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Category: CLI

Screen Capture

grabIT – screenshot and screen recorder script

February 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

grabIT is billed as a versatile screenshot, screen recording, and file uploader with OCR support for multiple services.

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Application Launchers

Hamr – desktop launcher

February 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Desktop, GUI

Hamr learns from your usage patterns to surface what you need, when you need it. Type a few characters to launch apps, calculate math…

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Screen Capture

SnipText – screen capture OCR tool

February 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, GUI

SnipText is a screen capture OCR tool. Select a screen area, get text in the clipboard.

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dcat – terminal-based 3D model viewer

February 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

dcat is a terminal-based 3D model viewer that’s written in the C++ language

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Git Clients

stax – CLI and TUI for stacked Git branches and PRs

February 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, TUI

Stacked branches let you split work into small, reviewable pieces that build on each other (and visualize it as a tree).

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ziglint – linting suite

February 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

ziglint searches the current directory for .zig files and lint them against the various tests in the suite.

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go-critic – opinionated Go source code linter

February 3, 2026 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

go-critic is a highly extensible Go source code linter providing checks currently missing from other linters.

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process

Hexus – process manager

February 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Hexus is a process manager built using .NET 10 designed to work on Linux and Windows seamlessly.

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JSON Tools

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: jq – JSON processor

February 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to jq, a command-line JSON processor.

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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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