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Category: Utilities

Selection of utilities

fdf – high performance command line file finder

May 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fdf is a high performance command line file finder written in Rust.

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Diff Tools

VBinDiff – visual binary diff

May 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

VBinDiff is a text-based visual binary diff and hexadecimal file viewer that displays file contents in hexadecimal alongside ASCII.

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Selection of utilities

RustDiff – semantic JSON and XML diff tool

May 1, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

RustDiff is a native desktop application for comparing JSON and XML files semantically rather than just line by line.

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Camera Tools

15 Best Free and Open Source Linux Camera Tools

April 30, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

Linux offers excellent software for dealing with RAW files, for remotely operating cameras, importing and processing raw data, as well as software to read, write and edit camera metadata.

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Circuit board

ufetch – system profiler

April 29, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ufetch is a small system information utility for Unix-like operating systems.

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Selection of utilities

hist-rs – high-throughput CLI to count unique lines

April 28, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

hist-rs is a Rust command-line utility built for high-throughput line-oriented text processing.

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Selection of utilities

cuniq – count unique lines in text input

April 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cuniq is a command-line utility written in Rust for counting unique lines in text input.

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Graphics card image

nv-monitor – lightweight terminal-based monitoring application

April 27, 2026 Steve Emms System Software, TUI, Utilities

nv-monitor is a lightweight terminal-based monitoring application for Linux systems with NVIDIA GPUs.

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Selection of utilities

hashit – generate file hashes quickly

April 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

hashit is a cross-platform command-line utility for generating file hashes quickly.

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Dictionary Tools

19 Best Free and Open Source Linux Dictionary Tools

April 25, 2026 Steve Emms Education, Roundup, Utilities

We recommend the best free and open source dictionary tools.

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Kotoba – Japanese – English dictionary

April 25, 2026 Steve Emms Education, GUI, Utilities

Kotoba is a Japanese-English dictionary application for GNOME.

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Image of Files

35 Best Free and Open Source Command Line Navigation Tools

April 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

Tiny but useful tools that complement the cd command. Free and open source goodness.

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Selection of utilities

uniqs – alternative to uniq

April 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

uniqs is a Rust command-line utility that serves as an alternative to uniq with streaming support.

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Selection of utilities

xuniq – line deduplicator

April 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

xuniq is a high-performance and stable line deduplicator. Unlike the standard uniq utility, xuniq does not require your input to be sorted.

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Dictionary Tools

SilverDict – web-based alternative to GoldenDict

April 24, 2026 Steve Emms Education, Utilities, Web Apps

SilverDict is a web-based dictionary application designed as a modern alternative to GoldenDict.

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Selection of utilities

hashdeep – generate and verify file hashes

April 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

hashdeep is a command line tool for generating and verifying file hashes across large collections of files.

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Selection of utilities

cksfv.rs – reimplements the classic cksfv tool

April 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cksfv.rs is a command-line utility written in Rust that reimplements the classic cksfv tool for working with SFV checksum files.

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Selection of utilities

cksfv – create and check sfv listings using CRC32 checksums

April 22, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cksfv is a command-line utility for creating and checking Simple File Verification (.sfv) listings using CRC32 checksums.

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Shell prompt

11 Best Free and Open Source Zsh Plugin Managers

April 22, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

Zsh is a Unix shell that can be used as an interactive login shell and as a command interpreter for shell scripting.

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Monitoring

Poltergeist – universal hot-reload and file-watching tool

April 22, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Poltergeist is a universal hot-reload and file-watching tool that automatically rebuilds projects when files change.

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