List of Linux Tools I put on almost every Linux / Debian host
- geany --> GUI editor/ notepad++ like
- chkservice --> TUI Linux service review from the terminal
- htop --> TUI supercharged top - shows processes and cpu info
- nnn --> Terminal file explorer (! drops to the command prompt)
- ncdu --> Terminal disk and folder space viewer
- network-manager --> installs nmtui Terminal Network Manager app (set IPs, etc)
- ne --> Terminal editor (like nano / code highlighting, "esc" or F1 for menus)
- hping3 --> check if something is on the network, way more powerful than "ping"
- nmap --> Network scanner
- wireshark --> network packet reviewer
- lynis --> Linux security auditing
- apt-show-versions --> shows package versions / if needing upgrade ("$ apt-show-versions -u")
- vim --> VI editor with tons of extras
- vimrc --> config script for vim (from Github amix/vimrc)
- bat --> "cat" clone with colors and other features (sharkdp/bat on Github)
- fish --> "friendly interactive shell" beats the pants off of bash, (Fishshell.com)
- tig --> TUI client for git
- bmon --> TUI network bandwidth monitor
- dnsutils --> installs "dig" for DNS troubleshooting
- glances --> like "htop" or "top" but more graphical, lots of sys info in one "glance" --installs python
- python3 --> Development language
- code --> (sudo snap install --classic code) Visual Studio Code IDE for Linux
- mtr --> Traceroute and ping in one, great for network troubleshooting
- ned --> A clone of "sed" (search and or replace) with an easier syntax (nevdelap/ned on Github)
- miller --> Does about everything awk and sed do for json/csv/etc files (johnkerl/miller on Github) -- more complex than ned
- most --> Linux pager, better than "less" or "more"
- guake --> GUI terminal client for linux, more options than the built in terminal
- lazydocker --> TUI terminal software for Docker containers (jesseduffield/lazydocker on Github)
- exa --> ls-like file / directory lister, adds colors and more to the standard ls output (https://the.exa.website/)
- lsd --> Another ls clone, can show directory sizes (Peltoche/lsd GitHub)
- json-tui --> Easy way to review json files, has a cool table view (ArthurSonzogni/json-tui Github)
- jc --> Shows common Linux command output in json format
- duf --> Disk utility TUI (muesli/duf on Github)
- visidata --> Reading CSV files or other large data sets (visidata.org)
- Using jc and json-tui together can produce some pretty results, the top of the picture shows the table view output of
sudo jc -p lsof -i |json-tui(the bottom showing the standardlsof -iresults)
- Requires a Debian-like system such as Ubuntu (it uses the "apt" package manager) ; Also needs Python 3 and "sudo" privileges
- Checks if the above terminal-only software exists, if not installs it
- If you want to migrate this to work on a different OS, just update the code replacing "apt-get" with the different package manager syntax
