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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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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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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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objdiff – local diffing tool for decompilation project

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

objdiff is a local diffing tool for decompilation projects. There is also a GUI available.

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Archive Manager

Simple Archiver – alternative to tar

September 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Simple Archiver is an alternative to tar. Despite its name, this open source tool has a fairly wide range of features.

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Yay – AUR helper

September 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Yay (Yet Another Yogurt) is an Arch User Repository (AUR) helper tool.

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q – command line DNS client

September 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

q is a tiny command line DNS client with support for UDP, TCP, DoT, DoH, DoQ and ODoH.

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Sync-in – file sync and server management

September 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Internet

Sync-in is available as a desktop application (Linux, macOS, and Windows and a command line interface (CLI), Sync-in adapts to your workflow

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sshmate – simplify interactions with SSH servers

September 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

sshmate is a tool designed to simplify interactions with SSH servers. It provides an easy way to connect to servers.

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Image of Files

28 Best Free and Open Source Command Line Navigation Tools

September 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

Tiny but useful tools that complement the cd command. Free and open source goodness.

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WallpaperDownloader

chwp – change background wallpaper from the command line

September 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

chwp is a Rust-based tool to change the wallpaper without leaving the command-line.

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ty – fast Python type checker

September 16, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

ty is a fast Python type checker and language server. ty will run on all Python files in the working directory and or subdirectories.

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Software

Pamac – Gtk and CLI front ends of libpamac

September 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

Pamac offers lpm, AUR, Appstream, Flatpak, and Snap support.

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clang-tidy – clang-based linter tool

September 14, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

clang-tidy is a clang-based C++ “linter” tool. It provides an extensible framework for diagnosing and fixing typical programming errors.

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Software

aurto – Arch Linux AUR tool

September 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

aurto is an Arch Linux AUR tool for managing an auto-updating local ‘aurto’ package repository using aurutils.

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Machine Learning in Linux

Gerbil – desktop app to easily run Large Language Models locally

September 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Scientific

Gerbil lets you run LLMs locally powered by KoboldCpp which itself is a highly modified fork of llama.cpp.

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Command Schedulers

4 Useful Free and Open Source systemd CLI/TUI Configuration Tools

September 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, System Software, TUI

systemd is a Linux init system and system manager that’s used by most modern Linux distributions. We pick some useful CLI and TUI tools.

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Coding

HTMLHint – static code analysis tool

September 13, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

HTMLHint is a static code analysis tool. It’s written in JavaScript and TypeScript.

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Software

aurutils – helper tools for the AUR

September 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

aurutils is a collection of scripts to automate usage of the Arch User Repository, with different tasks such as package searching, and more.

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