Terminal Tools for System Administration

System administration (Sysadmin for short) encompasses the management and upkeep of computer systems to ensure smooth operations. 

 

Through the terminal, sysadmins can directly interact with the system, manage settings, and automate processes. 

 

Below are a list of terminal tools that developers use for system administration.

  1. asn - ASN lookup tool and traceroute server
  1. atop - An advanced interactive monitor for linux systems.
  1. bandwhich - Terminal bandwidth utilization tool
  1. bottom - Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.
  1. broot - A new way to see and navigate directory trees.
  1. btop - A terminal monitor of resources.
  1. chmod-cli - effortlessly generate chmod commands.
  1. cpufetch - Simple yet fancy CPU architecture fetching tool.
  1. crates-tui - A TUI for exploring crates.io
  1. ctop - A top-like interface for container metrics.
  1. curl - A command line tool and library for transferring data.
  1. diskonaut - terminal disk space navigator.
  1. dive - A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image.
  1. dns53 - Expose your EC2 quickly, easily and privately within a VPC.
  1. dog - A command-line DNS client.
  1. doggo - A command-line DNS client for humans.
  1. dry - A Docker manager for the terminal.
  1. ducker - A slightly quackers Docker TUI.
  1. duf - Disk Usage/Free Utility - a better 'df' alternative.
  1. dug - A global DNS propagation checker on your CLI
  1. erldash - A simple, terminal-based Erlang dashboard.
  1. fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
  1. fnug - Run all your lints, tests and commands at once, in the terminal.
  1. fq - jq for binary formats.
  1. gdu - Pretty fast disk usage analyzer
  1. glances - A cross platform top/htop alternative in python.
  1. goaccess - a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer.
  1. goji - Commitizen-like tool for formatting commit messages using emojis.
  1. gotop - A terminal-based graphical activity monitor written in Go.
  1. gping - Ping, but with a graph.
  1. gtop - System monitoring dashboard for terminal.
  1. harlequin - The SQL IDE for Your Terminal.
  1. havn - A fast configurable port scanner with reasonable defaults.
  1. hostctl - A CLI tool to manage /etc/hosts like a pro!
  1. htop - An interactive process viewer.
  1. hurl - Run and test HTTP requests with plain text.
  1. k9s - Kubernetes CLI and TUI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!
  1. ktop - A top-like tool for your Kubernetes clusters.
  1. lazydocker - The lazier way to manage everything docker
  1. lf - A terminal file manager which "lists files".
  1. mc - Midnight Commander, a feature-rich visual file manager for the terminal.
  1. miller - an all in one swiss army knife for data processing.
  1. mitmproxy - A TLS/SSL-capable interception HTTP proxy.
  1. mprocs - Run multiple commands in parallel.
  1. neoss - User-friendly and detailed socket statistics with a TUI.
  1. netop - A network topology visualizer.
  1. oha - A tiny TUI program that sends some load to a web application.
  1. oxker - A simple TUI to view & control docker containers.
  1. pctrl - A terminal-based process controller.
  1. pdu - Highly parallelized, blazing fast directory tree analyzer.
  1. pillager - Pillage filesystems for sensitive information.
  1. planor - A TUI client for cloud services for aws, vultr, heroku, etc.
  1. procs - A modern replacement for ps written in Rust.
  1. pvw - A terminal-based (TUI) port viewer in Go
  1. ranger - A vim-inspired file manager for the console.
  1. slurm - Realtime traffic statistics for network interfaces
  1. stree - A simple directory tree command for listing AWS S3 bucket
  1. stu - A TUI application for AWS S3 written in Rust.
  1. tailspin - A log file highlighter
  1. termshark - A terminal UI (TUI) for tshark, inspired by Wireshark.
  1. terraform-tui - A powerful terraform textual TUI.
  1. tiptop - Command-line system monitoring
  1. tproxy - A cli tool to proxy and analyze TCP connections.
  1. trippy - A TUI network diagnostics tool
  1. ttyplot - A realtime terminal plotting utility with data input from stdin.
  1. vtop - Wow such top. So stats. More better than regular top
  1. wg-cmd - TUI for managing WireGuard configuration files
  1. zellij - A terminal workspace with batteries included.
  1. zoxide - A smarter cd command. Supports all major shells.

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