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Category: CLI

Git Clients

CaptainHook – flexible Git hook manager

May 29, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

CaptainHook manages Git hooks through JSON configuration, running checks, commit-message validation and conditional actions for PHP teams.

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Essential System Utils

Smemstat – reports the physical memory usage

May 28, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

smemstat is a command-line tool for examining Linux process memory usage with shared memory divided proportionally.

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Finance

Treeline – local-first personal finance app

May 28, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Financial, GUI

Treeline provides private financial records using DuckDB, with bank imports, tagging rules, SQL queries, automation and extensible plugins.

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Git Clients

Githooks – platform-independent Git hooks manager

May 28, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Githooks manages repository and shared Git hooks with parallel execution, trust checks, container support and team-wide configuration.

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Essential System Utils

smem2 – reports on memory usage on Linux systems

May 28, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

smem2 is a command line utility for Linux that reports process and system memory usage with a focus on proportional set size (PSS).

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: whois

May 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

whois searches for an object in a RFC 3912 database. We spotlight alternative tools to whois.

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Network

quien – terminal-based domain intelligence toolkit

May 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

quien investigates domains and IP addresses using WHOIS, RDAP, DNS, mail security, TLS, HTTP, SEO checks and technology detection.

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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 – manage Git-flow branching workflows

May 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

git-flow-next manages Git-flow feature, release, hotfix and support branches with configurable rules, shorthand commands and improved merges.

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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 for Wayland

May 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

Clapboard is a Wayland clipboard manager with configurable selection menus, favourite snippets, history limits and cache syncing.

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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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SQL

Skeema – declarative schema management for MySQL and MariaDB

May 22, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Database, Documents

Skeema manages MySQL and MariaDB schemas using SQL files, environment-aware changes, schema linting and automated DDL generation.

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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 CI workflows locally

May 22, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, TUI

wrkflw validates and runs GitHub Actions locally, with Kubernetes execution, GitLab and Gitea workflows, matrix builds and live diagnostics.

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