Awesome (Linux amd64/arm64) CLI Binaries

Quickly install the newest utilities on Linux amd64/arm64 servers, sudo-less! 🚀 🌔

This repository contains a collection of popular CLI utilities:

• Dockerfile - Builds all binaries statically linked for Linux amd64 and arm64, including latest tmux and fish.
• .files - Dotfiles to copy to remote servers.
• sync.sh - Script to provision remote servers.

Or just browse the catalog…

Accompanying Provisioning Script

Use-case: 💡 Working on many remote servers? Can't install your favorite tools for some reason? With this repo, you can quickly upload them to a remote Linux server, together with comfortable pre-made configurations.

Warning

.files/* will be copied to the remote server you provision with this script, so make sure to backup the remote ~/.config directory first, if there's anything valuable there.

Option ⟪1⟫ 👾 Provision from Remote

Login and run on remote server: (⚠️ READ WARNING ABOVE BEFORE!)

ssh my-remote-server
curl -sfL init.rafi.io | sh

Option ⟪2⟫ 💻 Provision from Workstation

Prerequisites: Install just on your workstation. (macOS: brew install just)

git clone git@github.com/rafi/awesome-cli-binaries.git
cd awesome-cli-binaries

just binaries amd64  # or arm64
./sync.sh me@myserver.com [more...]

just binaries copies all binaries to local ./bin/ directory, and the sync.sh script provisions the remote server.

Option ⟪3⟫ 🧰 Copy Only Binaries

If you just want to copy or update the binaries on remote, run:

just sync me@myserver.com [more...]

This will rsync local binaries at ./bin to remote ~/.local/bin.

Binaries

• tmux v3.5a statically linked (+ncurses +libevent)
• fish v4.8.0
• neovim build with support for glibc 2.17
• and:

Program	Description	Screenshot
bandwhich	Utility for displaying current network utilization.
bat	A cat(1) clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration.
btop	Resource monitor that shows usage and stats.
chafa	View very reasonable approximations of pictures and animations in the terminal.
crane	Crane is a tool for interacting with remote images and registries.
delta	Good-lookin' diffs.
diff-so-fancy	Syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, grep, and blame output.
dua	Conveniently learn about the usage of disk space of a given directory.
duf	Disk Usage/Free Utility - a better 'df' alternative.
dust	A more intuitive version of du.
erdtree	Modern multi-threaded filesystem and disk-usage analysis tool.
eza	A modern alternative to ls.
fd	Simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.
fx	Terminal JSON viewer.
fzf	General-purpose command-line fuzzy finder.
havn	Fast configurable port scanner with reasonable defaults.
hexyl	Simple hex viewer for the terminal.
hyperfine	A command-line benchmarking tool.
jq	Lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor.
just	Handy way to save and run project-specific commands.
lsd	Rewrite of GNU ls with lots of added features.
rip2	Safe and ergonomic alternative to rm
ripgrep	Line-oriented search tool that recursively searches for a regex pattern.
starship	Minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell.
yazi	Blazing fast terminal file manager, based on async I/O.
zoxide	zoxide is a smarter cd command, inspired by z and autojump.

More

Awesome lists:

• github.com/alebcay/awesome-shell
• github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps

License

See LICENSE.spdx for license information.