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whalespotter finds big files and directories

April 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

whalespotter is a convenient TUI application to quickly locate large files and folders. It’s written in Rust.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: doge – simple motd script

April 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Other, Reviews

doge is a simple motd (message of the day) script based on the slightly stupid but very funny doge meme.

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Backup

Wrestic is a Restic wrapper built in Rust

April 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Wrestic is a backup tool that provides a wrapper around Restic, a popular backup program.

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Password Managers

passfzf is a simple fzf wrapper for pass

April 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

passfzf is a simple fzf wrapper for pass (the UNIX password-store).

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fastmod – fast partial replacement for codemod

April 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

fastmod is a tool to assist you with large-scale codebase refactors that can be partially automated but still require human oversight

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Backup software

stack-back – automated incremental backups using restic

April 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

stack-back provides automated incremental backups using restic for any docker-compose setup.

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Find Duplicates

grex generates regular expressions from user-provided test cases

April 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

grex is a library and a command-line utility to simplify the often complicated and tedious task of creating regular expressions.

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System administration

frei is a modern replacement for the free command

April 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

frei (FREe Improved) is a modern replacement for the free command written in Go.

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Backup

Restic Robot – wrapper for Restic

April 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Restic Robot is a small and simple wrapper application for Restic that provides scheduled backps, Prometheus metrics and more.

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Backup software

runrestic is a wrapper script for restic

April 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

runrestic is a simple Python wrapper script for the Restic backup software that initiates, creates, prunes and validates backups.

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FTP Client

SuppaFTP is an FTP/FTPS client library for Rust

April 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

SuppaFTP is an FTP/FTPS client library for Rust with support for both passive and active mode. It also has a built-in CLI FTP client.

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FTP Client

atftp is a client/server implementation of the TFTP protocol

April 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

atftp is a client/server implementation of the TFTP protocol that implements RFCs 1350, 2090, 2347, 2348, 2349 and 7440.

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Generate memes

memethesis-cli creates memes from the terminal

April 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Other

memethesis-cli creates memes from the terminal. This utility is written in Python.

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Backup software

resticprofile is a configuration profiles manager and scheduler

April 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

resticprofile is a configuration profiles manager and scheduler for restic. It’s the missing link between a configuration file and restic.

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Annotation tool

swappy is a Wayland native snapshot editing tool

April 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

swappy is a Wayland native snapshot and editor tool, inspired by Snappy on macOS.

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Password Managers

rbw is an unofficial Bitwarden CLI

April 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rbw is an unofficial Bitwarden client which maintains a background process which is able to hold keys in memory.

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Screen Capture

ImageMagick – create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images

April 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. All manipulations can be achieved through shell commands.

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Generate memes

memegen generates memes from the command line

April 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Other

memegen is a POSIX script to generate memes from the command line. It’s written in Shell and published under the GPL.

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Password Managers

Teller is a multi provider secret management tool

April 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

With Teller, never leave your terminal to use secrets while developing, testing, and building your apps.

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Backup

Crestic is a configurable restic wrapper

April 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Crestic is a slim configuration wrapper for Restic, an awesome backup tool.

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