Had JSON been around when I was born in the 1970’s Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie may very well have embraced it as a recommended output format to help programs “do one thing well” in a pipeline.

To that end, I argue that linux and all of its supporting GNU and non-GNU utilities should offer JSON output options. We already see some limited support of this in systemctl and the iproute2 utilities like ip where you can output in JSON format with the -j option.

jc JSONifies the output of many CLI tools and file-types for easier parsing in scripts. See the Parsers section for supported commands and file-types.

Ncdu is a disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface. It is designed to find space hogs on a remote server where you don’t have an entire graphical setup available, but it is a useful tool even on regular desktop systems. Ncdu aims to be fast, simple and easy to use, and should be able to run in any minimal POSIX-like environment with ncurses installed.

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wttr.in — the right way to check curl the weather!

wttr.in is a console-oriented weather forecast service that supports various information representation methods like terminal-oriented ANSI-sequences for console HTTP clients (curl, httpie, or wget), HTML for web browsers, or PNG for graphical viewers.

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googler is a power tool to Google (web, news, videos and site search) from the command-line. It shows the title, URL and abstract for each result, which can be directly opened in a browser from the terminal. Results are fetched in pages (with page navigation). Supports sequential searches in a single googler instance.

googler was initially written to cater to headless servers without X. You can integrate it with a text-based browser. However, it has grown into a very handy and flexible utility that delivers much more. For example, fetch any number of results or start anywhere, limit search by any duration, define aliases to google search any number of websites, switch domains easily... all of this in a very clean interface without ads or stray URLs. The shell completion scripts make sure you don't need to remember any options.

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musikcube is a fully functional terminal-based music player, library, and streaming audio server that runs natively on Windows, macOS, and Linux. it also runs well on a Raspberry Pi with a custom DAC (e.g. IQaudIO DAC+, HiFiBerry DAC+ and others), and can output 24bit/192k audio comfortably.

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Resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes.

C++ version and continuation of bashtop and bpytop.

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A friendly reminder that if you need to sort IP addresses in numerical order by octet, you can use sort -V, which is intended to sort software versions…but works just as well for IP addresses.

sort -V ips.txt
1.9.128.13
1.9.128.17

• • SNIP - -
    223.247.130.72
    223.255.28.203

Nerd Fonts patches developer targeted fonts with a high number of glyphs (icons). Specifically to add a high number of extra glyphs from popular ‘iconic fonts’ such as Font Awesome, Devicons, Octicons, and others.

The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!

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@helpermethod

This project is a rewrite of GNU ls with lot of added features like colors, icons, tree-view, more formatting options etc. The project is heavily inspired by the super colorls project.

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Oliver Weiler
@helpermethod

But some commands, programs, applications, or whatever you want to call them are just plain unneeded for me. I've found five such commands. I haven't spent the time to trace their origins because that would be a huge time vacuum that I can't afford. So, here they are in all their glory—the five commands on my system that I've found I never use. They are in alphabetical order.

ccat is the colorizing cat. It works similar to the cat command but displays content with syntax highlighting. It supports JavaScript, Java, Ruby, Python, Go, C, and JSON programming languages. The overhead of ccat command comparing to a cat is minimum on a modern desktop with powerful multi-core CPUs and tons of RAM.

Papis is a powerful and highly extensible command-line based document and bibliography manager.

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Suicide Linux. Any time - any time - you type any remotely incorrect command, the interpreter creatively resolves it into rm -rf / and wipes your hard drive.

good old lynx ist auch im darkmode verfügbar : )

Life is to short to use dated cli tools that suck

Try these instead

build status coverage status
ssh-audit is a tool for ssh server auditing.
Features

SSH1 and SSH2 protocol server support;
grab banner, recognize device or software and operating system, detect compression;
gather key-exchange, host-key, encryption and message authentication code algorithms;
output algorithm information (available since, removed/disabled, unsafe/weak/legacy, etc);
output algorithm recommendations (append or remove based on recognized software version);
output security information (related issues, assigned CVE list, etc);
analyze SSH version compatibility based on algorithm information;
historical information from OpenSSH, Dropbear SSH and libssh;
no dependencies, compatible with Python 2.6+, Python 3.x and PyPy;

Want to make your Linux desktop lit? You need aafire. It is a terminal-based utility that starts an ASCII art fire right inside your terminal. Although you won't physically feel the heat aafire brings to the table, it's definitely a "cool" Linux program to have on your system.

PolKit, which provides methods for nonprivileged processes to interact with privileged ones, has been assigned CVE-2021-4034 and dubbed “PwnKit.”