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Boxes is a configurable program and text filter which can draw ASCII art boxes around its input text in a Linux terminal. It comes with a number of pre-configured box designs in example config file. It comes with several command-line options and supports regular expression substitutions on input text. You can use it to: draws …

Lolcat is a command-line program to output rainbow of colors in the Linux terminal. It concatenates the output of a command in a similar way as cat command and adds rainbow coloring to the final output. To use lolcat, simply pipe the output of any command to lolcat.

Browsh is a small, modern text based browser that play videos and render anything that a modern browser can, in TTY terminal environments. It supports HTML5, CSS3, JS, video as well as WebGL. It is a bandwidth-saver, designed to run on a remote server and accessed via SSH/Mosh or the in-browser HTML service so as …

Googler is a full-featured Python-based command line tool for accessing Google (Web & News) and Google Site Search within the Linux terminal. It is fast and clean with custom colors and no ads, stray URLs or clutter included. It supports navigation of search result pages from omniprompt. In addition, it supports fetching of number of …

Wikit is a command line utility to search Wikipedia in Linux. It basically displays Wikipedia summaries. Once you have it installed, simply provide the search term as an argument (for example wikit linux).

Mp3blaster has been around since 1997. Sadly it hasn’t been in active development since 2017. Nevertheless, it’s still a decent terminal-based audio player that lets you enjoy your audio tracks. You can find the official repo hosted on GitHub. Let’s take a look at some of the key features: Support for shortcut keys which makes …

The mpg123 player is a free and opensource fast console-based audio player and decoder written in C language. It is tailored for both Windows & Unix/Linux systems. Let’s take a look at some of the key features: Gapless playback of mp3 audio files.Built-in terminal shortcuts.Supports many platforms ( Windows, Linux, BSD and macOS ).Multiple Audio …

Musikcube is another free and opensource terminal-based music player that leverages a collection of plugins written in C++ to provide functionality such as data streaming, digital signal processing, output handling and so much more. Musikcube is a cross-platform music player that can even run on Raspberry Pi. It uses the SQLite database for storing playlist …

Short for Music On Console, MOC is a light and easy-to-use command-line music player. MOC allows you to select a directory and play audio files contained in the directory beginning with the first on the list. Let’s take a look at some of the key features: Support for gapless playback.Support for audio files such as …

Written in C programming language, CMUS is a light-weight yet powerful console-based music player designed for Unix/Linux systems. It supports a wide range of audio formats and is quite easy to navigate once you have mastered some basic commands. Let’s take a look at some of the main features in brief: Support for an array …