A little note that all this was stolen from: http://kkovacs.eu/cool-but-obscure-unix-tools
A little collection of cool unix terminal/console/curses tools
Just a list of 20 (now 28) tools for the command line. Some are little-known, some are just too useful to miss, some are pure obscure -- I hope you find something useful that you weren't aware of yet! Use your operating system's package manager to install most of them. (Thanks for the tips, everybody!)
iostat, vmstat, ifstat and much more in one.
Visualizes network interface traffic over time.
The real programmers' editors.
Keep your terminal sessions alive.
See your log files in separate windows.
Presentation ("PowerPoint") tool for terminal.
Executes tasks from input (even multithread).
Encrypting backup tools.
Still the most complex game on the planet.
Does FTPS. Can mirror, kinda like rsync.
A better grep for source code.
Calendar systems.
Command line RSS readers.
Helps conserve power on Linux.
A console UI for git.
The best calculator. Ever. (For scripts too.)
Process, memory and io monitoring.
Record and play back terminal sessions.
Keeps filesystems in sync over SSH.
traceroute 2.0.
Directing stuff easily in and out of sockets.
To see where your traffic goes.
Command line load test tools.
Terminal-based accounting package.
Todo management in the terminal.
Everybody's favorite HTTP toolbox.
Command line torrent downloaders.
Nice trendy Twitter clients :)
Alternatives to the midnight commander.
Ranger commands: cd - change directory, gh - go home, H - back in history, L - forward in history.Â
yy - copy, yp - past, yd - paste directory, dd - cut, dD - delete.
If you want hidden files shown add the following line to ~/.config/ranger/rc.conf (:set show hidden true)
I just couldn't resist. :o)
Counts lines of code.
For network assignments.
New way to list files, directories. GitHub at: https://github.com/Peltoche/lsd/
DuckDuckGo terminal search.