7-Zip is a Linux command-line archiver supporting 7z, ZIP, TAR and other formats, with strong compression, AES-256 encryption and testing.
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Category: Utilities
z – jump around the filesystem
z is a shell script that maintains a jump-list of the directories you actually use. It tracks your most used directories, based on ‘frecency’.
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autojump – easily navigate directories from the command line
autojump is a tool which offers a faster way to navigate your filesystem. It maintains a database of the directories you use the most.
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z.lua – fast directory navigation based on your habits
z.lua learns directory habits and uses frecency, patterns, fuzzy selection and shell integration for fast command-line navigation.
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HSTR – Bash and Zsh shell history suggest box
HSTR provides an interactive Bash and Zsh history browser with ranked search, favourites, command deletion and terminal integration.
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fasd – quick access to files and directories for POSIX shells
Fasd is a very convenient, open source command-line productivity booster. This utility offers quick access to files and directories.
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fzy – simple, fast fuzzy finder for the terminal
fzy is a fast, simple fuzzy text selector for the terminal with an advanced scoring algorithm. fzy is free and open source software
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v – z for vim
v is z for vim, a clone of Bill Joy’s vi editor for Unix.v uses viminfo’s list of recently edited files. It’s free and open source software.
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tar – create tar archives
Tar is console based software for packaging a set of files as a single archive in tar format. Free and open source software.
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patool – portable archive file manager
Various archive formats can be created, extracted, tested, listed, searched, repacked and compared with patool.
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TUI Archiver – list / manage archives
TUI Archiver is a terminal application to list / manage archives. It’s written in Go and published under an open source license.
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tarnation – backup/restore utility based on tar
tarnation is a simple, extensible tar backup/restore utility. It’s free and open source software written in Bash.
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tarlz – massively parallel (multi-threaded) combined implementation of the tar archiver and the lzip compressor
tarlz is a massively parallel (multi-threaded) combined implementation of the tar archiver and the lzip compressor.
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netperf – networking benchmark software
netperf is a client-server benchmark for measuring TCP and UDP throughput, request-response performance, latency and CPU utilisation.
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fio – scriptable I/O tool for storage benchmarks and drive testing
fio is a flexible I/O workload generator and benchmark tool for testing storage performance, latency, throughput, IOPS, and reliability.
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sysbench – scriptable database and system performance benchmark
sysbench is a scriptable multi-threaded benchmark tool based on LuaJIT. sysbench is free and open source software. It’s written in C.
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Bonnie++ – filesystem and storage performance benchmark
Bonnie++ benchmarks filesystem and storage performance with tests for sequential I/O, random seeks, small-file operations and drive zones.
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Linux Candy: pscircle visualizes Linux processes in a form of radial tree
pscircle is a different take on the venerable ps command. It visualizes Linux processes in a form of radial tree.
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s-tui is a terminal-based stress test and monitoring tool
Stress-Terminal UI, s-tui, is a monitoring tool for your CPU’s temperature, frequency, power and utilization
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: vi
This article spotlights alternative tools to vi, a screen-oriented text editor originally created for the Unix operating system.
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