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This article compares navigating a computer desktop without the desktop. That is, this article demonstrates how to use a terminal to move around and browse your computer as you would on a desktop, but from a terminal instead.
While the terminal may seem mysterious and intimidating at first, it's easy to learn once you realize that a terminal uses the same information as all of your usual applications. There are direct analogs for everything you do in a GUI to most of the everyday activities you do in a terminal. So instead of starting your journey with the shell by learning terminal commands, begin with everyday tasks that you're already familiar with.
- View file lists (
ls) - Open a folder (
cd) - Close a folder (
cd ~) - Navigate directories (
cd) - Absolute paths
A small tool that could store, version, retrieve, and format our application configurations in order to keep sync between coworkers and environments.
Treating everything as a string is the way through which the great power and versatility of UNIX tools is achieved. However, sometimes the constant parsing of strings gets a bit cumbersome.
UXY is a tool to manipulate UXY format, which is a basically a two-dimensional table that's both human- and machine-readable.
The format is deliberately designed to be as similar to the output of standard tools, such as ls or ps, as possible.
UXY tool also wraps some common UNIX tools and exports their output in UXY format. Along with converters from/to other common data formats (e.g. JSON) it is meant to allow for quick and painless access to the data.
Explains how to Generate two-factor authentication code from your Linux oathtool command line & encrypt totp key with gpg2 for privacy and security reasons.
The xargs utility allows you to build and execute commands from standard input. Xargs is usually used in combination with other commands through piping. In this tutorial, we'll cover the basics of using the xargs command.
A command line tool that recreates the famous data decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers.
Over the years I learned a lot about git. Most of the parts I learned the hard way by using it on a regular basis. Here I summarize a lot of the things which I would consider Git Best Practices for using git in a team. Use the force Luke – use the CLI.
Click is a Python package for creating beautiful command line interfaces in a composable way with as little code as necessary. It’s the “Command Line Interface Creation Kit”. It’s highly configurable but comes with sensible defaults out of the box.
It aims to make the process of writing command line tools quick and fun while also preventing any frustration caused by the inability to implement an intended CLI API.
Click in three points:
- arbitrary nesting of commands
- automatic help page generation
- supports lazy loading of subcommands at runtime
Marker is a command bookmark manager for the console. The tool lets you bookmark commands and command templates, and easily retrieve them using a real-time fuzzy matcher.
The tool is useful to remember commands used previously, which is like going through your Bash history but better since you can add descriptions for each bookmark (and add placeholders), as well as to save some commands you come across, for future use. Your command bookmarks are saved in a text file located in ~/.local/share/marker/.
Marker features include:
- Real-time fuzzy matcher for commands and descriptions, with a UI selector to easily choose the desired command if more than one is presented
- Command template: You can bookmark commands with placeholders and quickly place the cursor at those placeholders using a keyboard shortcut
- Includes common commands for Linux and macOS from the tldr project
- Keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl + space to search for commands, Ctrl + k to bookmark a command, and Ctrl + t to place the cursor at the next placeholder, identified by '{{anything}}', to fill out the command - these are customizable
Keeping track of your work hours will give you an insight about the amount of work you get done in a specific time frame. There are plenty of GUI-based productivity tools available on the Internet for tracking work hours. However, I couldn’t find a good CLI-based tool. Today, I stumbled upon a a simple, yet useful tool named “Moro” for tracking work hours.
Moro is a Finnish word which means “Hello”. Using Moro, you can find how much time you take to complete a specific task. It is free, open source and written using NodeJS.
toplip - "the best place to hide something is right under your nose." toplip is our command line, very strong encryption and decryption utility with optional plausible deniability, image embedding, and multiple/variable passphrase complexity.
Feature Highlights
- Very strong encryption (XTS-AES256 based, possibly cascaded)
- Optional "plausible deniability"
- Optional image embedding/extraction (PNG/JPG)
- Optional multiple passphrase protection
- Simplified brute force recovery protection
- No identifiable output markers
- Open source/GPLv3
- Commercial support/training
There are numerous file encryption tools available on the market to protect your files. We have already reviewed some encryption tools such as Cryptomater, Cryptkeeper, CryptGo, Cryptr, Tomb, and GnuPG etc. Today, we will be discussing yet another file encryption and decryption command line utility named “Toplip”.
It is a free and open source encryption utility that uses a very strong encryption method called AES256, along with an XTS-AES design to safeguard your confidential data. Also, it uses Scrypt, a password-based key derivation function, to protect your passphrases against brute-force attacks.
Check cryptocurrencies' prices, changes on your console. Best CLI tool for those who are both Crypto investors and Engineers.
All data comes from coinmarketcap.com APIs.
A while ago, we published a guide about Cli-Fyi – a potentially useful command line query tool. Using Cli-Fyi, we can easily find out the latest price of a cryptocurrency and lots of other useful details. Today, we are going to see yet another cryptcurrency price checker tool called “Coinmon”. Unlike Cli.Fyi, Coinmon is only for checking the price of various cryptocurrencies. Nothing more! Coinmon will check cryptocurrencies’ prices, changes right from your Terminal. It will fetch all details from from coinmarketcap.com APIs. It is quite useful for those who are both Crypto investors and Engineers.
A while ago, we wrote about a command line virtual assistant named “Betty”. Today, I stumbled upon a similar utility called “Yoda”. Yoda is a command line personal assistant who can help you to do...
Suplemon is an open source, modern, powerful, intuitive and feature-rich command-line text editor with multi cursor support; it replicates Sublime Text like functionality in the terminal with the use of Nano.
ddgr is a cmdline utility to search DuckDuckGo from the terminal. While googler is highly popular among cmdline users, in many forums the need of a similar utility for privacy-aware DuckDuckGo came up. DuckDuckGo Bangs are super-cool too! So here's ddgr for you!
Unlike the web interface, you can specify the number of search results you would like to see per page. It's more convenient than skimming through 30-odd search results per page. The default interface is carefully designed to use minimum space without sacrificing readability.
A big advantage of ddgr over googler is DuckDuckGo works over the Tor network.
ddgr is a command-line utility to search DuckDuckGo from the terminal. ddgr works out of the box with several text-based browsers if the BROWSER environment variable is set.
Make sure your system should have installed any text-based browsers. You may know about googler that allow users to perform Google searches from the Linux command line.
It’s highly popular among cmdline users and they are expect the similar utility for privacy-aware DuckDuckGo, that’s why ddgr came to picture.
Unlike the web interface, you can specify the number of search results you would like to see per page.
Suplemon is a CLI text editor that offers modern features like multi cursor support, keeping the simplicity and ease-to-use of a console text editor.