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Category: CLI

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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Task Manager

yatto – interactive VCS-based todo-list

December 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI

yatto is a Git-backed terminal task manager with full history, sync, and collaboration built in.

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Find Duplicates

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: grep

December 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to grep, a utility that searches for patterns in each file.

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google-java-format – reformats Java source code

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

google-java-format is a program that reformats Java source code to comply with Google Java Style.

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Regal – linter, debugger and language server for Rego

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Regal is a linter, debugger and language server for Rego, making your Rego magnificent, and you the ruler of rules!

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detekt – static code analysis for Kotlin

December 28, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

detekt helps you write cleaner Kotlin code so you can focus on what matters

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Selection of utilities

ufo – universal file opener

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ufo is a universal file opener, an alternative instrument for opening files from a command line.

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Administrators in action

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: sudo

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to sudo, a command which lets you execute a command as another user.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: ping

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to ping. All software featured here is free and open source goodness.

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System administration

syca – minimal sudo-like privilege elevation tool

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

syca is a minimal sudo-like privilege elevation tool for Linux with PAM authentication and system-wide secure password caching.

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Compression

ripunzip – unzip an archive in parallel

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

This is a Rust library (and command-line tool) which uses the power of Rust’s rayon library to unzip a zip file in parallel.

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Archive Manager

dtrx – intelligent archive extraction tool

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dtrx cleanly extract many archive types.

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Fernflower – decompiler from Java bytecode to Java

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Fernflower is a decompiler from Java bytecode to Java.

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Files

treemd – modern Markdown viewer

December 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, TUI

treemd is a modern markdown viewer combining tree-based navigation with interactive TUI. It’s like tree but interactive.

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hcxdumptool – capture packets from wlan devices

December 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

hcxdumptool captures packets from WLAN devices and to discover potential weak points within own WiFi networks.

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Monitor System

ibtop – real-time terminal monitor

December 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ibtop is a real-time terminal monitor for InfiniBand networks – htop for high-speed interconnects.

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