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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 – 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 – Bitwarden command-line client with background agent

April 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rbw is a Rust Bitwarden client that uses a background agent to unlock vaults, retrieve passwords, synchronise data and serve SSH keys.

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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 – command-line screenshots for Wayland desktops

April 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

grim captures Wayland desktops, outputs and regions to PNG, JPEG or PPM, with controllable scaling, compression and standard output.

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Password Managers

Bitwarden CLI – manage your password vault from the terminal

April 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Bitwarden CLI accesses password vaults from the terminal, supporting item management, vault synchronisation, TOTP and scripted workflows.

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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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