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Perltidy – indents and reformats Perl scripts

September 11, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Perltidy is a Perl script which indents and reformats Perl scripts to make them easier to read.

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Terminal Session Recording

17 Best Free and Open Source Terminal Session Recording

September 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Roundup

Console screencast software (also known as terminal recorder) lets you capture your terminal. Here’s our verdict.

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F-Fetch – fast and minimal system fetcher

September 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

F-Fetch is a very fast, minimal terminal system fetcher. It is highly customizable

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pikaur – AUR helper with minimal dependencies

September 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pikaur is an AUR helper with minimal dependencies. Review PKGBUILDs all in once, next build them all without user interaction.

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Selection of utilities

chsrc – change source

September 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI

chsrc is a command-line utility to change source everywhere for every software.

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Chemistry

Periodic Table Tools: 6 Best Free and Open Source Linux Tools

September 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Roundup, Scientific

The periodic table, also known as the periodic table of the elements, is a rows and columns arrangement of the chemical elements.

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Pakku – pacman wrapper with additional features

September 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Pakku is a pacman wrapper with additional features, such as AUR support. It’s written in Nim.

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Encryption

Shufflecake – create multiple hidden volumes

September 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Shufflecake is a tool for Linux that allows to create multiple hidden volumes on a storage devic

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Aura – package manager for Arch Linux

September 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Aura is a package manager for Arch Linux. Its original purpose was in supplementing Pacman to support the building of AUR packages

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Zpm – Zsh plugin manager

September 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Zpm is a plugin manager for Zsh that combines the imperative and declarative approach. At first run, zpm will do complex logic and generate cache, after that will be used cache only, so it makes this framework to be very

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Images

18 Best Free and Open Source Command-Line Image Compression Tools

September 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Roundup

This article recommends the best command-line image compression tools. They are all free and open source.

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Git Clients

33 Useful Free and Open Source Git Tools

September 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, Roundup, Utilities

Git is an open source distributed version control system which was originally designed by Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux.

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ntpd-rs – synchronizing your computer’s clock

September 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software, Utilities

ntpd-rs is a tool for synchronizing your computer’s clock, implementing the NTP and NTS protocols. It is written in Rust.

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Cloud storage

Dufs – file server that supports static serving

September 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Web Apps

Dufs is a distinctive utility file server that supports static serving, uploading, searching, accessing control, webdav…

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OnTheSpot – GUI music downloader

September 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Multimedia

OnTheSpot is an easy to use music downloader. It’s written in Python.

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Static Site Generator

Cecil – simple and powerful content-driven static site generator

September 2, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Web Apps

Cecil is a CLI application that merges plain text files (written in Markdown), images and Twig templates to generate a static website.

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File Managers

Surfer – simple static file server

September 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Web Apps

Surfer comes with a command-line tool to upload files from your local folders and a web interface to manage files directly on the server.

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Coding

ClangFormat – code formatting tool

September 1, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

ClangFormat is a code formatting tool that helps maintain common code style across team members and IDEs.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: less

August 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to less. All of the tools are free and open source and sport a command-line interface.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: more

August 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to more.

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