Command Line Helper Tools for Developer and SysAdmin

alpha2phi
5 min readMay 28, 2021

Open source command-line utilities to get technical tips and answers instantly.

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In my previous article, I talked about command-line utilities that help us to navigate the file system faster. As developers, we mostly live within the terminal, and there are tons of commands that we may need to use from time to time.

In this article let’s go through the open-source utilities that can provide us the tips and answers when we need help.

Linux man-pages project

Let’s start with the default — The Linux man-pages project.

This project documents the Linux kernel and C library interfaces that are employed by user-space programs. It is definitely the most comprehensive documentation for the built-in commands. However, navigating the man pages and pinpointing the specific information that we want is definitely a bit challenging.

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alpha2phi

Software engineer, Data Science and ML practitioner.