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Diff Tools

diffsitter – semantic diff tool

May 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

diffsitter is a semantic diff tool for source code

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Password manager

pasejo – command line password manager

May 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pasejo is a password manager that’s a reimplementation of passage designed for teams.

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Password manager

Steelsafe – TUI password manager

May 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

SteelSafe is a small personal password manager for the terminal.

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Password manager

seniorpw – password manager using age

May 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

seniorpw is a command-line password manager that uses age as its encryption backend and is inspired by pass.

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Password manager

cruxpass – minimal CLI password manager

May 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

cruxpass is designed to stay simple and dependency-light using SQLCipher for encrypted database storage and libsodium for cryptography.

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Wallpaper Setter

Wewa – renders web content as desktop wallpaper

May 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Wewa is a cross-platform command line tool written in Rust that renders web content as desktop wallpaper.

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Password manager

pago – command-line password manager

May 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pago is a Go-based command-line password manager for Linux and other Unix-like systems.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cksum

May 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to cksum, a tool to compute and verify file checksums.

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Selection of utilities

steamfetch – display your Steam stats

May 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

steamfetch is a terminal utility inspired by neofetch that presents Steam profile and library statistics in a styled command-line display.

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Albania

20 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Image Viewers

May 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Roundup

Want to view 24-bit high definition images in your terminal? We recommend our favourite terminal-based image viewers.

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Radio

Software-Defined Radio: 20 Best Free Tools for Linux

May 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Multimedia, Roundup

This roundup looks at the finest software-defined radio tools for Linux including apps that let you listen to DAB and DAB+ broadcasts.

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Diff Tools

RCompare – file and directory comparison toolkit

May 5, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

RCompare is a file and directory comparison toolkit written in Rust.

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Selection of utilities

FilesFinder – search for files within a given repository

May 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

FilesFinder is a command-line utility that searches for files within a repository while respecting ignore rules.

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Selection of utilities

pff – Pretty Fast Find

May 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Pretty Fast Find (pff) is a command-line file search utility written in Rust.

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Hellwal – fast and extensible color palette generator

May 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

Hellwal is designed to create terminal and desktop color schemes from wallpaper images or predefined theme files.

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Log Analyzers

tailspin – terminal log file highlighter

May 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software, Utilities

tailspin is a terminal log file highlighter designed for inspecting log output in the shell.

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Log Analyzers

Nerdlog – remote-first terminal log viewer

May 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software, Utilities

Nerdlog is a remote-first terminal log viewer designed to help you inspect logs from one or more machines through a single interface.

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Log Analyzers

hl – command-line tool for inspecting structured logs

May 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software, Utilities

hl is designed for fast analysis of large log files and streams, helping users search, sort, and navigate log output.

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Terminal Session Recording

20 Best Free and Open Source Terminal Session Recording

May 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Roundup

Console screencast software (also known as terminal recorder) lets you capture your terminal. Here’s our verdict.

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multimon-ng – decoder for a broad range of digital transmission modes

May 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

multimon-ng is a command-line decoder for a broad range of digital transmission modes used in radio and signalling workflows.

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