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sh – shell parser, formatter, and interpreter

November 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

sh is a shell parser, formatter, and interpreter. It supports POSIX Shell, Bash, and mksh. It requires Go 1.24 or later.

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RAW Tools

flix-cli – movie scraper

November 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

flix-cli is billed as a highly efficient, powerful and fast movie scraper.

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WiFi

connex – modern Wi-Fi manager

November 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Internet

connex is a modern Wi-Fi manager designed for Hyprland and Arch Linux, built with GTK3 and NetworkManager.

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Eye Care Software

eyerest – remind your eyes to take a screen break

November 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

eyerest is a Bash script to remind your eyes to have a little break from the screen. Set time interval and notifications via text files.

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Circuit board

swiftfetch – simple system information fetch tool

November 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

swiftfetch is a fast and simple system information fetch tool written in Rust. It displays various system information like OS, CPU, RAM usage

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Wallpaper Setter

randwall – randomly changes the desktop wallpaper

November 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

randwall periodically fetches and sets random wallpapers from Wallhaven’s toplist

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brush – POSIX- and bash compatible shell

November 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

brush (Bo(u)rn(e) RUsty SHell) is a POSIX- and bash-compatible shell, implemented in Rust. It’s built and tested on Linux, macOS, and WSL.

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SQL

litecli – command-line client for SQLite databases

November 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Database, Documents

litecli is a command-line client for SQLite databases that has auto-completion and syntax highlighting.

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CPU

zeptofetch – ultra-minimal system information tool

November 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

zeptofetch delivers system information in under 2ms* with a 28KB binary*. No scripts, no bloat, just pure C doing exactly what you need.

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Selection of utilities

shiny-mirrors – find the best mirrors for Arch-based distros

November 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

shiny-mirrors is an alternative to Manjaro’s pacman-mirrors and Arch’s reflector, written in Rust.

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Software

paclog – Pacman log parser

November 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

paclog is a Pacman log parser written in the Rust language.

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Mixer

pulsemixer – CLI and curses mixer for PulseAudio

November 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, TUI

Pulsemixer is a CLI and curses mixer for PulseAudio that’s a self-sufficient single-file Python app that doesn’t require any extra libraries.

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Selection of utilities

rate-mirrors – client-side map-aware mirror ranking tool

November 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rate-mirrors is a tool, which tests mirror speed for: Arch Linux, ArcoLinux, Artix, BlackArch, CachyOS, EndeavourOS, Manjaro, and others.

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Essential System Utils

mstat – measure memory usage of a program over time

November 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mstat uses the cgroups kernel API (also used by container infrastructure like Docker) to record memory usage of a set of processes over time.

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CCodemerge – merges multiple C/C++ source files into a single text file

November 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

CCodemerge is a command-line utility that merges multiple C/C++ source files into a single text file.

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Selection of utilities

mirro-rs – mirrorlist manager for Arch Linux systems

November 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mirro-rs provides a TUI to help you better visualise managing your mirrorlist.

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Selection of utilities

process-mem – display memory used by processes

November 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

process-mem is a command-line tool to display process(es) memory usage. The utility shows RSS< VNS, SHR, slib, and more.

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Clipboard

Clipvault – clipboard history manager for Wayland

November 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Clipvault is a clipboard history manager for Wayland, inspired by cliphist. It’s written in the Rust language.

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Wi-Fi

iwinfo – provides wifi information about capabilities and network(s)

November 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

iwinfo shows information about existing wireless connections along with the result of an optional scan for wireless devices.

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Selection of utilities

alram – alarm for RAM

November 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Alram is an alarm for RAM. It’s designed to help when available memory is below threshold, with optional task killer.

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