I love watch . watch df -h watch ls -sh watch cat file watch nmcli device wifi list watch -n 10 --color curl -s wttr.in
Wishing we could do this without polling, though ...
Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
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Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
#132I became addicted to these great tools all written in Rust: fselect - https://github.com/jhspetersson/fselect ripgrep - https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep exa - https://the.exa.website They are the replacements for traditional find, grep, and ls.
I suspect you'd also enjoy fd - https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
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#133For sysadmin needs: - htop (better top) - nload (network traffic visualization) - nano (I know, but works great for simple editing) - curl (http everything tool) - telnet/nc (check listening ports)
I hate that nano is so looked down on. I use it too and it's a great tool. I don't feel any shame using it.
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
I keep a VPS running with Nginx on it for a specific port. Then I forward that port via SSH using remote forwarding to enable this exact functionality. It's free if you've already got a server running.
ngrok is free even if you don't have a server running... and you can tunnel raw TCP. (not affiliated, I just really admire ngrok so I take it personally when people don't use it :))
god, I had this same idea and thought about making it! I'm so glad you shared this, I had no idea someone else already did it! and did a great job with it, too, by the looks of it
Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
#135I wonder if there's any 2FA code storing/generating cli application? I know they aren't supposed to be used like that but storing them all on just a phone doesn't seem wise in the long run. Might be useful while building some automated scripts as well.
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oathtool seems promising (needs to be paired with something to manage and crypt the keys tho) http://www.nongnu.org/oath-toolkit/oathtool.1.html
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I use git so much that I made these aliases in zsh: alias g="git show" alias gh="git show HEAD" alias gs="git status" alias gl="git log" alias gco="git checkout" alias gd="git diff" alias gbl="git branch -v" alias gbd="git branch -D" alias gri="git rebase --interactive" alias grc="git rebase --continue" alias gra="git rebase --abort" alias gst="git stash" alias gsta="git stash apply" alias gx="gco -- \*; git reset HE…
nice ones! couple from my bash_alias alias ..="cd .." alias ..2="cd ../.." # ... you get the idea, mine goes up to 5 function mkcd () { mkdir -p "$@" && eval cd "\"\$$#\""; } alias h="history|grep"
Instead of your `..` aliases, I have this, which saves some copy-pasting.
function up() { cd "$(printf '../'%.0s $(seq 1 "${1:-1}"))" && pwd; } #up 4 goes up 4 directoriesRe: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
#137subliminal: https://github.com/Diaoul/subliminal
great tool for downloading subtitles, sadly it seems unmaintained and sometimes fails to work
rtorrent: https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent
my preferred way to download ISOs of Linux distributions
And a +1 for some that were already mentioned: tig, ripgrep, htop, midnight commander
Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
#138rg (ripgrep): https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep I used to use ag (the silver searcher) [1] before, and `ag` was practically a muscle memory to me, but then I came across ripgrep and it was so much faster. I've now installed a static binary of ripgrep in every machine I have SSH access to. [1] https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
The first time i use it, I was in shock about how fast ripgrep is. Amazing.
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#139sox - the Swiss Army knife of sound processing programs
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#140My setup on servers and programming environments:
* fish shell
* tmux (multiplexer)
* emacs-nox (non-GUI version)
* mocp (music player)
* w3m (web browser)
* htop (process viewer)