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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cat

February 15, 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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vizex

mcdu – disk usage analyzer

February 13, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

mcdu is a fast, modern disk usage analyzer with an integrated developer cleanup tool. Think ncdu meets CCleaner for developers.

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Universal Access

borse – practice braille, Morse, semaphore

February 13, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

borse is a terminal program meant to practice reading braille, Morse code, and semaphore, which are common encodings for puzzle hunts.

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Save Time and Effort with these Excellent Free and Open Source Batch Image Processors

February 13, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

Batch image processors are often underrated and don’t get the attention they deserve. Here’s our verdict.

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Clipboard

Panox – clipboard manager

February 12, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Panox is a modern, visually appealing clipboard manager designed specifically for Wayland compositors.

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cull – reclaim precious disk space

February 12, 2026 Steve Emms Reviews, TUI, Utilities

cull is a program written in Go that helps you clean up your system. It’s a lovely small utility. Give it a whirl!

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7 Best Free and Open Source Screen-Readers

February 12, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

A screen-reader is a computer application designed to provide spoken feedback to a blind or visually impaired person.

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Selection of utilities

Hermes – package manager for Arch Linux

February 12, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Hermes is billed as a beautiful TUI package manager for Arch Linux.

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S3

STU – S3 terminal user interface

February 11, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

STU, S3 Terminal UI, is a interactive terminal-based explorer for Amazon S3 (AWS S3).

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Selection of utilities

Shelly – modern Arch package manager

February 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Shelly is a modern reimagination of the Arch Linux package manager, designed to be a user-friendly alternative to pacman and octopi.

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Password manager

Puny Manager – CLI password manager

February 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Puny Manager is a minimal, local, CLI password manager.

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Selection of utilities

fdir – search language for your filesystem

February 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fdir aims to offer a fast, intuitive way to find, filter, and act on files using human-friendly commands

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Selection of utilities

preset – save and run command presets

February 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

preset is a program for managing and running command sequences at once, so you don’t have to manually type your commands.

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Selection of utilities

cmdperf – interactive command performance benchmarking

February 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cmdperf is a terminal tool designed to quickly measure, compare, and understand the performance characteristics of shell commands.

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Selection of utilities

grepai – CLI for semantic code search

February 9, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

grepai is a privacy-first CLI for semantic code search. It uses vector embeddings to understand code meaning.

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Selection of utilities

Celerator – TUI to debug and monitor Celery tasks

February 8, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Celerator is a TUI (Text User Interface) application for debugging and monitoring Celery tasks in real time.

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6 Best Free and Open Source OCR Screen Capture Tools

February 7, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, Utilities

This article highlights OCR powered screen-capture tools to capture information instead of images.

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Selection of utilities

dekl – declarative package and dotfile management for Arch Linux

February 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dekl allows you to define your system’s packages and configuration in YAML files, making your setup reproducible and version-controllable.

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Diff Tools

riff – wrapper around diff

February 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Riff is a wrapper around diff that highlights which parts of lines have changed.

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Files

FAT – modern TUI-based file and archive viewer

February 3, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI, Utilities

FAT is designed for developers and power users who want to quickly inspect files and peek inside archives.

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