Meet moreutilis, a growing collection of more useful Unix utilities. The moreutils can be installed on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, openBSD and Mac OS.

Password management should be simple and follow Unix philosophy. With pass, each password lives inside of a gpg encrypted file whose filename is the title of the website or resource that requires the password. These encrypted files may be organized into meaningful folder hierarchies, copied from computer to computer, and, in general, manipulated using standard command line file management utilities.

Command line games are fast, typically bug-free, and can be a lot of fun to play; especially when cruising through some of the most awesome retro games in history.

A racing game that runs in Terminal.

peco is a CLI utility that filters text interactively. The tool is written in the Go programming language. It's free and open source software.

Ascii Patrol is an ASCII game project. It was mainly inspired by "Moon Patrol", my favourite arcade game at the times I was a child.

A rundown of the biggest, most expansive and impressive games that you can run entirely in your Linux shell.

The original UNIX operating system was created, in large part, to facilitate porting a video game to a different computer. And, without UNIX, we wouldn't have Linux, which means we owe the very existence of Linux to...video games.

• AsciiPatrol
• Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
• SSHTron
• DoomRL
• Ascii Sector
• Dwarf Fortress
• Frotz
• Cool-Retro-Term

CLI based audio visualizer.

Command line visualizer. Supports mpd, with experimental support for alsa and pulseaudio.

McFly replaces your default ctrl-r Bash history search with an intelligent search engine that takes into account your working directory and the context of recently executed commands. McFly's suggestions are prioritized in real time with a small neural network.

Command-line cloud music player for Linux that supports Spotify, Google Play Music, YouTube, SoundCloud, and Dirble.

Tomb is an 100% free and open source system for file encryption on GNU/Linux. It simply makes gpg dm-crypt and cryptsetup usable in a variety of situations.

Written in bash.

Eternal Terminal (ET) is a remote shell that automatically reconnects without interrupting the session. Learn how to install and use it here.

ET was heavily inspired by several other projects:

• ssh: Ssh is a great remote terminal program, and in fact ET uses ssh to initialize the connection. The big difference between ET and ssh is that an ET session can survive network outages and IP roaming. With ssh, one must kill the ssh session and reconnect after a network outage.
• autossh: Autossh is a utility that automatically restarts an ssh session when it detects a reconnect. It's a more advanced version of doing "while true; ssh myhost.com". Although autossh will automatically reconnect, it will start a new session each time. This means, if we use tmux with control mode, we must wait for the ssh connection to die and then re-attach. ET saves valuable time by maintaining your tmux session even when the TCP connection dies and resuming quickly.
• mosh: Mosh is a popular alternative to ET. While mosh provides the same core funtionality as ET, it does not support native scrolling nor tmux control mode (tmux -CC).

Tired of kubernetes tools that don't prioritize user experience?

Sanic allows you to define commands and configuration on a per-environment basis with ease.

Sanic uses Buildkit, cutting edge technology which builds your images concurrently and efficiently.

Sanic allows you to define deployments using a templating language your team already understands.

Working on the command line is a quick alternative to clicking through filesystem management tasks. Here are some basics to get you started.

Why?

• It makes it easier to understand the structure of JSON files.
• The output is valid JavaScript which can be used directly in code.
• It's very helpful when writing queries for tools like jq.

If you're living life at your terminal emulator anyway, why not have a little fun while you're there?

Just because you prefer working in a text-mode interface doesn't mean you're not entitled to a little fun here and there.

Last December, I took some time out before the holidays to explore some of my favorite command-line diversions into a series for Opensource.com. It ended up being a bit of an advent calendar for terminal toys, and I got some great suggestions from readers.