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Monitor System

TWSLA – TWSNMP’s Simple Log Analyzer

April 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

TWSLA is built for administrators and operators who want to work directly with large log sets without deploying a heavier log management stack.

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Console MPD Clients

11 Best Free and Open Source Console MPD Clients

April 26, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Roundup

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 8 best console-based MPD clients.

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Selection of utilities

hashit – generate file hashes quickly

April 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

hashit is a cross-platform command-line utility for generating file hashes quickly.

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Alaska

SVGO – Node.js tool for optimizing SVG files

April 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

SVGO is a Node.js tool for optimising SVG files by removing redundant data often added by vector editors

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Documentation

Rizin – UNIX-like reverse engineering framework

April 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Rizin is a UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset for examining binaries, disassembling code, debugging programs.

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Selection of utilities

uniqs – alternative to uniq

April 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

uniqs is a Rust command-line utility that serves as an alternative to uniq with streaming support.

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Selection of utilities

xuniq – line deduplicator

April 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

xuniq is a high-performance and stable line deduplicator. Unlike the standard uniq utility, xuniq does not require your input to be sorted.

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Vulnerability Detection

unblob – extraction suite for working with unknown binary blobs

April 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

unblob is an extraction suite for working with unknown binary blobs.

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Selection of utilities

hashdeep – generate and verify file hashes

April 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

hashdeep is a command line tool for generating and verifying file hashes across large collections of files.

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Anti-Malware Tools

FLOSS – malware analysis utility

April 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

FLOSS is a malware analysis utility that automatically extracts and deobfuscates strings from executable binaries.

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Documentation

capa – command line malware analysis tool

April 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

capa examines executable files and related analysis reports to identify behaviors such as persistence, command execution, file system access.

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Selection of utilities

cksfv.rs – reimplements the classic cksfv tool

April 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cksfv.rs is a command-line utility written in Rust that reimplements the classic cksfv tool for working with SFV checksum files.

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Security

Plaso – Python-based digital forensics framework

April 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Plaso is a Python-based digital forensics framework that builds timelines from timestamped events.

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Encrypted Files

SOPS – editor for encrypted secrets and configuration files

April 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

SOPS is a command-line secrets editor for YAML, JSON, ENV, INI and binary files using age, PGP and multiple cloud key-management services.

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Selection of utilities

cksfv – create and check sfv listings using CRC32 checksums

April 22, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cksfv is a command-line utility for creating and checking Simple File Verification (.sfv) listings using CRC32 checksums.

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Monitoring

Poltergeist – universal hot-reload and file-watching tool

April 22, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Poltergeist is a universal hot-reload and file-watching tool that automatically rebuilds projects when files change.

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Encryption

enc – command-line encryption tool

April 22, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

enc is a command-line encryption tool designed as a modern, approachable alternative to GnuPG.

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Encrypted Files

Sequoia – comprehensive modern OpenPGP implementation

April 22, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Sequoia is a modern OpenPGP implementation written in Rust with command-line tools, libraries, certificate handling and verification.

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Monitoring

watch – small command-line utility written in C

April 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

watch is a small command-line utility written in C that periodically runs a shell command at a user-defined interval.

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Monitoring

fswatch – reports changes to files and directories

April 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fswatch is a cross-platform command-line utility and frontend to libfswatch that reports changes to files and directories as they happen.

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