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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 – terminal password manager for KeePass databases

March 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

keydex manages KeePass databases from the terminal with entry browsing, field copying, a built-in editor and shell pipeline integration.

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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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Documents

zchunk – compressed file format

March 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

zchunk is a file format designed for highly efficient deltas while maintaining good compression.

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Log Analyzers

Logdy – real-time log viewer with a web interface

March 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software, Web Apps

Logdy provides real-time log viewing in a local web interface, with live filtering, custom parsers, sockets and command output support.

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Chemistry

element – periodic table on the command line

March 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

element shows the periodic table and more on the command line.

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Automation

wtype – xdotool type for Wayland

March 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

wtype is a Wayland tool that allows you to simulate keyboard input like xdotool type for X11.

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Backup software

Konsave – save and apply KDE Plasma customizations

March 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Konsave is a CLI program that will let you save and apply your Linux customizations with a single command.

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Selection of utilities

Ucto – advanced rule-based unicode-aware tokenizer

March 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Ucto tokenizes text files: it separates words from punctuation, and splits sentences. It offers several other basic preprocessing steps.

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System administration

pdnsd – DNS server

March 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

pdnsd is a DNS server designed for local caching of DNS information.

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System administration

Hickory – Rust-based DNS client, server and resolver

March 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Hickory is a Rust based DNS client, server, and resolver, built to be safe and secure from the ground up.

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Clipboard

Clipboard Sync – synchronization tool for X11 and Wayland instances

March 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Clipboard Sync is a utility that synchronizes the clipboard across multiple X11 and Wayland instances running on the same machine.

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3D Printer

SuperSlicer – G-code generator for 3D printers

March 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

SuperSlicer takes 3D models (STL, OBJ, AMF) and converts them into G-code instructions for FFF printers or PNG layers for mSLA 3D printers.

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System administration

FDNS – encrypted DNS proxy

March 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

FDNS is an encrypted DNS proxy designed for small networks and Linux desktops.

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Email

mu – maildir indexer and searcher

March 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

mu is a tool for dealing with e-mail messages stored in the Maildir-format.

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Linux Candy: wallust – create 16 color palettes

March 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews, Utilities

wallust is a command-line program that generates a color palette from the dominant colors in an image.

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3D Printer

Printrun – suite of hosts for 3D printers and other CNC machines

March 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

Printrun consists of a suite of hosts for 3D printers and other CNC machines and a small collection of scripts.

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