Command Line Tools

Editors / Core

• neovim is my default text-editor.

• tmux - terminal multiplexer.

• starship - cross-shell prompt.

File Management / Navigation

• eza - a modern replacement for ls (community fork of exa).

• fd - a fast and user-friendly alternative to find.

• zoxide - a smarter cd command, learns your habits.

• fasd - frecent files and directories.

• lf - terminal file manager (ranger-like, written in Go).

• xplr - terminal file explorer.

Search / Find

• fzf - command-line fuzzy finder. Used everywhere.

• television - a fast fuzzy finder with channels (zoxide, tmux, systemd, npm, etc.).

• ripgrep - recursively searches directories for a regex pattern.

• bat - a cat(1) clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration.

• tldr - simplified and community-driven man pages.

• ddgr - search DuckDuckGo from the command line.

• cheat.sh - community-driven cheat sheets (wrapped as cheat() function).

Git

• git for version control.

• lazygit - TUI git client.

• gh - GitHub CLI.

• delta - syntax-highlighting pager for git and diff output.

• git-lfs - Git Large File Storage.

Packages / Language Toolchains

• paru - AUR helper (Arch Linux).

• pacnews - check pacman news before updates.

• reflector - fetch and sort pacman mirrors.

• doas - lightweight sudo replacement.

• fnm - fast Node.js version manager.

• pnpm - fast, disk space efficient package manager.

• uv - Python package and project manager.

• npm-check-updates - upgrade npm package versions.

Productivity / Task Management

• atuin - shell history with syncing, search, and encryption.

• fabric-ai - AI-powered CLI.

• llm - LLMs from the command line.

• navi - interactive cheatsheet.

• newsboat - RSS/Atom feed reader.

• notmuch - email indexer and search.

• taskwarrior - task management.

• taskwarrior-tui - TUI for taskwarrior.

Media / Download

• mpv - media player.

• yt-dlp - download videos from YouTube and other sites (active fork of youtube-dl).

• streamlink - pipes video streams from various services into a video player.

• chafa - image-to-sixel converter for terminal image previews.

• glow - render markdown in the terminal.

CLI Utilities

• openvpn - an open source VPN daemon.

• translate-shell - easy access to translation engines.

• transfer.sh - easy file sharing from the command line.

• trashy - safe file deletion with trash management.

• dragon-drop - drag and drop files from terminal to GUI.

• htmlq - HTML query tool (like jq for HTML).

• surfraw - CLI web search.

• sesh - tmux session manager.

• gum - tool for glamorous shell scripts.

• thefuck - corrects errors in previous console commands.

• btop - a cool monitor of resources.

Tmux Plugins

Tmux plugins are managed with TPM:

• christoomey/vim-tmux-navigator - seamless vim/tmux pane navigation.

• tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect - save and restore tmux sessions.

• tmux-plugins/tmux-continuum - auto-save and auto-restore tmux sessions.

• tmux-plugins/tmux-yank - copy to system clipboard.

• jabirali/tmux-tilish - i3-like window management in tmux.

Links

• Learn the Command Line

• Awesome Command Line Utilities

• Awesome Shell

• r/commandline - for questions, tips, and interesting programs.