Command line tools I always install on Ubuntu servers

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  • yq

    yq is a portable command-line YAML, JSON, XML, CSV, TOML and properties processor

  • For more information about this command visit https://github.com/mikefarah/yq

  • jq

    Command-line JSON processor

  • To handle JSON files and JSON outputs in a script or format and highlight it, jq can be very handy. Many command line tools provide a json output, so you don't have to write a custom parser for a table a list in a terminal. Instead of that, you can use jq to get a specific value from the output or even modify the output. For more information, you can visit https://jqlang.github.io/jq/

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  • htop

    htop - an interactive process viewer

  • Probably everyone knows about the "top" command. Htop is similar, but gives us a more user-friendly output. It shows processes using the most resources, how much available resources you have and who runs those processes. For more information, visit https://htop.dev/

  • btop

    A monitor of resources

  • Btop is even more advanced than htop. It is almost like a GUI in terminal, and it feels like a dashboard of an airplane. I like it, but when I want to see what processes are using most of my resources, it is usually htop that comes to my mind and not btop, since btop shows more by default than I usually want. For more information see https://github.com/aristocratos/btop.

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