Linux can be easy to use, yet newcomers are still expected to master terminal commands. Is the desktop held back by its own community?
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Tag: command-line
33 Best Free and Open Source Command Line Navigation Tools
Tiny but useful tools that complement the cd command. Free and open source goodness.
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podcast-dl – Download and Archive Podcasts from the Command Line
podcast-dl is a flexible command-line tool for downloading, filtering, archiving and organising podcast episodes from RSS feeds.
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Tanko – CLI Manga Reader and Downloader
Tanko is a command-line manga reader and downloader supporting image rendering, offline downloads, reading history and multiple sources.
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fblog – view and filter JSON logs
fblog is a command-line JSON log viewer with Lua filtering, customizable formatting and colorized log levels.
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Logalize – extensible log colorizer
Logalize is a fast, extensible log colorizer with configurable formats, patterns, words and themes.
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14 Best Free and Open Source Command-Line Python Application Development Tools
Python comes with several different libraries that allow you to write a command line interface for your scripts.
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8 Best Free and Open Source Console Based Network ‘top’ Tools
We recommend the best network ‘top’ tools.
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charcoal – command line dictionary
charcoal is a Rust command-line dictionary with colourised output, optional speech and caching of dictionary text and audio
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GDB – GNU Project Debugger
Explore GDB, the GNU Debugger for Linux, with conditional breakpoints, stack inspection, remote debugging, scripting and reverse execution.
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LLDB – high-performance debugger built on LLVM
LLDB is a debugger built on LLVM, with source-level debugging, breakpoints, watchpoints, expression evaluation and Python scripting.
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Delve – debugger for the Go programming language
Delve is a source-level debugger for Go, with goroutine inspection, breakpoints, core dump analysis, headless operation and IDE integration.
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Radare2 – command-line reverse engineering framework
Radare2 is a command-line reverse engineering toolkit for binary analysis, disassembly, debugging, patching and scripting workflows.
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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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Rembg – background segmentation tool using machine learning
Rembg is a tool to remove the backgrounds from images. It’s written in Python and published under an open source license.
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Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Managing Users – Part 15
We investigate how to manage users using both the GUI and the command-line. This article is part of the Linux for Starters Guide.
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Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Files and Permissions – Part 10
In this article we’ll take you through the basics of files and permissions. We’ll use the ls command. Part of the Linux for Starters series.
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Annie – video downloader built with Go
Annie is an open source video downloader. It’s written in the Go programming language. Here’s our verdict on this tool.
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cointop – monitor cryptocurrencies in the terminal
cointop is a fast and lightweight interactive terminal based UI application for tracking and monitoring cryptocurrency coin stats in real-time.
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