marathon is a minimal bash/unix based launcher that tries to be smart about running or focusing apps. Just call marathon SomeApplication, and:

• if SomeApplication is not running, marathon will run it

• else marathon will just focus it

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onethingwell:

A text editor and graphical shell that shipped with Plan 9 from Bell Labs. It has, putting it mildly, an unusual interface that largely eschews keyboard shortcuts in favour of ‘mouse chording’.

You can use it on Linux, OS X and *BSD via Plan 9 from User Space, and on Windows (and the other three) with Acme Stand Alone Complex. (Or by installing/booting Plan 9 from Bell Labs/Plan 9 from the People’s Front of cat-v.org )

Liquid prompt is a smart prompt for the “Bourne-Again” Unix shell (bash) and for Zsh.

The basic idea of the liquid prompt is to nicely display useful informations on the shell prompt, only when they are needed. It adds carefuly chosen colors to draw your attention on what differs from the normal context. Thus, you will notice what changes, when it changes, because you do not become accommodated to informations that are always displayed in the same way.

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NFFM (Not a Fancy File Manager) is a mouseless ncurses file manager written in C.

You can nagivate through your filesystem, open ,delete, rename, create files, filter files by extension or filter for file that begins with in the current directory. Folders can also be created and deleted. So nothing fancy…

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FeedsAPI is a full text RSS feed generator and web content extraction service that allows you to: turn any shortened RSS feeds into a full text RSS feed content, generate an RSS feed from any static webpage, turn xml and html to JSON and send RSS to emails in real time.

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onethingwell:

Prezto is the configuration framework for Zsh; it enriches the command line interface environment with sane defaults, aliases, functions, auto completion, and prompt themes.

 See also

• oh-my-zsh
• grml-zsh-config

A bash webradio manager and player Features:

• Creating dynamic bash aliases to play/stop webradio streams from CLI
• Selecting a webradio stream via dmenu and play/stop it
• Configuration of streams in a plain text file

Tmuxstart can be used to create reusable configurations for named tmux sessions.

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fvfavo:

I’m always forgetting the column order when editing a crontab or if a value begins with 0 or 1.

Here’s a good format description:

A field may be an asterisk (*), which always stands for “first-last”.

Ranges of numbers are allowed. Ranges are two numbers separated with a hyphen. The specified…

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harrychillboy:

Linux Cron utility is an effective way to schedule a routine background job at a specific time and/or day on an on-going basis.

This article is part of the on-going Productivity Tips For Geeks series. In this article, let us review 15 awesome examples of crontab job scheduling.

Interrobang is a launcher menu somewhat similar to dmenu. Interrobang has two unique features:

1. Tab completion for both commands and filename parameters (depends on bash completion)

2. A “bang syntax” inspired by the duckduckgo search engine.