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Category: Utilities

Fonts

fnt – apt for fonts

July 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fnt is a tool to download and install fonts. It helps you to download vector fonts from Debian side, and Google Web Fonts.

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vmstat – reports virtual memory statistics

June 30, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

vmstat reports information about processes, memory, paging, block IO, traps, disks and cpu activity.

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Password manager

15 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Password Managers

June 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, TUI, Utilities

A password manager is a utility which helps users store and retrieve passwords and other data. Here’s our open source recommendations.

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Password manager

SpicyPass is a lightweight password manager

June 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

SpicyPass is a lightweight password manager that uses state of the art cryptography and minimalist design principles.

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Password manager

pa is a simple password manager

June 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pa is a simple password manager. Encryption support is provided via age. It’s written in portable posix shell.

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Monitoring

lstr – fast, minimalist directory tree viewer

June 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lstr is a fast, minimalist directory tree viewer. Inspired by the command line program tree, with a powerful interactive mode.

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Monitoring

lstree – ls in tree form

June 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lstree is a wrapper script around ls to display a nice tree structure.

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Art

28 Delightful Free and Open Source ASCII Art Tools

May 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

ASCII art is a graphic design technique that relies primarily on computers for presentation and consists of pictures.

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Linux Candy: walrs – fast colorscheme generator

May 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews, Utilities

walrs is a command-line program that generates a color scheme from the dominant colors in an image.

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Bookmark manager tool

crumbs is a bookmarking system for the command line

May 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

crumbs is a command-line utility for the shell, for storing commands under a meaningful name in a hierarchy.

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