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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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Selection of utilities

checkpac – fast package checker for Arch

December 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

checkpac is a fast and simple package checking tool for Arch Linux. Find installed packages, check versions, and discover available packages

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Documents

lsx – improved ls command

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lsx is a utility that functions like ls but with some improvements. It’s written in the Rust programming language.

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Terminal Multiplexer

TUIOS – Terminal UI Operating System

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

TUIOS is a terminal-based window manager that provides a modern, efficient interface for managing multiple terminal sessions.

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Images of shells by the sea

rash – rudimentary shell

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

rash, or really awesome shell (or rat ass shell if you prefer), is a rudimentary shell written in C

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

msuage – command line memory usage information tool

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

msuage is a command line memory usage information tool written in Rust. It’s an alternative to the free command.

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SSD

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: df

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to df, a utility that reports file system space usage in Linux and other UNIX operating systems.

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Selection of utilities

makeself – make self-extractable archives

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

makeself.sh is a small shell script to create self-extracting tar.gz archives.

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SSD

dusage – command-line disk usage information tool

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dusage is a command line disk usage information tool written in the Rust programming language.

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Web

Ping Monitor – simple ping application

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Ping Monitor is a simple ping application that displays real-time ping times to a specified host using a Deno backend.

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Monitoring

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: tree

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to tree, a utility that lists the contents of directories in a tree-like format.

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process

Tuckr – replacement for Stow

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Tuckr is a dotfile manager inspired by Stow and Git. Tuckr aims to make dotfile management less painful.

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Monitor System

24 Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to the Top Utility

December 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

top is a small, venerable utility that offers a dynamic real-time view of a running system. We identify alternatives to top that offer more control in managing processes on a running system.

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Monitoring

treex – fast, and customizable CLI directory viewer

December 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Treex (Tree Explorer) is a lightweight and modern command-line utility that lets you explore your file system visually.

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Monitor System

sot – system observation tool

December 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

sot is a Command-line System Observation Tool in the spirit of top. It’s free and open source software written in Python.

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Compositing Window Managers

hypr-cycle – cycle through workspaces on the currently focused monitor in Hyprland

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop, Utilities

hypr-cycle is a fast, minimal Rust utility to cycle through workspaces on the currently focused monitor in Hyprland.

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Selection of utilities

InstantCLI – consolidating lots of instantOS stuff into a single CLI

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

InstantCLI is a powerful, Rust-based command-line tool for managing dotfiles, game saves, system diagnostics, and instantOS configurations.

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Files

regname – mass renamer TUI

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

regname is a mass renamer utility with a text user-interface.

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Password Managers

OneKeePass – password manager

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

OneKeePass is a cross-platform,open source and secure password manager. It supports the KeePass-compatible database (Kdbx 4.x).

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