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Noorfetch – minimal terminal system information display

February 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Noorfetch displays a compact Linux hardware and operating system overview in a lightweight terminal layout with minimal distractions.

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Files

MARKTerm – render Markdown in a terminal

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Markterm is a library and program to render Markdown to a terminal. It’s inspired by Glow and implemented using Markd.

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Hypervisors

RVVM – RISC-V virtual machine

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

RVVM is a virtual machine / emulator for RISC-V guests, which emphasizes on performance, security, lean code and portability.

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File Managers

ffsend – securely share files from the command line

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

ffsend lets you easily and securely share files and directories from the command line.

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fzf – command-line fuzzy finder

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

fzf is a command-line fuzzy finder with interactive previews, shell completion, custom key bindings and powerful filtering workflows.

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FLI – simplifies AWS VPC Flow Logs analysis

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

FLI is a powerful command-line tool that simplifies AWS VPC Flow Logs analysis with intuitive commands, smart filtering, and more.

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tmuzika – Terminal music player for Linux

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

tmuzika aims to offer quick and simple music playback directly in the terminal, with full keyboard control.

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bfree – human-friendly view of Linux memory and swap

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

bfree is a human-friendly view of Linux memory and swap. Inspired by tools like btop, bfree gives you memory and swap stats.

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SST – build full-stack apps

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

SST is a framework that makes it easy to build modern full-stack applications on your own infrastructure.

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Security

Exosphere – aggregated patch and security update reporting

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security, TUI

Exosphere is a CLI and Text UI driven application that offers aggregated patch and security update reporting.

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GCLI – interact with GitHub and more

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

GCLI is a portable CLI tool for interacting with Git(Hub|Lab|Tea), Forgejo and Bugzilla from the command line.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: more

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to more.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: less

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to less. All of the tools are free and open source and sport a command-line interface.

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Documentation

lore – less-like terminal pager

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lore is a very basic less-like terminal pager.

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Security

cariddi – scanning tool

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Take a list of domains, crawl urls and scan for endpoints, secrets, api keys, file extensions, tokens and more.

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HTTP

Grab – asynchronous file downloader

February 22, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Grab is an asynchronous file downloader. It combines the simplicity of wget with the power of multi-threaded concurrency.

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Git Clients

mergiraf – syntax-aware Git merge conflict resolver

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

mergiraf is a syntax-aware Git merge driver that reconciles structured code changes and falls back to ordinary merging where needed.

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Anti-Malware Tools

YARA-X – malware pattern matching engine

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Security

YARA-X is a Rust-based malware pattern matching engine with a powerful CLI, compiled rules, detailed diagnostics and editor integration.

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Clipboard

cclip – clipboard manager for Wayland

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cclip manages Wayland clipboard history with MIME selection, sensitive-data filtering, tagging, deduplication and byte-exact storage.

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CDROM

Rip Rip Hooray! – specialized audio CD-ripper

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

Rip Rip Hooray! is a specialized audio CD-ripper optimized for track recovery.

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