Useful commands and utilities I use all the time
This is small list of commands I find very useful. This list will never be final because I plan to update it regularly. Also I will not list standard GNU commands.
Commands
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cloc
- count lines of code -
dog
- a command-line DNS client which is not pain to deal with -
downgrade
- an useful tool for downgrading packages on arch based operating systems -
neofetch
- command you can run to remind you that your distro is just meme -
nmap
- network exploration tool and security/port scanner (if it is good enough for trinity it is good enough for me) -
tldr
- a simplified man page that shows most often usages in bullet points -
tuxi
- a CLI tool that scrapes Google search results and SERPs that provides instant and concise answers -
yay
- a pacman wrapper which helps you with AUR packages written in GO
Utilities
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cava
- Console-based Audio Visualizer for Alsa -
cmus
- basically a command-line version of iTunes -
cointop
- htop for crypto currencies -
fzf
- a command-line fuzzy finder -
gitui
- command-line git user interface that does not suck -
htop-vim
- Interactive process viewer with a Vim keybindings patch -
ncdu
- a disk analyzer which will help you find large files and unused files for easy disk space maintenance. -
neomutt
- based email client -
neovim
- the only good text editor ever made -
rmlint
- file finder capable of generating list of duplicate files and user friendly shell scripts for their removal -
sysz
- terminal UI for systemctl with fuzzy search