Linux-Tools

List of Linux Tools I put on almost every Linux / Debian host

Table of Contents

• Desktop GUI Apps
• Terminal File Explorers
• LS like Directory Viewers
• Text Editors and Viewers
• Process Explorers
• Network Related Apps
• Misc CLI Terminal Apps
• Software Installer App

What I (typically) Install:

Desktop GUI Apps

• geany --> GUI editor/ like “notepad++” for Windows
• wireshark --> network packet reviewer
• code --> (sudo snap install --classic code) Microsoft Visual Studio Code IDE for Linux
• guake --> GUI terminal client for linux, more options than the built in terminal

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Terminal File Explorers

• xplr --> Very graphical, best on large screens (sayanarijit/xplr on Github)
• 🌟 nnn --> Efficient and elegant (! drops to the command prompt) - personal favorite
• lf --> Cross platform (best for Windows, imho) (gokcehan/lf on Github)

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LS like Directory Viewers

• exa --> ls-like file / directory lister, adds colors and more to the standard ls output (Exa website link)
• 🌟 lsd --> Another ls clone, cross-platform (works on Linux, Mac Win) can also show directory sizes (Peltoche/lsd GitHub) - personal favorite

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Text Editors and Viewers

• micro --> For those new to Linux, or aren’t into vi or vim (/zyedidia/micro on Github)
• ne --> Terminal editor (like nano / code highlighting, "esc" or F1 for menus)
• 🌟 vim --> VI editor with tons of extras - personal favorite
• vimrc --> config script for vim (from Github amix/vimrc)
• bat --> "cat" clone with colors and other features (sharkdp/bat on Github)

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Process Explorers

• glances --> Lots of system info in one "glance", cross-platform (available for Windows) --installs python
• 🌟 htop --> Supercharged top clone — personal favorite

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Network Related Apps

• croc --> Seemlessly and securely send files between 2 systems (PC, MAC, Linux, Debian etc) (schollz/croc on Github)
• network-manager --> installs nmtui Terminal Network Manager app (set IPs, etc)
• hping3 --> check if something is on the network, way more powerful than "ping"
• nmap --> Network scanner
• bmon --> TUI network bandwidth monitor
• dnsutils --> installs "dig" for DNS troubleshooting
• mtr --> Traceroute and ping in one, great for network troubleshooting

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Misc CLI Terminal Apps

• chkservice --> TUI Linux service review from the terminal
• ncdu --> Terminal disk and folder space viewer
• lynis --> Linux security auditing
• apt-show-versions --> shows package versions / if needing upgrade ("$ apt-show-versions -u")
• fd --> Linux find clone with saner defualt options (PC, MAC, Linux, Debian, etc) (sharkdp/fd on Github)
• fish --> "friendly interactive shell" beats the pants off of bash, (Fishshell.com)
• tig --> TUI client for git
• python3 --> Development language
• ned --> A clone of "sed" (search and or replace) with an easier syntax (nevdelap/ned on Github)
• miller --> Does about everything awk and sed do for json/csv/etc files (johnkerl/miller on Github) -- more complex than ned
• most --> Linux pager, better than "less" or "more"
• lazydocker --> TUI terminal software for Docker containers (jesseduffield/lazydocker on Github)
• json-tui --> Easy way to review json files, has a cool table view (ArthurSonzogni/json-tui Github)
• jc --> Shows common Linux command output in json format
• duf --> Disk utility TUI (aka a df clone (muesli/duf on Github)
• visidata --> Reading CSV files or other large data sets (visidata.org)
• eg --> TLDR.sh like tool that helps with Linux commands (srsudar/eg on Github)
• procs --> A ps process explorer clone with a GUI (dalance/procs on Github)

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Sometimes using 2 apps together can be helpful

• Using jc and json-tui together can produce some pretty results, the top of the picture shows the table view output of sudo jc -p lsof -i |json-tui (the bottom showing the standard lsof -i results)
  
  

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Software Installer App

"Linux-Sotware-Installer" (Last Updated in October 2022) available under this repo's releases section

• Requires Python 3.x to run the script, and sudo access privileges
• Most of the tools require a Debian-like system such as Ubuntu to install (croc by @schollz here on Github is an exception)
• Checks if the above software exists, if not installs it
• If you want to migrate this to work on a different OS, just update the code replacing "apt-get" with the different package manager syntax
• Long term goal is to get some of these tools installed via other OS package managers like Homebrew for Macand or Scoop / Chocolatey for Windows

Output of "Linux-Software-Installer"