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Category: Utilities

Password Managers

MUTN – self-hosted, SSH-synchronized password and note manager

September 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

MUTN is a simple, self-hosted, SSH-synchronized password and note manager based on libmutton. It is the successor to sshyp.

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Selection of utilities

autogit – automatically build, update or install Pacman applications

September 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Autogit is a Bash tool to automatically build, update or install Pacman applications from PKGBUILD’s

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Paru – feature packed AUR helper

September 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Paru is a standard Pacman wrapping AUR helper with lots of features and minimal interaction.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: hexdump

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

We spotlight alternative tools to hexdump, a utility that displays file contents in hexadecimal, octal, or ascii.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: dig

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to dig. This is a DNS lookup utility.

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Diff Tools

objdiff – local diffing tool for decompilation project

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

objdiff is a local diffing tool for decompilation projects. There is also a GUI available.

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Archive Manager

Simple Archiver – alternative to tar

September 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Simple Archiver is an alternative to tar. Despite its name, this open source tool has a fairly wide range of features.

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Yay – AUR helper

September 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Yay (Yet Another Yogurt) is an Arch User Repository (AUR) helper tool.

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Image of Files

28 Best Free and Open Source Command Line Navigation Tools

September 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

Tiny but useful tools that complement the cd command. Free and open source goodness.

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WallpaperDownloader

chwp – change background wallpaper from the command line

September 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

chwp is a Rust-based tool to change the wallpaper without leaving the command-line.

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Pamac – Gtk and CLI front ends of libpamac

September 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

Pamac offers lpm, AUR, Appstream, Flatpak, and Snap support.

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Software

aurto – Arch Linux AUR tool

September 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

aurto is an Arch Linux AUR tool for managing an auto-updating local ‘aurto’ package repository using aurutils.

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Software

aurutils – helper tools for the AUR

September 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

aurutils is a collection of scripts to automate usage of the Arch User Repository, with different tasks such as package searching, and more.

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Software

trizen – lightweight AUR package manager

September 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

trizen is a lightweight AUR package manager that’s written in the Perl programming language.

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Software

pikaur – AUR helper with minimal dependencies

September 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pikaur is an AUR helper with minimal dependencies. Review PKGBUILDs all in once, next build them all without user interaction.

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Pakku – pacman wrapper with additional features

September 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Pakku is a pacman wrapper with additional features, such as AUR support. It’s written in Nim.

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Aura – package manager for Arch Linux

September 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Aura is a package manager for Arch Linux. Its original purpose was in supplementing Pacman to support the building of AUR packages

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Shell prompt

Zpm – Zsh plugin manager

September 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Zpm is a plugin manager for Zsh that combines the imperative and declarative approach. At first run, zpm will do complex logic and generate cache, after that will be used cache only, so it makes this framework to be very

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Git Clients

33 Useful Free and Open Source Git Tools

September 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, Roundup, Utilities

Git is an open source distributed version control system which was originally designed by Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux.

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ntpd-rs – synchronizing your computer’s clock

September 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software, Utilities

ntpd-rs is a tool for synchronizing your computer’s clock, implementing the NTP and NTS protocols. It is written in Rust.

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