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Category: Utilities

Password Managers

prs – fast and secure password manager for the terminal

July 15, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

prs is a secure, fast and convenient password manager for the terminal. Security is backed by the battle-tested GPG.

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Password Managers

KWalletManager – password management tool

July 15, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

KWalletManager is a tool to manage the passwords on your system. It provides a secure way to store passwords and other secret information.

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Password Managers

Secrets – password manager

July 15, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Secrets is a password manager which makes use of the KeePass v.4 format.

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Game Tools

Awesome Linux Game Tools: MangoHud

July 15, 2023 Steve Emms Games, Reviews, Software, Utilities

MangoHud is a Vulkan and OpenGL overlay to help you monitor FPS, temperatures, CPU/GPU load, and more besides.

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Password Managers

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Password Manager

July 9, 2023 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Google Password Manager is a password manager built into Chrome and Android devices. We recommend free and open source alternatives.

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Pro gaming

Awesome Free Linux Game Tools

July 8, 2023 Steve Emms Games, Utilities

Complementing Linux games are a wide range of tools that are designed for gamers. We feature the best tools that are available. This is a new series.

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htmlq – like jq but for html

July 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

htmlq is like jq, but for HTML. It uses CSS selectors to extract bits of content from HTML files. This is free and open source software.

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zet – command-line utility for doing set operations on files considered as sets of lines

July 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

zet is a command-line utility for doing set operations on files considered as sets of lines. It’s free and open source software.

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Screen capturing

Awesome Linux Game Tools: gpu-screen-recorder-gtk

July 7, 2023 Steve Emms Games, Reviews, Software, Utilities

gpu-screen-recorder-gtk is a GTK frontend for GPU Screen Recorder. It’s billed as a screen recorder that minimizes system performance by recording using the GPU only.

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Documentation

killport – kill processes running on a specified port

July 5, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

killport is a command-line utility for killing processes listening on specific ports. It’s designed to be simple, fast, and effective.

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Documentation

mawk – pattern scanning and text processing language

July 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mawk is an interpreter for the awk programming language. It’s free and open source software written in the C programming language.

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ebook reader

6 Best Free and Open Source eBook Tools

July 2, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

An electronic book (commonly abbreviated e-book) is a text and image-based publication which can be read on a computer or other digital devices such as an e-book reader.

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Documentation

gema – general purpose macro processor

June 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gema is a general purpose text processing utility based on the concept of pattern matching. It’s free and open source software.

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Documentation

GoAWK – POSIX-compliant awk interpreter

June 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

GoAWK is a POSIX-compatible version of AWK, and additionally has a CSV mode for reading and writing CSV and TSV files.

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Documentation

frawk – efficient awk-like language

June 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

frawk is a small programming language for writing short programs processing textual data. It’s written in Rust.

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Documentation

gawk – implementation of the awk programming language

June 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gawk is the GNU implementation of the Awk programming language, first developed for the UNIX operating system in the 1970s.

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Documentation

Miller – small and powerful CLI tool to do all your data processing

June 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for data formats such as CSV, TSV, JSON, JSON Lines, and positionally-indexed.

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Software to help you sleep

Opal – listen to relaxing background music

June 30, 2023 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Opal is a small utility that’s designed to do one thing — listen to relaxing background music. It’s written in Java.

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CPU

Premake – simple build configuration

June 29, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Premake is a command line utility which reads a scripted definition of a software project and uses it to generate project files for toolsets.

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CPU

just – save and run project-specific commands

June 29, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

just is a handy way to save and run project-specific commands. This is free and open source software written in Rust.

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