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peep – CLI text viewer tool

August 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

peep is the CLI text viewer tool which runs on Linux and macOS. This tool works interactively like the less command.

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Encrypted Files

Xecrets Cli – AxCrypt compatible encryption tool

August 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Xecrets Cli is a command line file (Cli) file encryption toolbox, runs on Linux, macOS and Windows

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process

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: ps

August 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software

We explore free and open source alternatives to ps, a command that reports a snapshot of the current processes.

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ls-lint – fast file and directory name linter

August 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ls-lint is an extremely fast directory and filename linter. Bring some structure to your project filesystem.

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Kingfisher – secret‑scanning and live validation tool

August 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Kingfisher is a secret‑scanning and live validation tool combining Hyperscan regex engine with language‑aware parsing.

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System administration

dnsperf – measure performance of authoritative domain name services

August 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

dnsperf and resperf are tools that make it simple to gather accurate latency and throughput metrics for Domain Name Service (DNS).

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Tatuin – task aggregation tool

August 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, TUI

Tatuin is a task aggregation tool that allows you to manage and track your tasks from various providers in one convenient place.

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Dictionary Tools

rdict – offline CLI dictionary

August 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rdict is an offline CLI dictionary using data from wiktionary. It’s written in the Rust programming language.

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Krafna – Obsidion dataview plugin-like tool for command line

August 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Krafna is a terminal-based alternative to Obsidian’s Dataview plugin, allowing you to query your Markdown files using standard SQL syntax.

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Music

rescrobbled – music scrobbler daemon

August 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

rescrobbled is a music scrobbler daemon. It detects active media players running on D-Bus using MPRIS

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