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Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

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Tmux: https://github.com/tmux/tmux/ fish-shell: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/ ranger: https://github.com/ranger/ranger/ tig: https://github.com/jonas/tig/ ag or rg: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep And all my configurations, especially for fish-shell: http://github.com/c02y/dotfiles

Great list. I recently switched from ranger to nnn and have been really happy. It's tiny and extremely fast:

https://github.com/jarun/nnn

Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

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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…

If you want more complete cloud backup, try restic or duplicacy which have encryption, dedup and retention policy.

https://github.com/restic/restic

https://github.com/gilbertchen/duplicacy

Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

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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 t…

Curious what made you leave tiling WMs? I think about switching back occasionally, but still use dwm.

I also used to use bitlbee, but once AIM died I dropped it.

Slack dropped their irc gateway a while ago. I recommend wee-slack[1] which is a weechat[2] python plugin that uses the Slack API instead of the old IRC gateway, which also means it is a lot more feature rich than the IRC gateway was.

1 - https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack 2 - https://weechat.org/

Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

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Nice question! Here my personal setting: - Email : mutt [ http://www.mutt.org/ ] - Passwords manager : pass [ https://www.passwordstore.org/ ] - Navigate directories : autojump [ https://github.com/wting/autojump ] - Task manager : task [ https://taskwarrior.org/ ] - Music : cmus [ https://cmus.github.io/ ] - Text editor : emacs -nw [ https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ ]

Excuse my very basic question, but how do you manage spam when using mutt? Do you interface to a cloud-based service in mutt, or have some kind of other spam filter? I’ve always liked the idea of moving my email to mutt and using personal domains, but not convinced I could manage spam well.

there was a recent HN thread announcing the resurrection of Apache's Spam Assassin. the comments may provide some useful suggestions to you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18458212

Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

#236

Earlier quoted context omitted.

have you tried https://github.com/oh-my-fish/oh-my-fish ? has been serving me well for years

It's mainly the bash compatibility - does Oh My Fish fix that problem?

that would rather defeat the point, since fish breaks compatibility by design, that's part of what i like about it.

i can however appreciate that breaking bash compatibility is not for everyone.

i mix use of bash and fish. but more often than not i find myself in a situation where i switch to fish because it makes some complex command easier, than the reverse.

greetings, eMBee.

Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

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tig (That's git backwards) It's a luxury and you don't need it if you use something like fugitive in vim, but its a lovely little tool. https://github.com/jonas/tig Think SourceTree but on the command line.

tig doesn't feel like SourceTree. It's not easy to just see list of changed files from a commit to the next.

In that sense, lazygit is more navigation friendly.

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