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lule – generate ANSI colour schemes from wallpapers

February 19, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

lule generates ANSI colour schemes from wallpapers, with 256-colour output, templates, WCAG contrast controls and automation.

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Network

xfr – modern iperf3 alternative

February 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, TUI

xfr is a modern iperf3 alternative with a live TUI, multi-client server, and QUIC support.

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Network

zrok – secure internet sharing platform

February 18, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

zrok lets you securely share web services, files, and network resources — whether they’re across the internet or your private network.

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Image of Files

filebyte – list files and directories

February 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

filebyte is a CLI tool to list files and directories with intelligent size formatting, advanced filtering, and comprehensive file analysis.

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picocom – minimal dumb-terminal emulation program

February 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

picocom is a minimal dumb-terminal emulation program. It is, in principle, very much like minicom, only it’s “pico” instead of “mini”.

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Selection of utilities

up – write Linux pipes

February 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

up (Ultimate Plumber) is a tool for writing Linux pipes in a terminal-based UI interactively, with instant live preview of command results.

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lancher – local project-template manager

February 17, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lancher lets you store, manage, and replicate project templates from your filesystem or git repositories.

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Selection of utilities

fil – UNIX file command

February 16, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fil is a Unix file command written in Go.

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Screen Capture

wayscrollshot – scrolling screenshot tool for Wayland

February 16, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Desktop, GUI

wayscrollshot is a scrolling screenshot tool for Wayland that captures and stitches images in real-time as you scroll.

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ComChan – minimal serial monitor

February 16, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Comchan (short for “Communication Channel”) is a blazingly fast, minimal, and beginner-friendly serial monitor.

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Selection of utilities

Ember – minimal AUR helper

February 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Ember is a minimal AUR helper written in Ruby. It allows you to easily install, update, search, and remove AUR packages

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Monitoring

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: tree

February 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to tree, a utility that lists the contents of directories in a tree-like format.

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Monitoring

struct – project-focused directory tree and search utility

February 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

struct displays focused project trees with built-in exclusions, Git status filters, file sizes, directory summaries, and path search.

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Files

batdoc – cat for Office documents and PDFs

February 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

batdoc dumps .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .pptx, and .pdf files to your terminal as markdown.

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zond – network mapping and discovery tool

February 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

zond is an easy to use network mapping and discovery tool.

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envx – environment variable manager

February 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming, TUI

envx is an environment variable manager for developers, featuring an intuitive TUI and CLI.

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Command Schedulers

Systemd manager tui – manage systemd services

February 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software, TUI

Systemd manager tui is a program for managing systemd services through a TUI (Terminal User Interface).

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plotting-article

Incplot – make attractive plots

February 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

Incplot is a command like tool for drawing great looking plots in the terminal using Unicode characters.

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Pyright – fast static type checker for Python

February 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Pyright is a fast Python static type checker with incremental analysis, type inference, configurable checks and language server support.

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Selection of utilities

dumbpipe – create a dumb pipe between two machines

February 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

dumbpipe works with 256 bit endpoint ids and therefore is somewhat location transparent. In addition, connections are encrypted using TLS.

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