This is a series of cornerstone articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small, indispensable utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems.
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Category: Utilities
Essential System Tools: btop++ – resource monitor
btop++ is an alternative to top. It’s a resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes.
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Excellent Utilities: horcrux – file splitter with encryption and redundancy
horcrux is an open source tool that’s designed to split files and keep them secure with encryption.
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Excellent Utilities: croc – securely transfer files and folders
croc is a command-line utility to send files and folders from one computer to another.
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15 Utilities, Scripts and Ways to Interrogate Your PC
There are many ways of obtaining information about the hardware you are using. The simplest and most reliable source is your system itself.
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age – simple file encryption tool by Google
age is a simple, modern and secure command-line file encryption tool written in Go. Let’s check out this open source utility written by Google
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Excellent Utilities: broot – next gen tree explorer and customizable launcher
broot is a utility that gives an overview of a directory, and much much more.
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pycp – cp and mv with a progressbar
pycp is an alternative to the cp and mv commands. pycp adds a progress bar. pycp is inspired by the library progressbar.
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Excellent Utilities: lsd – next gen ls command
lsd is billed as the next gen ls command. It’s free and open source software. Here’s our review of the program.
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Essential System Tools: dust – more intuitive version of du
dust gives an instant overview of which directories are using disk space. It’s name derives from the du command and that dust is written in Rust.
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