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lsr – recursively list files in directories

July 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lsr lists directory contents, but with io_uring, a Linux kernel system call interface for storage device asynchronous I/O operations

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opencu – minimalistic serial terminal emulator

July 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

opencu is serial terminal emulator. It’s a port of OpenBSD’s serial terminal emulator cu to Linux.

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Chess

minnow – simple and fairly weak chess engine

July 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

minnow is a chess engine with partial UCI compatibility, a 10×12 board representation with piece lists.

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Chess

Texel is a free chess engine

July 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Texel applies many of the standard methods for computer chess programs, such as iterative deepening, negascout, aspiration windows…

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ttysterm is a simple serial terminal

July 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ttysterm is a minimalist terminal program like *minicom* or *cu*.

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QCalcFileHash – hash calculator

July 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Security

QCalcFileHash is a calculator hash: SHA1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, MD5, CRC32, CRC8, and others.

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Network Security

md5 – generate / check MD5 message digest

July 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

md5 is a command line utility which generates and verifies message digests (digital signatures) using the MD5 algorithm.

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ssterm – console-based serial port terminal

July 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ssterm is a simple console-based serial port terminal featuring painless serial port configuration.

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CiteBib – generate a Bibtex or LaTeX bibliography

July 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Education

CiteBib generates a nice Bibtex or Latex bibliography according to the document content.

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Network Security

dano – hashdeep/md5tree for media files

July 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

dano is a CLI tool for generating checksums of media bitstreams.

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