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mnamer – media renamer

January 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

mnamer (media renamer) is an intelligent and highly configurable media organization utility. It’s written in Python.

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Moonbit – modern system cleaner

January 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

Moonbit is a modern system cleaner built in Go with a TUI and CLI.

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unmake – makefile linter

January 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

unmake is a makefile linter emphasizing portability. It targets the POSIX make standard. It’s written in Rust.

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DotState – dotfile manager

January 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

DotState is a terminal-based tool that helps you manage your dotfiles effortlessly.

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sif – pentesting (recon/exploitation) suite

January 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

sif is designed to be fast, concurrent, and extensible. Run multiple scan types against targets with a single command.

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BCMR – Better Copy Move Remove

January 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

BCMR is a command-line tool written in Rust that lets you elegantly copy, move, and remove files.

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goradion – command line radio player

January 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Reviews, TUI

goradion is a TUI internet radio player for Linux. It uses mpv as its playback engine.

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huey – task queue for Python

January 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

huey is a task queue written in Python. It offers a clean and simple API.

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catnap – customizable systemfetch

January 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Catnap (originally known as Catnip) is a playful, simple system-information concatenation tool using Nim.

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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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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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