Awesome utilities on macOS and Linux Terminal

installing necessary packages

1. clone the repository:

   sudo apt-get install git
   git clone https://github.com/Geektrovert/AwsTerm.git
   cd AwsTerm
   
   # for macOS
   sudo chmod +x mac.sh
   ./mac.sh
   
   # for arch and arch linux based distros
   sudo chmod +x arch.sh
   ./arch.sh
   
   # for ubuntu alike debian based distros
   sudo chmod +x deb.sh
   ./deb.sh
   
   # for RHEL/Fedora User
   sudo chmod +x fedora.sh
   ./fedora.sh
   
   cd ..
   rm -rf AwsTerm

This shell file installs the following packages:

• htop
• bat
• exa
• fd
• ripgrep
• hexile
• tig
• thefuck
• httpie
• asciinema
• neofetch
• pstree
• nnn
• aria2
• mc
• mtr
• pydf
• lftp
• [fzf] (https://github.com/junegunn/fzf)

Updating and cleaning everything

# for macOS
brew update && brew upgrade && brew cleanup

# for arch linux
sudo pacman -Syyu

# for ubuntu
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

# for Fedora
sudo dnf update

Useful commandline utilities

1. Listing brew packages:

   • brew list - list all packages
   • brew cask list - list packages installed using caskroom
   • brew leaves - list all top-level packages
   • brew deps --tree --installed - list all packages with a nicely formatted dependency tree

2. Viewing config of homebrew: brew config

3. bat filename - 'bat' is a modern replacement of 'cat' which shows a source file on console with full syntax highlighting

   

4. Alternative to 'ls' :

   • exa - list all files
   • exa -la - list all files including hidden files
   • exa -laT - list all files under current directory in a tree format

   

5. Find any directory : fd search_keyword

   

6. Advanve grep: rg (ripgrep) for finding strings among the files under current directory (SSSHHHH, don't tell anyone, this is lighting fast!!!)

   rg 'string to search'

   

7. Viewing a HEX file : hexyl filename - it shows the file in three columns in format: byte | hex | representation

   

8. HTTPie : a modern replacement of curl. It uses the following format :

   http POST link key=value

   

9. pstree command shows the running processes as a tree

   

10. htop is an interactive process viewer run by the command htop

    

11. tig for interactively browsing git repositories

    

12. You should give some fuck to your typos. So here it is, the legendary NSFW command fuck

    

13. neofetch command shows the system details

    

14. nnn is a full-featured terminal file manager.It's tiny,extremely light and fast.

    

15. aria2 is an open source and free lightweight multi-protocol & multi-server command-line download utility.

    

16. mc gnu midnight commander is a feature rich visual file manager.

    

17. mtr is a simple command-line network diagnostic tool.

    

18. pydf is an advanced command line tool to display the amount of used and available disk space.

    

19. lftp is a sophisticated file transfer program supporting a number of network protocols (ftp,http,sftp,fish,torrent).

    

20. fzf is a general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder.It's an interactive Unix filter for command-line that can be used with any list; files, command history, processes, hostnames, bookmarks, git commits, etc.

    

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References

This writing was hugely inspired from the blog posts of Darren Burns