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Easy-RSA – command-line PKI management utility

September 20, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Easy-RSA is a command-line PKI utility for creating certificate authorities, signing certificates and managing revocation with OpenSSL.

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Folder navigation

SD – dynamic directory navigation utility

September 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

SD is a shell directory navigation utility that ranks visited locations by frequency and recency and supports cycling through matching paths.

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Security

UAC – Unix-like artefact collector for incident response

September 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

UAC automates forensic artefact collection from Linux and other Unix-like systems with portable, profile-driven incident response workflows.

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Shell prompt

Rat Zsh – fast and reproducible Zsh plugin manager

September 17, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

Rat Zsh is a Rust Zsh plugin manager with TOML configuration, parallel sync, revision pinning, conditional loading, update checks, and reproducible setups.

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Shell prompt

ZPico – tiny package manager for Zsh

September 16, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ZPico is a tiny Zsh package manager supporting GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, Framagit, local repositories, branch selection, updates, and self-updating.

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Shell prompt

AX-ZSH – modular Zsh configuration system

September 11, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

AX-ZSH is a modular Zsh configuration framework with plugin management, caching, themes, upgrades and integration with Oh My Zsh plugins.

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Shell prompt

Zephyr – lightweight modular Zsh framework

September 10, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

Zephyr is a lightweight, modular Zsh framework with independent plugins for completion, history, prompts, editing and shell configuration.

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Images of shells by the sea

cjsh – POSIX-oriented shell

August 27, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

cjsh is a POSIX-oriented shell that combines a standards-focused scripting engine with a modern interactive environment.

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Images of shells by the sea

loksh – Linux port of the Korn shell

August 27, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

loksh is a Linux port of the Korn shell supplied by OpenBSD. It follows the OpenBSD source closely

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Images of shells by the sea

Marcel – modern shell

August 26, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

Marcel is a modern shell that uses Python values rather than plain text as the primary data passed through pipelines.

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Images of shells by the sea

Hilbish – highly extensible interactive shell

August 26, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

Hilbish is a highly extensible interactive shell configured using Lua.

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Cicada – Bash-like Unix shell

August 25, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

Cicada is a Bash-like Unix shell written in Rust. It is designed as a simple daily-use command interpreter.

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Documentation

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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Circuit board

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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Selection of utilities

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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Images of shells by the sea

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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Images of shells by the sea

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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Images of shells by the sea

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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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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