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Password Managers

gopass – password manager for individuals and teams

March 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gopass manages encrypted password stores with Git synchronisation, team sharing, multiple vaults and terminal-friendly secret retrieval.

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Password Managers

keydex – terminal password manager for KeePass databases

March 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

keydex manages KeePass databases from the terminal with entry browsing, field copying, a built-in editor and shell pipeline integration.

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Font Tools

cfonts – command line tool for sexy ANSI fonts in the console

March 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cfonts is a little command line tool for sexy ANSI fonts in the console.

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DABlin – DAB/DAB+ receiver

March 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Multimedia

DABlin is a Linux DAB and DAB+ receiver for live transmissions and stored ensembles, with CLI and GTK interfaces and broadcast data support.

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Monitoring

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: tail

March 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to the command-line tail utility.

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Documents

zchunk – compressed file format

March 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

zchunk is a file format designed for highly efficient deltas while maintaining good compression.

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Log Analyzers

Logdy – real-time log viewer with a web interface

March 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software, Web Apps

Logdy provides real-time log viewing in a local web interface, with live filtering, custom parsers, sockets and command output support.

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Chemistry

element – command-line periodic table

March 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

element is a command-line chemistry reference with interactive name completion, element properties, random selection and an ASCII table.

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Automation

wtype – xdotool type for Wayland

March 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

wtype is a Wayland tool that allows you to simulate keyboard input like xdotool type for X11.

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Backup software

Konsave – save and apply KDE Plasma customizations

March 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Konsave is a CLI program that will let you save and apply your Linux customizations with a single command.

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System administration

pkdns – DNS resolver for public-key domains

March 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

pkdns resolves public-key domain names through PKARR records on the Mainline DHT while forwarding traditional DNS lookups.

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Selection of utilities

Ucto – rule-based Unicode text tokenizer

March 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Ucto splits multilingual text into tokens and sentences, handles punctuation and normalisation, and supports FoLiA annotated output.

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System administration

pdnsd – persistent caching DNS proxy

March 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

pdnsd is a local caching DNS proxy that persists cached answers across restarts and supports upstream resolver configuration.

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System administration

Hickory DNS – DNS client, server and resolver

March 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Hickory DNS provides client, resolver and server components with DNSSEC, encrypted DNS transports and reusable network libraries.

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Clipboard

Clipboard Sync – synchronization tool for X11 and Wayland instances

March 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Clipboard Sync synchronises clipboard data between X11 and Wayland sessions on one Linux computer, including nested and remote desktops.

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3D Printer

SuperSlicer – G-code generator for 3D printers

March 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

SuperSlicer takes 3D models (STL, OBJ, AMF) and converts them into G-code instructions for FFF printers or PNG layers for mSLA 3D printers.

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System administration

FDNS – encrypted DNS proxy

March 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

FDNS is an encrypted DNS proxy for Linux desktops with upstream privacy services, DNS filtering, caching and sandbox integration.

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Email

mu – maildir indexer and searcher

March 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

mu is a tool for dealing with e-mail messages stored in the Maildir-format.

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Linux Candy: wallust – create 16 color palettes

March 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews, Utilities

wallust is a command-line program that generates a color palette from the dominant colors in an image.

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3D Printer

Printrun – suite of hosts for 3D printers and other CNC machines

March 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

Printrun consists of a suite of hosts for 3D printers and other CNC machines and a small collection of scripts.

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