A collection of Unix terminal/console/curses tools

I recently discovered netbrake. Super awesome tool to limit the bandwidth used by a process. http://www.hping.org/netbrake/

Also its written by antirez :)

The best not-so-well-known tool he mentiions is socat. If you use netcat, socat is like netcat on steroids. It's just a bit hard to remember all the options, but next time there's something crazy you want to do with netcat that it doesn't support, like tunnelling raw packets from a wireless interface on a machine in firewalled corporate network through an SSL tunnel to home machine and dumping those packets locally to a serial port, socat can pretty much do it all.

I'm a big fan of Joey Hess' moreutils - https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/

Examples:

- sponge: read in all of stdin, then write to the given file. Great for pipelines: sed "s/root/toor/" /etc/passwd | grep -v joey | sponge /etc/passwd

- vipe: easily drop a $EDITOR instance in the middle of a pipe chain

- ts: timestamp all standard input; great for long-running output

s/Obscure/Handy/gi

I'm curious what tools the author doesn't consider obscure.