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…

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.

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

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

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.

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.

• tmux v3.5a statically linked (+ncurses +libevent)
• fish v4.0.2
• 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.
dyff	Diff tool for YAML files, and sometimes JSON.
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.
glow	Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz.
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.
mkcert	Make local trusted development certificates with any names you'd like.
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.
stern	Tail multiple pods and containers on Kubernetes.
xh	Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests.
yazi	Blazing fast terminal file manager, based on async I/O.
yq	Portable command-line YAML, JSON, XML, CSV, TOML and properties processor.
zoxide	zoxide is a smarter cd command, inspired by z and autojump.

Awesome lists:

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

See LICENSE.spdx for license information.