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20 Top Free and Open Source Terminal Based IRC Clients

May 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Roundup

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of real-time Internet text messaging (chat) or synchronous conferencing. We recommend the finest console-based IRC clients.

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Network

quien – terminal-based domain intelligence toolkit

May 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

quien is a terminal-based domain intelligence toolkit that provides an interactive TUI for investigating domains and IP addresses.

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Selection of utilities

bttf – datetime arithmetic, parsing, formatting and more

May 26, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

biff is a command-line utility for working with dates, times, durations, and time zones from the shell.

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Clipboard

ClipCascade – cross-platform clipboard synchronisation utility

May 26, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Productivity

ClipCascade is a cross-platform clipboard synchronisation utility that automatically shares clipboard content across connected devices.

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Clipboard

Homie – terminal clipboard manager with fuzzy search

May 26, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, TUI

Homie is a terminal clipboard manager with fuzzy history search, multi-selection, Bash and Zsh integration, and tmux popup support.

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Selection of utilities

dateutils – collection of command line utilities

May 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dateutils is a collection of command line utilities for working with dates, times, and date-time values in the shell.

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LAN

UPSWake – automate Wake-on-LAN using UPS status

May 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

UPSWake monitors NUT UPS servers and sends Wake-on-LAN packets using Rego policies, with flexible wake intervals, CLI commands and an API.

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Git Clients

git-flow-next – modern implementation of the Git-flow branching model

May 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

git-flow-next is a command-line tool that provides a modern implementation of the Git-flow branching model.

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cut command

xcut – extends the traditional Unix cut tool

May 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

xcut extends the traditional Unix cut tool with more flexible ways to extract and filter fields from structured text.

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Clipboard

Clapboard – clipboard manager

May 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

Clapboard is a clipboard manager for Wayland written in Rust.

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CNC Software

CAMotics – 3-axis CNC GCode simulator

May 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Scientific

CAMotics is a CNC simulation and computer-aided machining application that lets you load 3-axis GCode programs.

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SQL

usql – command-line database client

May 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Database, Documents

usql is a command-line database client that gives a single, consistent interface for working with many different database systems.

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cut command

cuts – Perl command-line utility

May 22, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cuts is a Perl command-line utility that enhances the traditional Unix/POSIX cut tool for extracting columns from text files.

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Git Clients

wrkflw – validate and run GitHub Actions workflows locally

May 22, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

wrkflw is a command-line tool for validating and running GitHub Actions workflows locally.

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Task Manager

TaskLite – CLI task manager

May 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

TaskLite is a task manager built with Haskell and SQLite.

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Selection of utilities

FlatSync – synchronise Flatpak applications across Linux devices

May 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

FlatSync synchronises Flatpak application selections across Linux devices using Git, with systemd timers and user or system-wide modes.

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Git Clients

gfold – keep track of multiple Git repositories

May 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

gfold is a command-line utility that helps developers keep track of multiple Git repositories from one or more directories.

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Git Clients

ghq – organise local clones of remote repositories

May 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

ghq is a command-line tool for organising local clones of remote repositories.

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Git Clients

mani – manage collections of Git repositories

May 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

mani is a command-line tool that helps developers manage collections of Git repositories from a central configuration file.

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Git Clients

git-appraise – distributed code review system for Git repositories

May 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

git-appraise is a command-line distributed code review system for Git repositories.

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