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Anti-Malware Tools

phpMussel – malware detection for uploaded files

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Security

phpMussel scans uploaded files for malware, with archive inspection, configurable upload restrictions, quarantine, and logging.

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Anti-Malware Tools

Linux Malware Detect – malware scanner

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Linux Malware Detect scans shared hosting systems for malicious files using hashes, YARA rules, ClamAV integration and real-time monitoring.

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Anti-Malware Tools

YARA – identify and classify malware with detection rules

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Security

YARA identifies and classifies malware using custom rules, text and binary patterns, process scanning, and command-line tools.

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Anti-Malware Tools

ClamAV – antivirus engine

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Security

ClamAV is an antivirus engine for Linux with on-demand and on-access scanning, signature updates, archive inspection and a scanning daemon.

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Intrusion Detection

chkrootkit – detect signs of rootkits on Linux

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Security

chkrootkit examines Linux systems for signs of rootkits, hidden processes, altered commands and other indicators of compromise.

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Git Clients

gitin – interactive Git commit, branch and status explorer

November 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, TUI

gitin is a text-based Git explorer with searchable commits, interactive staging, diff inspection, branch checkout and commit creation.

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Git Clients

GRV – terminal interface for viewing Git repositories

November 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, TUI

GRV is an interactive Git repository viewer with commit graphs, searchable history, flexible filtering, split views and themes.

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Git Clients

GitUI – fast terminal interface for Git

November 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, TUI

GitUI is a Rust terminal Git client with interactive staging, commit history, branch management, stashes and keyboard-driven controls.

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YouTube

youtube-dl – command-line video and audio downloader

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

youtube-dl downloads video and audio from YouTube and other sites, with format selection, playlists, subtitles, and scripting options.

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Documentation

mtr – network diagnostic tool combining ping and traceroute

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mtr combines traceroute and ping with continuous hop monitoring, latency statistics, packet-loss measurements and reporting options.

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Documentation

hping3 – TCP/IP packet assembler and network analyser

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

hping3 creates customised TCP, UDP and ICMP packets for network troubleshooting, firewall testing, port scanning and traceroute analysis.

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SQL

mycli – command-line client for MySQL and MariaDB

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

mycli is a feature-rich terminal client for MySQL and MariaDB, with smart completion, query history, data formats and dataframe tools.

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SQL

Percona Toolkit – command-line database administration utilities

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Percona Toolkit provides Perl-based command-line utilities for diagnosing MySQL queries, checking replication and managing database schemas.

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Backup

XtraBackup – physical backup utility for MySQL

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, System Software

Percona XtraBackup creates physical backups for supported MySQL and Percona servers, with incremental backups, encryption and streaming.

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Shell prompt

Znap – easy-to-use tools for Zsh

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Znap is a fast, lightweight Zsh plugin manager that helps manage Git repositories, load plugins efficiently, and reduce shell startup time.

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Shell prompt

Zi – Swiss Army Knife for Zsh

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Zi is a high-performance Zsh plugin manager and toolkit for loading plugins, snippets, completions, themes and command-line tools.

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Encryption

zuluCrypt – feature-rich hard drive encryption tools

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Security

zuluCrypt provides CLI and Qt tools for managing LUKS, dm-crypt, VeraCrypt, TrueCrypt and BitLocker volumes across Linux storage devices.

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Encryption

Tomb – system for file encryption

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Tomb manages portable LUKS-encrypted storage containers with separate keys, FIDO2 unlocking, steganography and flexible mounting.

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Encryption

gocryptfs – encrypted overlay filesystem written in Go

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Security

gocryptfs provides file-based encrypted storage through FUSE, with reverse mode, filename encryption, FIDO2 support and cloud-friendly sync.

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Diary

jrnl – command-line journal software

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

jrnl is a command-line journal with natural-language dates, multiple diaries, tagging, powerful searching and optional encrypted storage.

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