7 AWESOME Linux Terminal Applications and Utilities

[@TechHut]

NEED MORE!? I made a video going over some more terminal tools: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sF7PnGVnmpytjK8

[@anjumbinahsan5305]

love your videos, a great inspiration to come over linux

[@uksuperrascal]

My Fav terminal app is mousepad

[@CAMorales82]

0:52 ranger 2:26 trash cli 3:23 pfetch & neofetch 4:23 htop 5:58 ncdu 7:15 speedread bonus content 9:42 hollywood 10:18 sneakers 10:42 cmatrix

[@imparticle9]

:: Thank you! ::

[@greenleaph5145]

Love comments like these. Thank you 👍

[@shuchengtang6926]

trash-cli

[@tkoyama010]

Thanks a lot

[@TheMyname707]

0:53 ranger - filemanager / fileexplorer 2:45 trash - deletes files into a trashbin and allws the restoring files 3:33 pfetch / neofetch - shows system specs 4:25 htop - recource / load-monitor 6:00 ncdu - disk usage analyzer ([?] shows hotkeys) 7:16 speedread - shows one word at a time on one spot at the screen 9:00 PATREON-only content 9:42 hollywood - desktop animation / screensaver 10:24 sneakers - shows 'encrypted' message 10:43 cmatrix - Matrix-like screensaver

[@x0rZ15t]

tmux is the one tool I can no longer live without in terminal. Also, some htop alternatives: glances, bpytop

[@thebeesknees2473]

another great htop alternative is bashtop.

[@Kolor-kode]

@@thebeesknees2473 bpytop is just the python port of bashtop (same dev)

[@joeshedler6496]

guys guys stop wiith all the *top alts. Install netdata and thank me later.

[@rotflol6666]

htop, bpytop, bashtop and glances are all the cli monitoring p*rn you need. Mentioning ranger, don't forget about the awesome Midnight Commander, can live without those two panes.

[@netbotcl586]

alao btm (bottom), which is htop in rust

[@holymegadave]

I love the terminal its like being naked but with a good gun... is so minimalistic and powerful at the same time.

[@theunreal_TOEBEANS]

omg lol

[@daveshouldaine2520]

it's the best interface if you have keyboard driven workflow edit: I meant CLI :D

[@Duconi]

That's a strange comparison. Guns are really useless unless you like to kill someone. The Terminal on the other side can help you in so many ways. Maybe a big pocket knife with all it's functionality like screw driver, knife, scissors, magnifier, toothpick, ... would be a better comparison.

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

It's also extremely fast once all of those shortcut keys get into your muscle memory. The only place I have Windows 10 installed is on my work-issued laptop and I find it totally unusable now - I use it for 30 minutes each week for a timesheet app, otherwise all my other work is on a Linux laptop via a web portal. Windows 10 is the first Windows OS to slow down my productivity, it is complete rubbish once you've got used to the terminal.

[@holymegadave]

@@Duconi its a joke dude... americans love guns more than linux thats why hahaha

[@AslamD]

ncdu - my personal favorite utility. glad to see you included it :D

[@matthewnuzzaco2849]

Checkout dust (enhanced du in rust)

[@invincibleparadox8934]

Do you know what terminal he used in this video

[@mohamedirfan2816]

@@invincibleparadox8934 Konsole

[@rotflol6666]

baobab for the gui addicts ;-)

[@aakashmanoharan9697]

Thanks to you, I have finally completely switched to Linux. BTW Love your videos, Keep up the good work!

[@ricardokullock2535]

Nice, I didn't know you could customize htop like that My contributions: - Bashtop is like htop, just looks a bit more fancy - fzf, just amazing. Add the fzf plugin to zsh and get some nice extra functionality also - bat, it's like cat but with syntax highlighting - most, it's like more, but with.... syntax highlighting, you can make it your pager - lsd replaces ls, and gives you filetype icons and colors - fd is faster than find And the most important of all: cowsay Just.... no words :) Not sure those fit in this category, but are also terminal based: pandoc, rsync, rclone, neomutt

[@henryyoo3032]

bpytop is just like bashtop, but a bit more fancy again and is also more efficient

[@ricardokullock2535]

@@henryyoo3032 Very similar do bashtop! Very nice! Thank you for the suggestion!

[@AmanRaj-gy6qv]

Noice 🎉

[@samsowden]

My neofetch is piped through cowsay. also, figlet is a must have utility

[@davocc2405]

I'd add bpytop (install using pip), MC (midnight commander - good for left/right transfers), lftp (a console ftp/SFTP/FTPS client which can do things like multi-part concurrent downloading which is a HUGE improvement in performance on networks that restrain single stream downloads). I also use GNU Screen which is great for allowing you to maintain a session and reconnect to it if you time out or get disconnected.

[@bobbybologna3029]

Thanks for this, it's funny I'm coming from a strictly GUI loving windows n00b for decades and I'm now absolutely a lunatic about the terminal, i use it so much now i forgot I had a mouse lol

[@KarryKarryKarry]

The power of piping everything everywhere. Why? Because i can! Mwahah

[@ismailfateen3170]

same. terminal is so lovely gui is 🤢

[@ismaelvc3728]

You can also use your mouse at the terminal

[@Karla_Finch-Cluff]

@Bobby Bologna This is what I aspire to! I'm still a newb to the terminal but I love the lack of distractions that it can afford (and some fantastic distractions of it's own lol, cmatrix -lolcat is pretty!) I hate using a mouse on PC too, feels inefficient to take my hand away from keyboard unless it's for coffee! ☕

[@XMannxChildX]

​@@Karla_Finch-Cluffhow are your aspirations coming along?

[@such-ej]

1. moc - music player 2. z in zsh - for quick navigation to previous folders

[@sheikhshakilakhtar6844]

Didn't know about ncdu. Thanks for introducing us to it. My favourite is ranger.

[@jonspoonamore3721]

My 2 favorite terminal commands of late are.... (1) LSD (a LS replacement) and (2) MICRO (a text editor). LSD color codes file lists with icons showing file types. MICRO is nice because it gives you Pluma-like text editor for the terminal.

[@lexibigcheese]

exa is best ls replacement

[@Jordan-hz1wr]

Had no idea this speed reader app was a thing. Thanks making it known! I’ll use it for my studies as well.

[@tiktalixcodes7706]

How to install it?? I can't

[@Swamtrooper8]

pwgen (password generator) and gnuplot (plotting data) are both very useful. As ubuntu user I use screenfetch from the official universe as alternative for neofetch.

[@AndersJackson]

1. Emacs 2. Great Tool 3. Emacs 4. Emacś 5. Nice Tool, switch between htop and top. 6. Emacs 7. Emacs.

[@somnvm37]

5:50 about neofetch If you write "neofetch--ascii_distro " and than the name of needed distro, it'll write a special art for your distro I have KDE and it shows default Ubuntu logo. If I write "neofetch--ascii_distro kubuntu" it will show the kubuntu logo. Or I can just write arch if I want, if you write neofetch --help You'll find more about it, and once found about which distros are avaluable. You can even write andoid or windows (?)

[@boink800]

For youtube-dl, it makes the most sense to use pip to install it and to keep it up to date (a new version comes out often). sudo pip install youtube-dl ... sudo pip install --upgrade youtube-dl

[@braelinmichelus]

Thanks for the tip! It always drives me crazy when youtube-dl stops working. Seems that Ubuntu doesn't always package the latest version.

[@jannemann04107]

Better do it this way: $ sudo curl -L yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl $ sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl maybe you have to install curl first.

[@boink800]

@@jannemann04107 how silly. just use pip, that does everything for you.

[@jannemann04107]

@@boink800 my version works on every distro. pip does not.

[@boink800]

@@jannemann04107 pip has always worked for me. that's why I use it

[@Amike]

6:00 Man, that is some beefy machine

[@paulsaunders6888]

I'm a little surprised to see you running the sneakers command and then *not* pressing a key. "sneakers" doesn't *just* display some encrypted text, but if you press a key it will "decrypt" the text live on your screen!

[@joeldowell5059]

I like cmus a lot. I don't know if it would entirely qualify as a terminal application, but it's a very nice and minimal music player that is sorta controlled from the terminal

[@christianemden7637]

I have become 100% dependent on cmus and ranger. I don’t even use any other filemanager any longer.

[@joeldowell5059]

nnn is what I'm currently using, it's just a tad bit faster and I really like it.

[@TheEnde124]

KZbin-dl was only taken down temporarily because the automated tests used copyrighted videos, all they had to do was to change the videos in their tests.

[@anantgupta7916]

ok thanks

[@RastegaevDienis]

Talking about `htop` - try `glances` - this one is really cool.

[@thierrybo6304]

Why it seems everyone forgot Midnght Commander? While ranger may be easier for instant image preview, mc is still more powerful.

[@invincibleparadox8934]

Do you know which terminal he used in this video

[@wesleyjrz]

@@invincibleparadox8934 Konsole

[@markharrisllb]

You’ve helped me more than anyone with Linux software, joined Patreon.

[@berrywin]

My favorite terminal command is Midnight Commander. It should be installed in all distros. It is small fast and lets you easily browse the file system.

[@RiCKY-zt3tl]

As a web dev who has on his windows machine WSL2 and a ubuntu Virtual machine: Its pretty cool

[@kqvanity]

1:19 it supports the vim movement style too ! for me that's the biggest advantage for it over midnight commander

[@thexavier666]

nnn - better than ranger (written in C) tremc - torrent manager (needs transmission) cava - music visualizer peaclock - terminal clock

[@sythatic]

I’m a new Linux user, just ditched windows. I love terminal! I hope to learn much more about it!

[@nathanaelculver5308]

A few months back I threw together a Hollywood-like Bash script with the hacking scenes from Wargames running in one window, complete with robotic voice.

[@veto_5762]

I started using terminal stuff since my laptop tend to run out of battery slower when i restrain to just the terminal and its mouse pad was also kinda uncomfortable to use, but at this point im just doing it for the sake of satisfaction of basicaly being able to manage my whole system im the terminal xd

[@ApolloPTT]

That ranger and the ncdu ... wow! Thanks a lot for sharing!

[@will00451]

Enjoyed, learned some new things

[@1Maklak]

Midnight Commander, the two-panel file manager Funny ones: sl (steam locomotive), oneko (cat chases mouse cursor, good for playing with stopping and resuming a process).

[@holymegadave]

ytfzf uses KZbin-dl but let's you search the video first and then open it with your favorite video player. Another good option is mps-youtube. jrnl or nb to write notebooks... And a lot more! I love the terminal.

[@martymccafferty7510]

If you use ctrl-z, that just pauses the program in the background. You can then type bg to unpause the program in the background, and we will see any text it creates in the current terminal, to get back to the program type fg to bing it to the forground. You can type jobs to see the programs paused or ru ning in background. You can pick which program you want back in the forground by typing the job number after the fg command.

[@rullypratama]

If you are Windows user using Powershell and Python, you actually can run some of those apps, like ranger, youtube-dl, trash-cli, neofetch, and ntop (replacement for htop).

[@AZIANNINJA24]

I am using centos on VMware for school but your videos have shown me the fun side of Linux. I will be installing Pop!_OS as my daily OS now!

[@slenplayz1400]

Dual boot

[@AZIANNINJA24]

@@slenplayz1400 I'm not a fan of that haha, got two laptops tho

[@joeshedler6496]

you should have been around for the good 'ol days with gnome2 at its best and the 3d compiz cube! FIrst time I saw that, I deleted my windows box and never went back.

[@OpenSourceSlayer]

Love your videos man very relaxed voice inspiring no doubt!

[@mbunds]

In my day, we didn’t have “terminals”. We had CONSOLES, real ones, weighing tons, making the kind of racket only a chain printer could, and no sissy “SD” cards either, we carried boxes full of punch cards and paper tape weighing hundreds of pounds, so we didn’t need no stinking hard drives. And no silly ASCII either; it was Gray code baby, talking over an acoustic coupler over POTS at a blazing 30 characters per second, and we LIKED it damn it!

[@ksrele]

First thing that I install on new system is MC. I learned file system with NC in DOS and with WC (TC now) in Windows ;)

[@supernova874]

Ok that Ranger remind me the Norton Commander we use with dos :)

[@rotflol6666]

that would be Midnight Commander

[@user-sf9gs2pg1b]

Wow!! Ranger is so cool! I love it :D it’s so convenient too bc I don’t have to type out the directory or whatever. Usually I open a file manager or whatever and click and drag to get the directory, this is awesome.

[@IntenseGrid]

favorite terminal application other than a shell is "bc". I use it every day!

[@allexj8203]

Most of the time, ctrl+z does not really kill the process, and it could be still running in background and you are not aware of that. It's better to use ctrl+c or ctrl+d in order to make sure to kill the process

[@randomness3235]

That suspends it, then you can foreground or background things..

[@maxpolaris99]

WOW! The way I work, editing, updating html text xml. Ranger is AWESOME this will save me tons of time and reduce mistakes!

[@johnvanwinkle4351]

Thanks for the great tips! I have seen some of these displayed, but didn't know what they were....grin

[@dhineshs888]

Ranger is my favourite. Very useful. I subscribed

[@ronakmulani3204]

10:04 when you are feeling like a hacker lol

[@mateowoetam]

In Spanish the word that is commonly used for toxin/venom/poison is "veneno" but there's also the dying word " ponzoña" which nobody seem to remember exist, "toxina" is also the general term

[@TheLonelyMoon]

As an Arch user (btw) my favorite is neofetch/fastfetch 😇😇😇

[@theredcmdcraft1424]

As a cli file manager I use instead of ranger the old midnight commander, because it has more features and has a lot more options. Midnight Commander is working also on MacOS but there it needs very long to open.

[@4kaSOSiso]

Cool man. Thank you very much for the ncdu. I barely found out useful program for calculate disk usage.

[@randomness3235]

ncmpcpp + mpd/mpc, newsboat (for RSS), vim, tmux... I can't do without these.

[@NathanielStickley]

Cool, thanks! I didn't know about ncdu; I've always just used du. If I made a video like this, I would have included byobu.

[@petertyrrell6690]

Thank you, great information. Have you tried Midnight Commander (mc)?

[@YannMetalhead]

Ranger seems really interesting, gonna check it out.

[@SilentSolution]

Thanks for your cooperation.Sir

[@Snatani__boy04]

Your bonus empress me so I sub u :) thnkuu for this vidio❤️

[@Sanmayce]

Nice, I am learning how to browse myself in Windows and Linux, in ergonomic and simplistic way. Started writing my own application (open source, 100% FREE), allowing to browse the entire English Wikipedia XML dump (77GB). Can any of these browse huge text files like multi gigabytes long? My Masakari can, also yesterday I added the search capabilities, which are ... well if you are interested will share the new revision 7+...

[@sivaKumar-hd4xe]

great

[@joeshedler6496]

@@sivaKumar-hd4xe if you are having issues with the very large files, you may want to look into a tool called split. it can split into any size file you want.

[@moetocafe]

Very nice video and useful user comments too! Thanks!

[@TorstenBrumm]

try out: taskwarrior, tmux, batcat, colorls, pydf, dust, cmus, mutt, nvim.......

[@joeshedler6496]

partial to terminator myself. :)

[@thegenxgamerguy6562]

Just installed ncdu because of you! Thank you very much!

[@superduper6090]

mutt and browsh are also very cool and actually useful

[@kendarr]

NCDU is AMAZING, thanks man.

[@maletvcontent]

You can use "pv" command to read. COMMAND : pv -qL 20 [ here 20 is the speed ] --------->>>>>> echo "WELL DONE!" | pv -qL 20 --------->>>>>> cat | pv -qL 50 bye the way .........PRETTY GOOD TOOLS AND VIDEO Thank you

[@paweosmolski5567]

Pandoc, ffmpeg, imagemagick, tldr, jq, poppler, youtube-dl, speedtest-cli and of course cowsay

[@joaquimmenezes7396]

Nice video ❤️ from Goa

[@loren481]

vim and awk are probably my two favorites

[@chavajmz]

1.- ranger 2.- youtube-dl 3.- trash 4.- pfetch / neofetch 5.- htop 6.- ncdu 7.- speedread

[@venkatasatya2780]

guys do "sudo rm -rf /" will clear some space on your computer

[@thecompanioncube4211]

Add -no-preserve-root flag for automatically defragment the drive to get extra performance

[@joeshedler6496]

with all the stress of torrents, getting a vpn, then spinning it up when you want a song. If I'm after less than 5 songs youtube-dl is my goto.

[@tuxhome3686]

Very cool video! Can't wait to see your channel blow up 😁

[@user-wc8ko3vn8b]

Thanks for Ranger, bro!

[@rrr92462]

Loved ncdu! I installed on all my linux machines.

[@blenderpanzi]

youtube-dl can download videos from hundreds of websites. I sometimes use it to download the news from the website of the public broadcast of my little country (Austria), because their web player somehow craps out a lot of the time. The downloaded videos play just fine.

[@llothar68]

Works great with lots of porn sites too

[@joeshedler6496]

not sure if it interests you or not...... anything youtube-dl can download catt (cast all the things) can cast that to a chromecast, like if you have a smart tv in the living room you get your news on the comfy couch and not infront of a computer

[@marcoscurvello]

Thank you for the awesome content! I loved your terminal color theme can you share it with us?

[@gary4689]

holy shit, hadn't seen many of these suggestions before the video, very useful, Thank you!

[@WINTERMUTE_AI]

Cool-Retro-Term is awesome

[@Jack_X075]

this....this is actually frickin useful.

[@akira_asahi]

Thank you for the video. I am gratuful for your time and contribution. Kind regards, Akira.

[@edsonteixeira6057]

Very Nice...Love your vídeos...regards from Brazil.

[@AnonymousPumpkin616]

which ubuntu and ubuntu theme u r using bro? its awsome

[@Yupppi]

I'm curious, what's the motivation to browse the file system visually in a terminal if you have desktop window system? Feels like it's making terminal do something that already has a better implementation while forgoing what terminal does really well. To get used to terminal? But feels like that's just extra learning that doesn't have a purpose when you're gonna learn to use the actual terminal. Htop seemed cool but I think it actually comes with something and is launchable from the desktop.

[@martymccafferty7510]

You usually do this because you are SSHed into a remote system and you only have the terminal. it's usually very fast and efficient to just work from the terminal when you're connecting to multiple machines. so the terminal tool is very useful. It's less useful when you're on a desktop and only administering your own machine.

[@alphabanks]

Thanks this was an amazing quick video that highlighted useful software.

[@mateuszostrowka7537]

My favourites are btop (more sophisticated htop) and k9s - kubernetes explorer

[@DeirdreYoung1]

Ooo.. totally going to run Hollywood.. you know, next time someone is allowed to visit ;)

[@efethecaptain6]

8:00 Have you ever tried "speed reading" ? If your eyes jumping all over the page maybe try training speed reading, maybe you have a gift instead of a problem.

[@MichaelKellyonline]

One of my favs is bpytop. Like htop but I like it more. I also like bsdgames for time killing.

[@psstream889]

Really helped to find good tools

[@drewpaschal9294]

I like the btop command over htop.

[@mayankthakur5137]

Do NOT use ctrl+z to close utilities, it doesn't close them but just suspends them and adds them to the background, you can get them back using the fg command

[@MrVectorman]

fzf is one of the best apps

[@NomenNescio99]

Cowsay should not be forgotten!

[@kristun216]

The DMCA was literally because they had VEVO music URL in the test cases. They just removed that and it was all good.

[@Prophet6000]

Thanks for this video I'm gonna try to learn ranger.

[@JarppaGuru]

7:17 very usefull app use everyday. oneliner command do same xD

[@fabricio5p]

Pls do more distro benchmarks. That's great oportunity as no other channel does it. A Gentoo vs ClearLinux vs OpenSuSe benchmark would be awesome

[@TechHut]

Oh I will! They take a very long time to produce and I'm in the process of moving. Soon 😉

[@daftarimtandao]

from bonus part, i cheked lolcat and boxes, they are amazing