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Decman – declarative package and configuration manager for Arch

November 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Decman lets you manage installed packages, your dotfiles, enabled systemd units, and run commands automatically.

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liz-desktop – Rust-based shortcut helper

November 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

liz-desktop is a Rust-based shortcut helper to remember, customize and autorun shortcuts or commands. Developed via Tauri 2.0.

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Selection of utilities

IsMyArchFree – identify licenses

November 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

IsMyArchFree is a simple program that analyzes pacman-installed packages’ licenses and flags them as free, permissive, …

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File Managers

sff – lightweight terminal file manager with extensible file operations

November 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, TUI

sff is a lightweight terminal file manager with tabs, cross-directory selection, batch renaming, archive operations and shell extensions.

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Calendar

Calcol – wrapper to colorize cal

November 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

Calcol is a wrapper around the cal command from util-linux that allows you to display a colorized calendar.

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folsy – folder synchronization script

November 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

folsy is simple shell script which performs a job similar to other (folder) synchronization tools, but with nearly no resource consumption

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Linux Candy: shuffle – ASCII art with a cool shuffle effect

November 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

The shuffle command prints an ASCII art picture with a cool shuffle effect.

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FTP Client

lssh – terminal-native remote access suite

November 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, TUI

lssh is a terminal-native remote access suite with SSH host selection, parallel commands, file transfer, forwarding and provider support.

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Fractals

FLAM3 – fractal flame renderer and genetic language

November 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

FLAM3 renders fractal flames and animations from the command line, with genome generation, mutation, crossover and a reusable C library.

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Reference Management

QuickBib – retrieve BibTeX citations from academic identifiers

November 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Education, GUI

QuickBib retrieves BibTeX records from DOIs, arXiv IDs, article URLs and titles using a graphical interface, terminal commands and Crossref.

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Groupware

ii – minimalist filesystem-based IRC client

November 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

ii is a filesystem-based IRC client that represents channels and conversations as directories and files for use with shell commands.

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pkgdu – display Arch packages disk usage size

November 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pkgdu is a tool to display packages disk usage size for Arch Linux.

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SSD

duviz – render ASCII-art representation of disk space usage

November 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

duviz is a (Python 3) command-line tool to visualize disk space usage.

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Network

Meshtastic – decentralized mesh networking ecosystem

November 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Meshtastic is a project that lets you use inexpensive LoRa radios as a long range off-grid communicator for areas without reliable cellular service.

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Chat

rirc – lightweight terminal IRC client

November 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

rirc is a compact IRC client for terminals with multiple server connections, TLS encryption, SASL authentication and IRCv3 support.

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SSD

dut – disk usage calculator

November 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

By default, dut will output a tree of the biggest directories it finds under your current directory.

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Groupware

hii – lightweight filesystem-based IRC client

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

hii is a file-based IRC client inspired by ii, with IRCv3 monitoring, TLS authentication, IPv6 and recording of nickname mentions.

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Network

pingstat – multi-server ping statistics and logging

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pingstat logs connectivity measurements for multiple servers in SQLite databases, providing historical latency and packet-loss statistics.

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myping – monitor multiple network hosts simultaneously

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

myping monitors the reachability of several hosts simultaneously, showing connection failures and successes in a compact terminal display.

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System Administration

asroot – simpler alternative to sudo and doas

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

asroot runs commands as root for authorized wheel-group members, with password authentication and sanitized process environments.

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