I use `ack` (https://beyondgrep.com/) as a replacement for `grep`. It is simpler, faster, it has colors by default and it's really fast and very useful for programming.
Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
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Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
#242up - https://github.com/akavel/up Ultimate Plumber is a tool for writing Linux pipes with instant live preview It's a new CLI tool I've recently written, and it reached a Top 1 position on HN just after the public release. It works with other classic CLI tools by boosting the speed with which they can be composed together. It's especially useful for quick exploration of logs, CSV files, and other text files or pipeli…
is it like less?
Um; I feel it's kinda as if you asked if a dog is like rhinoceros... How do I even answer that? Simplest answer is: "no, it's not"; though if you squint your eyes super hard, you could see some kind of vague resemblance, maybe?
Have you seen the readme? There's an animated gif showing how it works, and a more detailed description.
Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
#243BorgBackup: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg Deduplication, compression, encryption, to local or remote targets.
restic and duplicacy are modern alternatives.
Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
#244Ngrok - https://ngrok.com So easy and super convienient if you quickly need your local server accessible from somewhere else.
for a self hosted option, I've also been using https://github.com/fatedier/frp lately.
Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
#245httpie is the nonstandard command I use the most I think (https://httpie.org/). Syntax highlighting for everything that comes down the pipe is pretty awesome. I'm also a sucker for bat (https://github.com/sharkdp/bat) which I just found out about through this thread.
My zshrc includes a bunch of commands you might like, btw: https://github.com/jleclanche/dotfiles
Among them, the ones I use the most are `json` and `yaml` for pretty printing both formats, as well as `urlencode` / `urldecode` / `urlarray` which I recently added.
Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
#246Besides what others have added, I also love:
proselint: http://proselint.com/
alex: https://github.com/get-alex/alex
Both are CLI linters for prose.
Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
#247As a windows admin, docker has actually been super handy for running CLI tools with platforms (linux) that I can't easily get or have no will to compile natively myself on windows.
Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
#248pwgen - Handy to create a password. It generates dozens at once which you can pick from.
cal - Obvious but I still launch GUI calendar app when I can just type 3 letters to check on dates.
Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
#249For 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)
nethogs - Can show bandwidth per process.
Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
#250I’m surprised that nobody is mentioning plain old Bash. The builtins are pretty powerful, and in many ways Bash is the “standard” cli.