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Password manager

16 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Password Managers

October 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, TUI, Utilities

A password manager is a utility which helps users store and retrieve passwords and other data. Here’s our open source recommendations.

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Rate My OpenAPI – improve the quality of your OpenAPI specifications

October 16, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Rate My OpenAPI is a suite of tools designed to help software developers who are using OpenAPI to design and implement their APIs.

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Comic Books

mandown – comic downloader

October 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Other

Mandown is a comic downloader and a CBZ, EPUB, MOBI, and/or PDF converter.

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kotatsu-dl – cli manga downloader

October 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Other

kotatsu-dl is an easy-to-use cross-platform manga downloader with a lot of manga sources supported.

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oval – CLI for (O)penAPI Specification document (val)idation

October 15, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

oval is an OpenAPI Specification (OAS) document validator that was built to replace the CLI provided by swagger-tools.

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Albania

15 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Image Viewers

October 15, 2025 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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mloader – download manga from mangaplus

October 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Other

mloader is a command-line utility that lets you download manga from mangplus.

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OpenAPI Spec validator – validates OpenAPI Specs

October 14, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

OpenAPI Spec Validator is a CLI, pre-commit hook and python package that validates OpenAPI Specs against the OpenAPI 2.0 (aka Swagger), OpenAPI 3.0 and OpenAPI 3.1 specification.

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Network

wol.rs – Wake On LAN library and command line tool

October 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

wol.rs is a Wake On LAN magic packet command line tool and crate.

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Git Clients

Jig – Git pre-commit hook on steroids

October 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Jig is a command line tool and framework for getting more from the Git pre-commit hook.

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SSD

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: df

October 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to df, a utility that reports file system space usage in Linux and other UNIX operating systems.

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Radio

Software-Defined Radio: 10 Best Free Tools for Linux

October 14, 2025 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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SSD

colordf – colored and configurable version of df

October 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

colordf is a colored and configurable version of df, forked from cdf.

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OAS-Kit – convert Swagger 2.0 definitions to OpenAPI 3.0

October 13, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

OAS-Kit converts Swagger 2.0 definitions to OpenAPI 3.0 and resolve/validate/lint.

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ldf – report filesystem space info of devices

October 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ldf reports filesystem space info of devices and RAM/swap usage.

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SSD

rust-df – simple df like utility in Rust

October 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rust-df (rdf) is a very simple tool that displays output like the df utility, but it’s written in the Rust language.

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di – disk information tool

October 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

di is a disk information utility, displaying everything (and more) that your df command does.

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Git Clients

hk – git hook manager and project linting tool

October 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

hk is a git hook manager and project linting tool with an emphasis on performance.

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MangaSharp – CLI manga downloader and reader

October 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Other

MangaSharp is a CLI that supports downloading manga and other comics from a variety of sites.

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ebook reader

3 Free and Open Source CLI ebook Readers

October 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, Productivity, Roundup, Software

This article showcases CLI ebook readers for Linux. We only feature free and open source software here.

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