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Git Clients

forgit – interactive Git commands powered by fzf

December 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

forgit adds fzf-powered interactive selectors for common Git tasks including add, diff, log, restore, branch, stash, rebase and worktrees.

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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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Selection of utilities

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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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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Machine Learning

Holloway’s Upscaler – command-line image and video enlargement

August 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Scientific

Holloway’s Upscaler enlarges images and video with Real-ESRGAN models, FFmpeg integration, format choices and resumable workflows.

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Network

ereandel is a Gemini web browser using shell script

May 20, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

ereandel can work with client certificates if capsules requires them for authentication.

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arsh – statically typed scripting language

February 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

arsh is a statically typed scripting language with shell-like features.

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Tools that help you

cheatshh – CLI tool to store commands

January 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cheatshh is an interactive CLI meant for managing command line cheatsheets, written in shell script.

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Reading

tspreed – terminal-based RSVP speed reader

January 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

tspreed is a terminal-based RSVP speed reader with Spritz-like functionality written in POSIX-compliant shell.

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faint – extensible TUI fuzzy file explorer

December 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

faint is a fuzzy file explorer for the CLI that supports various extensible features.

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Best Free and Open Source Navigation Tools

menucd – curses directory browser and changer

September 26, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

menucd provides a curses directory browser with bookmarks, incremental filtering and shell integration for fast terminal navigation.

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