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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 – multi-provider secrets manager for developers

April 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Teller unifies access to secrets from cloud vaults and local files, with command injection, secret scanning, redaction and provider sync.

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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 – interactive screen region and window selector

April 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

slop selects X11 screen regions or windows and returns their coordinates for screenshot scripts, screen recording, and other workflows.

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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 – scientific and technical publishing system

April 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

Quarto publishes reproducible technical documents, books and presentations from Markdown and notebooks, with code execution and citations

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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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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

mise manages installations of programming language runtimes

April 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mise is a tool that manages installations of programming language runtimes and other tools for local development.

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