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so last week I asked my community on
masdon to recommend terminal utilities
and programs that they couldn't live
without on Linux and well even though I
made that form expire after only 48
hours I got over
187 answers most of which had three
different recommendations so I looked
through every single one and I picked
the ones that I felt would be most
useful to most people and of course if
you missed that boat because I only
shared that specific form on masteron
for two days you can also recommend all
the terminal utilities you use very
regularly down in the comments below and
if you like this concept of asking the
community what they like and then
recommending those things in a specific
video then like this video specifically
and I'll make sure to make more along
the same lines not just for terminal but
for everything Linux related now before
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proton so our first recommendation today
will be home brew a lot of you probably
already know about it but if you don't
it's sort of a prerequisite for this
video to get a lot of command line
utilities that your drro might not have
packaged it's really well known on Mac
OS because it brings a ton of tools
Apple doesn't ship but for Linux it is
also a great package manager to install
command line programs without having to
add tons of external repos you can
install home brew really quickly with
just one command line and add it to your
path it's all explained on their website
or after you run the command to install
it and then you can get basically any
terminal utility you want by running
Brew install followed by the name of the
tool you need almost all of the command
line utilities I'll recommend there can
be installed using Homebrew which is why
I'm starting with it now our second pick
is fzf for fuzzy find it lets you search
files extremely fast using their names
but it can also look through command
history processes bookmarks git commits
and more you can just type FZ f-q
followed by a string of characters and
it will look through all the files in
the current directory you're in although
it will return any path that contains
your string of characters not
necessarily the exact word you typed you
can run it with- e to find only exact
matches which will narrow down the
search it also has a Vim plugin and you
can of course use a pipe to make it
search for something another command
returned it also has a bit of a syntax
that you can use for example you can add
a dollar sign at the end of the search
term to find items that end with it or
you can add an exclamation point before
the search term to find stuff that
doesn't contain it it is blazing fast
and it will definitely enhance any file
search that you need to do on your
system using the terminal it's available
using home brw now if like me you have
wasted minutes maybe even hours pressing
up in your terminal to try and find a
specific command that you ran a few
months ago you might want to try add to
in this thing replaces your shell
history with a database that you can
search through super easily once it is
installed with Brew you will have to
configure it their website has all the
steps to do that and after you've
restarted your shell as in just log out
and back in once you press the up Arrow
key or control+ R you will get a search
interface to look for all your commands
you can type what you're looking for in
my case most of the time it's FFM pag
and you'll filter through the entire
history select the command with the
arrow keys and either press enter to run
it again or press tab to edit the
command before running it it is a really
really useful program one that I plan to
use from now on instead of the up Arrow
key strategy because yeah it's just much
better it is available through Homebrew
as well now I couldn't avoid this next
one it's called Shima because it's a
French name it means my home or at my
home this tool lets you manage your
personal configuration files called dot
files because well they tend to start
with a DOT because they're hidden files
shoa lets you share these config files
across devices by syncing them to a git
repo and it can interface with a very
large variety of password managers to
keep everything safe if you spend an
insane amount of time customizing
everything that you use or do and you
know how git Works Shima is probably the
thing you need as it has a similar
command structure than git you can back
up everything so if you need to
reinstall you don't lose anything and if
you need to replicate that configuration
on another device you also can the
difference with other dot file managers
is that it can encrypt all the secrets
that might be inside these dot files and
it works as a single binary so if you
usually have your own custom scripts to
handle all of this well it saves you the
install of a full environment to be able
to run those scripts now personally I do
not need this I don't spend a lot of
time customizing things and I don't care
if I lose my DOT files honestly but if
you spend hours or months Rising your
desktop or really tweaking your system
you might really want to use something
like this now if you use a laptop and
you find linux's battery life to be a
bit subar well first check that your
browser has Hardware acceleration on
because that's the most common cause of
battery usage for people who watch
videos and second maybe look at powertop
this is a tool developed by Intel that
lets you monitor your power usage and
lets you automatically tune things so
you can get the best battery life
without killing your performance
entirely this one is not available from
Homebrew but most distributions should
have it either pre-installed or at least
in their repos now if you want to check
what is waking up your CPU often you can
just run the command powertop and you'll
see all processes using tab you can
navigate to various statistics but also
to the tunables screen which will show
you what powertop identifies as a bad
configuration for battery life if you
would like to change these you can run
powertop D- auto-tune and it will change
all the settings to what it believes are
good options for battery life saving
although it might impact the performance
and you can also run power top as a
system Des service if you want so you
can ensure that all these tuning is also
done every time you restart the computer
it is a nice tool to try and regain some
battery life but don't blindly apply all
of the configurations you might end up
with some data loss if for example you
tell your hard drives to shut down as
quickly as possible or you might lose
some performance so test out all the
options and see what works for you and
what doesn't now if you would like to
quickly analyze what uses a lot of dis
space on your computer or in a remote
server you might want to replace the DU
and DF commands with dust dust will give
you a more detailed representation of
your dis space consumption with ASI bars
and a very legible color system with
that it's super easy to identify what is
hogging up your hard drive and either
clean that up or take the necessary
actions you can of course get a more
minimal View using the dashb option to
remove the bars or the- C option to
remove the colors and you can run that
program in a specific directory or you
can exclude certain directories and
files in my opinion it's much more
legible than what du offers because it's
not necessarily meant to be piped
through another command which is how du
is generally used and I can only
recommend dust instead and you can
install from home brw as well just like
most of these programs now if you run a
dual boot and you're facing problems
with accessing one of your install
systems you might not know that you can
force grub to reboot into a specific
system just for the next boot it's also
useful if your computer tends to skip
that grub screen and you're not fast
enough to tap the necessary function or
Escape key to display that screen now
you can do this using the grub Das
reboot command followed by the number or
the name of the grub entry for the
system you want to reboot in very useful
if you can't manage to boot into a
specific system you have installed or if
you completely broke the one that you're
currently using you ended up in a
command line and you don't quite know
what you're doing or if you're going to
be able to reboot into something else
now if you need to monitor for resource
usage on your computer you might be
using top or htop but btop is in my
opinion a better option it looks much
much better than htop or just top and
it's also more legible it can monitor
your dis usage the RAM usage the network
use the battery life and even the GPU if
you want you can sort all of the
processes using the arrow keys the
current filter is displayed in the top
right corner of the processes list and
you can hit a letter key to interact
with a process like pressing k for kill
it's basically a full system monitor in
your terminal it's very very nice I have
replaced top and HTP with btop now it's
just good it's available through home
brew if you often use the cat command to
read a file maybe try bat instead it
does the same thing but it also has
syntax highlighting for a bunch of files
and it communicates with Git to show
modifications in files with the usual
plus and minuses symbols for the lines
that changed it can also show tabs and
spaces and it integrates with other
tools like fzf rip grap or even the man
command so your command line manuals
will look much more legible it is a
great replacement for cat if you'd like
to use something fancier and it's also
available from Homebrew now speaking of
manuals if man is too much for you and
it's just too much reading why not try
tldr I'm pretty sure I mentioned it
previously on the channel but it's
really good it gives you an Abridged
version of the contents of man for most
of the available programs and commands
and it makes things more legible and
easier to par at a glance you can run it
using tldr followed by the command name
and you're done I basically replace 90%
of my use of the man command with tldr
and if you need the full manual it's
still available so yeah install it using
home brew as with virtually everything I
already mentioned now if you like to
split a terminal or a TTY into multiple
terminals zel J or zage is a nice
alternative to something like t-x it's
basically a tiling Window Manager for
your terminal workspace you can Define
your own layout it supports plugins
floating panes and more you can run it
by by running the zeage command and then
you can create a new pane pressing alt
plus n you can move a pane using contrl
plus h and then placing it where you
want and pressing enter or you can make
a pane floating with ctrl+ P then W
pains can be resized as well with alt
plus the Plus or the minus key and with
alt plus a bracket key you can move a
pane to the bottom or the top of another
one in a vertical stacking layout now
personally I'm not a fan of tiling
Window Manager and I don't really need a
terminal multiplexer like this one but
if you do zelig J or zage not sure how
it's supposed to be pronounced is
actually a very good choice another one
that was recommended was bobu or biobu
uh and both of those are available in
home brew now if you often use LS to
find files in a directory you might want
to take a look at EA it does the same
job as in it lists the content of a
directory but it does it with way more
details and a more legible interface it
can give you the status of files in a
git repo it can give you more readable
dates and readable file sizes it can
give you the SE Linux context some
mountpoint details and more now you will
have to learn the various options for EA
because they're not exactly the same as
with the ls command but honestly it
provides a more legible output and I
think it's going to simplify the life of
a bunch of people you can install it
using home broom and these are just a
few examples of what has been
recommended the list was obviously too
long for me to cover all of those but if
you like the video enough I might
revisit this topic in the future and
take a look at the options I didn't
elect to cover in this specific video
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