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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: ping

December 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to ping. All software featured here is free and open source goodness.

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Checkstyle – Java Code Quality Tool

December 7, 2025 Eilidih Parris CLI, Programming

Checkstyle is a tool that ensures adherence to a code standard or a set of best practices.

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Invoices

MoneyTerm – TUI expense and budget tracker

December 7, 2025 Steve Emms Financial, TUI

MoneyTerm is a Textual/Rich TUI based expense and budget tracker. It’s written in the Python language.

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process

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: stow

December 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

Stow is a symlink farm manager which takes distinct sets of software and/or data located in separate directories on the filesystem.

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Files

csvi – terminal CSV editor

December 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

CSVI is a terminal-based CSV editor for UNIX-like systems (including Linux) and Windows.

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trashy – fast and featureful alternative to rm

December 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

trashy is a simple, fast, and featureful alternative to rm and trash-cli written in Rust.

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CSSTree – tool set for CSS

December 7, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

CSSTree is a tool set for CSS: fast detailed parser (CSS → AST), walker (AST traversal), generator (AST → CSS) and lexer

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zprint – reformat Clojure and Clojurescript source code

December 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

zprint is a library and command line tool providing pretty printing capabilities for both Clojure code and Clojure/EDN structures.

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Security

MemProcFS – view physical memory as files in a virtual file system

December 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

MemProcFS is an easy and convenient way of viewing physical memory as files in a virtual file system.

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Mixer

9 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Volume Mixers

December 6, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, Roundup, TUI

A volume mixer is a tool that adjusts the individual volume levels of different applications and audio devices running on a computer.

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cljfmt – detect and fix formatting errors in Clojure code

December 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

cljfmt is a tool for detecting and fixing formatting errors in Clojure code .Its defaults are based on the Clojure Style Guide.

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Wallpaper Setter

Tinte – wallpaper utility and theme generator

December 6, 2025 Steve Emms Software

Tinte is a wallpaper utility and theme generator for Wayland. It’s a ork of aether that is not limited to Omarchy.

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Search

Groonga – fulltext search engine and column store

December 6, 2025 Steve Emms Database, Documents

Groonga is a fulltext search engine and column store. It lets you write high-performance applications that requires fulltext search.

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Data Science

oeis-tui – TUI and CLI for browsing the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

December 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific, Utilities

oeis-tui is a TUI and CLI for browsing the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS) in the terminal.

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Alaska

Pikeru – file picker, file searcher, and image viewer

December 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Pikeru is a file picker, file searcher, and image viewer that works on any desktop environment or window manager.

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Video-Emulators

Gopher2600 – emulator for the Atari 2600

December 6, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, GUI

Gopher2600 is an emulator for the Atari 2600. Accuracy is high and and there are no known problems with emulating the 6507, TIA or RIOT chips

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Selection of utilities

mommy – support tool

December 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mommy processes (the output status of) a command and compliments you if the command succeeds and encourages you if it fails

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Beszel – lightweight server monitoring platform

December 6, 2025 Steve Emms Software

Beszel is a lightweight server monitoring platform that includes Docker statistics, historical data, and alert functions.

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Keyboard

mouseless – mouse replacement and key remapper

December 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mouseless lets you control the mouse pointer in Linux using the keyboard. It works across all Linux distributions, including those running Wayland.

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Text Editor

Fresh – terminal text editor

December 6, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

Fresh is a text editor engineered for speed. It delivers a near zero-latency experience, with text appearing instantly.

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