====== Linux CLI Tools ======

see also:
  * [[https://docs.monadical.com/s/system-monitoring-tools|System monitoring tools]] (monadical.com, 2020)
  * [[..:tui:|TUI tools]]
  * [[shell_tricks|useful shell tricks and one-liners]]

===== System =====
^ [[dd]] | data destroyer, copies files bit by bit |
^ [[dmidecode]] | show BIOS devices |
^ [[journalctl]] | show logs (only [[:admin:linux:systemd]]) |
^ [[ldd]] | information about shared libs |
^ [[strace]] | Stack Trace |
^ [[sysstat]] | System statistics collection daemon, contains sar, iostat, mpstat, pidstat, sadf. Has a [[:admin:monitoring:telegraf|telegraf]] [[https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/plugins/inputs/sysstat/README.md|input plugin]] |
==== Storage ====
^ [[https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Badblocks|badblocks]] | scan device for bad blocks |
^ blockdev | check some block device parameters |
^ cgdisk | ncurses partition manager (gdisk frontend) |
^ df | show free space |
^ findmnt | show mounts |
^ f3 | Utilities to detect and repair counterfeit flash storage |
^ iostat | I/O statistics |
^ iotop | I/O process statistics |
^ ncdu | ncurses disk usage |
^ [[vmtouch]] | learning about and controlling the file system cache |
^ ranger | CLI file manager with vi-like keybinds |
^ sar | from package [[sysstat|sysstat]], collects and reports system activity information |
^ [[https://github.com/jbruchon/jdupes|jdupes]] | find duplicates and deduplicate them with Btrfs |
^ wipe | delete and overwrite files and folders in a secure manner |

===== Network =====
see [[admin:linux:network]]

==== Mail ====
^ [[imapsync]] | copy IMAP mails around |
^ swaks | Swiss Army Knife for SMTP |

===== Diverse =====
^ [[:dev:git]] | Git code management |
^ [[imagemagick]] | image processing |
^ [[man]] | show manuals (manpages) |
^ [[tar]] | pack files into "tape archives" |
^ shellcheck | check shell scripts for errors |
^ date | show date |

==== Windows related ====
^ exiftool | view (image) file information |
^ pev | PE32 file analysis |