Big fan of commandline tools such as vim, htop etc. What is in your opinion must have tools?
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xclipis incredibly useful to get and set data from the clipboard!gopupis to html whatjqis to JSON. It allows you to parse html to extract specific data for a given selector.I mentioned this in another post, but tmux is awesome
yt-dlpI basically live in
nvim. Being able to configure my editor in an actual programming language makes it so much more useful to me thanvimcould ever be.I found lua to be a better programming language, but the text specific design of vimscript makes way more sense to my brain.
fzf for quickly matching file names especially deep in the directory hierarchy
ripgrep for quickly searching for text content within files
dtrx for handling the right extractions of different archive types
What is the difference between
ripgrepand just plain grep?ripgrepis a reimplementation ofgrepin Rust. It benchmarks faster for large file searches and also comes with quality of life features like syntax highlighting by default.It also ignores files in .gitignore and some others by default
It also has a much simpler and forgiving syntax. Just type
rg anythingand it finds anythinggrepdoes that throughfgrep
Even better, there is ripgrep-all that can also search in binary files like PDFs and office documents: https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all
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rangerandmc- both are file managers, and their approach is so different that I choose one of them I need at the moment depending on what do I want to do (mcfor traditional file management,rangerfor looking around the directory tree and peeking into files)htop,tmux- classicsweechat,profanity- for my IM needsripgrep- for searching through filesmagic-wormholefor file and ssh public key exchangemoshfor when the network conditions aren’t idealnmapto see if that machine I’ve connected into the network is up and what IP did it getbatfor quick looking into filesgdb, with mandatory gdb dashboardnvimfor serious text and code editing,microfor more casual editing
Ranger and/or vifm as file managers. Can’t live without them
They might have specific uses that most users might not need and there may be better alternatives but some of the ones I’ve been using are:
CISO - A command line tool for making compressed ISO files that can be used in emulators and some video game consoles running custom firmware.
RAR - The Linux version of WinRAR, which doesn’t have a UI like the Windows version does.
Flatpak - Probably well known but in case a newer Linux user sees this, it’s used to download and install flatpaks from Flathub.
- gcalcli : helps accessing google calendar using calendar api
- neix : rss reader
- I don’t know if it counts but : fish shell
k9s is a game changer
off the top of my head:
- vim
- git
- bash
- make
- whatever-compiler-im-using
- curl
- less
- grep
I am thoroughly enjoying using mcfly.
argos-translate for offline machine language translation.
tmux & neovim for editing files and organizing the terminal displays.
asciinema for recording and playing back terminal sessions.
I have mostly replaced all command line stuff with Emacs, but there are still a few CLI utilities that I continue to use, whether I am in the CLI directly or whether I am using Emacs:
tmuxorscreen(terminal multiplexing)bash(shell scripting)grep,sed(filtering, formatting)ps,pgrep,pkill(process control)ls,find,du(filesystem search)ssh,nc,rsync,sshfs,sftp(remote access, file transfer)tee,dd(pipe control)less,emacs,diff,patch,pandoc(text editing)man,apropos(manual)tar,gzip,bzip2,xz(archiving)hexdump,base64,basenc,sha256sum(data encoding, checksums)wget,curl, (HTTP client)dpkg,apt-get,guix(package management)mpv(media player)ldd,objdump,readelf(inspecting binary files)zfs(maintaining my backup filesystem)
