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Category: Utilities

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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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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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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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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Monitoring

watch – small command-line utility written in C

April 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

watch is a small command-line utility written in C that periodically runs a shell command at a user-defined interval.

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Monitoring

fswatch – reports changes to files and directories

April 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fswatch is a cross-platform command-line utility and frontend to libfswatch that reports changes to files and directories as they happen.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cat

April 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

cat derives its name from concatenation and provides other nifty options too. This article spotlights alternative tools to cat.

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Selection of utilities

chmod-cli – generate chmod commands

April 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

chmod-cli makes it easier to build chmod commands without having to remember octal values or symbolic permission syntax.

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Benchmarking

vkmark – Vulkan benchmarking suite

April 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

vkmark is a Vulkan benchmarking suite built around targeted, configurable scenes to measure different aspects of Vulkan performance.

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Benchmarking

iperf3 – active measurement of network performance on IP networks

April 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

iperf3 is a command-line utility for active measurement of network performance on IP networks.

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Benchmarking

UnixBench – original BYTE UNIX benchmark suite

April 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

UnixBench is a classic system benchmark for Unix-like systems, combining CPU, process, file, shell, system call, and graphics tests.

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Image of Files

Dongle – move around deep directory trees

April 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Dongle is a terminal utility that helps you move around deep directory trees without typing long cd paths by hand.

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Benchmarking

glmark2 – graphics benchmark

April 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

glmark2 is a graphics benchmark designed to measure the performance of OpenGL 2.0 and OpenGL ES 2.0 implementations

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Proprietary App of the Week

PangoTerm – modern cross-platform SSH client

April 17, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Proprietary, Reviews, Utilities

PangoTerm is a modern SSH client for developers and system administrators that runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

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Image of Files

icd – makes changing directories quicker

April 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

icd is a shell utility that makes changing directories quicker and more convenient.

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