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Git Clients

mergiraf – git merge driver

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Mergiraf can solve a wide range of Git merge conflicts. That’s because it’s aware of the trees in your files!

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Anti-Malware Tools

YARA-X – re-incarnation of YARA

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

YARA-X is a re-incarnation of YARA, a pattern matching tool designed with malware researchers in mind.

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Clipboard

cclip – clipboard manager for Wayland

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cclip is a clipboard manager for Wayland that consists of two tools

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CDROM

Rip Rip Hooray! – specialized audio CD-ripper

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

Rip Rip Hooray! is a specialized audio CD-ripper optimized for track recovery.

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Kanha – web-app pentesting suite

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

With kanha you can do Fuzzing, Reverse dns lookup, common http response, subdomain takeover detection and many more.

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Soundboardd – small local soundboard daemon

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

Soundboardd is a small local soundboard daemon that preloads audio files from a configuration file and plays them on request.

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Stopwatch

tmpo – minimal CLI time tracker for developers

February 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

tmpo is a lightweight, developer-friendly time tracking tool designed to integrate seamlessly with your terminal workflow.

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Linux Candy: Lolcat++ is a rewrite of the popular LOLCAT

February 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

Lolcat++ is a rewrite of lolcat. The original is written in Ruby, whereas this rewrite is coded in the C++ language.

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Find Duplicates

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: grep

February 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to grep, a utility that searches for patterns in each file.

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Find Duplicates

krep – optimized string search utility

February 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

krep is an optimized string search utility designed for maximum throughput and efficiency when processing large files and directories.

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Calendar

13 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Calendar Tools

February 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Roundup

Here’s our verdict on the finest free and open source terminal-based calendar software.

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Selection of utilities

hapless – run and manage background processes

February 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

hapless is a small utility that lets you easily run and manage background processes.

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Security

PRS – web security scanner

February 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

PRS is a CLI-based scanner focused on safe assessment of web targets.

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typos – source code spell checker

February 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

typos finds and corrects spelling mistakes among source code: Fast enough to run on monorepos. Low false positives so you can run on PRs.

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Selection of utilities

rgrc – Rusty Generic Colouriser

February 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rgrc is a fast,Rust-based command-line tool that colorizes the output of other commands using regex-based rules.

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stardial – space-anime themed terminal clock

February 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

stardial is a space-anime themed terminal clock, with starfield backgrounds, themes, and gentle effects.

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process

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: ps

February 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software

We explore free and open source alternatives to ps, a command that reports a snapshot of the current processes.

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Encrypted Files

rsecure – AES-GCM file encryption and decryption tool

February 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

rsecure is a command-line tool for AES-GCM file encryption and decryption. Aimed at protecting sensitive files, backups, and personal data.

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lule – ANSI color generator

February 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

lule is a command line tool to set 255 colors on tty’s and other places that use ANSI colors.

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Network

xfr – modern iperf3 alternative

February 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, TUI

xfr is a modern iperf3 alternative with a live TUI, multi-client server, and QUIC support.

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