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Category: Utilities

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: hexdump

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

We spotlight alternative tools to hexdump, a utility that displays file contents in hexadecimal, octal, or ascii.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: dig

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to dig. This is a DNS lookup utility.

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Diff Tools

objdiff – local diffing tool for decompilation project

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

objdiff is a local diffing tool for decompilation projects. There is also a GUI available.

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Archive Manager

Simple Archiver – alternative to tar

September 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Simple Archiver is an alternative to tar. Despite its name, this open source tool has a fairly wide range of features.

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Yay – AUR helper

September 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Yay (Yet Another Yogurt) is an Arch User Repository (AUR) helper tool.

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Time tracking

26 Sparkling Free and Open Source CLI Linux Time Trackers

September 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

All of the time trackers featured in this roundup are console applications, using a command-line interface.

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Image of Files

28 Best Free and Open Source Command Line Navigation Tools

September 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

Tiny but useful tools that complement the cd command. Free and open source goodness.

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WallpaperDownloader

chwp – change background wallpaper from the command line

September 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

chwp is a Rust-based tool to change the wallpaper without leaving the command-line.

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Software

Pamac – Gtk and CLI front ends of libpamac

September 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

Pamac offers lpm, AUR, Appstream, Flatpak, and Snap support.

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Software

aurto – Arch Linux AUR tool

September 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

aurto is an Arch Linux AUR tool for managing an auto-updating local ‘aurto’ package repository using aurutils.

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