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advcpmv – patch for cp

May 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

advcpmv is a maintained patch set for Core Utilities that extends cp and mv with progress-aware transfer output.

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ufetch – system profiler

April 29, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ufetch is a small system information utility for Unix-like operating systems.

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fortsh – shell written in Fortran

March 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fortsh is an experimental POSIX-compatible command shell written in modern Fortran.

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X-CMD – command-line toolkit

January 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

X-CMD (pronounced as “X Command”) is a compact yet powerful command-line toolkit that offers over 100+ functional modules

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ReShell – modern shell

January 12, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

The ReShell project aims to provide a complete alternative to popular Linux shells such as the sh family (sh, bash, zsh, ksh, …)

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gsh – POSIX-compatible, Generative Shell

January 2, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

gsh is a modern, POSIX-compatible, generative shell that’s in an early stage of development.

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hsh – better shell

December 22, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

hsh is a slightly different take on your shell. It’s closer to a user agent than you standard POSIX shell.

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Git Clients

forgit – utility for using git interactively

December 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

forgit is designed to help you use git more efficiently. It’s lightweight and easy to use.

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Dax – shell with CLI

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Dax is a custom Unix shell implementation. It provides a familiar command-line interface with support for standard shell features.

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rash – rudimentary shell

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

rash, or really awesome shell (or rat ass shell if you prefer), is a rudimentary shell written in C

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makeself – make self-extractable archives

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

makeself.sh is a small shell script to create self-extracting tar.gz archives.

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lvsk-calendar – terminal-based calendar application

December 1, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

lvsk-calendar is a terminal-based calendar application with minimalist design and monochromatic pastel aesthetics.

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sh – shell parser, formatter, and interpreter

November 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

sh is a shell parser, formatter, and interpreter. It supports POSIX Shell, Bash, and mksh. It requires Go 1.24 or later.

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brush – POSIX- and bash compatible shell

November 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

brush (Bo(u)rn(e) RUsty SHell) is a POSIX- and bash-compatible shell, implemented in Rust. It’s built and tested on Linux, macOS, and WSL.

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Noctalia – minimal desktop shell for Wayland

November 3, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop, Utilities

Noctalia is billed as a beautiful, minimal desktop shell for Wayland that actually gets out of your way.

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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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SSH Manager TUI – terminal-based SSH connection manager

October 29, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

SSH Manager TUI is a terminal-based SSH connection manager with a modern color interface, designed to simplify managing multiple SSH profiles.

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sshmate – simplify interactions with SSH servers

October 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

sshmate is a tool to simplify interactions with SSH servers, offering an easy way to connect to servers by assigning a name to an address.

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Software

aurto – Arch Linux AUR tool

September 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

aurto is an Arch Linux AUR tool for managing an auto-updating local ‘aurto’ package repository using aurutils.

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Software

aurutils – helper tools for the AUR

September 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

aurutils is a collection of scripts to automate usage of the Arch User Repository, with different tasks such as package searching, and more.

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