some noteworthy l'il CLI commandline utilities

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ncdu
a (ncurses ui) disk usage utility.
Enables quickly walking thru a directory tree to see #items and size of each subdirectory.
(installed size: 94kb)
me sez: 5 stars

colorview
displays a table showing a range of foreground/background ansi colors, plus the escape sequence used to create each combo
( /usr/local/bin/colorview )
pre-installed in antiX, but not easily discoverable

netpro
[s]ave current network profile as …
[l]oad profile from list
view / [e]dit current interfaces file
^— pre-installed in antiX, but not easily discoverable

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(moved topic, originally titled: additional candidates for antiX-cli “suggested” list)

Posted as an excuse to bump the visibility of this topic, today I’ll mention debian package moreutils sudu apt install moreutils

This is a growing collection of the Unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago, when Unix was young.

So far, it includes the following utilities:

– chronic: runs a command quietly unless it fails
– combine: combine the lines in two files using boolean operations
– errno: look up errno names and descriptions
– ifdata: get network interface info without parsing ifconfig output
– ifne: run a program if the standard input is not empty
– isutf8: check if a file or standard input is utf-8
– lckdo: execute a program with a lock held
– mispipe: pipe two commands, returning the exit status of the first
– parallel: run multiple jobs at once
– pee: tee standard input to pipes
– sponge: soak up standard input and write to a file
– ts: timestamp standard input
– vidir: edit a directory in your text editor
– vipe: insert a text editor into a pipe
– zrun: automatically uncompress arguments to command

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

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Played with this off and on

https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-news-59/cli-companion-a-tool-to-learn-linux-commands-4175594453/

Just a private learning process lesson for me. I grab certain tools when I find them.

https://launchpad.net/clicompanion

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Having CRS < can't remember stuff > at my age. I forgot the ps_mem.py command syntax. So I added it to my cli-companion list of commands as you an see.
Ignore the warnings when it says command not installed. It does not realize we have a /usr/local/bin with custom commands in there.

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[Forum Admin rokytnji]

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ncdu
a (ncurses ui) disk usage utility.
Enables quickly walking thru a directory tree to see #items and size of each subdirectory.
(installed size: 94kb)
me sez: 5 stars

Bump

https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu

harry@biker:~
$ apt search ncurses

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ncdu is one of my favorite little utilities.

[Member manyroads]

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FWIW: Here are a few I like- in no particular sequence…

— BashTop/BpyTop (Two variants of the same function from one author. https://github.com/aristocratos/bashtop )
— bashmount (https://github.com/jamielinux/bashmount )
— sl (My grandsons like this one: https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl )
— thefuck (The name might be off-putting to some sensitive people, luckily I’m not SO sensitive. https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck )
— Topgrade ( https://github.com/r-darwish/topgrade & https://ostechnix.com/how-to-upgrade-everything-using-a-single-command-in-linux/ )
— neofetch ( https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch

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This is an article that has been useful to me

90 Linux Commands frequently used by Linux Sysadmins

https://haydenjames.io/90-linux-commands-frequently-used-by-linux-sysadmins/

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

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Not a command line utility. But I have noticed over the years when in command line only desktop or a terminal.

The arrow keys are great for storing previous commands during the session you are in.

Hit the arrow keys while in terminal at a blank prompt and prepare to be surprised.

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I see I got an update to ncdu today. I haven’t tried the updated version yet.

Did you know you can use it to delete offending files easily?

And also export the list? I haven’t figured out how to process/use that, though.

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*** thefuck (The name might be off-putting to some sensitive people, luckily I’m not SO sensitive. https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck)

Nice … Simpática aplicación. 🙂

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LOL, yes, well, you don’t speak english, so you don’t need to worry about it! I admit that I didn’t try it.

Let’s add hstr to this list 🙂

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@BobC Thanks for hstr like the way it works.

exa adds a nice touch to your terminal readout. Add to your bashrc if you wish or your own style. alias ls=’exa –icons -alB –group-directories-first’
Also with exa for icons to show. kitty , Alacrity working. rxvt not working.

alias rl=”exec bash” # Reload Shell

I find the below code handy if you want to quickly extract archives from terminal. (Stolen from DT)
$ex antiX.zip .etc

Add to bashrc

### ARCHIVE EXTRACTION
# usage: ex <file>
ex ()
{
  if [ -f $1 ] ; then
    case $1 in
      *.tar.bz2)   tar xjf $1   ;;
      *.tar.gz)    tar xzf $1   ;;
      *.bz2)       bunzip2 $1   ;;
      *.rar)       unrar x $1   ;;
      *.gz)        gunzip $1    ;;
      *.tar)       tar xf $1    ;;
      *.tbz2)      tar xjf $1   ;;
      *.tgz)       tar xzf $1   ;;
      *.zip)       unzip $1     ;;
      *.Z)         uncompress $1;;
      *.7z)        7z x $1      ;;
      *.deb)       ar x $1      ;;
      *.tar.xz)    tar xf $1    ;;
      *.tar.zst)   unzstd $1    ;;      
      *)           echo "'$1' cannot be extracted via ex()" ;;
    esac
  else
    echo "'$1' is not a valid file"
  fi

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sudo apt install moreutils
^–v

man pee
man mispipe
man sponge
man zrun
man vipe

man chronic
man ts
. . . and more

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