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lv – directory listing and counting tool

October 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

iv is a directory listing and counting tool written in C++.

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Mangal – CLI manga downloader

October 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Other

Mangal is billed as an advanced CLI manga downloader.

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Learning with Linux

9 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Flashcard Tools

October 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Education, Roundup, TUI

This roundup focuses on the finest terminal-based flashcard tools.

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Compression

19 Best Free and Open Source Linux Compression Tools

October 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

To provide an insight into the quality of software available for Linux, we have compiled a list of 19 useful free compression tools.

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sshmate – simplify interactions with SSH servers

October 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

sshmate is a tool to simplify interactions with SSH servers, offering an easy way to connect to servers by assigning a name to an address.

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Files

Jimmy – convert your notes to Markdown

October 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, TUI

Jimmy is a tool to convert your notes from different formats to Markdown. It has both a CLI and TUI.

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fortbite – command-line calculator

October 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

fortbite is a command-line calculator written in Fortran that handles arbitrary precision arithmetic, complex numbers, and matrices.

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System administration

dyndnsc – dynamic dns update client

October 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

dyndnsc is a command line client for sending updates to dynamic dns (ddns, dyndns) services.

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Password manager

16 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Password Managers

October 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, TUI, Utilities

A password manager is a utility which helps users store and retrieve passwords and other data. Here’s our open source recommendations.

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Rate My OpenAPI – improve the quality of your OpenAPI specifications

October 16, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Rate My OpenAPI is a suite of tools designed to help software developers who are using OpenAPI to design and implement their APIs.

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Comic Books

mandown – comic downloader

October 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Other

Mandown is a comic downloader and a CBZ, EPUB, MOBI, and/or PDF converter.

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kotatsu-dl – cli manga downloader

October 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Other

kotatsu-dl is an easy-to-use cross-platform manga downloader with a lot of manga sources supported.

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oval – CLI for (O)penAPI Specification document (val)idation

October 15, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

oval is an OpenAPI Specification (OAS) document validator that was built to replace the CLI provided by swagger-tools.

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Albania

15 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Image Viewers

October 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Roundup

Want to view 24-bit high definition images in your terminal? We recommend our favourite terminal-based image viewers.

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mloader – download manga from mangaplus

October 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Other

mloader is a command-line utility that lets you download manga from mangplus.

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OpenAPI Spec validator – validates OpenAPI Specs

October 14, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

OpenAPI Spec Validator is a CLI, pre-commit hook and python package that validates OpenAPI Specs against the OpenAPI 2.0 (aka Swagger), OpenAPI 3.0 and OpenAPI 3.1 specification.

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Network

wol.rs – Wake On LAN library and command line tool

October 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

wol.rs is a Wake On LAN magic packet command line tool and crate.

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Git Clients

Jig – Git pre-commit hook on steroids

October 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Jig is a command line tool and framework for getting more from the Git pre-commit hook.

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Radio

Software-Defined Radio: 10 Best Free Tools for Linux

October 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Multimedia, Roundup

This roundup looks at the finest software-defined radio tools for Linux including apps that let you listen to DAB and DAB+ broadcasts.

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SSD

colordf – colored and configurable version of df

October 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

colordf is a colored and configurable version of df, forked from cdf.

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