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Category: Utilities

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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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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Command Schedulers

6 Best Free and Open Source GUI Command Schedulers

December 7, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

The software utility cron also known as cron job is a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like computer operating systems.

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process

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: stow

December 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

Stow is a symlink farm manager which takes distinct sets of software and/or data located in separate directories on the filesystem.

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Documentation

trashy – fast and featureful alternative to rm

December 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

trashy is a simple, fast, and featureful alternative to rm and trash-cli written in Rust.

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Wallpaper Setter

Tinte – wallpaper utility and theme generator

December 6, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Tinte is a wallpaper utility and theme generator for Wayland. It’s a ork of aether that is not limited to Omarchy.

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Data Science

oeis-tui – TUI and CLI for browsing the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

December 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific, Utilities

oeis-tui is a TUI and CLI for browsing the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS) in the terminal.

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Alaska

Pikeru – file picker, file searcher, and image viewer

December 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Pikeru is a file picker, file searcher, and image viewer that works on any desktop environment or window manager.

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mommy – support tool

December 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mommy processes (the output status of) a command and compliments you if the command succeeds and encourages you if it fails

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Keyboard

mouseless – mouse replacement and key remapper

December 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mouseless lets you control the mouse pointer in Linux using the keyboard. It works across all Linux distributions, including those running Wayland.

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Terminal Multiplexer

Muxly – lightweight, highly customizable CLI for managing tmux sessions

December 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Muxly is a highly configurable Tmux Session Manager based on ThePrimeagen’s tmux-sessionizer script.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: free

December 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

free displays the total amount of free and used physical and swap memory in the system, as well as the buffers and caches used by the kernel.

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Monitoring

wisu – fast, minimalist directory tree viewer

December 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

wisu is fast, minimalist directory tree viewer, written in Rust, with a powerful interactive mode.

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