Recommended tools

This page is intended to list tools recommended for use in a shell (terminal/console) environment. See Recommended applications for other software.


 * : enhanced df with colors
 * : A nice command line todo list for developers
 * : Generic Colouriser beautifies your logfiles or output of commands
 * : A Password Safe compatible command-line password manager
 * : readline wrapper
 * : Command-line interface to various pastebins
 * : mytop - a top clone for mysql
 * : ncurses based utility to display real time statistics about network traffic.
 * : console-based network monitoring utility
 * : Active OS fingerprinting tool - this is Xprobe2
 * : A layer 2 attack framework
 * : Network traffic monitoring
 * : Ncurses based monitor for IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN cards
 * : enhanced pager (alternative to more and less)
 * : ncurses disk usage
 * : Attempts to replicate the functionality of the 'old' apm command on ACPI systems.
 * : interactive process viewer (improved alternative for top)
 * : Command-line utility to read data from standard in and place it in an X selection