What's a small Linux program that you don't give much thought but makes your life a hundred times easier from time to time?

1. exa

   1 131 23,721 3.0 Rust

   A modern replacement for ‘ls’.

   

   exa: better ls

2. SaaSHub

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   SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

   

3. fzf

   2 423 67,176 9.7 Go

   :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

   

   good picks, bat is a great companion for fzf for previewing.

4. tmux

   3 223 36,083 9.1 C

   tmux source code

   

   tmux - Does so much it's hard to describe. Like GNU Screen on steroids.

5. glances

   4 103 27,365 9.8 Python

   Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative for GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS and Windows operating systems.

   I like glances for quickly monitoring my server or desktop.

6. fish-shell

   5 343 27,631 9.9 Rust

   The user-friendly command line shell.

   

   Fish, a replacement for Bash with cleaner syntax and much more helpful auto-completion.

7. fsearch

   6 53 3,417 6.1 C

   A fast file search utility for Unix-like systems based on GTK3

   fsearch when I want to quickly find some file within the millions of files on my computer.

8. em-keyboard

   7 1 313 7.1 Python

   The CLI emoji keyboard

   

   em : a cli emoji picker. I have a hotkey to launch it in a terminal session. I pick my emoji by typing and pressing "enter." I close the terminal with the alias xx. I pasted with ctrl+v. I use this embarrassingly often and have added my own stuff to the built-in database. The source code is worth looking at. github

9. zoxide

   8 104 24,314 8.2 Rust

   A smarter cd command. Supports all major shells.

   

10. tealdeer

    9 48 4,667 7.9 Rust

    A very fast implementation of tldr in Rust.

    

    tealdear for tldr

11. thefuck

    10 307 89,178 1.7 Python

    Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.

    

    Fix your typos with thefuck

12. httpie

    11 129 34,426 6.6 Python

    🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more. (by httpie)

    

13. tldr

    12 271 53,017 10.0 Markdown

    📚 Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands

    

    And this is why we were blessed with tldr.

14. cheat.sh

    13 142 38,782 2.5 Python

    the only cheat sheet you need

    Also cheat.sh

15. inxi

    14 18 1,128 7.0 Perl

    Discontinued inxi is a full featured CLI system information tool. It is available in most Linux distribution repositories, and does its best to support the BSDs.

    4) inxi - system info via perl : https://github.com/smxi/inxi

16. lgogdownloader

    15 17 748 7.7 C++

    LGOGDownloader is unofficial downloader to GOG.com for Linux users. It uses the same API as the official GOG Galaxy.

    

    5) lgogdownloader - manage your gog games via CLI : https://github.com/Sude-/lgogdownloader

17. zsh-histdb

    16 16 1,294 2.4 Shell

    A slightly better history for zsh

    

    zsh-histdb: store your command history in a sqlite database along with the exit status code and the directory the command was run in. Therefore no randomly losing portions of your command history based on which terminals you closed first or didn't close at all, and no getting weird garbage in your history from multi-line commands. I have a nearly complete history of every shell command I've typed since installing each of my machines.

18. TimeShift

    17 142 4,441 4.7 Vala

    Discontinued System restore tool for Linux. Creates filesystem snapshots using rsync+hardlinks, or BTRFS snapshots. Supports scheduled snapshots, multiple backup levels, and exclude filters. Snapshots can be restored while system is running or from Live CD/USB.

    Why is nobody mentioning #timeshift

19. navi

    18 52 15,378 6.1 Rust

    An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line

    

    Definitely navi. It's so friendly and helpful.

20. hx

    19 5 196 2.8 C

    Hex editor for the terminal using plain C99 + POSIX libs.

    hx a vim-like hex editor in your terminal. It's amazing, and i use it all the time.

21. ripgrep

    20 361 49,790 8.1 Rust

    ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore

    

    rg

22. sl

    21 26 3,003 0.0 C

    SL(1): Cure your bad habit of mistyping

    

    sl

23. Mosh

    22 158 12,763 0.0 C++

    Mobile Shell

    

    mosh: better SSH, server rendered, auto reconnect

24. rofi

    23 153 13,532 7.7 C

    Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement

    

    rofi: interactive menu to select many things, programs, files, passwords (dmenu alt)

25. skim

    24 29 5,340 9.5 Rust

    Fuzzy Finder in rust!

    

    skim: super fast file finding, fantastic in Vim (fzf alt)

26. ffsend

    25 27 7,020 3.6 Rust

    :mailbox_with_mail: Easily and securely share files from the command line. A fully featured Firefox Send client.

    ffsend: quick file sharing from command-line (shameless plug)

27. zhistory

    26 1 0 1.0 Python

    search through zsh history

28. touchcursor-linux

    27 5 136 5.1 C

    TouchCursor style keyboard remapping for Linux.

29. zim-desktop-wiki

    28 169 1,971 8.8 Python

    Main repository of the zim desktop wiki project

    

    Zim makes it really easy to create your own desktop wiki.

30. jello

    29 31 501 0.0 Python

    CLI tool to filter JSON and JSON Lines data with Python syntax. (Similar to jq)

    

    There's a new TUI for jello now called jellex that can help you create your jello python filters faster and easier.

31. jellex

    30 11 99 3.8 Python

    TUI to filter JSON and JSON Lines data with Python syntax

    There's a new TUI for jello now called jellex that can help you create your jello python filters faster and easier.

32. udiskie

    31 15 901 8.0 Python

    Automounter for removable media

    If you are not using a DE, doesn't Udiskie help with this? With the --smart-tray options it shows up on your tray when it detect drives and automount them. You can umount and power off by right clicking and selecting the drive. Or just udiskie-umount -da.

33. toggle-monitor-grayscale

    32 7 85 3.1 Shell

    Toggle Xorg monitors between color and grayscale mode

    Everything's seems less distracting with Toggle monitor grayscale

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