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Category: Utilities

Files

iris – config-driven file organizer

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

iris helps you sort and organize your messy folders automatically using defined rules. It’s written in Rust.

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trxsh – trash manager

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

trxsh is a simple and efficient command-line trash manager written in Go.

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Selection of utilities

prox – process manager

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

prox is a modern, powerful process manager with a beautiful Terminal User Interface (TUI). Inspired by pm2, built with Go and Bubbletea.

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Tools that help you

Outfieldr – TLDR client

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Outfieldr is a TLDR client written in Zig. TLDR offers an alternative to man pages.

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Diff Tools

Oyo – terminal code review tool

January 5, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Oyo is a terminal code review tool with diff views, persistent review comments, Git and Jujutsu targets, forge sync, search and previews.

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Folder navigation

Jump – quick and fuzzy directory jumper

January 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Jump tracks the directories you visit and lets you jump to the right one with just a few fuzzy-typed characters.

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Application Launchers

MRunner – keyboard-first application runner

January 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

MRunner is a fast, keyboard-driven application runner designed for Linux users who prefer speed, simplicity, and minimalism.

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Images of shells by the sea

gsh – POSIX-compatible, Generative Shell

January 2, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

gsh is a modern, POSIX-compatible, generative shell that’s in an early stage of development.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

SoS – data collection tool

January 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

SoS is an extensible, portable, support data collection tool primarily aimed at Linux distributions and other UNIX-like operating systems.

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Find Duplicates

mmry – local-first memory system for humans and AI agents

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

mmry is a local-first memory system. Store any text and find it again with multiple search strategies, pipe it anywhere with JSON.

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Clipboard

nocb – nearly optimal clipboard manager

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

nocb describes itself as a nearly optimal clipboard manager – fast, compressed, hash-based storage.

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Backup software

mackup – keeps application settings in sync

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mackup is a tool for backup and keeping your application settings in sync.

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Application Launchers

SimplyToast – startup and background process manager

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

SimplyToast is a minimal, fast, and visually clean tool designed to give you full control over startup applications, background processes, and more.

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Wallpaper Setter

gSlapper – wallpaper utility

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gSlapper plays video and static image wallpapers on Wayland with GStreamer, per-monitor control, fade transitions and socket-based IPC.

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Selection of utilities

orphanhunter – identify and remove orphaned packages

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

OrphanHunter is a lightweight utility for Arch Linux designed to identify and remove orphaned packages and files that clutter your system

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Monitoring

Watchman – file watching service

December 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Watchman watches files and record when they change. It can also trigger actions (such as rebuilding assets) when matching files change.

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Selection of utilities

fileformat – tool for recognizing file formats

December 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fileformat is a tool for detecting and identifying file formats.

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Linux

Bobcat – terminal emulator

December 29, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity, Utilities

Bobcat is a modern, feature-rich terminal emulator that works across all major operating systems.

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Selection of utilities

ufo – universal file opener

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ufo is a universal file opener, an alternative instrument for opening files from a command line.

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Administrators in action

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: sudo

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to sudo, a command which lets you execute a command as another user.

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