List of programs and shell scripts that I find useful.
- 2014-11-26: Conkeror
- 2015-05-06: ccat -- colourised cat. there are other ways to do it, including using pygmentize
- 2016-07-22: joeyespo/grip: Preview GitHub Markdown files like Readme locally before committing them.
- 2018-02-19: java_launcher: Helper script to treat Java programs as scripts.
- 2019-12-05: imgproxy -- imgproxy does one thing — resizing remote images — and does it well. It works great when you need to resize multiple images on the fly to make them match your application design without preparing a ton of cached resized images or re-doing it every time the design changes. imgproxy is a Go application, ready to be installed and used in any Unix environment
- 2020-02-25: antonmedv/fx: Command-line tool and terminal JSON viewer 🔥
- 2020-02-25: antonmedv/red: Terminal log analysis tools
Meta (lists made by other people)
- cjbarber/ToolsOfTheTrade: Tools of The Trade, from Hacker News.
- An Illustrated Guide to Useful Command Line Tools - WezM.net by Wesley Moore
Chrome extensions
- PriceBlink --useful for comparison shopping. I've saved quite a bit of money using this extension.
- Personal Blocklist -- filter out content farms from your searches. -Adblock Plus -- A must have for all. -Send this link with Gmail -- very useful to share the web links via email. Works even Google Apps domains. -MeasureIt! -JSONView -- "an extension that helps you to parse and view JSON documents". Highly recommended if you do web development -Screen Capture -- screen capture, highlighting and annotation.
Safari extensions
- Ghostery -- block intrusive javascript.
Pandoc
pandoc is a fantastic program to convert text to various output formats.
Typcial usage: To convert a markdown formatted text file to html
$ pandoc somefile.txt -f markdown -t html --standalone -o somefile.html
See the detailed pandoc page.
Command line tools
abcde
Command line tool to rip CDs to .mp3.
Installation: $ sudo apt-get install abcde id3v2
Insert Disc #1 of a 3-cd audio book $ abcde -o mp3 -p -W 1.
bcat
bcat pipe to browser utility.
Typical usage: To see the git log.
$ git log -p --color | bcat
fd
sharkdp/fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.
gist
gist pastes code, text to [gist.github.com] from command line.
$ gist one.txt
partimage
partimage is a Linux disk imaging software. It has a curses based interface to guide you through the options.
Typical usage: make a backup of an entire HDD(say SSD/Flash of a prototype) to your desktop.
Make Image:
$ partimage -z1 save /dev/sdg1 $HOME/backup/prototype-hdd-20100707.partimg.gz
Restore:
$ partimage restore /dev/sdg1 $HOME/backup/prototype-hdd-20100707.partimg.gz
qpdf
qpdf -- is a command-line program that does structural, content-preserving transformations on PDF files.
http-prompt
pip install http-prompt
fzf
junegunn/fzf: A command-line fuzzy finder written in Go
peco
q
entr
entr(1) -- Run arbitrary commands when files change
ripgrep
ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern. See rga, like rg, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz, etc.
sd
sd is an intuitive find & replace CLI.
rargs
rargs xargs + awk with pattern matching support. ls *.bak | rargs -p '(.*)\.bak' mv {0} {1}
rak
lizmat/App-Rak: 21st century grep / find / ack / ag / rg on steroids
Code tools
Database tools
- dbeaver -- crossplatform database manager for all popular sql dbs and some nosql dbs.
Web development tools
Yaak is a cross-platform desktop app for interacting with REST, GraphQL, and gRPC
Data Cleaning
- jq - command line json processor
- HTML-XML-utils -- makes scraping tasks that much easier.
- pup - Parsing HTML at the command line. written in go.
- xidel - HTML/XML data extraction tool which is written in Pascal; also by the same author - texstudio
Interesting ~/bins on github
Some more linked on this page: 15 Greatest Open Source Terminal Applications Of 2012
Interesting
- ronn - the opposite of roff.
Lorem ipsum
OCR
- Screenotate Take screenshots you can search.
ASCII Banner
Use Figlet and Toilet to generate ascii text banners in linux terminal.