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Coding

Freeze – generate images of code and terminal output

February 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, Utilities

Freeze generates PNGs, SVGs, and WebPs of code and terminal output alike.

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Images of shells by the sea

Gum – tool for glamorous shell scripts

February 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Gum lets you leverage the power of Bubbles and Lip Gloss in your scripts and aliases without writing any Go code.

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The Way – code snippets manager

February 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

the-way is a terminal-based code snippets manager.Record and retrieve snippets you use every day, or occasionally, without starting a browser.

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Files

Docfd – TUI multiline fuzzy document finder

February 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Docfd is a text user interface multiline fuzzy document finder written in OCaml.

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Tools that help you

wat offers instant, central, community-built docs

February 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Wat is an interactive app built to drastically reduce time spent searching for syntax and code usage questions.

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Tools that help you

halp is a CLI tool to get help with CLI tools

January 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

halp aims to help find the correct arguments for command-line tools by checking the predefined list of commonly used options/flags.

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ScriptHaus – organize scripts and bash one-liners

January 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ScriptHaus lets you run bash, Python, and JS snippets from your Markdown files directly from the command-line.

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Carapace – multi-shell multi-command argument completer

January 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Carapace is a shell completion library (carapace-sh/carapace) as well as a binary containing a collection of shell completers.

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YASnippet – template system for Emacs

January 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

YASnippet is a template system for Emacs. It allows you to type an abbreviation and automatically expand it into function templates.

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Tools that help you

ehh helps you remember commands

January 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ehh is a command-line tool for remembering Linux / terminal commands. Store and run any command inside ehh.

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nap – code snippets in your terminal

January 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Create and access new snippets quickly with the command-line interface or browse, manage, and organize them with the text-user interface.

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Tools that help you

eg provides examples of common uses of command line tools

January 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

eg will give you useful examples right at the command line. Think of it as a companion tool for man.

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Documentation

asciit – compact ASCII table

January 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

asciit is a more compact and intuitive ASCII table highlighting digits and letters.

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snip – CLI snippets manager

January 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

snip is a simple snippet manager for bash, to save useful and important bash code snippets directly from the bash prompt.

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Tools that help you

cheatshh – CLI tool to store commands

January 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cheatshh is an interactive CLI meant for managing command line cheatsheets, written in shell script.

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Documentation Generators

Framed – Files and Directories Reusability, Architecture, and Management

January 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Framed is a CLI tool that simplifies the organization and management of files and directories in a reusable and architectural manner.

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Find Duplicates

backdown – a deduplicator

January 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Backdown helps you safely and ergonomically remove duplicate files. This is a command-line tool written in Rust.

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Keyboard

Lan Mouse – mouse and keyboard sharing via LAN

January 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Lan Mouse is a cross-platform mouse and keyboard sharing software similar to universal-control on Apple devices.

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Tbmk – terminal bookmarker

January 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Tbmk is a commands bookmark for shells written in Go.

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Files

vim-fern – asynchronous tree viewer

January 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

vim-fern is a general purpose asynchronous tree viewer written in VimL.

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