9 AMAZING COMMAND LINE TOOLS for Linux

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01:30 trash-cli & rmtrash: put files in the trash
03:46 autojump: move quickly to often visited directories
05:31 ranger: terminal file manager
06:32 the fuck: auto-correcting your mistakes
08:12 tldr: actually readable man pages
09:20 caniuse: check which browser supports what
10:24 eDex-UI: full screen terminal dashboard
11:32 espeak-ng: make your computer speak
12:35 gifgen: create gifs from any video file
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Trash-cli & rmtrash:
github.com/andreafrancia/tras...
github.com/PhrozenByte/rmtrash
These let you put files in the trash with the command line, and follow the same options and arguments as the rm command, so you can alias one to the other.
The syntax is really easy, with trash-put to put a file in the trash, trash-list to list all files, trash-restore to restore a file, and trash-empty, well, you guessed what this one does.
Autojump:
github.com/wting/autojump
This is a tool that lets you super quickly jump into a specific directory, based on the folders you visit the most. Autojump starts maintaining a database of the folders you visit based on your history, the more you visit a folder, the higher it's weight in the database.
Ranger
github.com/ranger/ranger
If the ls command is not enough for your file management needs, you can also use ranger. it's a command line file manager that uses the vim keyboard shortcuts to navigate and interact with files.
TheF*ck
github.com/nvbn/thef*ck (replace the "*" by a "u", of course)
So, the F*ck is a project that will autocorrect your mistakes when you type a command. Let's say you're trying to install a package on Fedora.
It will work with a LOT of different errors, like mistyping an argument, or command, forgetting an argument, and a lot more stupid mistakes.
TLDR
github.com/tldr-pages/tldr
Another super helpful command is TLDR. If you're starting with the command line, or trying to learn a new command, you might find the --help option insufficient, and the man command way too overstuffed with text.
Caniuse
github.com/sgentle/caniuse-cmd
There is an easy way to check which browser supports what, with the "caniuse" command. You probably already know about the caniuse website, but you can also check it through your terminal, by just typing caniuse followed by the property or feature you want to use.
edex-UI
github.com/GitSquared/edex-ui...
It basically displays a ton of system information, multiple terminals, your filesystem, your network usage, an on screen keyboard for touch users, and more!
espeak-ng
github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng
espeak-ng lets you type any sentence you like, and have your computer read it. It supports multiple voices, which you can list with the --voices option, and invoke by adding the argument -v followed by the voice name.
Gifgen
github.com/lukechilds/gifgen
This little tool will let you turn any video file into an animated image, and it lets you specify the framerate, with the -f option, and even select which portion of the video you want to keep, with the -b option to set the beginning time, and the -d option to set the duration.

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[@AradijePresveti]

Why are you crying about censorship? Censorship is great, isn't it?

[@soupborsh8707]

I recommend ffmpeg. With it, you can, for example: compress all the videos in a folder so that they take up little space.

[@PoeLemic]

Thank you for sharing this with us. Please, do keep making videos like this about apps for the command line. New to Linux, so stuff like this helps. And, I'd never find these myself.

[@atreusduvelll600]

Some great suggestions here! For the "forgetting to type sudo" problem, there is a simple way to do this without an extra package. `sudo !!` will repeat your last command with sudo in front of it. This method is more flexible, too.

[@akza0729]

`Alt+S` for Fish shell users.

[@alepharcane99]

yes, but thef*ck will catch the spelling mistakes too

[@007arek]

I always had that functionality with pressing 2x ESC, but I don't know if it's from a script or zsh.

[@atreusduvelll600]

@@alepharcane99 fair enough! I might try it out for that. For me, the usefulness will rely on how good it is at predicting what I want I guess 😀

[@voidseeker4394]

@@atreusduvelll600 i'm afraid of using that, tbh. Don't know if a can convince it that i wasn't typing "sudo rm -rf /"

[@sbrl]

Maintainer of tldr-pages here. Thanks for giving us a mention! :D

[@arghyaprotimhalder5592]

Thanks guys very useful

[@Muhammad_Hefzey]

great tool nice job

[@daynemyers2324]

Thank you for your efforts on tldr!

[@scheimong]

For me, the biggest one missing is fzf. It makes shell history searching and navigating directories so much easier.

[@watynecc3309]

I use fzf with neovim only

[@gimcrack555]

fzf is the greatest tool. I even wrote a script to use my default text editor micro to piggy back onto fzf and use fzf window panes. The fastest and most efficiently simple notes I ever used with the help of fzf.

[@toxiccan175]

eDex-UI actually seems pretty cool. It's a good shortcut for us to look like hackers in front of our less tech-savvy friends haha

[@akza0729]

It's electron-js the chromium in disguise & kids love it and can crash it in 15 mins somehow.

[@koevoet7288]

Opening up a terminal is enough lol, if I open a terminal around others they always think I’m hacking 😂😂

[@akza0729]

@@koevoet7288 He is a hacker!!! People go "Oh my goaddd!!! He will steal our money!!!" You get arrested till they find someone with knowledge.

[@koevoet7288]

@@akza0729 luckily that hasn’t happened to me yet 😂😂

[@TheExard3k]

try cool-retro-term

[@yuu-kun3461]

07:15 you can do sudo !! which will execute the previous command with sudo.

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Yeah, there's that too!

[@Jarnathan]

Ik right!? Way easier!

[@JohnDoe-pq5fu]

I'm a little tipsy, but for some reason I didn't see the !! And parsed it as "do sudo" which reminded me of IOS CLI where I refuse to leave config mode because I'm lazy as frack and I just "do" stuff Ex. " Do show run"

[@clintquasar]

You're a machine of video content creation.

[@TheLinuxEXP]

I try to do 3 per week!

[@clintquasar]

@@TheLinuxEXP That's why it feels I watch it everyday. Great work, thanks!

[@70shahin]

You said, you are non dev. as a power user, with some coding experiences, I've learnt A LOT from this video. plz more of this type.

[@Amplifimusic]

i've never even thought about having a bin for linux, definitely better than just purging files with rm. thanks nick!

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Yeah, it's very much safer!

[@maxxiong]

Not sure what GNOME does, but KDE does delete to bin if you hit delete.

[@nevoyu]

@@maxxiong Gnome does too, but we're talking about deleting file in the cli, not a gui

[@Amplifimusic]

@@maxxiong yeah i think most gui file managers do, but i mean with rm in the terminal

[@Sharp931]

rm? Use shred.

[@TazerXI]

I cannot believe you forgot (I think) the most important cli tool, the one you run to show people you use a terminal: Cmatrix And for those on windows, I guess you have "cd / && tree /f" (-f for Linux) to get a similar effect.

[@soupborsh8707]

This can only be used at night and in a black hoodie

[@TazerXI]

@@soupborsh8707 in a dark room, typing really fast

[@SocialMaster762]

The most fundamental CLI tool ever!

[@sutekhxaos]

You should check out Hollywood ;)

[@aditeya1024]

I'd recommend lf (LF ) for those who find ranger slow. Its written in go and much faster, however it requires more configuration than ranger.

[@Yadobler]

Ooo yeah I like ranger but it is really slow. Before I gave up and dual boot into manjaro, I was using WSL and ranger was chronically slow, especially since there wasn't a nice way to xdg without manually setting up a xsvr and routing the network and setting up custom firewall settings

[@anthonystark6215]

Very cool, loved frack, tldr and especially eDesk, thanks Nick!

[@christiansilvermoon]

The irony about the rmtrash thing at the beginning as the I always perma-delete from the GUI instead of using Trash, but having an option to trash from the CLI appeals to me XD

[@maxxiong]

I still prefer just using the GUI for most things (kinda funny because I also use swaywm but that's more because of bugs in kde wayland). Autojump and tldr do seem nice though. And I think most dev setups that support old browsers already use caniuse to add fallbacks for old browsers.

[@akza0729]

I like WM for their Tiling feature. But for me the fonts and scaling just feels off. Oneday, maybe GNOME will have native tiling.

[@maxxiong]

@@akza0729 You know you can change the font right? And waybar exists for a better top bar.

[@akza0729]

@@maxxiong Yup. But fonts and their aliased rendering when scaled feels off.

[@genkiferal7178]

KDE is full of bugs. they focused too much on form over function. its also bloated as hell.

[@Mikey_xx_]

This is well done and documented. I know, you said don't run off and install as the video was going, but I couldn't help it. I like your presentation, and the fact you had the chapters listed as well as the github locations. You are very much appreciated and am glad I subscribed.

[@theodoros_1234]

I've never heard of any of these commands, and most of them seem incredibly useful. This video instantly got bookmarked, it will definitely come in handy. Thanks!

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Thank you :)

[@TiagoTiagoT]

Two I would recommend are Midnight Commander (text-based two-pane file browser, with built-in text and hex editor, and lots of other stuff), and htop (shows tons of info about running processes and lets you do stuff like change priorities, kill etc)

[@oliviadrinkwine1411]

Man I was about to suggest that :stuck_out_tongue:

[@UlrichHoltzhausen]

btop is also nice.

[@middleclasspoor]

Great video! I'm going to give TLDR a try for sure! Thanks Nick!

[@igorristeski5472]

Very nice and useful selection of commands. Thanks

[@necrobynerton7384]

The amount i've written "f#$k" when some command returned error is innumerable. The command better be f4#%king working lol Great video as always TLE

[@akza0729]

I used to type it even before installing it, simply because of annoyance. Great if it actually works.

[@BWGPEI]

Another very useful teaching moment that you can bet I downloaded, and Many Thanks!. It's been 40 years since I used Unix on a VT-100 terminal, and brother do you bring back old memories. Now if I could just have Intel AEdit running again.....

[@Michael201078]

Awesome tools. Many thanks for the video, very useful.

[@TeodorSobczak]

I just found out about tldr which is a great time saver for me since I tend to forget command syntax pretty often and reading man pages is time consuming. Thanks!

[@nicolaslavinicki4029]

Awesome video bro!

[@mohitkumar-jv2bx]

One of the best videos i have ever watched that talked about the cli-tools. Almost all were the tools I needed but didn't even know i needed them. I just love linux. Thanks a lot nick for making this one.

[@daedalus_00]

quick tip for Ranger: start Ranger by typing ". ranger" or "source ranger" and when you quit ranger you will be dropped into the directory you left in ranger. Since I use ranger all the time, I just use an alias for it.

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Very nice!

[@Suspendermen]

you can achieve the same effect by leaving ranger by typing 'S' instead of 'q'

[@genkiferal7178]

for others - a space after the period then ranger to get there. only if I keep that terminal window open, though, it seems

[@Babalas]

fd - find replacement. Love it's type filtering i.e. fd -e md -x wc -l to line count markdown or fd -t cmake version to find version in cmake files fasd - same functionality as autojump.. hit tab to expand matching locations or use to prompt fzf - make your own searchable lists with previews. I.e. ff takes fasd lists and lets me fuzzy find over them. gli does a git log displaying a tree of commits in the bottom and a preview of the changes at the top

[@guilhermelopes7809]

Very helpful tips :D thanks a lot

[@matbme]

Bat is a must-have for me. Much better than default cat and can also be used as a man pager

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Noted!

[@ArniesTech]

Awesome backgeound. So natural and cozy. Pmease, more vids out here 💪😌

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Thanks! I'll try to, but not when it's as sunny!

[@donchisciottev]

Nice video, Nick! Really interesting and funny! 😉

[@anon_y_mousse]

Two I'd recommend are locate and find. You could spend an entire video on just find. I often use it to match files in massive directories with -maxdepth 1 and I'll use -print0 to pipe it to xargs -0. Quite useful for a lot of daily tasks I do. Also try fullscreening your terminal and use mpv --vo=tct or --vo=caca on a video of your choice, you won't be disappointed.

[@morristgh]

find also has -exec and -execdir which are super helpful (for me at least)

[@tefkah]

I'd recommend fd over find, I "find" finds syntax to be way too confusing for some reason, if I do "fd whatever" it just recursively searches everything respecting .gitignore, which is almost always what I want

[@anon_y_mousse]

@@tefkah Never heard of fd, though I've found that once you learn enough find syntax to make it useful it's incredibly so.

[@anon_y_mousse]

@@morristgh Yeah, they are for a lot of people, though I avoid them in lieu of making lists and then running commands later after I've made sure every entry is sane.

[@genkiferal7178]

| mpv --vo=tct or --vo=caca on a video Can I do ao for audio only? I assumed your vo stood for video only, but haven't tested it yet. I've been using mpv --no-video to listen to playlists and albums.

[@Jakeu1701]

This was full of interesting terminal items. thanks

[@cyberjohn44]

The trash-cli has been a very useful tool for me. Great video as usual.

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Thanks!

[@ebsolas]

Woo! Callout for ranger. I love ranger. I probably spent an entire week playing around with Midnight Commander, lfm, etc. Before finding Ranger. I had just gotten into vim and learned how it works (I'm trying to convince myself to learn emacs as well atm) and I fell in love with Ranger's vim-style controls.

[@binarybear9711]

ncdu is my personal fav as a replacement for 'TreeSize' you might know from Windows. It shows the disk usage of a folder with the ability to browser trough and the the size for each one

[@Cptnbond]

For me, the auto jump was a huge timesaver. Nick, Thanks for high lighting this little helper. Cheers.

[@Prophet6000]

Great video. TLDR is amazing.

[@juancarlosfernandez2580]

Great Video Nick! Another suggestion for file manager could be mc (Midnight Commander), I use it on my servers and personally I think is one of the most powerful command line tools, it's almost on par with a GUI File Manager. I'm installing the frack ASAP, made me laugh but looks super useful as well as the other tools

[@richardsteiner8992]

Nice as a tarball/zip file manager and also as an sftp client, and you can use it to ssh to other hosts and edit/transfer/manipulate files remotely.

[@LordHonkInc]

Just to share some of my favorites, I've got two productive ones and a timewaster for y'all: - youtube-dl (or one of its forks), for when you want to watch videos on a long road trip with bad internet - pass - the project is called passwordstore (because just googling "pass" would probably not bring up the right site), and it's basically a gpg-encrypted, local password manager. There's even frontends like passmenu or rofi-pass if you're using dmenu or rofi, respectively, browser plugins for Firefox and Chrome, and ports for Android, iOS and Windows (though I have no experience with the latter two, the Android app works great) - cmatrix… it's just neat :)

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Oh yeah, youtube-dl is great!

[@rafalg87]

I like xclip - it allows copying command output to system clipboard: some-command | xclip -sel clip For brevity I alias it to just "clip".

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Nice!!

[@RogerioPereiradaSilva77]

And when you want to use whatever is on the X clipboard at the moment on the command line, shellscript, etc. you can use xclip -o. Awesome little tool! For instance, instead of paging through pages and more pages of a large log file to copy portions of it and paste it on a report or something, you can simply get it directly with xclip and some smart thinking: sed -n '/begin_string/,/end_string/p' | xclip

[@Fiveward]

Nice video I would love a part 2

[@SRAZKVT]

among those i use the most : Zellij (like tmux, but more practical for new users), distrobox, kakoune, ffmpeg, and distro specific stuff (mostly xtools, a series of tools around xbps to get extra info, like locate which packages contains a file at a given location, which files a package contains, read manpage from not yet installed package, etc)

[@AdamDymitruk]

Another great video with new stuff to try! How about doing an in-depth video on fish shell?

[@L0000Kme]

Ranger is amazing! I love it because of the consistency of hotkeys with vim, and it has file preview. I use Arch btw.

[@gimcrack555]

The same after you setup ranger with rifle and scope. And add a few other things; img2txt, w3mimgdisplay, ueberzug, convert, rsvg-convert, ffmpeg, ffmpegthumbnailer, imagemagick, highlight, atool, 7z, w3m, pdftotext, calibre, epub-thumbnailer, and much more.

[@fabledredeyes]

This is so damn useful, ranger especially is great. Thank you!

[@pablodenapoli1667]

One classical tool that I love is the file manager Midnight Commander (mc). Also I wound recommend the editor joe which is very fast, and useful for editing config files, etc [In my opinion much easier to use than vim, and more feature complete than nano, with excelent support for very large files, and the shell xonsh which is based in Ipython, and can run a superset of Python with a shell-like syntax (the best of both words!).

[@pablodenapoli1667]

Another fantastic tool that I forgot to mention is lftp (ftp client).

[@richardsteiner8992]

I tend to live in mc and its internal editor. 🙂

[@Permafry42108]

one other cmd line tool i love is fdupes, which makes it easy to find and delete any duplicate files stored on my HDDs. saved me literally over 2 tb of space from duplicate files i hadn't found manually;

[@stuartgreen5631]

Good stuff!

[@doragonmeido]

4:33 ik there are a lot of people who dont like fish(the fish shell), but it has this epic feature that lets you jump to an old command faster with up arrow key, just type a few initial characters of the long-command on the terminal and hit the up arrow, it will filter and show the previous commands based of the characters you entered, quite handy when i look up for that one long ffmpeg command

[@genkiferal7178]

oh, that's what I need! So, is or the equivalent for fish? For bash_history, I learned I could organize it for later use - to keep notes - by using markdown headers - like other config files seem to. I keep music playlists, install notes, encryption notes, etc. that way. But, I've been wanting a better way to search it - using the terminal.

[@doragonmeido]

@@genkiferal7178 idk look it up~ you may find some good stuffs~

[@UlrichHoltzhausen]

Sort of like CTRL+R and typing a word you remember from a previous command

[@richardsteiner8992]

There are a handful of tools that I tend to use heavily. One is mc (Midnight Commander), a file/archive manager and sftp client with a decent text editor. Another is multitail, a tail command on steroids that lets you split the screen into several subwindows, automatically repeat commands, colorize things via regex, etc. Nice for creating text dashboards in a terminal. A third is elinks, a text-based web browser that displays tables in a legible manner. Sure, you need old school HTML, but HTML 4.01 transitional is still my friend for simple pages.

[@jazzhopper1580]

two command line tools I always add to my systems are mc (Midnight Commander) and htop

[@HopliteSecurity]

Top tier thank you many!

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Thanks for watching 😉

[@patrik5123]

autojump is awesome. It works well with tabbing out folder names as well.

[@TazerXI]

3:15 It may not just be in your ~/.bashrc file. If you use bash for your shell, basically most people, it will be there. If you use zsh or fish, it will be in their respective file (~/.zshrc or ~/.config/fish/config.fish) Edit: or use the "alias" command, that may not work after a reboot Edit 2: added files for fish/zsh. Also there are ways to find out what shell you are using. By default it is most likely bash, but you can check if you use an app like Konsole (KDE) or GNOME Terminal within their settings, as something like "shell" or "startup script"

[@TheLinuxEXP]

True!

[@aqua-bery]

Doesn't the alias command only last as long as you don't reboot?

[@TazerXI]

@@aqua-bery There is a way to set it to always work iirc. edit: just remembered that is what he talked about in the video, buy setting it in ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc. Forgot the command didn't work after a reboot

[@cyberjohn44]

If add the 'alias' to the .bashrc file, it is permanent even after reboot. I have a lot alias in my.bashrc and have no issues with them.

[@itildude]

I had never heard of tldr...now that is awesome.

[@romixch]

I use watson for time tracking at work. Its simple but super useful!

[@vanodon2257]

My personal pref, Vim ,vifm but range has recently become my fancy , zathura (technically not cli, but its suckless and keyboard based), gomuks as my matrix client, ffmpeg

[@jpberes]

Very nice video, congratulations ! some more interesting CLI tools/commands are bat as a replacement of cat, whois, gdu as a diskanalyzer within the Cli - for those using Debian or Ubuntu based distros, nala instead of apt - inxi for system information ...

[@rmcellig]

Excellent!! I like scanning physical books and reading them on computer. Can I read them through the terminal? I save the scanned books in pdf format.

[@OldieBugger]

I don't think I'll start using the trashcan anytime soon. I've lived without using it for more than 10 years now. And I haven't made too many mistakes by deleting files I didn't mean to destroy forever. Thank you anyway, the number of useful commands in Gnu/Linux cli still amazes me.

[@kreigerlol9371]

Oh, I goodly want to hear so!

[@shatteredvidrio]

You should make a series out of this!

[@danieljaouen9384]

Thanks!

[@abhishankpaul]

"Can't resist the pull and power of command line" A Linux user in his purest form

[@rozarpragara]

Frack! That frack seems fun and frackin' useful!

[@tulsatrash]

Sweet. Thanks for making this video. Gonna try gifgen later today.

[@MikeWood]

I missed this the first time around. A lot of gold here. Can't wait to espeak and annoy soon. :)

[@alec1575]

Love the video, as ways

[@MegaManNeo]

I want to try that espeak-ng thing, it looks funny :D

[@AschKris]

ranger also has file previews, including for pictures, pdfs and videos, if your terminal supports images.

[@gimcrack555]

True you have to set it up to do so. By installing rifle and scope and a few other's things. Ranger site tells all or look for ranger file manager tips and tricks and of course YT videos.

[@madthumbs1564]

Best thing about Ranger is that it works as an optional file picker for Qutebrowser. -That combined with keynav can get people by without a mouse.

[@genkiferal7178]

that sounds like a great tip. will look into that. maybe you should do a quick video on it. no need to show your face or be fancy with the editing

[@Thiagola92]

1- there is "Gio" from GTK Team, i think that it's included in ubuntu Recomendations (that you may already know): jq - json processor (great to consume api responses) xdotool - fake mouse/keyboard input scrcpy - mirror phone screen micro - an intuitive text editor

[@genkiferal7178]

micro is really good. but, if nano is configured correctly (it took me hours to get right), it is almost as good as micro or even better. I wish someone would fork nano to make it this way without all of the hard labor.

[@markmilan57]

It's really nice. Is there anything that will allow to convert txt to pdf directly?

[@lukajeliciclux3074]

I use Vifm instead of Ranger. Two pane file manager with the ability to open multiple files for renaming directly in Vim. Other actions are also supported.

[@cdey3886]

Midnight Commander is my preffered File Managment tool.

[@mzigaib]

Yeah, sequel please!

[@mini_bomba]

vim is actually a pretty powerful tool. Everyone knows it can edit files, but did you know you can split the view into many tiling views and start a terminal in them? You can also try to edit a directory and it will bring up a kind of file manager.

[@ebsolas]

So like emacs except vim. (joke)

[@user-tb5pf9tw6i]

Hi TLE, Thanks for your Video. I've installed trash-cli, caniuse, eDex-Ui, and beginning to profit them.

[@doppiam7094]

What Linux distro are you using? It looks so good

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Fedora !

[@theotheratticus]

Woo early! Glad i discovered your channel!

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Thanks!

[@peterschmidt9942]

youtube-dl is an awesome tool, not just to download from YT. Works on heaps of sites where some browser plug-ins just won't work. And not just for Linux either 😉

[@Tachi107]

mpv + youtube-dl is great too! It allows you to watch videos from the Web right from your terminal (and ads are blocked too ;)

[@peterschmidt9942]

@@Tachi107 I can normally block ads with browser plugins. It's just some sites you can't download videos from (like IView) with any plugins. Youtuve-dl seems to catch them all

[@brunoais]

4:46 I usually use CTRL+R and search for the directory... I will consider that one, though

[@starmarker3896]

Oh my Lord, gifgen is definitely gonna be useful for memes. Thank you

[@freckhard]

I used autojump for many many years but have grown very fond of zoxide recently. Basically it does the same but is a bit more modern.

[@b1oh1]

I know this is a CLI focused video, but autojump should be added to every single file browser. Just give an option to select how many "favorites" to be shown in the file tree. Users like my wife and my kids and parents would really benefit.

[@Permafry42108]

been spending the day having fun by downloading offline copies of my fav web comics using the wget cmdline tool;

[@OktayAcikalin]

Is there something that replicates Google Drive search, which finds text fragments in scanned pdfs (without text layers)? Or which does OCR and adds the text as a hidden layer?

[@nyxalexandra-io]

A tip I use constantly: `sudo !!` will execute the last command with sudo

[@nickcat1]

Try keep. It's a meta cli program for saving commands for later. It's super useful and when I forget a long command I can quickly search for it.

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Thanks!

[@nickcat1]

@@TheLinuxEXP No problem. I love your content. You can add this to your list if you do a part 2.

[@YannMetalhead]

Good video.

[@toxiccan175]

Hey! Just wondering if there are any good options for voice assistants or voice activated macros on Linux. I'd love to be able to open programs or run certain commands hands-free.

[@dod_ytent9984]

U might wanna look at mimic 3 by mycroft

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Yep, was going to suggest that

[@toxiccan175]

Thanks to you both! I appreciate the info

[@akza0729]

@@dod_ytent9984 That's cool

[@gabrielfranciscoerazomerin7827]

I love lsd command, because show icons in the terminal, if is a document or a directory and also the name is crazy >:)

[@fabienmargerie6815]

Thanks for the tips, i've discover espeak only 2 months earlier and i didn't know we can use others voices!! Bye Nick!

[@galgrunfeld9954]

One of the things I disliked about Linux when I began to learn it is just how much effort it took to do basic things - so much typing, reading, and manual work. Thanks for sharing these awesome tools!

[@gimcrack555]

Yes, you have to learn the basic's by reading and viewing video's. But it's worth it at the end. Been a Linux user for the past 19 years. Last version of Windows I touch was Windows XP.

[@aintea2122]

Hello french comrade ! There are some I like for example bpytop (btop++ is the c++ version), lolcat, sl, asciiquarium, cool retro term and the real best, yakuake/guake (having a terminal you can pull out of nowhere is just insane if yuo need to have something run in a term and you want a clean look)

[@kote315]

The only command (among those in the video) that I ever used is espeak. With it, I made a talking clock (I just added a task to say the time every hour to cron), as well as a talking network printer. I took an old laser printer, built a single board computer inside it, and made it available over the network. Since the computer had an audio output, I added a small speaker and amplifier so that it would speak the IP address when turned on. This way I could be sure that the system booted up, connected to the network and I can go to this IP if I need to reconfigure something.

[@kote315]

date +%R | espeak-ng hostname -I | tr . \ | espeak-ng (optionally add -v your_language) hostname -I prints IP address (works in debian/ubuntu, not in manjaro) tr replaces dots with spaces ( \ means space)

[@MaxusR]

Is there some kind of bash shell which will prepend sudo when a command is available only to root user? It would be obvious way with no harm. I definitely would never run 'rm -rf /' in hope that there is no sudo in the command.

[@joffreybluthe7906]

Do you actually use spaces in your directory names?? lol I had heard of ranger but I didn't know it was a CLI, I'm definitely going to check it out cause it looks really cool!

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Yes, because I mostly use the GUI, so I don't care ;) For projects I interact with using the command line, of course I don't use spaces, this was just an example ;)

[@joffreybluthe7906]

@@TheLinuxEXP I figured this was an example, but I like making fun of my colleagues who use spaces so I couldn't resist 😁😁

[@ryanb6503]

I have to admit, I spend most of my time taking at the nerdy things cli users do, perfectly content with my gui and it's Fisher Price complexity, but that gif making command might just pull me in