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Category: Utilities

Selection of utilities

makeself – make self-extractable archives

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

makeself.sh is a small shell script to create self-extracting tar.gz archives.

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SSD

dusage – command-line disk usage information tool

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dusage is a command line disk usage information tool written in the Rust programming language.

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Web

Ping Monitor – simple ping application

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Ping Monitor is a simple ping application that displays real-time ping times to a specified host using a Deno backend.

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Monitoring

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: tree

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to tree, a utility that lists the contents of directories in a tree-like format.

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process

Tuckr – replacement for Stow

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Tuckr is a dotfile manager inspired by Stow and Git. Tuckr aims to make dotfile management less painful.

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Monitor System

24 Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to the Top Utility

December 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

top is a small, venerable utility that offers a dynamic real-time view of a running system. We identify alternatives to top that offer more control in managing processes on a running system.

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Monitoring

treex – fast, and customizable CLI directory viewer

December 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Treex (Tree Explorer) is a lightweight and modern command-line utility that lets you explore your file system visually.

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Monitor System

sot – system observation tool

December 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

sot is a Command-line System Observation Tool in the spirit of top. It’s free and open source software written in Python.

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Compositing Window Managers

hypr-cycle – cycle through workspaces on the currently focused monitor in Hyprland

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop, Utilities

hypr-cycle is a fast, minimal Rust utility to cycle through workspaces on the currently focused monitor in Hyprland.

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Selection of utilities

InstantCLI – consolidating lots of instantOS stuff into a single CLI

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

InstantCLI is a powerful, Rust-based command-line tool for managing dotfiles, game saves, system diagnostics, and instantOS configurations.

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Files

regname – mass renamer TUI

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

regname is a mass renamer utility with a text user-interface.

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Password Managers

OneKeePass – password manager

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

OneKeePass is a cross-platform,open source and secure password manager. It supports the KeePass-compatible database (Kdbx 4.x).

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process

yadm – yet another dotfiles manager

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

yadm is like having a version of Git, that only operates on your dotfiles. If you know how to use Git, you already know how to use yadm.

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process

Rustow – modern Stow implementation

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Rustow is Stow rewritten in Rust. While writing Rustow, Stow only used as a starting idea not as an objective.

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Find Duplicates

osgrep – natural-language search that works like grep

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

osgrep is a tool for natural-language search that works like grep. Fast, local, and built for coding agents.

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Keyboard

CrossMacro – modern mouse macro recording and playback

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

CrossMacro is a modern mouse macro recording and playback application for Linux Wayland compositors.

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Compression

rapidgzip – parallelized decompression of gzip files

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rapidgzip can be used for parallel decompression of almost any gzip file.

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Linux

Kerminal – modern terminal emulator and SSH manager

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Kerminal is a modern terminal emulator that combines the power of a full-featured local terminal with advanced SSH connection management.

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Keyboard

wl-kbptr – move the mouse pointer with the keyboard

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

wl-kbptr — short for Wayland Keyboard Pointer — is a utility to help move the mouse pointer with the keyboard.

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USB

CapacityTester – checks for fake USB flash drives

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

CapacityTester is a tool to test your new USB flash drive to find out if its full capacity can be used or if it’s fake.

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