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Diff Tools

semdiff – semantic diff tool

May 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

semdiff is a semantic diff tool written in Rust for comparing files and directories.

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Diff Tools

xmldiff – compare XML documents

May 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

xmldiff is a Python library and command-line utility for comparing XML documents structurally instead of line by line.

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Password manager

privage – terminal-based password manager

May 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

privage is a terminal-based password manager and general file encryption tool that uses age to protect credentials and other secret files.

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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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