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System administration

frei is a modern replacement for the free command

April 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

frei (FREe Improved) is a modern replacement for the free command written in Go.

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Password Managers

rbw – Bitwarden command-line client with background agent

April 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rbw is a Rust Bitwarden client that uses a background agent to unlock vaults, retrieve passwords, synchronise data and serve SSH keys.

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Password Managers

Teller – multi-provider secrets manager for developers

April 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Teller unifies access to secrets from cloud vaults and local files, with command injection, secret scanning, redaction and provider sync.

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Password Managers

Bitwarden CLI – manage your password vault from the terminal

April 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Bitwarden CLI accesses password vaults from the terminal, supporting item management, vault synchronisation, TOTP and scripted workflows.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

mise manages installations of programming language runtimes

April 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mise is a tool that manages installations of programming language runtimes and other tools for local development.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

direnv unclutters your .profile

April 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

direnv is an extension for your shell that manages your environment.

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Selection of utilities

quickenv is an unobtrusive environment manager

April 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

quickenv is a replacement for direnv. It works with existing .envrcs, and as such is a drop-in replacement.

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Selection of utilities

Shadowenv performs a set of manipulations to the process environment

April 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Shadowenv provides a way to perform a set of manipulations to the process environment upon entering a directory in a shell.

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Selection of utilities

asdf is an extendable version manager

April 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

asdf is a CLI tool that can manage multiple language runtime versions on a per-project basis.

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duple finds and removes duplicate files

April 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

duple will iterate through all files and directories that is given and find duplicate files (files are compared on their contents).

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ast-grep performs structural search, lint and rewriting

April 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ast-grep (sg) is a CLI tool for code structural search, lint, and rewriting.

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Documents

facad is a modern colorful directory listing tool

April 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

facad is a modern, colorful directory listing tool for the command line. It’s written in C.

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Selection of utilities

svu is a small helper for release scripts and workflows

March 31, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

svu provides utility commands and functions to increase specific portions of the version.

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Find

concurrently lets you run multiple commands concurrently

March 31, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

concurrently is similar to the command npm run watch-js & npm run watch-less but better.

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Password Managers

kpcli – interactive command-line interface for KeePass databases

March 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

kpcli manages KeePass databases through an interactive terminal, with searches, password generation, editing and key-file support.

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Essential-Utilities

entr – Event Notify Test Runner

March 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

entr is a utility that runs arbitrary commands when files change.

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Find

mprocs runs multiple commands in parallel

March 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mprocs runs multiple commands in parallel and shows output of each command separately.

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sesh is a smart terminal session manager

March 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Sesh is a CLI that helps you create and manage tmux sessions quickly and easily using zoxide.

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JSON Tools

jnv navigates JSON offering a viewer and filter editor

March 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

jnv is designed for navigating JSON, offering an interactive JSON viewer and jq filter editor.

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Selection of utilities

gowatch builds and restarts go projects

March 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gowatch is a command line tool that builds and (re)starts your go project every time you save a Go or template file.

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