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?

• exa

  43 21,706 5.2 Rust

  A modern replacement for ‘ls’.

  exa: better ls

• fzf

  129 52,346 9.3 Go

  :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

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

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• tmux

  79 29,126 9.3 C

  tmux source code

  

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

• glances

  39 22,887 4.2 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.

• fish-shell

  110 21,569 9.9 C++

  The user-friendly command line shell.

  

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

• fsearch

  28 2,404 4.0 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.

• em-keyboard

  0 298 5.1 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

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• zoxide

  32 10,631 5.5 Rust

  A smarter cd command. Supports all major shells.

• tealdeer

  21 3,290 3.4 Rust

  A very fast implementation of tldr in Rust.

  tealdear for tldr

• thefuck

  98 77,544 6.1 Python

  Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.

  Fix your typos with thefuck

• httpie

  29 27,846 7.8 Python

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

  

• tldr

  106 44,281 9.9 Markdown

  📚 Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands

  

  And this is why we were blessed with tldr.

• cheat.sh

  59 35,359 0.0 Python

  the only cheat sheet you need

  Also cheat.sh

• inxi

  7 1,034 5.3 Perl

  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

• lgogdownloader

  6 573 0.0 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

• zsh-histdb

  2 1,166 0.0 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.

• TimeShift

  21 4,441 4.7 Vala

  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

• navi

  23 12,914 6.1 Rust

  An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line

  Definitely navi. It's so friendly and helpful.

• hx

  1 154 0.0 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.

• ripgrep

  114 37,997 9.0 Rust

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

  rg

• sl

  7 2,595 0.0 C

  SL(1): Cure your bad habit of mistyping

  sl

• Mosh

  50 11,625 8.1 C++

  Mobile Shell

  

  mosh: better SSH, server rendered, auto reconnect

• rofi

  52 11,160 7.8 C

  Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement

  

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

• skim

  10 4,197 8.0 Rust

  Fuzzy Finder in rust!

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

• ffsend

  11 6,543 5.3 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)

• zhistory

  0 0 0.0 Python

  search through zsh history

• touchcursor-linux

  2 114 0.0 C

  TouchCursor style keyboard remapping for Linux.

• zim-desktop-wiki

  53 1,682 2.1 Python

  Main repository of the zim desktop wiki project

  

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

• jello

  4 392 4.5 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.

• jellex

  0 84 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.

• udiskie

  7 725 1.3 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.

• toggle-monitor-grayscale

  1 54 0.0 Shell

  Toggle Xorg monitors between color and grayscale mode

  Everything's seems less distracting with Toggle monitor grayscale

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