5 Awesome Linux Terminal Tools You Must Know

[@Sizzlik]

Most usefull thing i learned this year was that two exclamation marks repeat the last console entry. You know when you typed a long one liner, hit enter...no permission. Forgot to add sudo. Now instead of typing again..just "sudo !!". Come in more handy then one might think

[@jpcampbell]

Yeah, I’ve been using that since the 90s and still use it daily!! If you like that, use !$ for running a command against the last argument of the last command. You’ll use it even more than !!

[@Person1873]

You can also do ! Before a command you've run previously if you need to do the same again. Handy if you're prototyping your .bashrc or something

[@Person1873]

Eg if you ran $source ~/.bashrc You can later run $!source

[@sevenelven]

So before you'd type the whole thing again instead of using up arrow?

[@Sizzlik]

@@sevenelven the up arrow just goes up one step in history, you would need to move the cursor to the start of the line and enter sudo if you only forgot to enter it before. Instead you can type sudo !! and the !! gets replaced with whats 1 step up in history. There are many uses for it but i mostly use it for when i forget to put sudo in front of the last command. Or !$ to just use the argument of the last comand.

[@apina2]

1:42 top, htop and btop 7:02 fzf 10:26 ffmpeg and tldr 16:05 neovim 19:30 neofetch 21:08 cmatrix

[@StaffyDoo]

Thx mah dude, you saved me some good time here. Signing off.

[@dkeiti]

@@StaffyDoo 2

[@antoniobragah8305]

Thanks for the timeline, this is awesome.

[@TECHiHOBBYIST]

Thank You mate.

[@adrianalexandrov7730]

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[@nmdra]

My Favourite terminal tools👇 Zoxide (cd alternative) Exa (ls alternative) Fd (find alternative) Tealdeer (fast tldr fork) Tmux + Neovim Bat (cat alternative) Delta (git difftool) Glow (markdown viewer) LF (terminal file manager) FZF Htop 🙂 Zsh >>>> Bash

[@NeuralNine]

I definitely have to look into tmux

[@nmdra]

​@@NeuralNine Try some other Terminal like Alacritty or Kitty.🙂

[@xXPerditorXx]

@@NeuralNine neofetch | lolcat -t sl -acdFl

[@ricardokullock2535]

And most of those are in rust :) The rust version from htop i believe it is called ytop Zoxide is awesome! I prefer lsd to exa Ripgrep is an alternative to grep

[@ricardokullock2535]

Another fun one is "cowsay"

[@websterolson1184]

I've been using Linux for over 25 years, started with Slackware. I learned from this video and greatly appreciate the knowledge share. Much respect for the way you explain these tools.

[@websterolson1184]

I still use vim because I just can't quit it. ;)

[@Frankkz]

How did I not know about tldr!? It's amazing, I learn better by example so this is perfect, thanks for sharing!

[@coffeemaddan]

In my mind, i knew somebody must have written a tool like this. The syntax for tar, zip, gunzip and the rest drive me crazy and the documentation is headache inducing. I'll be installing it immediately. Wish it was a default feature tbh.

[@rul1175]

I agree.

[@olafschermann1592]

It was awesome to meet you in person yesterday.

[@NeuralNine]

Likewise! :)

[@andrewgluck8740]

This was a good list. I would like to say that when you get good with it, neovim is way more viable for large projects than you give it credit for. There is a steep learning curve to get there though. When you get there though you will be so much faster and more efficient than any other editor like vscode. Some other tools you might like Zoxide - fuzzy find over commonly visited directories. Zellij - terminal multiplexing like tmux but way better, and very user friendly. Ripgrep - grep on steroids! 😮

[@danielstellmon5330]

Clear command: when your terminal is full and you want a clean slate. Extra useful when you are giving a presentation or recording a video and you want to switch topics.

[@alesgabor7606]

Ctrl + l

[@MICOLO253]

If you are often using terminal through ssh I would also consider here "screen". This tool allows you to have multiple "virtual" screens of terminal open simultaneously, and even open a terminal session, close whole ssh connection and then continue this session after re-connecting with ssh, great tool

[@glidersuzuki5572]

Or tmux

[@ouraccount8447]

Tmux is the best provided u have ur custom config with all the plugins and shortcuts u want

[@AtanasStoyanov]

tmux - this is the way

[@马剑-i2q]

tmux is the best

[@dx42]

Totally!!

[@johnvalentine3024]

Thanks. This is good stuff. Also, getting more great info/tips from the comments, which YOU inspired! ha--I love it!

[@lordalangman]

I was able to use most of these tools on my Termux Terminal 😊

[@jesse9999999]

Combine neovim with telescope and harpoon and you can definitely use it in bigger projects!

[@AlizJaytay]

Added neotree with the plugins you mentioned and I find myself going back to VS code less and less

[@seventrancegamer4576]

​@@AlizJaytay yay now share the files

[@Mr0rris0]

Shiver me timbers and stiffen me lip. Thar be WHITE WHALES!!! 🥚

[@umop3plsdn]

@@seventrancegamer4576 install lunarvim it installs all those and then some with sane defaults AND you still can make your own nvim because it makes its own instance under lvim

[@MiningForPies]

Or just use vscodium

[@bazoo513]

tldr is a good starting point before you actually RTFM, which you should.

[@ashkenaze]

if you're talking about ffmpeg, you should mention imagemagick as well, nothing vome close to it for image batch processing.

[@thak777]

Great video. I've used Linux for decades and didn't know about some of these tools. Thanks for sharing!

[@kylecurry6841]

Personally I'm still a fan of Webmin. Sure some modules aren't worth using, but majority of the basic modules like it's file browser, and status dashboard are definitely worth it's use/installation, while the latest versions feature a revised in-browser terminal emulator that's pretty solid so that when you factor in all the features mentioned, I tend to use these when editing and working with semi-production scripts in Linux, especially on headless systems.

[@bazoo513]

9:45 - Forgot about *stty* command, did we, eh? 😀 (You should have typed "stty sane" and your echo and return after linefeed would have been turned back on.)

[@Sylvan_dB]

and if `stty sane` doesn't do it, then `reset` I cannot remember the last time I had to close and reopen a misconfigured terminal.

[@50_Pence]

So good. Been using Linux since 2007 hadn't heard of any but htop. Thanks

[@aiklk]

can you create a video to talk about window tiling setup? This is really useful but there are many ways out there to config, I like yours.

[@TheLazyJAK]

Man, btop and speedcrunch right out the gate? Subscribed. 🤣

[@qnprogrammer]

Wow, the tldr command is a badass. Thanks!

[@_stokyo_]

Love the Flex. Fellow windows users will be quivering in their Berckonstocks. What was the terminal window manager bit you did to get them left/rigth split etc?

[@MandosaWright]

Oh, man. That 'tldr' tool is pretty cool

[@TheVirtualFuture-By-WB]

Quick and straight forward.. Tanx / Danke

[@iverbrnstad791]

17:00 "I know for large projects, for large code bases it's not very viable", that had me triggered. Have worked as a dev for several years, and I have yet to run up into that problem. Neovim is life.

[@samoylov1973]

Thank you for this video. Please do more like this. As for fzf - it searches gorgeously, but not only. It gives back(!) found value. That is why it is possible to use fzf in such a way: vim $(fzf) mpv $(fzf) and even have preview of files on fly while searching with fzf. Here's one from my aliases is .zshrc. pf='fzf --preview='\''bat --color=always --style=plain {}'\'' --bind k:preview-up,j:preview-down' (use vim-keys to scroll preview part, if it is longer, than one page)

[@babaibrahimapam9765]

Insane🔥

[@juliusrowe9374]

Very useful tutorial! Thanks for sharing!

[@bazoo513]

It would be useful to mention locate/updatedb together with fuzzy find - running "raw" find on a large disk can be rather slow.

[@BrentMalice]

BASED ty, tldr was amazing

[@JavierGonzalez-cl6pu]

please, in the end of video, How did you do the tiling with your keyboard? its a popOs feature or something you installed?

[@bazoo513]

I wholeheartedly agree with neovim recommendation.

[@rrr92462]

Loaded btop right away. Great upgrade over htop.

[@NoNameFoundTV]

"If you have Arch, you can flex even more!" That made me laughing hard! Nice content brother, keep it up! 👍👍👍

[@satackett]

How is tldr not super mainstream? That should be one of the 1st commands you learn.

[@cevmantius]

i am using pdfunite for merging pdfs. its great to know

[@maurolimaok]

Nice tips. Thanks!

[@santidev_]

Tldr is awesome! Thank you so much!

[@yaokaledzie882]

I wished I knew about tldr. Thanks man

[@NeuralNine]

Now you know :)

[@hayoudoing]

btop is awesome. thanks dude

[@MidasGoldKing]

Much appreciated. Thank you!

[@MiBaLinuxTech]

Great Tutorial Thank You

[@mph8759]

What I’d be interested to see is whether they will warp again when drying. After all wet boards are no good..

[@Fuxy22]

I'm liking btop, fzf and tldr; got no time to lirn vim like editor key combinations

[@badral-balushi5911]

Already gave it a like at the first section "top" ✌️✌️✌️

[@gjermundification]

neovim should work well with any number of files, perhaps you need to configure some kind of fuzzy search for gf / harpoon? Jump to definition, and so on. Did you see Neovim from 0 to LSP by the primeagen?

[@ssh17hx0r]

This is fantastic! Thank you

[@cj-ip3zh]

is there a way to make btop show the network usage associated with each process?

[@josefont11]

Hi! thanks. That was very educational video. I will take a look at neovim.

[@wilsonfreitas8418]

I would include tmux on my list.

[@willmoorby9781]

What is the window management tool that you use? I noticed it right at the end 21:45

[@binbashbuddy]

Think he's running pop_os, it's kind of like a combination mutliplexer/desktop. It's actually very good, it's my os, but I use i3wm rather than the pop_os interface just because I've used it so many years.

[@JeremyFisher711]

cool video! Thanks

[@gabriele.marano]

Hi, could you tell me the name of the gnome extension you use for tiling? Thank you.

[@dragonsage6909]

Thanks, I'll give nvim a try..

[@tobyzieglerrr]

great tools, instantly got btop... perfect. tldr also great, neovim and neofetch i will evaluate 🙂 thanks

[@nekoill]

YESS MORE TERMINAL APPS

[@Sub0x-x40]

btop is awesome tool thanks for that

[@rotflol6666]

bashtop and bpytop are predecessors to btop, from bash to python to binary ;-)

[@alexanderdryagin4230]

I’m not sure that understand reason not using vim in the big projects. Just use ctags or modern lsp!

[@cornersofcreativity]

What processor do you have in your machine?

[@coffeemaddan]

Ryzen 7 5800 I think. Shows on screen when he's demonstrating btop

[@umop3plsdn]

not sure the difference between bashtop and btop++ but the same guy makes them and they look relatively the same. Some point i gotta look up the differences lol

[@nobody2937]

I love this man... ^_^ Thank you ...

[@straightup7up]

fzf is awesome!

[@Sapling_LL]

Thanks for sharing , by the way , I'm currently learning C and java as start-up languages using vscode as my default editor , is it necessary for me to explore neovim? One flaw about code is that every time I open a file through yazi, it jumps right into vs ,it's a little disturbing.Neo seems to be smooth

[@Ben_EH-Heyeh]

Instead of vim, how about Lem Editor?

[@pandacongolais]

Nice? Linux, definitely Linux ! But when you cannot avoid working under windows, there are few solutions. My favorite now is git, because it brings bash and some of the most common and useful CLI commands (find, grep, awk, sed, ...). Many years ago, I used Cygwin. It's a pain in the a**, it will steal one or two days of your life for installation and configuration. But it so complete you even get an X server too. All other X server running under windows I found were commercial products. MinGW is in between, or not ? I don't know it very well. By the way, am I the only one to feel very uncomfortable with the idea of Micro$oft providing a Linux subsystem, including it's own modifications ?

[@webflyer035]

22:19 I WAS using arch btw

[@fleshwound8875]

Pop OS nice choice

[@JorneDeSmedt]

Yes, cmatrix is nice, but have you seen unimatrix?

[@rul1175]

I just open 4 tiles with btop @ 1ms update, htop 1ms update, neofetch, and neovim. I type furiously while the murmur "He is busy saving the world."

[@stacyhackney6100]

Thank you

[@markhuckeby80]

I am running Ubuntu 23.10, and I am hoping you have an answer for this. I use Teams for class, and I cannot share my screen from the app, everything else on the app works fine. I have read that it is a problem with Wayland. I do not want to use X11. Is there a workaround where I can still use the Teams app? Thank you!

[@DefCantGame]

Are you using Wayland or xOrg? Believe has been an ongoing issue with Wayland support, xorg should work fine/is the only work around unless you want to use the web client

[@BitsOfTruth]

I like bpytop I am told it was written in Python explains the name.

[@Barbarian.Streisand]

I’ve got a sneaking suspicion this guys got a ponytail. 🤔 Can anybody in the comments confirm or deny?

[@m3ll0f3ll0]

Subbed, now i have to know

[@Barbarian.Streisand]

@m3ll0f3ll0 how can we procure such information. My ponytail radar is set to "man-bun". I can't reset it now. It'll mess up my whole operation

[@algonix11]

iotop is must have too

[@thomasluk4319]

How can u split the terminal like that

[@ouraccount8447]

tmux

[@thomasluk4319]

@@ouraccount8447 i know tmux could do so, but in the way he shown, seem there are multiple terminal instead of one windows with 3 panes

[@apina2]

I believe he is using a tiling feature of PopOS Here's a Linux Cast video about that: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bqSrmYqmebWNarM

[@thomasluk4319]

@@apina2 I see, thanks.

[@rajeev-tamang]

can anyone suggest what could be best alternative of xshell in LINUX

[@EffToyz]

doom emacs, could be run with -nw

[@banda_de_musica_de_adoraci8227]

wow nice!!!

[@rinconhacker]

Love this content.. had me dying @15:44

[@raughboy188]

I like vim, the original one.

[@dorianvedel1910]

nvim 0.6 shocked me, you can update to 0.9

[@joegravel2488]

btop its a snap not shure i whant to install on my konsole

[@dandiyuanaridianto4391]

Anyone have an issue with 'tldr ffmpeg' it says no entry for ffpeg. I'm running in wsl2

[@Error8x8]

12:30 Or you could just use ffmpg's easy to use gui

[@jarofcode9672]

fancy!

[@T313COmun1s7]

btop FTW!

[@only2sea]

Hmm..... Emacs has them all.... Including vim.

[@rul1175]

nobody ask you.

[@deveshbhati8852]

How can we connected?

[@FoWDarthLi]

broot is better than fzf for finding files

[@muddyexport5639]

TU!

[@zekenacho]

why have you changed your accent lol, this is the first video of yours i’m watching in a year or so and you never sounded like this🤣🤣 great video though

[@Cmdrlucky8]

Brah needs telescope and harpoon for nvim

[@vlya1533]

alias cat=batcat alias ls=exa

[@itsSujeetMahto]

Haven't seen anyone using vimscript for a long time

[@Soliprem]

ye because lua is better. Vimscript works, but lua just feels better

[@FilthyPitDog]

fastfetch > neofetch

[@Jonathan-ru9zl]

I don't understand why Linux is useful for the average user. Couple of points: It asks for the password everyone once in a while, maybe 100 times a day, wasting your time. If you're not lucky, linux can't detect even right password I think this feature archaic and a burden for the average user It isn't compatible with many software programs and drivers I'm developing in Linux for embedded, but for my daily use, I'm happy with Windows Can you explain why would I use Linux?

[@MrVanshajSaxena]

This is not the best place to ask the questions to which the answers you are seeking. I can tell you this, Linux has its power in its open-source democratic software evolution. Which means you are not bound to the specifics of what you're offered when you first install a proprietary operating system, like Windows or MacOS. It is upto you, as a user to decide how much tinkering you do, you can always let the defaults unchanged if you're comfortable. Also Windows is bloated with software that you don't need along with telemetry that tracks your every bit of movement or action that you do on your computer, and that data is sent to remote servers. Linux on other hand is transparent and provides ways to change your privacy settings. Linux is fast.;⁠)

[@dx42]

rm -rf / is a great one!

[@mage3690]

hhhh. HHHH! You're telling me, for THREE YEARS, I could've been using tldr instead of man! Excuse me a moment while I scream into a pillow -- both in anger that my past self had to read all those man pages, and in celebration that my future self won't have to (probably).

[@abbcc555]

surprised you didn't go with shellgpt :)

[@maximeaube1619]

tldr didn't find anything for me. I had to do a tldr --update to refresh cache and then it worked.