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Category: CLI

Reference Managers

coBib – console bibliography

November 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

coBib is a simple, console-based bibliography management tool.

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Reference Managers

bibman – CLI/TUI bibliography manager

October 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Education, GUI

bibman is a CLI/TUI bibliography manager. It does not use a database but stores every bibliographic entry as a separate text file.

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sshtool – simple interactive SSH session manager

October 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

sshtool is a simple interactive SSH session manager with encrypted configuration storage using GPG.

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Selection of utilities

mtr085 – full screen ncurses traceroute tool

October 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mtr combines the functionality of the traceroute and ping programs in a single network diagnostic tool.

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Reference Managers

Xapers – personal journal article management system

October 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Education, TUI

Xapers is a personal document indexing system, geared towards academic journal articles. It’s written in Python.

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luha – simple file checksum tool

October 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

luha is a simple file checksum command-line interface tool.

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lunas – syncing cli tool

October 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lunas is a syncing cli tool that can handle more than two directories locally and remotely.

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Documents

lv – directory listing and counting tool

October 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

iv is a directory listing and counting tool written in C++.

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Mangal – CLI manga downloader

October 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Other

Mangal is billed as an advanced CLI manga downloader.

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Learning with Linux

9 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Flashcard Tools

October 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Education, Roundup, TUI

This roundup focuses on the finest terminal-based flashcard tools.

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Compression

19 Best Free and Open Source Linux Compression Tools

October 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

To provide an insight into the quality of software available for Linux, we have compiled a list of 19 useful free compression tools.

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sshmate – simplify interactions with SSH servers

October 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

sshmate is a tool to simplify interactions with SSH servers, offering an easy way to connect to servers by assigning a name to an address.

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Files

Jimmy – convert your notes to Markdown

October 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, TUI

Jimmy is a tool to convert your notes from different formats to Markdown. It has both a CLI and TUI.

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fortbite – command-line calculator

October 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

fortbite is a command-line calculator written in Fortran that handles arbitrary precision arithmetic, complex numbers, and matrices.

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System administration

dyndnsc – dynamic dns update client

October 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

dyndnsc is a command line client for sending updates to dynamic dns (ddns, dyndns) services.

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Password manager

16 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Password Managers

October 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, TUI, Utilities

A password manager is a utility which helps users store and retrieve passwords and other data. Here’s our open source recommendations.

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Rate My OpenAPI – improve the quality of your OpenAPI specifications

October 16, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Rate My OpenAPI is a suite of tools designed to help software developers who are using OpenAPI to design and implement their APIs.

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Comic Books

mandown – comic downloader

October 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Other

Mandown is a comic downloader and a CBZ, EPUB, MOBI, and/or PDF converter.

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kotatsu-dl – cli manga downloader

October 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Other

kotatsu-dl is an easy-to-use cross-platform manga downloader with a lot of manga sources supported.

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oval – CLI for (O)penAPI Specification document (val)idation

October 15, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

oval is an OpenAPI Specification (OAS) document validator that was built to replace the CLI provided by swagger-tools.

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