A list of handy tools (mostly CLI) developed from a discussion on
most, less, bat: text viewingvi: text editingcat, cut, join, comm, sort, merge, uniq, grep,
shuf, random: basic text queryack, rg, awk, ack-grep: advanced text query (sometimes
filesystem too)mpv, mplayer, evince, mupdf, xpdf, firefox, links,
lynx, ebook-viewer: non-text viewingfind, xargs: filesystem queryfzf, fd: advanced filesystem queryjq, JSON queryhistory: bunksudo: sandwichesls, cd, mkdir, rmdir, mv, ln, rm, cp, du: basic
file managerexa: alternative to lsxdu, k4dirstat: disk usage explorersls, lsof, ps, w, who, ip, ifconfig, netstat, df,
vmstat, dstat, top, htop: system status informationthunar, bashmount, mkfs.vfat: mounting and formatting
removable mediasudo, apt, apt-get, apt-cache, ifconfig, dpkg,
apt-file, mtr: package management and system administrationssh, nc, rsync, youtube-dl, gomuks, mtr, httpdito:
networkingrsync, diff, patch, cmp: file comparison and synchronizationgit, fossil, rcs: source code version trackingrsync, git, tar: backups%, bg/%&, jobs, kill, killall, pidof: multitaskingtime, tally, ulimit, ps, top, docker, lsof, pv:
resource monitoring and administrationman, info, pydoc: online help[, [[, while, if, read, sleep, $((..)), echo: shell
scriptingcaesar: toy encryptionunits, bc, dev3/calc.py: calculationbc, python2, python3, awk: programming languagesTZ=America/New_York date: world clockprintf '\e[3gf(\eHx,\n\ty)\n': escape sequenceswatch -d: GUIficationreset: recovering a horked terminalsloccount, cloc: counting lines of sourceasciinema, screen, tmux: terminal recording, disconnecting,
multiplexingvisidata: data explorerdarkdraw: ASCII art draw programdd: sorry, I can’t, tonight I’m drivingw, who, write, wall, talk: a chat systemxclip, xmessage: sort of GUI integrationThanks to Shae Erisson and