Tools · category 2 of 13
Text and data
Reading, searching and reshaping text, tables and JSON.
grep Search text line by line, printing every match 6 
ripgrep A very fast recursive search that honours ignore rules 6 
sed Rewrite a stream of text with find-and-replace rules 6 
GNU Awk Process and total column-based text with a small language 6 
cut Pull chosen columns or character ranges out of lines 6 
sort Order lines alphabetically, numerically, or by a key 6 
uniq Collapse or count repeated lines that sit together 6 
tr Translate or delete single characters in a stream 6 
wc Count lines, words, characters and bytes 6 
less Page through long output with search and scroll 6 
bat A colourful pager with syntax highlighting and line numbers 6 
jq Slice, filter and reshape JSON from the terminal 6 Other categories
Files and navigation Finding, moving, packing and unpacking files. 12 Shell and sessions The shell itself, and keeping work alive between sessions. 9 Processes and system Seeing what runs, and stopping it cleanly. 7 Networking Addresses, ports, name lookups and reachability. 10 Web and transfer Fetching, downloading and moving files between hosts. 9 Security and cryptography Keys, hashes, encryption and authorised testing. 11 Forensics and reversing Pulling apart packets, binaries and images. 7 Package managers Installing and tracking software. 5 Languages and build tools Writing, compiling and running code on the phone. 7 Editors Editing files from the terminal. 4 Media and documents Converting audio, video, images and documents. 6 Monitoring and diagnostics Disk, memory, open files and system state. 6