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9 Useful Tools

9 Useful Interactive CLI Tools for Linux htop htop is a process viewer similar to top but it allows you to scroll both vertically and horizontally, and even interact with a mouse pointer. You can use the F-keys to perform tasks such as search, filter, or kill a process. nmon nmon is a system monitor, tuner, and benchmark tool. You can customize the displayed information using keyboard shortcuts to add sections for CPU, memory, network, disks, file systems, processes, and resources. nmtui nmtui is a text-based interface for configuring networking (on top of NetworkManager ). If you don’t want to fiddle with config files, this tool is a great alternative (assuming your operating system uses NetworkManager). Tip: If you get funny colors when running the tool try defining the following environment variable: NEWT_COLORS='root=white,blue' nmtui iftop iftop is a tool for displaying network traffic and bandwidth usage. Most likely, you’ll have to run it with sudo and speci...