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Category: Utilities

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 – interactive directory tree viewer with filesystem monitoring

December 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

wisu explores directories with interactive navigation, filesystem watching, search, time filters, sortable listings, and structured exports.

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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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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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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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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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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 – parallel gzip decompression and random access

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rapidgzip parallelises gzip decompression and adds random access, reusable indexes, stream analysis and a Python file interface.

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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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