Linux tools I never wanna forget about

linux-cool-tools.md

• chroot #### Jail :> Confine a command's access within given root directory
• runuser #### Run command as another user. Compare su
• stdbuf [-oL] command #### Line buffering in output
• rlwrap [-cr -aPassword: -p -S -P -o] command #### GNU Readline + History + TAB-Autocompletion + Colored prompt + Password hiding
• fold #### Pretty line wrapping
• wrap #### Pretty line wrapping
• pr ### Paginate text file - prettify
• more
• less
• tty ### Print the file name of the terminal connected to standard input
• hostname ### Various info relating to current host. E.g. all IP : hostname -I
• progress ### Feed input to a command displaying a progress bar
• pv ### Versatile progress bar for measuring data transfer through pipe. Can be combined with dialog --keep-tite --gauge
• dialog ### TUI - A versatile Terminal Based UI usable by shell-scripts
• xargs ### For elegant shell scripts
• cut ### Similar functionality provided by awk and sed too
• sort -u ### Concatenate multiple text files removing duplicates
• uniq ### Remove or report duplicate lines in a text file
• ncat [-c, --sh-exec hook | -m, --max-conns n | -C, --crlf] #### Simple server with multiple client on same port
• socat
• nc or netcat
• jq #### json parser
• base64 #### Whenever you cannot handle binary
• base32
• base58 ### Python - not available with GNU-coreutils
• argon2 ### Password-based key derivation; password hashing
• wc [-c | -l]
• timeout [-s, --signal=SIGNAL | -k, --kill-after=DURATION] #### May be used as alarm
• arecord and aplay #### Audio in and out - pipe with nc/ncat/socat to make audio call
• sox #### Audio recording
• mplayer #### Audio player
• tee
• http and httpie #### From httpie which is an alternative to cURL
• mosquitto_sub and mosquitto_pub #### MQTT client
• tcpserver
• tunnel ### p2p port forwarder with NAT/Firewall traversal
• mindisafe ### Simple but strong local file encryption
• linstall ### Install anything locally without sudo
• mc ### Midnight Commander - awesome file and directory manager with TUI
• sponge ### Soak up all input from stdin and write it to
• task-spooler ts ### Unix batch system - task scheduler - job queues
• at ### Unix batch system - job scheduler
• cron and crontab