SOFTWARE

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