Linux

inxi saves you time 90% of the time that you would use for lsXXX commands and grepping. Really useful for quick hardware and kernel module checks.

I think a lot of people don't realise that yt-dlp works for many sites, not just YouTube

I used it recently for watching a video from tiktok without having to use their god awful web UI and it was amazing

A few that I use every day:

• Fish shell
• Starship.rs
• Broot (a brilliant filesystem navigator)
• Helix editor (My favorite editor / IDE, truly the successor to vim IMO)
• Topgrade (updates everything)

I use fuck to fix typos

grep goes crazy if you know your regex

jq?

I'm a big fan of screen because it will let me run long-running processes without having to stay connected via SSH, and will log all the output.

I do a lot of work on customers' servers and having a full record of everything that happened is incredibly valuable for CYA purposes.

The pipe (|), which if you think about it is the basis for function composition.

nano was and still is vital to me learning and using linux, I will not learn how to use vim so if the distro forces it to be default im not using it. Why is editing text so convoluted for seemingly no reason.. I also hate that vim must be used for certain files.

I find myself using tldr a lot since finding out about it. It's just so useful for commands that I don't use enough to commit to memory.

awk

I know tmux is incredibly popular, but a good use case for it that isn’t common is teaching people how to do things in the terminal. You can both be attached to the same tmux session, and both type into the same shell.

zoxide. It's a fabulous cd replacement. It builds a database as you navigate your filesystem. Once you've navigated to a directory, instead of having to type cd /super/long/directory/path, you can type zoxide path and it'll take you right to /super/long/directory/path.

I have it aliased to zd. I love it and install it on every system

You can do things like using a partial directory name and it'll jump you to the closest match in the database. So zoxide pa would take you to /super/long/directory/path.

And you can do partial paths. Say you've got two directories named data in your filesystem.

One at /super/long/directory/path1/data

And the other at /super/long/directory/path2/data

You can do zoxide path2 data and you'll go to /super/long/directory/path2/data

I don't see anyone mentions htop. So, I will:) Just works, could be installed in any distro. Much more friendly than top but isn't bloated with features as some other alternatives are.

+1 for Caddy, completely replaced nginx. also...

• Starship - shell prompt
• tmux - terminal multiplexer
• parallel - parallel command runner
• restic - backup tool
• age - modern file encryption

Using rust rewrite of coreutils you can cp -g to see progress. Set an alias :)

yq is crazy cool for converting between different text-based data formats such as yaml, json, xml, csv and others, and it has a super nice pretty-printing function as well. I use it all the time!

Just be aware that your distroy might come with a yq variant too, but possibly one that isn't as powerful as the one I linked. I know this to be true at least for Ubuntu.

CTRL-L to clear your terminal output. Or type clear

tmux - makes managing remote SSH sessions a breeze.

tomb - A little FOSS encryption utility that runs in the CLI. Easy, cute, effective. Tomb Utility