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Category: Utilities

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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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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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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process

yadm – yet another dotfiles manager

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

yadm is like having a version of Git, that only operates on your dotfiles. If you know how to use Git, you already know how to use yadm.

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process

Rustow – modern Stow implementation

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Rustow is Stow rewritten in Rust. While writing Rustow, Stow only used as a starting idea not as an objective.

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Find Duplicates

osgrep – natural-language search that works like grep

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

osgrep is a tool for natural-language search that works like grep. Fast, local, and built for coding agents.

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Compression

rapidgzip – parallelized decompression of gzip files

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rapidgzip can be used for parallel decompression of almost any gzip file.

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Keyboard

wl-kbptr – move the mouse pointer with the keyboard

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

wl-kbptr — short for Wayland Keyboard Pointer — is a utility to help move the mouse pointer with the keyboard.

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Find Duplicates

grok – tool like UNIX grep on steroids

November 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

grok is a tool like UNIX grep on steroids. Often regular expressions become huge and vague.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

goup – Go version manager

November 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

goup is an elegant Go version manager.

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Utilities

Parm – cross-platform binary installer

November 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Parm is a cross-platform binary installer with a package manager-esque workflow. Install any program from GitHub via their REST API.

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Selection of utilities

NextTrace – visual route tracking CLI tool

November 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

NextTrace is a visual routing tool that aims to be lightweight. It’s developed using Golang.

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Selection of utilities

Fastrace – traceroute utility

November 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Fastrace is a fast traceroute utility designed for network diagnostics and performance analysis.

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process

lash – symlink manager for dotfiles

November 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Lash is a command-line application that is intended to replace Stow. It is not intended to be a drop-in replacement but it does aim to replace most of the implemented functionality of Stow.

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process

fling – file/directory symlinker

November 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fling computes and creates/removes the minimal amount of symlinks needed in a directory to refer to files and directories in another directory, similar to Stow.

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stown – manage file system object mapping via symlinks

November 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

stown manages file system object mapping via symlinks. It was inspired by Stow, which was found very useful but too unwieldy.

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process

Dploy – tool for creating symbolic links

November 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Dploy is a tool for creating symbolic links similarly to Stow. It is provided as a CLI tool and Python 3.6.2+ module.

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