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Category: CLI

Selection of utilities

xuniq – line deduplicator

April 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

xuniq is a high-performance and stable line deduplicator. Unlike the standard uniq utility, xuniq does not require your input to be sorted.

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Vulnerability Detection

unblob – extraction suite for working with unknown binary blobs

April 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

unblob is an extraction suite for working with unknown binary blobs.

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Selection of utilities

hashdeep – generate and verify file hashes

April 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

hashdeep is a command line tool for generating and verifying file hashes across large collections of files.

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Anti-Malware Tools

FLOSS – malware analysis utility

April 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

FLOSS is a malware analysis utility that automatically extracts and deobfuscates strings from executable binaries.

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Documentation

capa – command line malware analysis tool

April 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

capa examines executable files and related analysis reports to identify behaviors such as persistence, command execution, file system access.

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Selection of utilities

cksfv.rs – reimplements the classic cksfv tool

April 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cksfv.rs is a command-line utility written in Rust that reimplements the classic cksfv tool for working with SFV checksum files.

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Security

Plaso – Python-based digital forensics framework

April 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Plaso is a Python-based digital forensics framework that builds timelines from timestamped events.

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Command Schedulers

9 Useful Free and Open Source systemd CLI/TUI Configuration Tools

April 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, System Software, TUI

systemd is a Linux init system and system manager that’s used by most modern Linux distributions. We pick some useful CLI and TUI tools.

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Encrypted Files

SOPS – editor of encrypted files

April 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

SOPS is a command-line utility for managing secrets inside configuration files and other documents.

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Selection of utilities

cksfv – create and check sfv listings using CRC32 checksums

April 22, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cksfv is a command-line utility for creating and checking Simple File Verification (.sfv) listings using CRC32 checksums.

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Monitoring

Poltergeist – universal hot-reload and file-watching tool

April 22, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Poltergeist is a universal hot-reload and file-watching tool that automatically rebuilds projects when files change.

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Chemistry

Periodic Table Tools: 7 Best Free and Open Source Linux Tools

April 22, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Roundup, Scientific

The periodic table, also known as the periodic table of the elements, is a rows and columns arrangement of the chemical elements.

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Encryption

enc – command-line encryption tool

April 22, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

enc is a command-line encryption tool designed as a modern, approachable alternative to GnuPG.

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Encrypted Files

Sequoia – comprehensive OpenPGP implementation

April 22, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Sequoia is a comprehensive OpenPGP implementation written in Rust.

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Monitoring

watch – small command-line utility written in C

April 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

watch is a small command-line utility written in C that periodically runs a shell command at a user-defined interval.

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Monitoring

fswatch – reports changes to files and directories

April 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fswatch is a cross-platform command-line utility and frontend to libfswatch that reports changes to files and directories as they happen.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cat

April 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

cat derives its name from concatenation and provides other nifty options too. This article spotlights alternative tools to cat.

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Selection of utilities

chmod-cli – generate chmod commands

April 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

chmod-cli makes it easier to build chmod commands without having to remember octal values or symbolic permission syntax.

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Network

16 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Gemini Clients

April 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Roundup, TUI

Here’s our verdict captured in a legendary LinuxLinks-style ratings chart. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion.

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Benchmarking

vkmark – Vulkan benchmarking suite

April 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

vkmark is a Vulkan benchmarking suite built around targeted, configurable scenes to measure different aspects of Vulkan performance.

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