You don’t need to use any GUI applications to show all your users on your system . You can do it via your terminal command-line application. You can list all system generated and human created or normal Linux users via the below commands. Lots of options are available. Just try all commands in your terminal and find the difference. If any other options available please mention in comments.
Normally in terminal when you run a command, it prints and shows the command output directly in the terminal. If you want to store that output in a external text file, then you can also do it in bash based terminals. Ex:Ubuntu. It redirect the output and saves in a text file. It will help to view the output at later. In this article we will see the all available methods to print the terminal output to a file.
In Ubuntu you can easily view the total size of a directory or folder from the terminal command line tool. And the good part is you don’t need any fancy GUI apps for this. You can view this via the du command. du is the short form of disk usage. In this article we will see how to find the size of a particular folder and all folders on your system from your terminal application.
Broot is a free and open source tree view command-line interactive directory navigation file manager for Linux, MacOS and Windows. Running broot on your terminal, you can get the tree overview of your system directory. It also comes with fuzzy search filter to easily search and find your files. You can also open files with their default programs. Some other features are panels, add shortcut to a file, find what files or folders take space on your system and check git statuses. You can also navigate and open files with your mouse. It is released under MIT License.
nmcli is a free and open source command-line tool to manage your system NetworkManager. Using this tool you can create, display, edit, delete, activate, and deactivate network connections and get reports about the network details. It comes pre installed on Ubuntu. In this article we will see how to show the available wifi details, information and properties for a Wi-Fi interface, show the NetworkManager permissions, log level and domains details and Connect to a password-protected wifi network.
Translate Shell is a free and open source command-line translator tool for Linux, macOS, BSD, Android and Windows. It uses Google Translate, Bing Translator, Yandex Translate, and Apertium engines to translate your queries. This tool formerly known as Google Translate CLI but now it uses four different sources to get result. The default is Google Translate but you can switch easily to other provides. It is very good tool for non-native English speaker command line users. By default, this tool translate the given words to English.
Now you can search your favorite privacy focused search engine from your linux terminal using ddgr. ddgr is a free and open source command line DuckDuckGo search tool for Linux. It comes with instant answers, custom color, do not track, HTTPS proxy and REPL support. Some other popular features are disable User Agent, DuckDuckGo Bangs, copying URLs to clipboard and browser integration. You can customize your ddgr to show the custom number of results in a page and you can filter the search by time and region. It supports custom url handler script and open first result in browser support.
Moon Buggy is a very old classic terminal based Ascii game by Jochen Voss. It is based on old Moon Patrol (1982) arcade game. In Moon Buggy you need to drive a car across the moon’s dangerous craters by jumping over them. It is a easy to play but very addictive game. You just need to jump and fire with two key controls. Please check the game controls
Controls:
y,SPC,RET:start game
SPC,j:jump
a,l:fire
q,n:abort game
q:quit
c:show copyright
w:show warranty
s:show scores
r,C-l:redraw
Bashtop is a free and open source resource monitor for Linux. Using this you can monitor your system and it shows usage and stats of your processor, network, processes, memory and disks. It comes with easy to use menu and responsive keys selection. You can filter the processes and scale UI in bashtop. It also supports SIGTERM, SIGKILL and SIGINT. It is released under open source Apache License 2.0 license. You can also switch between sorting options easily in bashtop. It support themes. This is very cool and useful command line application for terminal lovers.
Taskbook is a free and open source task management & note taking app for Linux, MacOS and Windows. This is a simple but powerful command-line terminal app where you can manage your tasks and notes across multiple board. You can view the tasks and note in board & timeline views. You can configurable Taskbook app through ~/.taskbook.json file and the data stored in JSON file at ~/.taskbook/storage file. Some of the important features are atomic storage, task Priority, task favorite, Search & filter task and notes, you can restore deleted tasks and notes. It is released under MIT license.