7 (more) AWESOME Linux CLI/Terminal Apps

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One of my favorite things do to when playing around with my Linux system is trying out CLI applications. They’re just so functional, simple, and provide tools to make your overall computing experience better. Recently I took to Twitter to ask you all what some of your favorites are.

00:00 - intro
00:35 - bottom
02:12 - toipe
04:14 - wordgrinder 
05:45 - micro 
08:00 - mc
10:19 - espeak
12:19 - asciiquarium 

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[catto-from-heaven]

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[mohameddiaa]

I really like this style of videos keep going

[nir]

8:00 FYI mc is actually a "clone" of nc, an old file manager from the MSDOS days, nc was "norton commander".

[CasperLabuschagne]

I regularly use mc while I use lf when working on a specific project. NVim is my editor of choice and I spend a considerable amount of my time in it. Will investigate Wordgrinder and Toipe. A very useful terminal program is ncdu which identifies disk space hogs and allows them to be deleted in ncdu. Thanks for this list.

[christianemden]

I used to use midnight commander on my first computer still running DOS in the late eighties, loved it then, but nowadays i have fallen in love with ranger for the same tasks.

[TheOpenBSDguy]

Great video. Wordgrinder is pretty handy. Thanks

[DragonFistLeeMontage]

Why do i love these videos so much lol

[ArmiaKhairy]

Man, Sometimes I need to use WSL on windows 10 and some stuff are held by its lack of GUI, This video really helps!

[henninb]

I enjoy well written terminal applications.

[csolisr]

Talking about text editors, I personally use Tilde. It's on the same vein as Micro, but with slightly better defaults in my opinion.

[ancientder]

I got a question, Why doesn't top or htop or any other variant display gpu info? I have found radeon top but why is it separate?

[fstoplive]

Wow 'Midnight Commander' great linux apps. Thanks

[dexterflodstrom]

Love that you showed midnight commander! Despite its age, it's an incredibly solid file manager.

I switched from Ranger to it quite some time ago and love it a lot, it definitely has a lot of nifty features like the file transfer over shell (fish) protocol, which makes transferring files across different machines really easy since you can remain within midnight commander as opposed to say just plain SCP/SSH.

[FinSemi]

I bet that there is only few, who does know Joe's own editor - joe. In dark ages of PC age (late 80's), I've used Qedit (in DOS). When I moved to Linux, I did find this joe editor (vi was too complex and emacs was too big), that is quite similar with q-edit. Joe is REALLY powerful text editor/manipulator and my personal favorite (it has really small footprint, and it is available almost every system, like Windows)... I have been using it nearly 30 years, daily.

[RedBearAK]

I noticed that BTOP (the C++ port of BPyTOP, which was the Python port of BashTOP) is now available to install natively in Ubuntu 22.04. Used to have to install manually or from Snap. BTOP/BPyTOP/BashTOP is the most intuitive, modular and customizable terminal app I’ve ever seen. Responds to both keyboard shortcuts and mouse clicks.

[RedBearAK]

I feel like most people, even those who have used macOS for a long time, are ignorant of how advanced the text-to-speech voices have been on macOS for the past 15 years or so. And you can download additional realistic sounding voices on top of what comes bundled with every macOS install. Some of the voice file downloads are huge. When I tried to use espeak/festival on Linux to do TTS I was utterly horrified by the archaic sounding results, even with the “best” voices. This is an area where open source seems to be decades behind what is commercially (or in the case of macOS, freely) available.

[jamesduhachek]

Hi. I recently found your channel and wanted to know if there is a CLI spreadsheet program that works pretty well? Thanks.

[Efebur]

that midnight commander looks just like a one to one copy of norton commander that was used for DOS in the 90s.

[FrDismasSayreOP]

That voice sounds almost like SAM - which was software for the 8-bit computers. I had it for my Atari 800XL.

[StemLG]

bpytop is almost the only one to show cpu frequency