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Category: CLI

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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Find

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 – rule-based Unicode text tokenizer

March 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Ucto splits multilingual text into tokens and sentences, handles punctuation and normalisation, and supports FoLiA annotated output.

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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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