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)