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Category: CLI

Essential-Utilities

entr – Event Notify Test Runner

March 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

entr is a utility that runs arbitrary commands when files change.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: man

March 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software

A Linux system comes with a whole collection of system reference manuals (known as man pages). There’s a man page for each command or program.

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Find

mprocs runs multiple commands in parallel

March 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mprocs runs multiple commands in parallel and shows output of each command separately.

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sesh is a smart terminal session manager

March 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Sesh is a CLI that helps you create and manage tmux sessions quickly and easily using zoxide.

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Kondo recursively cleans project directories

March 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Programming

Kondo recursively cleans project directories. Supported project types include Cargo, Node, Unity, SBT, Haskell Stack, Maven, Unreal Engine, and more.

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Log Analyzers

humanlog is a pretty log viewer

March 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

humanlog reads logs from stdin and prints them back to stdout, but prettier.

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JSON Tools

jnv navigates JSON offering a viewer and filter editor

March 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

jnv is designed for navigating JSON, offering an interactive JSON viewer and jq filter editor.

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Selection of utilities

gowatch builds and restarts go projects

March 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gowatch is a command line tool that builds and (re)starts your go project every time you save a Go or template file.

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air is a live-reloading utility for developing Go applications

March 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Run air in your project root directory, leave it alone, and focus on your code.

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Cloud storage

PAR Scrape is a web scraping tool

March 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

PAR Scrape is a versatile web scraping tool with options for Selenium or Playwright, featuring AI-powered data extraction and formatting.

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Documentation

w2vgrep is a semantic grep tool

March 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

w2vgrep is a command-line tool that performs semantic searches on text input using word embeddings.

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Find

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: find

March 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to find.

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Password Managers

gopass is a simple but powerful password manager for your terminal

March 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gopass is billed as the slightly more awesome standard unix password manager for teams.

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Password Managers

keydex is a terminal based password manager for KeePass databases

March 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

keydex is a command line utility to manage KeePass databases. It comes with subcommands for managing the entries.

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Font Tools

cfonts – command line tool for sexy ANSI fonts in the console

March 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cfonts is a little command line tool for sexy ANSI fonts in the console.

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DABlin – DAB/DAB+ receiver

March 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Multimedia

DABlin plays a DAB/DAB+ audio service – from a live transmission or from a stored ensemble recording (ETI-NI, or EDI AF with ETI).

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Monitoring

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: tail

March 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to the command-line tail utility.

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Documents

zchunk – compressed file format

March 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

zchunk is a file format designed for highly efficient deltas while maintaining good compression.

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Chemistry

element – periodic table on the command line

March 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

element shows the periodic table and more on the command line.

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10 Best Free and Open Source Snippet Tools

March 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, Roundup, Utilities

A snippet tool is utility software that can boost your productivity. They are especially useful to save complex commands

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