Essential Linux Command Line Tools

In my previous post, I explaind Understanding the Linux Command Line.

The following are what I consider essential command line tools.

Essential Command Line Tools

1. jq – it’s sed for json files

Essential Programing Tools

Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 comes with Python 2.7 installed. You may want to install python3.

1. npm – package manager for JavaScript
2. pip – package manager for JavaScript
3. git – version control system
4. node – a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine
5. python3 – #3 most used programing language in the world
6. virtualenv – create isolated Python environments
7. pipenv – creates and manages a virtualenv for python projects

Other Command Line Tools tools

1. hget – Render websites in plain text from your terminal
2. medium – read medium blog posts from the command line
3. youtube-dl – download youtube videos

Where to go from here

Why Python is the best development language