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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 – FTP and FTPS client library for Rust

April 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

SuppaFTP is a Rust FTP and FTPS client library with sync and async APIs, active and passive modes, TLS backends and a built-in CLI.

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FTP Client

atftp – advanced TFTP client and server

April 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

atftp provides TFTP client and server tools with multicast, PXE support, RFC option extensions, readline and a multithreaded server.

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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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Screen Capture

slop queries for a selection from the user and prints the region to stdout

April 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

slop (Select Operation) is an application that queries for a selection from the user and prints the region to stdout.

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Screen Capture

grim – screenshot utility for Wayland

April 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

grim is a command-line utility to take screenshots of Wayland desktops. It currently needs support for the screencopy protocol to work.

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Password Managers

Bitwarden CLI – access and manage your vault

April 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

The Bitwarden command-line interface (CLI) is a powerful, fully-featured tool for accessing and managing your vault.

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Data Science

Quarto is a scientific and technical publishing system

April 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

Quarto is a scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc.

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Best Free and Open Source Python Data Analysis

Datasette is a tool for exploring and publishing data

April 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

Datasette is a tool for exploring and publishing data. It helps people take data of any shape, analyze and explore it, and publish it

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Linux Candy: Meme is a fun tool to create memes

April 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Other, Reviews

Meme is a command line utility for creating image macro style memes. It’s free and open source software.

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