this is awesome and i fully plan to go over a bunch of these this weekend!

i would also suggest toilet for this list. figlet foo | toilet -f term --gay gives you a nice oh-my-zsh-style headline.

Very comprehensive list, thank you so much, Alicia! Here are a few more command line tools that you might find useful:

awscli: is a command line interface for Amazon Web Services. It provides commands for a variety of AWS services, including EC2, S3, and RDS.

mycli: is a command line interface for MySQL that provides auto-completion and syntax highlighting.

ncdu: a disk usage analyzer that can help you quickly identify which files and directories are taking up the most space on your file system.

Awesome! 😍

Would like to add:

• Micro: a modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor (better nano)! 😉
• Forx: a command line tool for checking exchange rates between currencies, both crypto and fiat.

Awesome list!! 🔥 There are many I didn't know about.

I'd just add tmux to the mix. I can't live without it.

Also for the fun, cmatrix is a nice effect to have in your terminal when you are afk... specially piped to lolcat 😅

This list is actually useful, has most of the tools I use plus a few new ones. It explains about the tool, has screenshots and direct link to source. Very cool indeed, I would like to add the bitwarden command line clint with fzf are a great pair.

Great list! Looks like I'm going to spend most of today installing things instead of working...

My contribution to the list would be autojump. It learns all the directories you frequently cd into so you can quickly jump to them later. e.g. j Doc will take me straight to /home/moray/Documents/ from wherever I was.

This is an interesting list. I'm not usually a fan of listicles (article + list = listicle) since they are rarely carefully curated and someone basically throws the list together to fulfill some quota. You obviously spent a great deal of time putting this together, including figuring out what tool they replace. Very nice.

Two observations/thoughts:

1. speedtest-cli is fine as long as you understand that the results might not be realistic. Ookla, the organization behind speedtest.net, may have the largest selection of donated speed test servers globally, but ISPs are fully aware of their existence. Some ISPs even go out of their way to lie to their customers such as remove bandwidth caps for connections to the known, public list of Ookla speed test servers so that you get the advertised speeds you are paying for in just that one specific use-case. Ookla also sells cobranded versions of their speed testing widget to the ISPs that cater to each ISP's whims/desires, which I think is pretty sus. That said, something that does speed testing is better than nothing. Speed testing tools are also useful for the datacenter. For example, DigitalOcean advertises a minimum 1Gps link speed but I've seen burst rates up to 3Gps even for their cheapest VPS servers.

2. From the current librsync GitHub repo:

The rsync algorithm is different from most differencing algorithms because it does not require the presence of the two files to calculate the delta. Instead, it requires a set of checksums of each block of one file, which together form a signature for that file. Blocks at any position in the other file which have the same checksum are likely to be identical, and whatever remains is the difference.

The bolded portion is the important phrase that makes both librsync and anything built on it likely to introduce data corruption over time. There is no guarantee that the same checksum of a portion of a file means that the stored data is actually identical. I have personally witnessed significant data corruption due to the underlying algorithm used in librsync. rsync and librsync are, in my experience, unsuitable for the purposes that they claim to be suitable for.

This list is the best list I ever found on tools 🔥

I literally just created this account so I could comment on on your munificence ; and I literally had to Google synonyms of generosity to find the word munificence. Seriously, this is mind blowing - more so because I avidly search for such tools but have never heard of several of these. Anyway, thank you SO VERY MUCH- I’ll see you guys around soon…we are all now pupils of the chosen one, Alicia

You should definitely add fd (i.e. fd-find, fdfind on Ubuntu) to the list -- a nicer syntaxed find command with some nifty extras.
github.com/sharkdp/fd

Lots of great tools. Thanks!

There were a few apps on your list that I had already discovered, installed, tried a few times, and forgot about. It was good to be reminded so I can look at them again. It can take a bit of effort to make a new tool part of your muscle memory, no matter how useful.

For me one indispensable tool, that now finally flows off my finger tips, is ack -- a grep-like source code search tool. Most of the time I can just type in a snippet of what I'm looking for, and it quickly finds that bit of code I wrote for some other project, but I just can't remember which one. The defaults settings are so well chosen, I rarely need to provide any options.

If some task is annoying to do it from some GUI there is always a way to do it from the cmd and that list shows it. Great post!
Thanks for sharing

List made me to go back to linux on my main machine ditching windows and all the games. I'd surely enjoy the perks I get in return. TY! 😄

Thanks for this list! fzf is great!

jq is super underrated

Thank you for writing this. You may have done something unique on the internet: written an article that more than lives up to its title!

More power to your elbow :)

Thanks for this, definitely checking out thefuck and easy navigation...

One of the best articles I've seen here.

You just broke my schedule for the rest of the night.

Great article. Lived without most of these using command flags over the years but I've been in the field quite a while and haven't come across some of these.

Nice to see someone younger (I'm assuming looking at your bio pic) actually takes note of these things over the pond, the states are getting rather incompetent for people under 30+ years old

Thanks. Even though, I am not a developer I love working inside a terminal as much as possible.

Thanks @lissy93 for curating such an amazing CLI tools list✨.
I'm Ubuntu OS user so the tools mentioned many of them will be super useful to me🚀.

Very good list!

self-advertise here my hobby project: showcert - human-friendly openssl alternative to read/validate certificates

OpenSSL hates you. Do you know if google smtp server cert is fresh?

echo | openssl s_client -connect smtp.gmail.com:25 -starttls smtp 2>&1 | openssl x509 -noout -dates

I love linux pipes too, but three command to show one very simple thing... (And I always have google for these commands, it's hard to remember). Isn't it easier:

$ showcert smtp.gmail.com:smtp
IP: 142.251.31.109
Names: smtp.gmail.com
notBefore: 2022-12-12 08:19:11 (38 days old)
notAfter: 2023-03-06 08:19:10 (45 days left)
Issuer: C=US O=Google Trust Services LLC CN=GTS CA 1C3

Same for:

$ showcert dev.to
...
$ showcert dev.to -o pem --chain > /tmp/devto.pem
$ showcert /tmp/devto.pem 
Names: dev.to
notBefore: 2022-08-30 21:45:08 (141 days old)
notAfter: 2023-10-01 21:45:07 (255 days left)
Issuer: C=BE O=GlobalSign nv-sa CN=GlobalSign Atlas R3 DV TLS CA 2022 Q3

Check all your LetsEncrypt and panic is anything will expire soon in 100 days (surely it will!):

showcert -q :le -w 100 || echo panic

dev.to/yaroslaff/showcert-explore-...
github.com/yaroslaff/showcert

nice list! I am already using some of these. I also can recommend silversearcher (finds files by content, kinda a grep alternative but cooler imo) and fd (better find)

Wow this list just blew my mind, I'll have to bookmark and try and process all of this over more than a few days.

great list love the docker cli tools like <3

Great Article it its really informative and innovative keep us posted with new updates. its was really valuable. thanks a lot

Note that bpytop is rewritten into C++ and renamed as btop (news)

Love this list! I see many of my favorites. The one I'd suggest is xh as a replacement for HTTPie github.com/ducaale/xh. It's pretty much but so much faster - the almost negligible startup time is very noticeable.

tldr isn't a better man, it's just shorter.
Not sure why would anyone need better cat. bat is just a really nice file previewer. But it's not even a better pager, since it still relies on one. Still useful, because I often launch vim only to have syntax highlighting.
fzf is awesome, but it's not better than find, it can only search by name. It's only better for interactive usage.
ripgrep is indeed better, use it all the time. It's awesome.
Instead of bpytop I would recommend btop. Looks like the same thing, but written in C++. github.com/aristocratos/btop
Since there's taskwarrior, I'd recommend timewarrior too. github.com/GothenburgBitFactory/ti...
For visual git usage I'd recommend tig github.com/jonas/tig
What I would really like is to have a better ranger (native binary, without python dependency)

👑 What a collection. It is by far the list I will camp for a long time.

• watchexec is missing 😊It is a tool that allows us to execute command with changes in files we are watching

I also did not see ncdu which not only list disk storage but also allows deleting:) So for me ncdu > duf > df

I did something similar with toilet/figlet:

Towards a better message of the day

Ben Sinclair ・ Apr 16 '21 ・ 3 min read

#cli #shell #productivity

Some of these tools seem like just a bit of fun but they can be a real productivity helper if you use them that way!

Great list, Alicia!

I would like to suggest Portal as a quite different alternative to the file transfer utilities listed. You can read more about it here: dev.to/zinokader/portal-a-modern-f....

Or jump directly to the Portal GitHub.

:)

Awesome post Alicia! These tools are quality of life upgrades ilto my workflow

I just wanted to know, what is the shell that you used to show examples of these tools? I really love it and I would like to use it as well

Great collection! Sad news - exa stopped being maintained, but supporters forked the project and created maintained version called EZA. Read more: denshub.com/en/best-ls-command-alt...

Recommend a tool.

go install github.com/chenquan/diskusage@latest

$ diskusage -h
A tool for showing disk usage
GitHub: https://github.com/chenquan/diskusage
Issues: https://github.com/chenquan/diskusage/issues

Usage:
  diskusage [flags]

Examples:
1.The maximum display unit is GB: diskusage -u G
2.Only files named doc or docx are counted:
  a.diskusage -t doc,docx
  b.diskusage -f ".+\.(doc|docx)$"
3.Supports color output to pipeline:
  a.diskusage -c always | less -R
  b.diskusage -c always | more
4.Displays a 2-level tree structure: diskusage -d 2
5.Specify the directory /usr: diskusage --dir /usr
6.Export disk usage to file: diskusage > diskusage.txt

Flags:
  -a, --all             display all directories, otherwise only display folders whose usage size is not 0
  -c, --color string    set color output mode. optional: auto, always, ignore (default "auto")
  -d, --depth int       shows the depth of the tree directory structure (default 1)
      --dir string

Hello Alicia, this is awesome work, I have a quick question hope you could help. do you know how to acheive this like you do: every time the path and command line are seperate? and how do you get that full path feature?

that's a huge list. i knew some tools and already use them, but you really presented awesome tools. thefuck is now my favourite tool of all times.

Thank you

Superb

This list is awesome! I ended up here looking for CLI tools for managing partitions, and maybe cfdisk should be on this list (although it may be Linux realm only tool).

It's very good! Thank you!

May I suggest ohcrab?

It's a port of thefuck (mentioned in the article) to Rust.

My question is, are there a list of commands separate from the cli commands that we have to master in order to use these tools again?

Standing high-scholie...

arttime is a must for both art and productivity.

Nice list!

Personality, I would replace by kdash by k9s, as it has more features including CRUD resources.

This is truly a GEM box! Thanks for sharing

Great Stuff!

My two cents: The silver searcher - a super fast tool for searching in files contents (oriented for code search)

I am the 2000th person to save this post!
This post was an insightful one!

github.com/ibraheemdev/modern-unix

Definitely one of the best post of tools I have seen!!! Thank you so much for sharing! I can recommend Topgrade github.com/topgrade-rs/topgrade to keep absolutely everything up to date.

Nice article 😁

thanks 🤗

Thank you so much, Alicia!

I would also recommend Fasd with the "z" command to go quickly to the most often used directories, it saved me so much time

What a wonderful resource! Thank you!

Really nice one 💕

That’s an amazing list! Thanks for sharing!

Wow!! Thank you for taking the time to put this list together.

Can you share me how to create icon apple in promt in your terminal. Look interesting!

This is awesome. Thank you!

Darn! Can’t decide which try first 😂

good selection, thank you Alicia!

Great list

Great resource!

I'd recommend github.com/extrawurst/gitui which I so far prefer over lazygit (though I've only tried the latter briefly).

Really nice article, as always! 💪🏻
Reminds me of what DistroTube shared in some of his videos. Always nice to get a fresh reminder! 👌🏻

Awesome list, even as someone who's been living in the terminal for a very long time I still found some gems in here I'd never heard of before. Thanks for sharing!

"can't live without"

have used almost none of this bloat

Awesome list! You should also check out tdfgo

Thank you

Very good list. Definitely i add this post to my favorites.
I will add
BTOP - one more resource manager

this list is🔥

Nice post, thanks !

Great list, thank you! But not gonna lie, when I scanned the title image (or whatever it's called), I read "clitoris".

Nice article 👏👏 Currently using maybe 1/4 of the above mentioned tools.

Thank you for this awesome compilation, very useful!

You forgot BME which lets you bookmark commands and sequences with custom placeholder arguments.

Thanks for the install script at the end Alicia, I'll be using it for provisioning my Vagrant boxes.

Thanks - will be using for provision Vagrant boxes.

Fantastic article! Appreciate the share; this list is truly impressive, and there are several gems here I was unaware of. 🔥

Thanks for the awesome tools :D

An epic set of tools !!! , is there place where we could download multiple of them at the sametime ?

Great list, I would also recommend Savvy CLI
It records your CLI commands and generates runbooks automatically for you. Great for debugging during oncall or sharing knowledge.

Daaaamn that's a lot of good cli tools thx.

thefuck is awesome great

it's awsome information
Asuransi Allianz

Thank you so much, Alicia.

forgot starship