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Category: CLI

JSON Tools

qq – jq but an interoperable configuration format transcoder

February 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

qq is multi modal, and can be used as a replacement for jq or be interacted with via a REPL.

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Framework

haskeline – CLI for user input

January 31, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Haskeline provides a user interface for line input in command-line programs. This library is similar in purpose to readline

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RAW Tools

luffy – watch movies and TV from the command-line

January 31, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

luffy is billed as a spiritual successor of flix-cli and mov-cli. It’s cross-platform software written in the Go language.

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Selection of utilities

par2cmdline – PAR 2.0 compatible file verification and repair tool

January 31, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

par2cmdline is a program for creating and using PAR2 files to detect damage in data files and repair them if necessary.

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Framework

vty – terminal interface library

January 31, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

vty is a terminal interface library. It provides a high-level interface for doing terminal I/O.

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Password Manager

Pass-CLI – password and API key manager

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Pass-CLI is a fast, secure password and API key manager that stores credentials locally with AES-256-GCM encryption.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: asciify – turn images into attractive ASCII art

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews

asciify is a CLI tool that converts images into ASCII art. It’s part of our Linux Candy series.

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process

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: stow

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

Stow is a symlink farm manager which takes distinct sets of software and/or data located in separate directories on the filesystem.

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Coding

yam – formatter for YAML

January 30, 2026 Erik Karlsson CLI, Programming

yam is a little formatter for YAML written in the Go programming language.

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Image of Files

gump – smarter cd command

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gump is a directory jumper using frecency. Type directory fragments, land where you meant.

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Framework

iocraft – craft CLIs, TUIs, and text-based IO

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, TUI

iocraft is a library for crafting beautiful text output and interfaces for the terminal or logs.

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Monitoring

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: tree

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to tree, a utility that lists the contents of directories in a tree-like format.

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csscss – CSS redundancy analyzer

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

csscss will parse any CSS files you give it and let you know which rulesets have duplicated declarations.

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Graphics

todds – CPU-based DDS texture encoder

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

todds is a CPU-based DDS texture encoder optimized for fast batch conversions with high encoding quality.

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Video Conversion

video-compare – split-screen video comparison tool

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

video-compare is a split-screen video comparison tool, utilizing FFmpeg libraries and SDL2.

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Circuit board

Xfetch – system information tool

January 28, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Xfetch is a cross-platform system information fetching tool inspired by fastfetch and neofetch, written in Rust.

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Network

Gurren – SSH tunnel manager

January 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, TUI

Gurren is a fast, terminal-based SSH tunnel manager with a TUI and background service.

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CPU

pfetch – system information tool

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

pfetch is a pretty system information tool written in POSIX sh.

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Bookmark manager

bkmr – CLI knowledge management system

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

bkmr is a fast, feature-rich command-line tool that extends bookmark management, snippet handling, markdown rendering, script execution and more.

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Stopwatch

Tomat – Pomodoro timer

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

Tomat is a Pomodoro timer for Linux, designed for seamless integration with waybar and other status bars.

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