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Improve Your Linux Shell Experience: A Collection of Must-Have Tools ​

Introduction ​

A Collection of Software, which makes using the Linux Shell much easier/simpler

neofetch ​

Neofetch is a command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2+. Neofetch displays information about your operating system, software and hardware in an aesthetic and visually pleasing way.

bash
sudo apt-get install neofetch

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Which informations are shown can be customized in ${HOME}/.config/neofetch/config.conf

exa ​

exa is a modern replacement for the venerable file-listing command-line program ls that ships with Unix and Linux operating systems, giving it more features and better defaults. It uses colours to distinguish file types and metadata. It knows about symlinks, extended attributes, and Git. And it’s small, fast, and just one single binary.

bash
sudo apt install exa

Set exa -la as an alias for ls

bash
echo "alias ls='exa -la'" >> .bashrc
. ~/.bashrc

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You can even add icons with the --icons flag, if you have a font that supports icons, like nerd font.

bat ​

A cat(1) clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration.

bash
sudo apt install bat

On Ubuntu the command is batcat imstead of bat Lets change that:

bash
echo "alias bat='batcat'" >> .bashrc
. ~/.bashrc

micro ​

micro is a terminal-based text editor that aims to be easy to use and intuitive, while also taking advantage of the capabilities of modern terminals. It comes as a single, batteries-included, static binary with no dependencies; you can download and use it right now!

bash
sudo apt install micro

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unlike nano, micro uses keyboard shortcuts that you are probably familiar with from almost all graphical user interfaces

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"Ctrl-s":  "Save",
"Ctrl-f":  "Find",
"Ctrl-n":  "FindNext",
"Ctrl-p":  "FindPrevious",
"Ctrl-z":  "Undo",
"Ctrl-y":  "Redo",
"Ctrl-c":  "CopyLine|Copy",
"Ctrl-x":  "Cut",
"Ctrl-k":  "CutLine",
"Ctrl-d":  "DuplicateLine",
"Ctrl-v":  "Paste",
"Ctrl-a":  "SelectAll",
"Ctrl-q":  "Quit",

htop ​

htop is a cross-platform interactive process viewer. htop allows scrolling the list of processes vertically and horizontally to see their full command lines and related information like memory and CPU consumption. Also system wide information, like load average or swap usage, is shown.

bash
sudo apt-get install htop

thefuck ​

The Fuck is a magnificent app that corrects errors in previous console commands.

bash
sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3-dev python3-pip python3-setuptools
pip3 install thefuck --user

It is recommended that you place this command in your .bash_profile, .bashrc, .zshrc or other startup script:

bash
eval $(thefuck --alias)

fd ​

fd is a program to find entries in your filesystem. It is a simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.

bash
sudo apt install fd-find

Note that the binary is called fdfind as the binary name fd is already used by another package

nvm ​

nvm is a version manager for node.js, designed to be installed per-user, and invoked per-shell. nvm works on any POSIX-compliant shell (sh, dash, ksh, zsh, bash), in particular on these platforms: unix, macOS, and windows WSL.

bash
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.3/install.sh | bash
echo "export NVM_DIR=\"$HOME/.nvm\"" >>~/.bashrc
echo "[ -s \"$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh\" ] && \. \"$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh\"  # This loads nvm" >>~/.bashrc
echo "[ -s \"$NVM_DIR/bash_completion\" ] && \. \"$NVM_DIR/bash_completion\"  \# This loads nvm bash_completion" >>~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
nvm install v18.16.0

tldr ​

The tldr-pages project is a collection of community-maintained help pages for command-line tools, that aims to be a simpler, more approachable complement to traditional man pages.

bash
pip3 install tldr

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