More useful command line linux tools
More useful command line linux tools
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I'm usually a bit scornful of "bling" commands, but
batseems genuinely useful. -
Be careful not to replace bash with fish as some systems fail to work with new shell. I usually init fish/nu shells with other instruments, like alacritty and/or zellij
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Interesting suggestion of btop. How does it compare to htop?
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I like btop better just on an aesthetic level. But they all show the same shit as far as I can tell.
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Real programmers cat the data directly from /proc
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Personally I find btop really hard to glance at and see what's happening, htop is much better for opening up and quickly checking what process is hogging CPU/RAM/IO/whatever.
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Fish (suggested by the article as well) is amazing. Also:
But honestly, lots of classics are still great: git, htop, rsync, vim, nano, ....
Hello, fellow fish user! Oh, shit, am I doing the Arch thing?
Will have to check some of those other ones out.
I've personally replaced nano with micro, though. Find it much friendlier to use.