7 (more) AWESOME Linux CLI/Terminal Apps

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One of my favorite things do to when playing around with my Linux system is trying out CLI applications. They’re just so functional, simple, and provide tools to make your overall computing experience better. Recently I took to Twitter to ask you all what some of your favorites are.
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00:00 - intro
00:35 - bottom
02:12 - toipe
04:14 - wordgrinder 
05:45 - micro 
08:00 - mc
10:19 - espeak
12:19 - asciiquarium 
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[@lamaschera6321]

Which OS do you use?

[@AlbusRegis]

@@lamaschera6321 He uses fedora 36 right now, as a matter of fact he made a video about it

[@nir8924]

8:00 FYI mc is actually a "clone" of nc, an old file manager from the MSDOS days, nc was "norton commander".

[@alexanderpoplawski577]

Back in the days, when I used Windows. There was Windows Commander (now Total Commander, because Copyright). It was a Windows clone of nc. I bought the license in the 90's and it is still valid.

[@FairyRat]

[@mohameddiaa3037]

I really like this style of videos keep going

[@christianemden7637]

I used to use midnight commander on my first computer still running DOS in the late eighties, loved it then, but nowadays i have fallen in love with ranger for the same tasks.

[@CasperLabuschagne]

I regularly use mc while I use lf when working on a specific project. NVim is my editor of choice and I spend a considerable amount of my time in it. Will investigate Wordgrinder and Toipe. A very useful terminal program is ncdu which identifies disk space hogs and allows them to be deleted in ncdu. Thanks for this list.

[@FinSemi]

I bet that there is only few, who does know Joe's own editor - joe. In dark ages of PC age (late 80's), I've used Qedit (in DOS). When I moved to Linux, I did find this joe editor (vi was too complex and emacs was too big), that is quite similar with q-edit. Joe is REALLY powerful text editor/manipulator and my personal favorite (it has really small footprint, and it is available almost every system, like Windows)... I have been using it nearly 30 years, daily.

[@rantalbott6963]

Also a big fan of joe. I got started on micros with CP/M and Wordstar (so old that it doesn't show up in autocomplete 😎). I've done a lot of work on headless embedded linux systems, so I need a good and simple CLI editor I can use via SSH. It's always the first thing I install on any new system.

[@alexanderpoplawski577]

You're not alone. I used the original Wordstar and later Turbo Pascal and Turbo C. These keybindings are wrought into my fingers, so I use joe with the jstar binding.

[@ArmiaKhairy]

Man , Sometimes I need to use WSL on windows 10 and some stuff are held by its lack of GUI, This video really helps!

[@TheOpenBSDguy]

Great video. Wordgrinder is pretty handy. Thanks

[@catto-from-heaven]

The virgin DistroTube: Top 7 electron apps The chad TechHut: 7 more awesome CLI apps

[@tomasglavina4166]

Man... Some respect with DT, he's the OG GNU/Linux on KZbin

[@testing_47]

@@tomasglavina4166 DT made me to switch from windows to linux

[@catto-from-heaven]

@@tomasglavina4166 I respect him. Just wanted to make the joke

[@DragonFistLeeMontage]

Why do i love these videos so much lol

[@csolisr]

Talking about text editors, I personally use Tilde. It's on the same vein as Micro, but with slightly better defaults in my opinion.

[@CiberBago]

Thank you showing me that this exists, I was looking for something like this. I like it.

[@ArniesTech]

Nothing beats good old CLI 🙏

[@johntilghman]

Don't tell the windows guys. 🙂

[@ArniesTech]

@@johntilghman Psssst 🤫

[@welpyes]

@@johntilghman :Clueless:

[@johntilghman]

@@welpyes I don't even remember what this was about. Lol

[@Oodle-ox2vf]

Rubbish. This is why people avoid Linux, they believe that it is still in the stone age like this demo.

[@henninb]

I enjoy well written terminal applications.

[@dexterflodstrom9975]

Love that you showed midnight commander! Despite its age, it's an incredibly solid file manager. I switched from Ranger to it quite some time ago and love it a lot, it definitely has a lot of nifty features like the file transfer over shell (fish) protocol, which makes transferring files across different machines really easy since you can remain within midnight commander as opposed to say just plain SCP/SSH.

[@iamdew]

MC is one of two apps I installed the first time I have access to a new server, the other one is Vim.

[@dexterflodstrom9975]

@@iamdew yeah, same here. Its extremely useful for servers especially :)

[@theTeknoViking]

MC is King!

[@madthumbs1564]

Ranger can be used as a file picker for Qutebrowser. LF has some nice features too.

[@RedBearAK]

I feel like most people, even those who have used macOS for a long time, are ignorant of how advanced the text-to-speech voices have been on macOS for the past 15 years or so. And you can download additional realistic sounding voices on top of what comes bundled with every macOS install. Some of the voice file downloads are huge. When I tried to use espeak/festival on Linux to do TTS I was utterly horrified by the archaic sounding results, even with the “best” voices. This is an area where open source seems to be decades behind what is commercially (or in the case of macOS, freely) available.

[@bebre_2288]

i guess that espeak is just popular in case of it small size and easy way of installing, i believe there are some really good open source text-speech converters(but with much more complexity of usage)

[@RedBearAK]

I noticed that BTOP (the C++ port of BPyTOP, which was the Python port of BashTOP) is now available to install natively in Ubuntu 22.04. Used to have to install manually or from Snap. BTOP/BPyTOP/BashTOP is the most intuitive, modular and customizable terminal app I’ve ever seen. Responds to both keyboard shortcuts and mouse clicks.

[@typingcat]

Can it show hdd temperatures?

[@RedBearAK]

@@typingcat- Not sure that was ever implemented. Install it and check the options menu.

[@jamesduhachek7546]

Hi. I recently found your channel and wanted to know if there is a CLI spreadsheet program that works pretty well? Thanks.

[@fstoplive1991]

Wow 'Midnight Commander' great linux apps. Thanks

[@ancient1der]

I got a question, Why doesn't top or htop or any other variant display gpu info? I have found radeon top but why is it separate?

[@YannMetalhead]

Good video.

[@StemLG]

bpytop is almost the only one to show cpu frequency

[@pradyumnaparanjape1332]

s-tui

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

You want CPU frequency, including current versus max, so you can see if throttling is going on? -- cut here -- #!/bin/bash #+ # Show the current and maximum CPU frequencies. #- idx=0 for ((;;)); do cpudir=/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy${idx} if [ ! -d "$cpudir" ]; then break fi printf "%d: %d/%dkHz " $idx $(cat $cpudir/scaling_cur_freq) $(cat $cpudir/scaling_max_freq) idx=$((idx + 1)) done -- cut here -- Thank me later.

[@youtube.user.1234]

And also cpu temperatures

[@indominous07]

Htop can show cpu temps and freq. You have to enable it in settings

[@monalisaray2616]

@@indominous07 yes

[@RamirezGold]

Why should I use any other text editor than Vim?

[@Efebur]

that midnight commander looks just like a one to one copy of norton commander that was used for DOS in the 90s.

[@FrDismasSayreOP]

That voice sounds almost like SAM - which was software for the 8-bit computers. I had it for my Atari 800XL.

[@khushalsapariya9304]

will this commands run on ubuntu

[@druttface]

infact, all cli apps are awesome, for two reasons, headless and if there's a gui fitted behind it, the core design is probably better than if it had no cli

[@sendyard184]

can you install briker on MacBook 🙏

[@FrankoBurolo]

I think espeak can use different voices... But I don't remember how to set them up... 😅

[@Denis-Maldonado]

Wait, that Asciiaquarium is the screensaver from Q4OS lol

[@krtirtho]

Micro feels & seems compatible with modern era terminal

[@jessodum3103]

I don't know for sure, but in my head the pronunciation of "toipe" is as to "type" as "noice" is to "nice". "TOY-p"

[@JarppaGuru]

8:03 only thing on list that is original rest is another same do bit different but you not need it or make it your self

[@gjoe3756]

"festival" looks like another alternative for "espeak"

[@JB-fh1bb]

You missed an opportunity to sneak in a terminal audio player like `aplay`

[@gnarlin4964]

How is btm better than btop?

[@jwickerszh]

Toipe is actually noice to train on new keyboards and not have to do that online.

[@HECTORARTUROA]

10:19 Espeak: text to voice: from terminal or txt 💲💲💲💲💲.

[@jamesthompson7694]

Forgot nmon

[@A5h08]

hello

[@chrisheater4118]

Micro is a good text editor for me. I use Markdown for some of my writing. Micro is good since it uses the standard keybindings. Vim is ok, but too complex for my basic needs.

[@saturdaysequalsyouth]

Nah, these full screen terminal apps aren't for me. I like classic tools that fit into pipelines and shells scripts.

[@almarn]

NOT micro but textadept....

[@charlesspringer4709]

Neat stuff. Hot tip. Eliminate the "what"phrases from your speaking and you will gain 10 points of KZbin apparent IQ. What this is is, what we do now is we do, what you wanna do now is you wanna, etc. Bonus tip: Whenever you have the urge to say "I'll talk more about that later" or in a few seconds - or etc, don't. It breaks comprehension by adding anticipation for something other than what you are trying to convey.

[@fantasypvp]

the file manager is cool but it does look very windows 3.0 in my opinion a much better alternative i know of is called ranger, its essentially the same thing but its much more visually appealing and looks really great especially if you're trying to do a tiling window manager rice etc

[@darukutsu]

nnn is my go to because of easy plugins extensibility. Custom, self written if needed. +it's written in C so really fast.

[@nir8924]

it is actually a clone of an MS DOS file manager called "norton commander" 🤓

[@tassaron]

I prefer mc because of how inviting it is with the drop-down menus

[@dexterflodstrom9975]

You can change the theme in mc, but ranger is a great program as well!

[@007arek]

For mc better alternative is vifm

[@Oswee]

Espanso

[@Tvirus12]

Would you like to play a nice game of , chess?

[@0xGod]

Best linux terminal is Windows 11

[@madthumbs1564]

weechat

[@igorgiuseppe1862]

eSpeak is a VERY BAD text to speach that refuse to evolve, its a shame, google text to speach was horrible at the begining but google put tons of money into improving it, and nowadays its much better. if i was deaf i would be forced to use windows instead. its a shame that the floss comunity couldnt develop this stuf.. well actually the guys who work on machine learning made some good solutions some of then are open source, but they are still hard to setup (install, configure etc)

[@Oodle-ox2vf]

This is why people avoid Linux, they believe that it is still in the stone age like this demo.

[@justanto]

I have a hard time trusting people in the tech space who struggle to type... Maybe that is an unfair bias... but typing seems like a pretty basic thing...

[@shalecable3250]

These things are cool but they should be also available in windows Nt . Plus how is this useful to young kids watching your videos . Make some hypixel videos and Minecraft videos

[@zroyt]

This is not a kids channel. This is not a Minecraft channel. This channel is not targeted to young kids. There are plenty of channels which fit that criteria, but this is not one of them.

[@TechHut]

I made Minecraft videos like six or seven years ago. But even those were server tutorials lmao

[@fantasypvp]

iTs uSEfuL becAUse LinUX iS A GreAT tOOl tO heLp KIdS LEArn aBout coMPUteRs

[@phillipanselmo8540]

you can run all of these on the wsl

[@shalecable3250]

@@zroyt doing Minecraft videos will get him a lot of views but of course you linux fanboys and some tech hut fans will say Minecraft is closed source or propierty garbage or it doesn’t respect the user freedom which is not and who cares of mc is free software or not .

[@skooma4NaughtyLilGhoul]

Does that sub to speech command work on other terminals?