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Category: CLI

Selection of utilities

nak – nostr army knife

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

nak is the nostr army knife command-line tool. This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.

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Git Clients

fuss – quick staging dirty git files

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

fuss is an interactive tree utility for complete git workflows, written in modern Fortran.

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Monitoring

dirmap – tool for generating a directory map

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dirmap is a tool for generating a directory map.

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lux – package manager for Lua

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

lux is a luxurious package manager for Lua.

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kirill – JSON validator

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

kirill scans projects large and small for JSON correctness.

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Selection of utilities

xLights – sequencer for lights

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

xLights is a sequencer to design, create and play lighting displays through the use of DMX controllers, E1.31 Ethernet controllers and more.

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Redress – tool for analyzing stripped binaries

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

The redress software is a tool for analyzing stripped Go binaries compiled with the Go compiler.

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Selection of utilities

ck – semantic code search

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

ck (seek) finds code by meaning, not just keywords. It’s grep that understands what you’re looking for

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Screen Capture

termframe – terminal output SVG screenshot tool

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

This tool is a non-interactive terminal emulator that executes a single command, renders its output in an internal virtual session, and exports a screenshot as an SVG file.

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Flash OS

buf – flash ISOs to create bootable USB drives

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

buf is a command-line utility for flashing ISOs to create bootable USB drives.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

demongrep – fast, local semantic code search

December 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Search your codebase using natural language queries like “where do we handle authentication?” — all running locally with no API calls.

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Selection of utilities

dotbins – manages CLI tool binaries in your dotfiles repository

December 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dotbins uniquely integrates tool-specific shell configurations (aliases, completions, etc.) directly in your dotfiles workflow.

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Machine Learning in Linux

Pipelex – declarative language for composable Al workflows

December 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

Pipelex is an open-source language that enables agents to build and run repeatable AI workflows.

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Log Analyzers

phos – log colorizer

December 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

phos is a fast, portable log colorizer written in the Rust language.

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System administration

gasroot – run a process as the root user

December 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI

gasroot is a utility that lets you run a process as the root user. gasroot asks for the user’s password, using a graphical interface.

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Files

mdq – select and render specific elements in a Markdown document

December 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

mdq aims to do for Markdown what jq does for JSON: provide an easy way to zero in on specific parts of a document.

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Flay – analyzes code for structural similarities

December 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Flay analyzes code for structural similarities. Differences in literal values, variable, class, method names, whitespace …

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Password manager

spw – generate secure passwords

December 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

spw lets you generate secure passwords using multiple algorithms with hardware RNG support.

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Security

AutoTimeliner – extract forensic timeline from volatile memory dump

December 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

AutoTimeliner lets you automagically extract forensic timeline from volatile memory dumps

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Annobin – binary annotation and examination package

December 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Annobin is a binary annotation and examination package. It consists of two main parts: plugins and annocheck.

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