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The first thing I do with a Linux installation it's always add htop, and this it's the first time I feel the need to try something new in my routine.

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htop and ncdu

For me, it's been bottom https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom and dua https://github.com/Byron/dua-cli for a while

I've found some other cool CLIs written with rust at https://github.com/TaKO8Ki/awesome-alternatives-in-rust

Is there a `htop` for temperature or network traffic similar to these tools?

iftop has networking covered.

I like htop+dstat as nice compliments, but sadly dstat isn't universally available like htop and it's unmaintained

htop and multitail are always tied for me.

https://linux.die.net/man/1/multitail

I never heard of this one before. What's the benefit instead of doing this with Tmux?

Biggest thing is if you’re doing a streaming tail with an * pattern, it figures it out and filters them into proper groups instead of a single blob stream.

I didn’t know you could something like that we tmux though. I’ll have to check it out. :)

You can't, I was just talking about tailing multiple files in Tmux splits.

> multitail

You just made my day. I always open multiple ssh sessions just to display various logs at the same time.

Seems like you can even docker-compose logs -tf | multitail -j.

edit: I never took the time to learn tmux but after just watching a use case video, seems like you could achieve the same result with tmux indeed, as the other comment suggested.

tmux or gnu screen work fine (screen is sometimes installed when tmux is not)

If you're open to new tools, the latest version of the Logfile Navigator (lnav) supports remote hosts over ssh:

https://lnav.org/2021/05/03/tailing-remote-files.html

The main advantages of lnav over multitail is that it collates log files by time and does syntax highlighting. There are many other features as well -- https://lnav.org/features

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