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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: sudo

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to sudo, a command which lets you execute a command as another user.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: ping

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to ping. All software featured here is free and open source goodness.

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System administration

syca – minimal sudo-like privilege elevation tool

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

syca is a minimal sudo-like privilege elevation tool for Linux with PAM authentication and system-wide secure password caching.

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Compression

ripunzip – unzip an archive in parallel

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

This is a Rust library (and command-line tool) which uses the power of Rust’s rayon library to unzip a zip file in parallel.

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Archive Manager

dtrx – intelligent archive extraction tool

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dtrx cleanly extract many archive types.

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Fernflower – decompiler from Java bytecode to Java

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Fernflower is a decompiler from Java bytecode to Java.

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Files

treemd – modern Markdown viewer

December 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, TUI

treemd is a modern markdown viewer combining tree-based navigation with interactive TUI. It’s like tree but interactive.

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hcxdumptool – capture packets from wlan devices

December 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

hcxdumptool captures packets from WLAN devices and to discover potential weak points within own WiFi networks.

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Monitor System

ibtop – real-time terminal monitor

December 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ibtop is a real-time terminal monitor for InfiniBand networks – htop for high-speed interconnects.

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Selection of utilities

Pyprland – customization tool for Hyprland

December 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Pyprland offers a plethora of plugins designed for simplicity and efficiency, allowing you to supercharge your productivity

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Network

turm – interface for the Slurm Workload Manager

December 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

turm is a text-based user interface (TUI) for the Slurm Workload Manager, which provides a convenient way to manage your cluster jobs.

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SQL

squawk – linter for Postgres migrations & SQL

December 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI

squawk aims to prevent unexpected downtime caused by database migrations and encourage best practices around Postgres schemas and SQL.

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clrsync – color scheme manager

December 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, GUI

clrsync allows to define color palettes once and apply them consistently to all configurable applications.

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Machine Learning in Linux

Toad – unified interface for AI

December 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific, TUI

Toad is a unified interface for AI in your terminal. Run coding agents seamlessly under a single beautiful terminal UI.

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Documents

16 Best Free and Open Source Replacements for ls

December 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

When invoked without any arguments, ls lists the files in the current working directory. We recommend some great replacements.

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Documents

lla – fast ls replacement with superpowers

December 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lla is a modern ls replacement that transforms how developers interact with their filesystem.

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Mago – extremely fast PHP linter, formatter, and static analyzer

December 26, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Mago is a comprehensive toolchain for PHP that helps developers write better code. Inspired by the Rust ecosystem.

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Coding

Konsist – static code analyzer tailored for Kotlin

December 25, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Konsist is a linter that guards the consistency of Kotlin projects by enforcing a cohesive code structure and unified architecture.

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SQL

Blip – MySQL monitor

December 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Database, Documents

Blip is a MySQL monitor: it collects and reports metrics from MySQL to monitoring platforms like Datadog.

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Coding

sticks – modern, lightweight CLI tool for managing C and C++ projects

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

sticks is published under the MIT license.

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