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Category: CLI

Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

SoS – data collection tool

January 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

SoS is an extensible, portable, support data collection tool primarily aimed at Linux distributions and other UNIX-like operating systems.

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cpx – CLI for C++ that unifies the fragmented C++ ecosystem

January 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

cpx provides a cohesive, Cargo-like experience for managing projects, dependencies, and builds, regardless of your underlying build system.

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process

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: stow

January 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

Stow is a symlink farm manager which takes distinct sets of software and/or data located in separate directories on the filesystem.

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Git Clients

Garden – command runner and multi-repo Git configuration tool

January 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Garden helps you create development workflows over collections of self-contained, loosely-coupled and inter-dependent Git worktrees.

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Metetch – system information display utility

January 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Metetch is a fast system information tool with a minimal aesthetic inspired by KDE Plasma and Wayland.

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FTP Client

FTPGrab – grah files from FTP or SFTP servers

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

FTPGrab is a CLI application written in Go and delivered as a single executable (and a Docker image) to grab your files from a remote FTP or SFTP server to your NAS, server or computer. With Go, this can be

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Find Duplicates

mmry – local-first memory system for humans and AI agents

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

mmry is a local-first memory system. Store any text and find it again with multiple search strategies, pipe it anywhere with JSON.

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Clipboard

nocb – nearly optimal clipboard manager

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

nocb describes itself as a nearly optimal clipboard manager – fast, compressed, hash-based storage.

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Backup software

mackup – keeps application settings in sync

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mackup is a tool for backup and keeping your application settings in sync.

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Wallpaper Setter

gSlapper – wallpaper utility

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gSlapper is a wallpaper utility for Wayland that combines the best of swww and mpvpaper by allowing both static and video wallpapers.

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Selection of utilities

orphanhunter – identify and remove orphaned packages

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

OrphanHunter is a lightweight utility for Arch Linux designed to identify and remove orphaned packages and files that clutter your system

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Command Schedulers

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cron

December 31, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to cron, a daemon to execute scheduled commands.

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Stormfetch – system profiler

December 31, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Stormfetch is a program that can read your system’s information and display it in the terminal along with the ASCII art of the Linux distro.

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ruri – calculates the CRC-32 of a file

December 31, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

ruri calculates the CRC-32 of a file and checks it against the filename.

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Best Free and Open Source Documentation Generators

tbls – CI-friendly tool to document a database

December 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Database

tbls (pronounced /ˈteɪbl̩z/) is a CI-Friendly tool to document a database.

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try-rs – Rust-based workspace manager

December 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, TUI

try-rs is a CLI tool designed to manage the chaos of projects. It’s a temporary workspace manager for fast experimentation in the terminal.

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Monitoring

Watchman – file watching service

December 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Watchman watches files and record when they change. It can also trigger actions (such as rebuilding assets) when matching files change.

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Selection of utilities

fileformat – tool for recognizing file formats

December 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fileformat is a tool for detecting and identifying file formats.

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subfinder – subdomain discovery tool

December 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Subfinder is a subdomain discovery tool that discovers subdomains for websites by using passive online sources.

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Network

snitch – friendlier ss / netstat tool

December 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security, TUI

snitch is a friendlier ss / netstat for humans. It lets you inspect network connections with a clean TUI or styled tables.

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