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Category: Utilities

Selection of utilities

lx – convert selected files into clean, consistent Markdown-fenced blocks

December 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lx converts files into simple Markdown-fenced blocks for easy use in LLM chats.

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Hard disk image

Scrutiny – web-based SMART monitoring dashboard

December 16, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities, Web Apps

Scrutiny provides a browser-based dashboard for hard drive SMART monitoring, historical trends, temperatures and configurable alerts.

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Network

split-ping – identify the direction of packet loss and latency

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

split-ping measures packet loss and latency in each direction between cooperating hosts, with UDP probes and Prometheus metrics.

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3D Printer

OctoPrint – snappy web interface for your 3D printer

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities, Web Apps

OctoPrint provides a snappy web interface for controlling consumer 3D printers. It’s written in Python and JavaScript.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

TReX – terminal app for RegEx visualization

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

TReX is a terminal-based tool for writing, visualizing, and testing regular expressions.

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Albania

mcat – extended cat command

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Utilities

mcat views images, video, Markdown, PDFs and Office documents in the terminal, accepting local files, URLs and data from standard input.

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Documentation

mping – simple multicast ping

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mping aspires to be an easy to use and script friendly program with support for both IPv4 and IPv6.

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Find Duplicates

hgrep – grep with human-friendly search output

December 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

hgrep is a grep tool to search files with a given pattern and print the matched code snippets with human-friendly syntax highlighting.

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Clipboard

PasteLock – encrypted clipboard manager

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

PasteLock is an encrypted clipboard manager with login, scrollable history and text/image paste storage.

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Images of shells by the sea

Dax – shell with CLI

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Dax is a custom Unix shell implementation. It provides a familiar command-line interface with support for standard shell features.

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Keyboard

xremap – key remapper

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

xremap is a key remapper for Linux. Unlike xmodmap, it supports app-specific remapping and Wayland.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

hypruler – measure anything on your screen

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

hypruler is a utility to measure anything on your screen. It’s built for Linux and Hyprland.

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Documentation

meow – renders text using your existing Neovim configuration

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

meow is a command line tool that aims to be a replacement for cat/bat with better highlighting. It’s written in Lua.

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File Managers

Tyr – intelligent file organization powered by machine learning

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Tyr is a fast file organizer built in Rust that automatically categorizes and groups your files.

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Selection of utilities

zur – AUR helper

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

zur is just another AUR helper. The AUR is a community-driven repository for Arch Linux users that contains package build scripts.

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Clipboard

clipsim – simple and fast X clipboard manager

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

clipsim is a clipboard manager. It retrieves clipboard text when the window owning it is closed, and keeps a clipboard history.

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Documentation

Vanish – rm with cache

December 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Vanish (vx) is a .modern, safe file deletion tool with recovery capabilities.

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Selection of utilities

dashi – simple shell for Linux window managers

December 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Dashi is a simple shell for lightweight window managers on Linux with minimal resources.

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Find Duplicates

mgrep – semantically grep everything

December 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mgrep is a calm, CLI-native way to semantically grep everything, like code, images, pdfs and more.

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Clipboard

clipbox – clipboard manager for Wayland

December 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

clipbox is a clipboard manager for Wayland with rofi integration, featuring multiple buffers, pinning, image preview, and password masking.

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