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nfpm – deb, rpm, apk, ipk and arch Linux packager

December 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

nfpm is a simple deb, rpm, apk, ipk, and arch linux packager written in Go.

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Selection of utilities

ferp – grep clone

December 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ferp aims to be a clone of grep, but written in modern Fortran.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

cmdcreate – create custom commands

December 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cmdcreate allows you to create custom commands for your Linux terminal without needing to enter the same “complex” commands

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Clipboard

bp – cross-platform clipboard tool

December 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

bp (“better paste”) is a cross-platform clipboard tool written in Rust, based on cb.

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Selection of utilities

zf – fuzzy finder designed for filtering filepaths

December 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

zf is a fuzzy finder that excels at filtering filepaths.

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Selection of utilities

lx – convert selected files into clean, consistent Markdown-fenced blocks

December 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lx converts files into simple Markdown-fenced blocks for easy use in LLM chats.

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split-ping – see the direction of loss or latency

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

split-ping is a tool that tells you what direction packet latency or loss is on. This is handy for network debugging and locating congestion.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

TReX – terminal app for RegEx visualization

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

TReX is a terminal-based tool for writing, visualizing, and testing regular expressions.

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mcat – extended cat command

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Utilities

mcat is a terminal image, video and Markdown viewer. It’s written in the Rust programming language.

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Documentation

mping – simple multicast ping

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mping aspires to be an easy to use and script friendly program with support for both IPv4 and IPv6.

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Command Schedulers

7 Best Free and Open Source CLI Command Schedulers

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, System Software, Utilities

The software utility cron also known as cron job is a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like computer operating systems. But there are other high quality CLI command schedulers.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cat

December 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

cat derives its name from concatenation and provides other nifty options too. This article spotlights alternative tools to cat.

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Find Duplicates

hgrep – grep with human-friendly search output

December 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

hgrep is a grep tool to search files with a given pattern and print the matched code snippets with human-friendly syntax highlighting.

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Dax – shell with CLI

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Dax is a custom Unix shell implementation. It provides a familiar command-line interface with support for standard shell features.

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Keyboard

xremap – key remapper

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

xremap is a key remapper for Linux. Unlike xmodmap, it supports app-specific remapping and Wayland.

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Documentation

meow – renders text using your existing Neovim configuration

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

meow is a command line tool that aims to be a replacement for cat/bat with better highlighting. It’s written in Lua.

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File Managers

Tyr – intelligent file organization powered by machine learning

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Tyr is a fast file organizer built in Rust that automatically categorizes and groups your files.

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Selection of utilities

zur – AUR helper

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

zur is just another AUR helper. The AUR is a community-driven repository for Arch Linux users that contains package build scripts.

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Clipboard

clipsim – simple and fast X clipboard manager

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

clipsim is a clipboard manager. It retrieves clipboard text when the window owning it is closed, and keeps a clipboard history.

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Documentation

Vanish – rm with cache

December 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Vanish (vx) is a .modern, safe file deletion tool with recovery capabilities.

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