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System administration

awl – DNS lookup tool

October 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

awl is a command-line DNS lookup tool that supports DNS queries over UDP, TCP, TLS, HTTPS, DNSCrypt, and QUIC.

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Password Managers

MUTN – self-hosted, SSH-synchronized password and note manager

September 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

MUTN is a simple, self-hosted, SSH-synchronized password and note manager based on libmutton. It is the successor to sshyp.

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Selection of utilities

autogit – automatically build, update or install Pacman applications

September 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Autogit is a Bash tool to automatically build, update or install Pacman applications from PKGBUILD’s

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cwal – generates dynamic color schemes from images

September 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

cwal extracts dominant colors from your chosen image and applies them to your terminal, applications, and other system components.

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Log Analyzers

7 Best Free and Open Source Console Log File Analyzers

September 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, System Software

Almost everything that happens on a Linux system is logged in some way. We feature the finest open source console-based log file analyzers.

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TCPreen – TCP network re-engineering tool

September 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

TCPreen is a tool to monitor and analyze data transmitted between clients and servers through connection-oriented streams data.

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JADX – Dex to Java decompiler

September 24, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, GUI, Programming

JADX is command line and GUI tools for producing Java source code from Android Dex and Apk files.

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Software

Paru – feature packed AUR helper

September 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Paru is a standard Pacman wrapping AUR helper with lots of features and minimal interaction.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: hexdump

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

We spotlight alternative tools to hexdump, a utility that displays file contents in hexadecimal, octal, or ascii.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: dig

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to dig. This is a DNS lookup utility.

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