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

  129 23,303 3.5 Rust

  A modern replacement for ‘ls’.

exa: better ls

• fzf

  407 60,111 9.6 Go

  :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

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

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• tmux

  208 33,095 8.3 C

  tmux source code

  

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

• glances

  101 25,075 9.6 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

  320 24,664 9.9 Rust

  The user-friendly command line shell.

  

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

• fsearch

  52 3,114 6.5 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

  1 308 6.9 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

• SaaSHub

  www.saashub.com featured

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

  

• zoxide

  100 18,967 8.1 Rust

  A smarter cd command. Supports all major shells.

• tealdeer

  48 3,903 6.3 Rust

  A very fast implementation of tldr in Rust.

tealdear for tldr

• thefuck

  305 82,982 4.2 Python

  Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.

Fix your typos with thefuck

• httpie

  117 32,058 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)

  

• tldr

  262 48,586 10.0 Markdown

  📚 Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands

  

And this is why we were blessed with tldr.

• cheat.sh

  140 37,506 0.0 Python

  the only cheat sheet you need

Also cheat.sh

• inxi

  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

• lgogdownloader

  16 663 7.2 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

  16 1,233 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

  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

• navi

  52 14,393 8.2 Rust

  An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line

Definitely navi. It's so friendly and helpful.

• hx

  4 168 2.9 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

  348 45,156 9.3 Rust

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

rg

• sl

  25 2,838 0.0 C

  SL(1): Cure your bad habit of mistyping

sl

• Mosh

  152 12,229 4.6 C++

  Mobile Shell

  

mosh: better SSH, server rendered, auto reconnect

• rofi

  152 12,450 8.5 C

  Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement

  

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

• skim

  27 4,859 0.0 Rust

  Fuzzy Finder in rust!

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

• ffsend

  26 6,844 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)

• zhistory

  1 0 1.0 Python

  search through zsh history

• touchcursor-linux

  5 129 3.2 C

  TouchCursor style keyboard remapping for Linux.

• zim-desktop-wiki

  164 1,860 8.5 Python

  Main repository of the zim desktop wiki project

  

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

• jello

  31 461 5.8 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

  11 94 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

  15 818 7.2 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

  6 75 3.1 Shell

  Toggle Xorg monitors between color and grayscale mode

Everything's seems less distracting with Toggle monitor grayscale

• SaaSHub

  www.saashub.com featured

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

  

Suggest a related project