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Category: Utilities

Password Managers

rbw is an unofficial Bitwarden CLI

April 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rbw is an unofficial Bitwarden client which maintains a background process which is able to hold keys in memory.

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Mail Notification

Mail Notification Tools: 7 Best Free and Open Source Software

April 13, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, Utilities

Email is arguably one of the most popular and useful functions of a Linux system. Keep abreast of new emails without interruption.

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Password Managers

Teller is a multi provider secret management tool

April 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

With Teller, never leave your terminal to use secrets while developing, testing, and building your apps.

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Password Managers

Bitwarden CLI – access and manage your vault

April 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

The Bitwarden command-line interface (CLI) is a powerful, fully-featured tool for accessing and managing your vault.

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3 Best Free and Open Source Linux Magnifying Tools

April 11, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Roundup, Utilities

This roundup focuses on screen magnification accessibility tools.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

autoenv provides directory based environments

April 10, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

If a directory contains an .env file, it will automatically be executed when you cd into it.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

mise manages installations of programming language runtimes

April 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mise is a tool that manages installations of programming language runtimes and other tools for local development.

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20 Best Free and Open Source Shells

April 8, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

The shell is a program that takes commands from the keyboard and gives them to the operating system to perform. We recommend the finest free and open source shells.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

direnv unclutters your .profile

April 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

direnv is an extension for your shell that manages your environment.

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Selection of utilities

quickenv is an unobtrusive environment manager

April 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

quickenv is a replacement for direnv. It works with existing .envrcs, and as such is a drop-in replacement.

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Selection of utilities

Shadowenv performs a set of manipulations to the process environment

April 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Shadowenv provides a way to perform a set of manipulations to the process environment upon entering a directory in a shell.

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Selection of utilities

asdf is an extendable version manager

April 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

asdf is a CLI tool that can manage multiple language runtime versions on a per-project basis.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

zsh-autoenv automatically sources .autoenv.zsh files

April 5, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

zsh-autoenv automatically sources (known/whitelisted) .autoenv.zsh files, typically used in project root directories.

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Find Duplicates

16 Best Free and Open Source CLI Tools to Find and Delete Duplicate Files

April 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

This roundup focuses on free and open source command-line tools that help you find and remove duplicate files.

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Laptop

OptimusUI is a GUI for nVidia Optimus

April 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

OptimusUI is a graphical user interface for Laptops with nVidia Optimus Technology (e.g. switchable graphics).

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duple finds and removes duplicate files

April 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

duple will iterate through all files and directories that is given and find duplicate files (files are compared on their contents).

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Document viewer

Text Pieces is a developer’s scratchpad

April 4, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI, Utilities

Text Pieces is a small tool for quick text transformations such as checksums, encoding, decoding and so on.

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GNOME Extensions

Wardrobe is a GNOME customization tool

April 3, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Wardrobe is a utility for installing community made Gnome Shell, Gtk3/4, icon, and cursor themes as well as wallpapers.

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Emacs Software

8 Best Free and Open Source Emacs-Like Text Editors

April 3, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, Utilities

The original program was written in 1976 as a set of macros for an existing text editor called TECO.

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Find

ast-grep performs structural search, lint and rewriting

April 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ast-grep (sg) is a CLI tool for code structural search, lint, and rewriting.

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