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Category: Utilities

opencu – minimalistic serial terminal emulator

July 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

opencu is serial terminal emulator. It’s a port of OpenBSD’s serial terminal emulator cu to Linux.

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ttysterm is a simple serial terminal

July 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ttysterm is a minimalist terminal program like *minicom* or *cu*.

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ssterm – console-based serial port terminal

July 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ssterm is a simple console-based serial port terminal featuring painless serial port configuration.

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Fonts

fnt – apt for fonts

July 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fnt is a tool to download and install fonts. It helps you to download vector fonts from Debian side, and Google Web Fonts.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

vmstat – reports virtual memory statistics

June 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

vmstat reports information about processes, memory, paging, block IO, traps, disks and cpu activity.

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Password manager

SpicyPass – lightweight offline password manager

June 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

SpicyPass is an offline password manager with command-line and graphical interfaces, encryption, idle locking and password generation.

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Password manager

pa – lightweight password manager using age encryption

June 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pa is a lightweight password manager using age encryption, automatic Git tracking, multiple recipients and straightforward shell commands.

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Monitoring

lstr – interactive and scriptable directory tree viewer

June 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

lstr explores directory trees in a terminal, with interactive navigation, Git status, sorting, file metadata, and JSON or HTML output.

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Monitoring

lstree – ls in tree form

June 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lstree displays filesystem contents as a colourized directory tree using ls, with branching symbols and symbolic link targets.

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Linux Candy: walrs – fast colorscheme generator

May 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews, Utilities

walrs is a command-line program that generates a color scheme from the dominant colors in an image.

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Bookmark manager tool

crumbs is a bookmarking system for the command line

May 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

crumbs is a command-line utility for the shell, for storing commands under a meaningful name in a hierarchy.

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Bookmark manager tool

nb is a command line and local note‑taking, bookmarking, archiving, and knowledge base

May 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Productivity, Utilities

nb creates notes in text-based formats like Markdown, Org, LaTeX, and AsciiDoc, can work with files in any format

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: ricksay – Rick and Morty quotes of the day

May 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

ricksay builds on the work from ponysay. It provides funny quotes from Rick and Morty Adventures for your console.

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telert – alerts for your terminal

April 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

telert is a lightweight utility that sends notifications to Telegram, Teams, Slack, plays audio alerts, or shows desktop notifications.

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Keyboard

Solaar is a Linux manager for Logitech keyboards, mice and trackpads

April 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

Solaar is a Linux manager for Logitech keyboards, mice, and trackpads connecting wirelessly to a USB Unifying, Bolt, Lightspeed and more.

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ShellCheck is a shell script static analysis tool

April 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ShellCheck is a tool that gives warnings and suggestions for bash/sh shell scripts. It’s written in Haskell.

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Password Managers

passage – age-backed password manager

April 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

passage is an age-backed command-line password manager with per-entry encryption, configurable recipients and familiar pass workflows.

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SSD

whalespotter finds big files and directories

April 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

whalespotter is a convenient TUI application to quickly locate large files and folders. It’s written in Rust.

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Password Managers

passfzf is a simple fzf wrapper for pass

April 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

passfzf is a simple fzf wrapper for pass (the UNIX password-store).

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Find Duplicates

grex generates regular expressions from user-provided test cases

April 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

grex is a library and a command-line utility to simplify the often complicated and tedious task of creating regular expressions.

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