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Category: Utilities

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ls-lint – fast file and directory name linter

August 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ls-lint is an extremely fast directory and filename linter. Bring some structure to your project filesystem.

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rdict – offline CLI dictionary

August 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rdict is an offline CLI dictionary using data from wiktionary. It’s written in the Rust programming language.

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cambd – Cambridge dictionary CLI app

August 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cambd is a Cambridge dictionary cli app which can automatically suggests related words when a typo is detected.

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Essential System Utils

psrecord – record the CPU and memory activity of a process

August 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

psrecord is a small utility that uses the psutil library to record the CPU and memory activity of a process.

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Selection of utilities

vet – curl sanity checker

August 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

vet is a command-line tool that acts as a safety net for the common but risky curl | bash pattern.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: tree

August 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to tree, a utility that lists the contents of directories in a tree-like format.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

cxt – extract and aggregate project context

August 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

cxt is a command-line tool that aggregates file and directory contents into your clipboard.

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Monitoring

tree++ – tree command with icons

August 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Tree is a recursive directory listing program that produces a depth indented listing of files. tree++ adds icons.

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Documentation

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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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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