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Category: CLI

Selection of utilities

forkrun – NUMA-aware contention-free streaming parallelization

April 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

forkrun is a Bash-native streaming parallelization engine for Linux that’s designed as a drop-in replacement for Parallel and xargs -P.

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File Managers

tidy – organizes files in a chosen directory into category folders

April 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

tidy is a command-line utility written in Rust that organizes files in a chosen directory into category folders according to file extensions.

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Files

umber – tool to replace cat

April 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

umber is a command-line utility designed to replace cat for reading source code and other text files in the terminal.

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Files

AutoTidy – desktop file organiser

April 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

AutoTidy is a desktop file organiser that helps keep folders such as Downloads, Screenshots, and Desktop under control.

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Selection of utilities

axe – xargs alternative

April 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

axe is a command-line utility that serves as an alternative to xargs, with a particular focus on argument processing and argument ordering.

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cargo-audit – Cargo subcommand

April 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

cargo-audit is a Cargo subcommand for Rust projects that checks the dependencies recorded in Cargo.lock against the RustSec Advisory Database.

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cargo-deny – Cargo subcommand for Rust projects

April 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

cargo-deny is a Cargo subcommand for Rust projects that helps audit and enforce dependency policy.

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2026 calendar

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cal

April 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

We spotlight alternatives tools to cal, a utility for displaying calendars on the command-line.

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Selection of utilities

rush – command-line tool for executing jobs in parallel

April 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rush is a tool similar to parallel and gargs.

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File Managers

autotidy – cross-platform file organization daemon

April 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

autotidy is a cross-platform file organization daemon that watches directories and applies user-defined YAML rules to incoming files.

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Dylint – Rust linting tool

April 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Dylint is a linting tool that lets developers run lints packaged as dynamic libraries rather than being limited to a fixed built-in lint set.

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Files

AIFiles – organize your files

April 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

AIFiles is a command-line application that uses AI to analyse files and help organise them into structured folders with meaningful names.

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Machine Learning in Linux

llmfit – find local large language models

April 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

llmfit is a terminal application that helps users find local large language models that are suitable for the hardware they already own.

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Files

jsongrep – fast querying of JSON, YAML, TOML, JSONL, CBOR

April 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

jsongrep is a CLI tool and Rust library for querying structured data with a JSONPath-inspired language based on regular path expressions.

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File Managers

fwatch – configurable file organizer

April 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

fwatch is a lightweight file organizer written in Go that watches a chosen directory and automatically sorts files into destination folders.

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S3

s3cmd – manage objects in Amazon S3 storage

April 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

s3cmd is a mature command-line client for managing data stored in Amazon S3 and other S3-compatible object storage services.

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2026 calendar

cal – the console calendar generator

April 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

cal is a Java-based command line calendar generator for Linux and other systems.

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S3

MinIO Client – work with object storage

April 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

MinIO Client, usually invoked as mc, is a command-line utility for working with object storage from a Unix-style shell.

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Network

uncover – quickly discover exposed hosts on the internet

April 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Uncover is a command-line reconnaissance tool that helps you discover exposed internet-facing hosts

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Files

OneFile – file organiser

April 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

OneFile is a Python command-line utility that helps keep cluttered directories tidy by automatically placing files into structured subfolders.

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