Some cools tools found here and there…

Terminal!

• kitty : A modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL-based terminal emulator
  • icat : alias of kitty +kitten icat
• chafa : Image-to-text converter supporting a wide range of symbols and palettes, transparency, animations, etc.

screens

Better top

• bpytop : Resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes
• btop : Resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes

Also: glances, btm ?

Cool navigation:

• lf : A terminal file manager inspred by ranger written in Go
• broot : Fuzzy Search + tree + cd
• ranger : Simple, vim-like file manager
• nnn : The fastest terminal file manager ever written.

Shell

Xonsh

Superseding standard commands:

ls

• lsd Modern ls with a lot of pretty colors and awesome icons
• bat Cat clone with syntax highlighting and git integration

find

• fd : Simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find
• rg (ripgrep) : A search tool that combines the usability of ag with the raw speed of grep
• rga (ripgrep-all) ripgrep, but also PDF, zip, ebooks, etc.

du

• ncdu : Disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface
  • Can navigate, delete, refresh, …
• dust : A more intuitive version of du in rust
  • “ncurse” synthetic display

Git related

• lazygit : Simple terminal UI for git commands
• tig : Text-mode interface for Git.
• gitui : Blazing fast terminal-ui for git written in Rust
• magit : needs Emacs

Lazy Docker

• lazydocker : A simple terminal UI for docker and docker-compose, written in Go with the gocui library.

Other

Logs etc…:

• lnav : A curses-based tool for viewing and analyzing log files
• jq : Command-line JSON processor
• croc : file sharing (from terminal), exists also on Android

progress bar

When no progress bar is integrated in the tool:

• pv : like in ` cat …

  pv

  …`

└─> cat 'What type of Rabbit can swim.mp4' | pv -s 1500k > /dev/null    ☺
1.48MiB 0:00:00 [14.8MiB/s] [=====================================>] 101% 

Some sources

• A list of new(ish) command line tools (jvns.ca)