Useful commands and utilities I use all the time

November 17 2021

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

cloc $^{\text{[PKG]}}$ - count lines of code
dog $^{\text{[PKG]}}$ - a command-line DNS client which is not pain to deal with
downgrade $^{\text{[AUR]}}$ - an useful tool for downgrading packages on arch based operating systems
neofetch $^{\text{[PKG]}}$ - command you can run to remind you that your distro is just meme
nmap $^{\text{[PKG]}}$ - network exploration tool and security/port scanner (if it is good enough for trinity it is good enough for me)
tldr $^{\text{[PKG]}}$ - a simplified man page that shows most often usages in bullet points
tuxi $^{\text{[AUR]}}$ - a CLI tool that scrapes Google search results and SERPs that provides instant and concise answers
yay $^{\text{[AUR]}}$ - a pacman wrapper which helps you with AUR packages written in GO

Utilities

cava $^{\text{[AUR]}}$ - Console-based Audio Visualizer for Alsa
cmus $^{\text{[PKG]}}$ - basically a command-line version of iTunes
cointop $^{\text{[AUR]}}$ - htop for crypto currencies
fzf $^{\text{[PKG]}}$ - a command-line fuzzy finder
gitui $^{\text{[AUR]}}$ - command-line git user interface that does not suck
htop-vim $^{\text{[AUR]}}$ - Interactive process viewer with a Vim keybindings patch
ncdu $^{\text{[PKG]}}$ - a disk analyzer which will help you find large files and unused files for easy disk space maintenance.
neomutt $^{\text{[PKG]}}$ - based email client
neovim $^{\text{[PKG]}}$ - the only good text editor ever made
rmlint $^{\text{[PKG]}}$ - file finder capable of generating list of duplicate files and user friendly shell scripts for their removal
sysz $^{\text{[AUR]}}$ - terminal UI for systemctl with fuzzy search