Recommended tools
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This page is intended to list system administration related tools recommended for use in a shell (terminal/console) environment. See Recommended applications for other software.
Note
This is intended as a "best of kind" list. Use eix to search for all packages available on Gentoo.
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Hardware
- app-admin/pydf
- Enhanced df (disk free) tool, which uses colors and a semi-graphical representation of disk usage.
- sys-fs/ncdu
- ncurses-based disk usage tool, with easy navigation through the filesystem tree to see du results.
- sys-power/acpi
- Attempts to replicate the functionality of the 'old' apm command on ACPI systems.
- sys-power/acpitool
- a Linux ACPI client, allowing you to query or set ACPI values. It provides a.o. information on battery status, AC adapter presence, thermal reading, etc.
- sys-process/atop
- Resource-specific view of processes.
- sys-process/htop
- Interactive process viewer (improved alternative for top), with easy function-keys for process management.
- sys-process/iotop
- Simple top like I/O montior.
Network
- net-analyzer/xprobe
- Active OS fingerprinting tool. This is Xprobe2.
- net-analyzer/yersinia
- A FrameWork for layer 2 protocol attacks. Working on DHCP, STP, IEEE 802.1q and also some other Cisco properitary network protocols.
- net-analyzer/ethstatus
- ncurses based utility to display real time statistics about network traffic.
- net-analyzer/iptraf-ng
- console-based network monitoring utility
- net-analyzer/nload
- console application which monitors network traffic and bandwidth usage in real time
- net-analyzer/vnstat
- Network traffic monitoring
- net-wireless/wavemon
- Ncurses based monitor for IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN cards
File management
- app-misc/mc
- GNU Midnight Commander is a text based file manager
- app-misc/vifm
- Console file manager with vi(m)-like keybindings. Offers familiar navigation for vim junkies.
Shell enviroment
- sys-apps/most
- Enhanced pager (alternative to more and less) with colored highlighting. Also consider app-editors/vim with USE=vim-pager.
- app-misc/grc
- Generic Colouriser beautifies your logfiles or output of commands
- app-text/wgetpaste
- Command-line interface to various pastebins
- app-misc/rlwrap
- readline wrapper
- x11-misc/xclip
- command line interface to X selections (clipboard)
Others
- app-misc/dvtm
- Dynamic virtual terminal manager
- dev-util/vbindiff
- Visual diffing tool for binary files
- dev-db/mytop
- a top clone for mysql
