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Category: Utilities

Selection of utilities

GhostMirror – mirror analyzer for Arch Linux

November 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

GhostMirror compares the mirror databases with the local database and provides a detailed description of the status.

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Selection of utilities

yabd – yet another brightness daemon

November 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

yabd is a simple (~300 lines of python) daemon that sets the brightness of the screen depending on ambient brightness.

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Software

Decman – declarative package and configuration manager for Arch

November 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Decman lets you manage installed packages, your dotfiles, enabled systemd units, and run commands automatically.

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Selection of utilities

liz-desktop – Rust-based shortcut helper

November 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

liz-desktop is a Rust-based shortcut helper to remember, customize and autorun shortcuts or commands. Developed via Tauri 2.0.

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SSD

22 Best Free and Open Source Replacements for du

November 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

du is a standard program used to estimate file space usage—space used under a particular directory or files on a file system. We recommend alternative commands to du.

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Selection of utilities

IsMyArchFree – identify licenses

November 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

IsMyArchFree is a simple program that analyzes pacman-installed packages’ licenses and flags them as free, permissive, …

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Selection of utilities

folsy – folder synchronization script

November 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

folsy is simple shell script which performs a job similar to other (folder) synchronization tools, but with nearly no resource consumption

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Linux Candy: shuffle – ASCII art with a cool shuffle effect

November 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

The shuffle command prints an ASCII art picture with a cool shuffle effect.

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Archive Manager

8 Best Free and Open Source Linux Terminal-Based Archive Managers

November 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

Useful terminal-based archive managers.

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vizex

pkgdu – display Arch packages disk usage size

November 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pkgdu is a tool to display packages disk usage size for Arch Linux.

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SSD

duviz – render ASCII-art representation of disk space usage

November 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

duviz is a (Python 3) command-line tool to visualize disk space usage.

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SSD

dut – disk usage calculator

November 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

By default, dut will output a tree of the biggest directories it finds under your current directory.

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Documentation

pingstat – multi-server ping logging

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pingstat is a lightweight, user-level script for multi-server ping logging, storing stats per server in user-writable SQLite databases.

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Documentation

myping – ping multiple hosts at the same time

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

myping is a command-line utility to ping multiple hosts at once and display the reachability over time.

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System Administration

asroot – simpler alternative to sudo and doas

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

asroot is a command-line utility to run a process as the root user. It’s written in the C language

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Administrators in action

sudo-rs – memory safe implementation of sudo and su

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

sudo-rs is a safety oriented and memory safe implementation of sudo and su written in Rust. It’s an independent implementation.

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Selection of utilities

jet – Just Edit Text

November 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Jet allows you to replace all the substrings matched by specified regular expressions in one or more files.

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Images of shells by the sea

Sushi shell – Bash clone shell

November 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Sushi shell (formerly known as Rusty Bash) is a a Bash clone shell implemented in Rust.

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Time tracking

27 Sparkling Free and Open Source CLI Linux Time Trackers

November 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

All of the time trackers featured in this roundup are console applications, using a command-line interface.

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Reference Managers

coBib – console bibliography

November 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

coBib is a simple, console-based bibliography management tool.

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