of processing power, multimedia players have turned more and more resource hungry. While it may be reasonable while playing a H265 encoded video, playing an MP3 file should not take ~50MB resident memory. Unfortunately, SMPlayer uses memory in that range. In our hunt for a lighter audio player we found fmedia, which delivers much more than playing audio. Continue reading fmedia: play, record, convert audio
exif: image exif data on Ubuntu
We explored exiftool, a perl utility to view and edit image metadata, in an earlier article. However, it’s bulky and a lighter alternative sounds good. So we looked up exif, a very tiny utility that can read exif metadata and has limited editing capabilities. Continue reading exif: image exif data on Ubuntu
Katastrophe: kat.cr from terminal
After TPB, kat.cr is one of the most reliable sources for quality torrents. If you depend on torrents to download stuff, you may now search and download torrents from kat.cr without opening your browser, thanks to a new Python utility Katastrophe. This essentially means no more distracting ads or unwanted links. Katastrophe provides a very clean and responsive interface. Continue reading Katastrophe: kat.cr from terminal
Tizonia: cloud music from the terminal
Tizonia is a cmdline music player specially for those who love to stream music. Spotify premium, Google Play Music and Soundcloud are the most advertised services which work with Tizonia. However, it doesn’t stop there. Tizonia has every potential to become your one stop music player. And if you share a LAN with friends, you can setup a common music server too! Continue reading Tizonia: cloud music from the terminal
ranger: awesome cmdline file manager
ranger is a beautifully designed console based file browser to boost your productivity. ranger shows the current and parent directories in multiple columns (panes), presenting a complete context of your current location. And don’t be scared by the project tagline mentioning vim, ranger supports very easy navigation using arrow keys. Continue reading ranger: awesome cmdline file manager
World time from the terminal
What’s your favourite way to look up the time in a different timezone? For many of us it’s a google search. Did you know that you can look it up easily from the command line too? The Linux utility tzselect makes it possible. Continue reading World time from the terminal
Color man pages
I came across this tip in the Arch wiki today. Turns out you can render man pages in gorgeous colors (tweak-able as well) using the less utility in the background. Settings for bash and fish follow. Continue reading Color man pages
