Vital Terminal Tools

Discover vital terminal tools with our guide. Learn about essential command-line utilities to improve productivity and efficiency

TLDR

A humane version of man pages.

Install

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pip3 install tldr

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AutoJump

A faster way to navigate your filesystem. Saves a lot of time.

Install

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sudo apt install autojump

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Trash-CLI

Deletes the files to recycle bin in terminal.

Install

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sudo apt install trash-cli

You can make a alias for “rm” to trash-cli by adding the following alias to ~/.bashrc file.

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alias rm="trash" 

Ccrypt

Secure encryption and decryption of files and streams.

Install

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sudo apt install ccrypt

Encrypt

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ccencrypt path-to-file

Decrypt

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ccdecrypt path-to-file

that’s it ✌🏽