MUST HAVE Linux Programs/Commands?

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/linuxquestions

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  • yt-dlp

    A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

  • firejail to isolate applications within the same user account. tmux to have detachable multiple windows and multiple panes in the terminal. jq to parse JSON. q to run SQL queries on CSV files. yt-dlp to download videos from everywhere. ncdu to visualize and explore disk usage. htop to monitor processes and resources.

  • jq

    Discontinued Command-line JSON processor [Moved to: https://github.com/jqlang/jq] (by stedolan)

  • firejail to isolate applications within the same user account. tmux to have detachable multiple windows and multiple panes in the terminal. jq to parse JSON. q to run SQL queries on CSV files. yt-dlp to download videos from everywhere. ncdu to visualize and explore disk usage. htop to monitor processes and resources.

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  • htop

    htop - an interactive process viewer

  • firejail to isolate applications within the same user account. tmux to have detachable multiple windows and multiple panes in the terminal. jq to parse JSON. q to run SQL queries on CSV files. yt-dlp to download videos from everywhere. ncdu to visualize and explore disk usage. htop to monitor processes and resources.

  • q

    q - Run SQL directly on delimited files and multi-file sqlite databases (by harelba)

  • firejail to isolate applications within the same user account. tmux to have detachable multiple windows and multiple panes in the terminal. jq to parse JSON. q to run SQL queries on CSV files. yt-dlp to download videos from everywhere. ncdu to visualize and explore disk usage. htop to monitor processes and resources.

  • firejail

    Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf sandbox

  • firejail to isolate applications within the same user account. tmux to have detachable multiple windows and multiple panes in the terminal. jq to parse JSON. q to run SQL queries on CSV files. yt-dlp to download videos from everywhere. ncdu to visualize and explore disk usage. htop to monitor processes and resources.

  • zsh

    Mirror of the Z shell source code repository.

  • zsh is a really nice shell, an upgrade from Bash

  • kitty

    Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal

  • kitty is my favorite terminal

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    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • rsync

    An open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. It also has useful features for backup and restore operations among many other use cases.

  • neovim

    Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

  • neovim (or regular vim is good too)

  • git

    A fork of Git containing Windows-specific patches. (by git-for-windows)

  • git for version control and branching/merging changes to files, and interacting with code repos

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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