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Monitor System

atop – ASCII full-screen performance monitor

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

atop is an ASCII full-screen performance monitor, similar to the top command, but atop only shows the active system-resources and processes.

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Monitor System

gotop – terminal based graphical activity monitor

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

gotop brings colourful terminal graphs, process monitoring, custom layouts and optional GPU statistics to a configurable Go-based dashboard.

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Monitor System

sysstat – collection of performance monitoring utilities

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

The sysstat utilities are a collection of open source performance monitoring tools for Linux. Utilities include mpstat, iostat, nfsiostat-sysstat.

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Monitor System

collectl – performance monitoring tool

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

collectl is a lightweight open source performance monitoring tool capable of reporting interactively as well as logging to disk.

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Monitor System

Saidar – view the system statistics available through libstatgrab

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Saidar is a curses-based free and open source application for viewing the system statistics available through libstatgrab.

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Documentation

gomi – rm replacement

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gomi is a simple trash tool that works on the command-line which doesn’t unlink (delete) files like the rm command.

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Documentation

trasher – replace rm and del by a trash system

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Trasher is a small command-line utility that aims to replace rm. It moves items to a trash directory instead of deleting them immediately.

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Documentation

safe-rm – prevent the accidental deletion of important files

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

safe-rm is a safety tool intended to prevent the accidental deletion of important files by replacing /bin/rm with a wrapper.

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Documentation

trash-cli – trashes files recording the original path, deletion date, and permissions

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

trash-cli trashes files recording the original path, deletion date, and permissions. This is free and open source software written in Python.

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Documentation

rmw – ReMove to Waste

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rmw (ReMove to Waste) is a trashcan/recycle bin utility for the command line. It’s free and open source software.

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Documentation

rip – Rm ImProved

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rip is a command-line deletion tool focused on safety, ergonomics, and performance. It’s written in Rust and GPL licensed.

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Shutdown

KShutdown – graphical shutdown utility

October 27, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

KShutdown is a graphical shutdown utility. It allows you to turn off or suspend a computer at a specified time

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: eza – replacement for ls

October 27, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

eza is a modern, maintained replacement for ls, built on exa. It has some new features such as hyperlink support.

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Documentation

mtr – network diagnostic tool combining ping and traceroute

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mtr combines traceroute and ping with continuous hop monitoring, latency statistics, packet-loss measurements and reporting options.

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Documentation

hping3 – TCP/IP packet assembler and network analyser

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

hping3 creates customised TCP, UDP and ICMP packets for network troubleshooting, firewall testing, port scanning and traceroute analysis.

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CPU

Ninja – small build system

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Ninja is a small build system (similar to make) with a focus on speed. Ninja is free and open source software.

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CPU

Apache Maven – build automation tool used primarily for Java projects

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Apache Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Apache Maven is free and open source software.

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CPU

SCons – software construction tool

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Think of SCons as an improved, cross-platform substitute for the classic Make utility with integrated functionality

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CPU

CMake – build system generator

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

CMake is a free and open-source, cross-platform family of tools designed to build, test and package software.

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Find

dcfldd – enhanced version of dd

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dcfldd is an enhanced version of dd with features useful for forensics and security. dcfldd is free and open source software.

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