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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cat

August 9, 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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Chat

10 Best Free and Open Source Linux Graphical IRC Clients

August 9, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of real-time Internet text messaging (chat) or synchronous conferencing. We recommend the best free and open source graphical IRC clients.

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Selection of utilities

kat – cat command with syntax highlighting

August 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

kat is a cat command with syntax highlighting for a variety of different programming languages including C, C++, Python, JavaScript, and more.

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Buffer – embrace ephemeral text

August 8, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI, Productivity

Buffer provides a minimal editing space for all those things that don’t need keeping. It’s written in Rust.

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Ten Forward – control a NAT-PMP gateway

August 8, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Ten Forward requests port forwarding to your gateway. Create multiple mapping configurations, which can individually be requested.

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Music

empress – MPRIS media controls made simple

August 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

empress is a simple command-line abstraction over the D-Bus MPRIS specification which allows for querying and controlling media players.

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WebRTC

14 Best Free and Open Source Linux WebRTC Tools

August 8, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Multimedia, Roundup

WebRTC is real-time communication for the web, enabling video, voice, and data transfer between peers using an open standard.

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Redocly CLI – lint OpenAPI

August 8, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Redocly CLI is an all-in-one OpenAPI utility. It builds, manages, improves, and quality-checks your OpenAPI descriptions

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Spectral – flexible JSON/YAML linter

August 8, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming

Spectral is a flexible JSON/YAML linter for creating automated style guides, with baked in support for OpenAPI, Arazzo, and AsyncAPI.

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Security

11 Best Free and Open Source Linux Digital Forensics Tools

August 8, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Security, System Software

Digital forensics is a specialist art. It allows investigations to be undertaken without modifying the media.

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