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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 X11 clipboard manager

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

clipsim maintains X11 clipboard history for text and images, with deduplication, configurable limits, item retrieval and status signals.

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Documentation

Vanish – recoverable file deletion with caching

December 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

Vanish caches removed files for recovery, with wildcard restoration, statistics, audit logs, configurable retention and TUI themes.

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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 manages Wayland clipboard history with separate buffers, pinned entries, image thumbnails, password masking and rofi menus.

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Selection of utilities

Regex TUI – test and visualize regular expressions in real-time

December 9, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Regex TUI is a terminal user interface (TUI) application for testing and visualizing regular expressions in real-time.

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Image of Files

Fortress – file explorer with git niceties

December 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, TUI, Utilities

Fortress is a command-line file explorer written in modern Fortran with fzf integration and git binds for fast staging and committing.

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Images of shells by the sea

prmt – ultra-fast, customizable shell prompt generator

December 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

prmt is billed as an ultra-fast, customizable shell prompt that won’t slow you down.

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Selection of utilities

HeadsetStatus – lightweight headset battery monitor for Linux

December 8, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

HeadsetStatus is a fast, minimal system tray app that shows battery and connection status for wireless/USB headsets.

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