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Stow – symlink farm manager

November 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Stow is a symlink farm manager which takes distinct packages of software and/or data located in separate directories on the filesystem

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Screen Capture

Command-Line Screen Capture Tools: 8 Free and Open Source Linux Apps

November 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Roundup

Linux has a good selection of versatile open source screenshot programs. This roundup focuses on command-line tools.

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Screen Capture

HyprCap – capture screenshots and screen recordings on Hyprland

November 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

HyprCap is a utility to easily capture screenshots and screen recordings on Hyprland.

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FTP

9 Best Free and Open Source Command-line FTP clients

November 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Roundup, Utilities

This article provides our pick of the best open source command line file transfer programs.

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clj-kondo – static analyzer and linter for Clojure

November 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Clj-kondo performs static analysis on Clojure, ClojureScript and EDN. It informs you about potential errors while you are typing.

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Programming

archlog – view and track changelogs for Arch Linux packages

November 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI

archlog is a simple Python CLI tool that fetches upgradable official Arch Linux packages and retrieves changelogs for each.

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kibit – static code analyzer for Clojure

November 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

kibit is a static code analyzer for Clojure, ClojureScript, cljx and other Clojure variants.

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eastwood – Clojure lint tool

November 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Eastwood’s main area of focus is spotting bugs (as opposed to, say, helping following coding conventions).

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Selection of utilities

Aeryth – AppImage to Package Converter

November 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI

Aeryth is a shell script designed to convert .AppImage files into distribution packages (.deb for Debian and .pkg.tar.zst for Arch Linux).

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Network

netcheck – checks network connectivity

November 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

netcheck is designed to be run periodically, saving results to files from which netcheck-plot can be used to create plots.

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Game Engines

Prefixer – Proton prefix management tool

November 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Prefixer is a tool for managing Steam Proton prefixes, seeking to replace protontricks with a friendlier interface, faster responses and modular approach.

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boxunbox – simple symlinker inspired by stow

November 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

boxunbox is a simple symlinker inspired by stow with more control over where each individual folder gets linked.

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Images of shells by the sea

sh – shell parser, formatter, and interpreter

November 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

sh is a shell parser, formatter, and interpreter. It supports POSIX Shell, Bash, and mksh. It requires Go 1.24 or later.

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RAW Tools

flix-cli – movie scraper

November 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

flix-cli is billed as a highly efficient, powerful and fast movie scraper.

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WiFi

connex – modern Wi-Fi manager

November 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Internet

connex is a modern Wi-Fi manager designed for Hyprland and Arch Linux, built with GTK3 and NetworkManager.

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Eye Care Software

eyerest – remind your eyes to take a screen break

November 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

eyerest is a Bash script to remind your eyes to have a little break from the screen. Set time interval and notifications via text files.

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Circuit board

swiftfetch – simple system information fetch tool

November 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

swiftfetch is a fast and simple system information fetch tool written in Rust. It displays various system information like OS, CPU, RAM usage

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Wallpaper Setter

randwall – randomly changes the desktop wallpaper

November 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

randwall periodically fetches and sets random wallpapers from Wallhaven’s toplist

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Images of shells by the sea

brush – POSIX- and bash compatible shell

November 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

brush (Bo(u)rn(e) RUsty SHell) is a POSIX- and bash-compatible shell, implemented in Rust. It’s built and tested on Linux, macOS, and WSL.

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SQL

litecli – command-line client for SQLite databases

November 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Database, Documents

litecli is a command-line client for SQLite databases that has auto-completion and syntax highlighting.

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