1. Wikit

Wikit is a command line utility to search Wikipedia in Linux. It basically displays Wikipedia summaries. Once you have it installed, simply provide the search term as an argument (for example wikit linux).

 

2. Googler

Googler is a full-featured Python-based command line tool for accessing Google (Web & News) and Google Site Search within the Linux terminal. It is fast and clean with custom colors and no ads, stray URLs or clutter included. It supports navigation of search result pages from omniprompt.

 

In addition, it supports fetching of number of results in a go, users can start at the nth result, and supports limiting of search by attributes such as duration, country/domain specific search (default: .com), language preference.

 

3. Browsh

Browsh is a small, modern text based browser that play videos and render anything that a modern browser can, in TTY terminal environments.

 

It supports HTML5, CSS3, JS, video as well as WebGL. It is a bandwidth-saver, designed to run on a remote server and accessed via SSH/Mosh or the in-browser HTML service so as to notably reduce bandwidth.

 

It is practically useful when you don’t have good Internet connection.

 

4. Lolcat

Lolcat is a command-line program to output rainbow of colors in the Linux terminal. It concatenates the output of a command in a similar way as cat command and adds rainbow coloring to the final output.

 

To use lolcat, simply pipe the output of any command to lolcat

 

5. Boxes

Boxes is a configurable program and text filter which can draw ASCII art boxes around its input text in a Linux terminal. It comes with a number of pre-configured box designs in example config file. It comes with several command-line options and supports regular expression substitutions on input text.

 

You can use it to: draws ASCII art boxes and shapes, generate regional comments in source code and more.

 

6. Figlet and Toilet

FIGlet is a useful command-line utility for creating ASCII text banners or large letters out of ordinary text. Toilet is a sub-command under figlet for creating colorful large characters from ordinary text.

 

7. Trash-cli

Trash-cli is a program that trashes files recording the original path, deletion date, and permissions. It is an interface to the freedesktop.org trashcan.

 

8. No More Secrets

No More Secrets is a text-based program recreates the famous data decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers. It provides a command-line utility called nms, that you can use in a similar way as lolcat – simply pipe the out of another command to nms, and see the magic.

 

9. Chafa

Chafa is a another cool, fast and highly configurable terminal program that provides terminal graphics for the 21st century.

 

It works with most modern and classic terminals and terminal emulators. It converts all types of images (including animated GIFs), into ANSI/Unicode character output that can be displayed in a terminal.

 

Chafa supports for alpha transparency and multiple color modes (including Truecolor, 256-color, 16-color and simple FG/BG.) and color spaces, combining selectable ranges of Unicode characters to produce the desired output.

 

It is suitable for terminal graphics, ANSI art composition as well as even black and white print.

 

10. CMatrix

CMatrix is a simple command-line utility that shows a scrolling ‘Matrix‘ like screen in a Linux terminal.

 

It displays random text flying in and out in a terminal, in a similar way as seen in popular Sci-fi movie “The Matrix“. It can scroll lines all at the same rate or asynchronously and at a user-defined speed. One downside of Cmatrix is that it is very CPU intensive.

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