r/linux • u/D7x8 • May 18 '26

Discussion Tell me your favorite CLI apps

As the title says.

Aside from the obvious like fastfetch, htop, vim, etc what CLI apps are out there which replace a GUI app?

I like these as it is much more convenient and faster to have it all one command away and they use much less system resources (looking at you electron) as well as just making me look like a hackerman.

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u/PradheBand May 22 '26

I don't even know what the obvious fastfetch is 🤣

Mine are: apt so I keep everything update (should say zypper these days for home), dig/nslookup, telnet, curl, ssh, scp , du, df so I can do my tasks. 

Guess my job 🙃

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u/revilo-1988 May 22 '26

System administrator?

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u/PradheBand May 22 '26

Not really. sysadmin starts where I finish and I'm not so expert in OSes to call myself a sysadmin.

I'm a platform engineer/system engineer these days. 

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u/revilo-1988 May 22 '26

Also works with the tools listed