Key Takeaways
Overview of Tools and Commands
- NCDU: A visual and interactive disk usage tool for identifying space hogs.
- DUFF: A visually appealing version of DF for showing disk usage.
- RIPGrep (RG): Fast log error searching tool, ideal for finding Python functions and sensitive file mentions like API keys.
- Mosh: Enables reliable SSH connections while roaming, maintaining sessions during connectivity changes.
Remote Server Management
- Installing necessary tools (like Mosh) on both server and client side ensures uninterrupted service.
Hardware Information
- lshw: Displays detailed hardware information, useful for checking system specifications.
Networking Tools
- MTR: Combines the functionalities of ping and traceroute for live latency and packet loss tracking.
- Dog: A modern and user-friendly DNS lookup tool.
- Term Shark: A terminal user interface for TShark that makes packet analysis intuitive.
File Management and System Monitoring
- FD: A more efficient alternative to the find command with improved defaults.
- Glances: An all-in-one resource monitoring dashboard.
- Dstack: Provides a timeline view for system metrics.
- IO top: Monitors disk input/output in real time.
Advanced Command-Line Tools
- Progress: Visualizes the progress of commands in real time.
- Lazy Docker: An interactive terminal UI for Docker management.
- Shred: Secure file deletion that overwrites data to prevent recovery.
- Ask Cinema: Records terminal sessions and can convert them to GIF format.
Productivity Enhancements
- Task Warrior: Command-line task management system.
- Fabric: Enables the use of AI in command-line tasks.
- Olama: Local AI tool for generating commands based on user input.
Summary
- A wide variety of powerful Linux commands and tools enhance productivity, ease of use, and system management for developers. The integration of AI tools like Fabric and Olama presents new possibilities in command-line usage alongside traditional commands.