Dan has more than 22 years of software design, development, and architecture experience. He is also a husband, father, carpenter, and runs obstacle races like Tough Mudder.
I think the big reason they're so good is because they're cross-linux available. While GUI tools might need GTK, KDE, or whatever else. And on top of that, Linux users don't always have a GUI available.
multitail
,jq
, andhtop
(worth a 2nd mention) are some of the best, underrated cli tools out thereI think the big reason they're so good is because they're cross-linux available. While GUI tools might need GTK, KDE, or whatever else. And on top of that, Linux users don't always have a GUI available.
I definitely love those utils!
jq is a very handy tool; just like httpie.
fx is also a killer app. You can browse JSON in the terminal: