A comprehensive system information script; provides information about CPU, graphics, audio and network devices, drives and partitions, sensors; implemented as a Bash script.

Alternative shell designed for interactive use.

Focused on user-friendliness, with powerful autosuggestions, colors, "sane scripting" (w.r.t. to Bash).

The most widespread system shell to date.

A shell tool from GNU for executing jobs in parallel using one or more computers; it can split the input and pipe it into commands in parallel.

ttyload is a lightweight utility which is intended to offer a color-coded graph of load averages over time on Linux and other Unix-like systems. It enables a graphical tracking of system load average in a terminal (“tty“).

As the name implies, Task spooler is a Unix batch system that can be used to add the Linux commands to the queue and execute them one after the other in numerical order (ascending order, to be precise). This can be very useful when you have to run a lots of commands, but you don't want to waste time waiting for one command to finish and run the next command. You can queue it all up and Task Spooler will execute them one by one. In the mean time, you can do other activities.

"Conspy allows a (possibly remote) user to see what is displayed on a Linux virtual console, and send keystrokes to it."

Password management belongs to the command line, deep into the Unix heartland, the shell. Titan is written in C and is available under the MIT license.

Pure Bash script to manage secure archives; simple and clean; uses gnugpg for encryption/decryption, thus can leverage tools like GPG Agent.

Hard disk encryption tool; it stores all setup information in the partition header, enabling easy data transport or migration.

Encrypted filesystem in user-space based on FUSE; mounts an encrypted directory into a clear one.

A robust and efficient password cracking tool that can help you recover lost passwords, audit password security, benchmark, or just figure out what data is stored in a hash.

A ncurses Ruby program that allows to produce nice text-based presentation with simple markup language.

Compact ncurses-based spreadsheet with original syntax, 3D-style and built-in functions.

Multi-purpose calculator with customizable functions, units, arbitrary precision, plotting (it includes a GUI).

A powerful, double-entry accounting system from the command-line; it uses a simple yet powerful text syntax to specify the items to account.

The program runs in background, collecting information regarding open windows, focussed ones, etc.; it can be configured to display statistics on the collected data, e.g., figuring out the time spent on one specific window.

A cross-platform media player with many features such as frame timing, MKV chapters and subtitles. It is a responsive video player with minimal layout customizable with themes. A good alternative media player to VLC since it can handle almost all the media formats as VLC, but using much less resources.

One of the most popular video/audio players around; plays most audio and video formats (using ASCII characters) in the shell; provides a GUI for graphical visualization.