I like https://github.com/aristocratos/btop personally. It's way prettier than the normal top command which you use to watch processes to find the one that's hogging all of the CPU or whatever. And it's not so much that it's underrated so much as it's not very well known or distributed by default.
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awk
..for parsing the output of other commands quickly and simply. Then that parsed output can be used to create simple log messages or be passed as args to other scripts. Powerful.
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Idk a lot of commands but I think wget for downloading webpages and rsync for syncing devices are pretty awesome
The first time I used wget I felt so awesome. I was grabbing some extra music files I think it was for Ur-Quan Masters.
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Bat, a cat alternative.
Lsd, an ls alternative.
Procs, a ps alternative.
Renane, because it's great.
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find?
People always sleep on script. It's badass and let's you do goofy things like this while keeping standard terminal formatting: https://github.com/StaticRocket/dotfiles/blob/043e9a56cc9515060188ec4642e4048c0dd6c000/dot_bashrc#L79-L94
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Inshellisense is teaching me a lot. :) It's an autocompleter.
https://github.com/microsoft/inshellisense
Also, Atuin for history.
+1 to caddy. There are some services that set safe headers following the recommendations outlined by Mozilla but others don't control headers as strictly. Caddy is the only web server that I found that supports loose default header values. These values will be selected unless the upstream application specifies their own values.
You can do something similar in nginx but it requires playing with maps and has a little more indirection than I'd like.
Just wish caddy was capable of starting as root and stepping down permissions like Nginx. I have certs being managed by other tools and have to make sure they are installed and chowned for caddy's use when they are cycled.
I just started the process of switching from nginx Proxy Manager to Caddy yesterday, and even before setting up a single rule, I'm enjoying it more than NPM. Really wish I would have heard about it sooner!
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glances! Way better than top and does a bazillion cool things!
I loved glances until I switched to btop with Hot Purple Traffic Light theme, and I doubt I'll switch again. Check it out!
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ia: internetarchive https://archive.org/developers/internetarchive/cli.html cli tool, i only use it for downloads, it can a bit more than the eye meets first, like accepting a wildcard to download certain files or specify other stuff. I have an incomplete script to help me with that, which I want to share in the future. The only problem is, that the internetarchive at archive.org is often very slow at downloading.
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I abused debfoster for years... it kept my machines running very, very clean.
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