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8 Best Free and Open Source Console BitTorrent Clients

January 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Roundup

BitTorrent, also referred to as simply torrent, is an internet transfer protocol for peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P).

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ExTracker – BitTorrent tracker

January 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

ExTracker is an Elixir-powered BitTorrent Tracker.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: rm

January 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to rm, a command that removes files or directories.

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rqbit – BitTorrent client

January 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

rqbit is a bittorrent client written in Rust. It has HTTP API and Web UI, and can be used as a library.

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17 Best Free and Open Source Replacements for ls

January 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

When invoked without any arguments, ls lists the files in the current working directory. We recommend some great replacements.

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File Managers

FTS – fast local-network file transfers and communication

January 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, TUI

FTS is a lightweight CLI tool and TUI application for fast local-network file transfers and communication.

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Tools that help you

Mansnip – navigate through man pages

January 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Mansnip is a command-line tool that makes Linux manual pages (manpages) easier to search and navigate by extracting relevant snippets.

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btdu – sampling disk usage profiler for btrfs

January 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

btdu is a sampling disk usage profiler for btrfs. It’s written in the D language.

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Footfetch – system profiling tool

January 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Footfetch is a CLI utility for viewing system information, but with a twist

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Katifetch – system information tool

January 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Katifetch is a cross-platform system information tool (fetch) that displays system details alongside ASCII art.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: man

January 11, 2026 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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Data Science

BART – Computational Magnetic Resonance Imaging

January 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

The Berkeley Advanced Reconstruction Toolbox (BART) toolbox is an image-reconstruction framework for Computational Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

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WebRTC

mux-media – CLI utility for muxing media

January 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

mux-media is a CLI utility for muxing media (e.g. video, audio, subtitles).

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Text Editor

jrnlc – plain-text terminal journal

January 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

jrnlc is a personal project built to be simple, fast, and predictable. It stores journal entries in a plain-text file

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Coding

intentrace – strace with intent

January 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

intentrace is a strace. It works similarly to strace in that it intercepts and records system calls when a process issues them

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Photo collection

ODiff – native image comparison tool

January 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI

ODiff is a fast native image comparison tool. It compares the visual difference between 2 images in milliseconds.

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Image of Files

TBDel – manage files for deletion

January 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

TBDel is a simple command-line tool for managing a list of files and directories marked for deletion.

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Backup software

GoBackup – backup your databases

January 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

GoBackup is a backup tool design for application servers, to backup your databases, files to cloud storage.

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SQLFluff – dialect-flexible SQL linter

January 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

SQLFluff is an open source, dialect-flexible and configurable SQL linter. It’s written in the Python language.

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Stopwatch

Dayplan – plan and track your time

January 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, TUI

Dayplan is a utility to plan and track your time. This is free and open source software that’s written in Go.

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