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Category: CLI

Monitoring

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: tail

March 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to the command-line tail utility.

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Documents

zchunk – compressed file format

March 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

zchunk is a file format designed for highly efficient deltas while maintaining good compression.

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Chemistry

element – periodic table on the command line

March 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

element shows the periodic table and more on the command line.

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10 Best Free and Open Source Snippet Tools

March 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, Roundup, Utilities

A snippet tool is utility software that can boost your productivity. They are especially useful to save complex commands

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Automation

wtype – xdotool type for Wayland

March 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

wtype is a Wayland tool that allows you to simulate keyboard input like xdotool type for X11.

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Konsave – save and apply KDE Plasma customizations

March 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Konsave is a CLI program that will let you save and apply your Linux customizations with a single command.

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Selection of utilities

Ucto – advanced rule-based unicode-aware tokenizer

March 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Ucto tokenizes text files: it separates words from punctuation, and splits sentences. It offers several other basic preprocessing steps.

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System administration

pdnsd – DNS server

March 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

pdnsd is a DNS server designed for local caching of DNS information.

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System administration

Hickory – Rust-based DNS client, server and resolver

March 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Hickory is a Rust based DNS client, server, and resolver, built to be safe and secure from the ground up.

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Clipboard

Clipboard Sync – synchronization tool for X11 and Wayland instances

March 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Clipboard Sync is a utility that synchronizes the clipboard across multiple X11 and Wayland instances running on the same machine.

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