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Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

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Post by joshbaptiste »

Tmux: https://github.com/tmux/tmux/

ts: http://vicerveza.homeunix.net/~viric/soft/ts/ (TaskSpooler) queue commands in different terminals

socat: http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/ -- Multi-purpose relay

most: http://www.jedsoft.org/most/ pager more features than less/more

sshfs: https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs remote filesystem using SFTP via FUSE

passgo: https://github.com/ejcx/passgo Simple golang password manager

rclone: https://github.com/ncw/rclone rsync for cloud storage

autosub: https://github.com/agermanidis/autosub Command-line utility for auto-generating subtitles for any video file

Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

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Post by pmlnr »

daily-ish drivers of mine:

- autossh - https://linux.die.net/man/1/autossh

- sshfs - https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs

- pandoc - https://pandoc.org/installing.html

- exiftool - https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

- htop - https://hisham.hm/htop/

- tmux - https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki

- rsync - https://rsync.samba.org/

- midnight commander - https://midnight-commander.org/ (faster, than loop ing ls, cd .., ls)

Still trying to think about the others.

Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

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Post by INTPenis »

I'm a cli junkie but I've gone from using very minimal tiling WMs to vanilla Gnome. So I've stopped using bitlbee for example, but bitlbee is something I'd use a lot in the days of 100% terminal.

It's an IRC proxy for other protocols like Skype or Slack.

I have no idea how it stands up today but I always liked the concept of having one service that handled conversion of all the modern protocols to text based.

Other than that I think people have already given amazing recommendations so I have nothing to add.

Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

JustFinishedBSG wrote: post #119
skrebbel wrote: post #73

Scoop - https://scoop.sh It's basically apt/brew on Windows, but it's particularly awesome because it does not manage dependencies. It just downloads and extracts installers, which works because every self-respecting program that works on Windows distributes binaries as an installer (or just a zip) somewhere. Result: everything just works, every program is self-contained, no admin rights needed, no package maintainer…

> no admin rights needed, > Make sure Powershell 3 (or later) and .NET Framework 4.5 (or later) are installed. Yeah not exactly. Wouldn't work in most ( all ? ) the places I worked at.

Really? PS 3.0 was integrated as of Win 8 / Server 2012. In 7 and 2008/2008R2 it was in service pack 1.

Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

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Post by jakelazaroff »

npstr wrote: post #151
rutierut wrote: post #58

Ngrok - https://ngrok.com So easy and super convienient if you quickly need your local server accessible from somewhere else.

This one is even easier because it doesn't require to install anything, just make a good old ssh tunnel: http://localhost.run

The thing I really love about ngrok, though, is the web dashboard where you can inspect your tunnelled traffic and even replay requests: https://ngrok.com/docs#inspect
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