Posts in Category: linux

CliDrop - Terminal Audio Visualizer

CliDrop - Terminal Audio Visualizer

Posted on 18th Jan 2026

From the age of Winamp and Milkdrop, i really liked seeing visual effects, while listening to music. It seems so, that Milkdrop was something of the past and even if there are some projects that do creates visual fxs, there are not so well known. Perhaps CAVA is more well known than ProjectMSDL....

TermCell - a terminal CSV editor

TermCell - a terminal CSV editor

Posted on 6th Jan 2026

For a long time i was searching for a CLI tool to edit CSV files. Most of the tools are either viewers, or too complicated, like visicalc. I wanted something more than a viewer, but not so complicated as a spread sheet program. So, here is TermCell. Of course if it wasn't for the Textualize pro...

RegEx helper script...

RegEx helper script...

Posted on 31st Dec 2025

I often find my self, searching for a way to test some RegExs and almost every time, i use an online tool. I searched for a CLI alternative, but found them inadequate for me. Either they need to much dependencies, like external Python libraries or they don't have a good documentation, providing exam...

BASH script to test Terminal capabilities...

BASH script to test Terminal capabilities...

Posted on 15th Nov 2025

Nothing too exciting, but it is something i need, from time to time, to test various terminal emulators and specially the size and the number of colors can be used. It's written in BASH, but i think it will work with other cli interpreters. Just copy/paste the script, make it executable and run it....

Use rtl_fm and redsea to listen radio stations with RDS data...

Use rtl_fm and redsea to listen radio stations with RDS data...

Posted on 4th Nov 2025

This is more of a proof of concept, that you can use rtl_fm and redsea programs, to read RDS data and also listen the audio! I don't think, that many people will prefer this way to listen to radio stations :) So, first install rtl_fm, by installing the package rtl-sdr. In Debian/Ubuntu sys...