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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: dd

March 31, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to dd, a popular utility to convert and copy a file.

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concurrently lets you run multiple commands concurrently

March 31, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

concurrently is similar to the command npm run watch-js & npm run watch-less but better.

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Password Managers

kpcli – interactive command-line interface for KeePass databases

March 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

kpcli manages KeePass databases through an interactive terminal, with searches, password generation, editing and key-file support.

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Essential-Utilities

entr – Event Notify Test Runner

March 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

entr is a utility that runs arbitrary commands when files change.

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mprocs runs multiple commands in parallel

March 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mprocs runs multiple commands in parallel and shows output of each command separately.

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sesh is a smart terminal session manager

March 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Sesh is a CLI that helps you create and manage tmux sessions quickly and easily using zoxide.

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Terminal Session Recording

ttyd – share a terminal through a web browser

March 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

ttyd exposes terminal programs through a browser with authentication, TLS, file transfer, Sixel graphics and flexible server controls.

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Kondo recursively cleans project directories

March 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Programming

Kondo recursively cleans project directories. Supported project types include Cargo, Node, Unity, SBT, Haskell Stack, Maven, Unreal Engine, and more.

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Log Analyzers

humanlog is a pretty log viewer

March 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

humanlog reads logs from stdin and prints them back to stdout, but prettier.

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JSON Tools

jnv navigates JSON offering a viewer and filter editor

March 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

jnv is designed for navigating JSON, offering an interactive JSON viewer and jq filter editor.

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Selection of utilities

gowatch builds and restarts go projects

March 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gowatch is a command line tool that builds and (re)starts your go project every time you save a Go or template file.

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Selection of utilities

air is a live-reloading utility for developing Go applications

March 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Run air in your project root directory, leave it alone, and focus on your code.

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Cloud storage

PAR Scrape is a web scraping tool

March 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

PAR Scrape is a versatile web scraping tool with options for Selenium or Playwright, featuring AI-powered data extraction and formatting.

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Documentation

w2vgrep is a semantic grep tool

March 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

w2vgrep is a command-line tool that performs semantic searches on text input using word embeddings.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: find

March 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to find.

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Password Managers

gopass – password manager for individuals and teams

March 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gopass manages encrypted password stores with Git synchronisation, team sharing, multiple vaults and terminal-friendly secret retrieval.

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Password Managers

keydex is a terminal based password manager for KeePass databases

March 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

keydex is a command line utility to manage KeePass databases. It comes with subcommands for managing the entries.

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Font Tools

cfonts – command line tool for sexy ANSI fonts in the console

March 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cfonts is a little command line tool for sexy ANSI fonts in the console.

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DABlin – DAB/DAB+ receiver

March 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Multimedia

DABlin is a Linux DAB and DAB+ receiver for live transmissions and stored ensembles, with CLI and GTK interfaces and broadcast data support.

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Monitoring

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: tail

March 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to the command-line tail utility.

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