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Category: CLI

Task Manager

13 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Task Managers

November 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Roundup, TUI

A task manager is software which enables users to compile a list of tasks to be completed. This list is also known as a to-do list.

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liz-desktop – Rust-based shortcut helper

November 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

liz-desktop is a Rust-based shortcut helper to remember, customize and autorun shortcuts or commands. Developed via Tauri 2.0.

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SSD

22 Best Free and Open Source Replacements for du

November 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

du is a standard program used to estimate file space usage—space used under a particular directory or files on a file system. We recommend alternative commands to du.

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IsMyArchFree – identify licenses

November 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

IsMyArchFree is a simple program that analyzes pacman-installed packages’ licenses and flags them as free, permissive, …

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Calendar

Calcol – wrapper to colorize cal

November 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

Calcol is a wrapper around the cal command from util-linux that allows you to display a colorized calendar.

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folsy – folder synchronization script

November 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

folsy is simple shell script which performs a job similar to other (folder) synchronization tools, but with nearly no resource consumption

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Linux Candy: shuffle – ASCII art with a cool shuffle effect

November 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

The shuffle command prints an ASCII art picture with a cool shuffle effect.

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Archive Manager

8 Best Free and Open Source Linux Terminal-Based Archive Managers

November 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

Useful terminal-based archive managers.

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FTP Client

lssh – list-based ssh, scp, sftp client

November 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

This CLI utility can read a prepared list in advance and connect ssh/scp/sftp the selected host.

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Fractals

FLAM3 – cosmic recursive fractal flames

November 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

FLAM3 is an original fractal flame renderer and genetic language.

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