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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: free

July 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

free displays the total amount of free and used physical and swap memory in the system, as well as the buffers and caches used by the kernel.

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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

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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Bookmark manager tool

nb is a command line and local note‑taking, bookmarking, archiving, and knowledge base

May 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Productivity, Utilities

nb creates notes in text-based formats like Markdown, Org, LaTeX, and AsciiDoc, can work with files in any format

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: ricksay – Rick and Morty quotes of the day

May 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

ricksay builds on the work from ponysay. It provides funny quotes from Rick and Morty Adventures for your console.

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telert – alerts for your terminal

April 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

telert is a lightweight utility that sends notifications to Telegram, Teams, Slack, plays audio alerts, or shows desktop notifications.

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Keyboard

Solaar is a Linux manager for Logitech keyboards, mice and trackpads

April 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

Solaar is a Linux manager for Logitech keyboards, mice, and trackpads connecting wirelessly to a USB Unifying, Bolt, Lightspeed and more.

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ShellCheck is a shell script static analysis tool

April 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ShellCheck is a tool that gives warnings and suggestions for bash/sh shell scripts. It’s written in Haskell.

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Password Managers

passage – age-backed password manager

April 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

passage is a fork of password-store that uses age as a backend instead of GnuPG.

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SSD

whalespotter finds big files and directories

April 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

whalespotter is a convenient TUI application to quickly locate large files and folders. It’s written in Rust.

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Password Managers

passfzf is a simple fzf wrapper for pass

April 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

passfzf is a simple fzf wrapper for pass (the UNIX password-store).

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Find Duplicates

grex generates regular expressions from user-provided test cases

April 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

grex is a library and a command-line utility to simplify the often complicated and tedious task of creating regular expressions.

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System administration

frei is a modern replacement for the free command

April 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

frei (FREe Improved) is a modern replacement for the free command written in Go.

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