This is just a handful of cool CLI utilities that I came across recently that I'd like to share and also have some way to remember them for the future, enjoy.
1. dysk #
dysk is an alternative to the default du command. It provides (in my opinion) a much cleaner and easier to read output with some colour to help easily see how full a disk is. It is similar to duf but is still unique.
Screenshot from GitHub repo:
2. caligula #
Caligula (in the words of the devs) "is a user-friendly, lightweight TUI for imaging disks." Some people might be thinking, why not just use dd, that works just fine. Well, yes, until it doesn't because you accidentally chose the wrong device. This tool aims to help solve that, and, it does a really good job at that. In order to burn an ISO to a drive you'd do the following:
$ caligula burn some-image-file.iso.gz
You will then be prompted to do a few other things via the TUI and then bam! You've flashed an image to your USB drive.
3. advcpmv #
Technically, this is just a patch, but still interesting nonetheless. It's a patch for GNU Core Utilities cp, mv to add progress bars. The original author sent the patch to the team, that maintains the GNU CoreUtils. They won't merge this patch, because mv and cp are feature complete.
Bonus Entry: #
This is not a CLI tool, but rather something I found interesting using curl. If you run curl wttr.in in your terminal it will display the weather forecast for your current location in ASCII art.
