List of useful tools

• Author: Solène
• Date: 22 March 2017
• Tags: unix

NILHere is a list of software that I find useful, I will update this list

everytime I find a new tool. This is not an exhaustive list, theses

are only software I enjoy using:

Backup Tool

• duplicity

• borg

• restore/dump

File synchronization tool

• unison

• rsync

• lsyncd

File sharing tool / "Cloud"

• boar

• nextcloud / owncloud

• seafile

• pydio

• syncthing (works as peer-to-peer without a master)

• sparkleshare (uses a git repository so I would recommend storing only text files)

Editors

• emacs

• vim

• jed

Web browsers using keyboard

• qutebrowser

• firefox with vimperator extension

Todo list / Personal Agenda...

• org-mode (within emacs)

• ledger (accounting)

Mail client

• mu4e (inside emacs, requires the use of offlineimap or mbsync to fetch mails)

Network

• curl

• bwm-ng (to see bandwith usage in real time)

• mtr (traceroute with a gui that updates every n seconds)

Files integrity

• bitrot

• par2cmdline

• aide

Image viewer

• sxiv

• feh

Stuff

• entr (run command when a file change)

• rdesktop (RDP client to connect to Windows VM)

• xclip (read/set your X clipboard from a script)

• autossh (to create tunnels that stays up)

• mosh (connects to your ssh server with local input and better resilience)

• ncdu (watch file system usage interactively in cmdline)

• mupdf (PDF viewer)

• pdftk (PDF manipulation tool)

• x2x (share your mouse/keyboard between multiple computers through ssh)

• profanity (XMPP cmdline client)

• prosody (XMPP server)

• pgmodeler (PostgreSQL database visualization tool)