Cool Linux Utils

List of great unix utilities

A few cool utilities I always have on my system

Conky

A great way to view different OS stats on your screen along with other widgets like weather, date, time etc.

Broot

Its a much better alternative for unix list command ls showcasing overview of directories, finding and modifying them.

Bat

A great alternative for unix cat with syntax highlighting, git support and much more.

LSD

Another alternative for unix ls with icons, colors which makes the output much more comprehensible.

Terminal Goodies

These are some fun utilities which you can try out

lolcat

Outputs everything you pass to it in rainbow colors.

fortune

Get a fortune cookie on your terminal

cowsay

A configurable talking cow. Use it with fortune and lolcat like this

fortune | cowsay | lolcat

to see a cow giving you a fortune cookie in rainbow colors. What else do you want in life?

cmatrix

Make your terminal look like The Matrix

Nerd Fonts

curl -O -J 'https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k-media/raw/master/MesloLGS%20NF%20Regular.ttf'
curl -O -J 'https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k-media/raw/master/MesloLGS%20NF%20Bold.ttf'
curl -O -J 'https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k-media/raw/master/MesloLGS%20NF%20Italic.ttf'
curl -O -J 'https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k-media/raw/master/MesloLGS%20NF%20Bold%20Italic.ttf'
sudo mv *.ttf /usr/local/share/fonts/

Others

ncdu

Much better replacement of unix du for checking disk usage.

locate

Much better alternative to unix find

tree

Great way to print out directories recursively.

bashtop

A beautiful replacement for traditional unix top

nvtop

A great way to visually monitor different NVIDIA GPUs

See also