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Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

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Post by zeveb »

inp wrote: post #87

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/ ]

Amusingly, you can actually do all of that within emacs:

- email: notmuch/Rmail/Gnus/&c.

- password manager: pass.el (uses pass under the covers)

- navigate directories: shell or eshell, with autocompletion and/or Helm

- task management: Org Mode

- music: emms

Emacs is crazy-powerful!

Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

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Post by Lio »

amelius wrote: post #100
donatj wrote: post #7

vim It's really worth the time to learn. It's pre-installed basically everywhere, it's amazingly useful. It has the features of a modern text editor all in a command line.

Vim is an interactive application.

So are Midnight Commander, ranger, Mutt, tig, htop, emacs and many of the other great programs mentioned here.

I've taken this list to be of thing things that run in a terminal rather than strictly non-interactive programs.

Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

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Post by xte »

bwoodward wrote: post #103

I use the following (in no particular order) -- definitely nothing fancy. * weechat * ffmpeg * youtube-dl * zsh * watchman ( https://facebook.github.io/watchman ) * megadl (rarely, but its a handy tool when you need it) * brew (on my mac) * mountsshfs (on my mac) --- I moved away from orgmode and have been using it in VS since I have it open anyway. It covers me. I also want to start using Mutt or something similar.…

Just for curiosity: you have moved away from Emacs org-mode? If yes may I ask why?

I'm using Emacs since few times and it's now even my WM and org-mode is it's companion for nearly all docs/docs related stuff I use, never found anything even near comfortable and powerful as that combo...

Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

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Post by gglitch »

zeveb wrote: post #281
inp wrote: post #87

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/ ]

Amusingly, you can actually do all of that within emacs: - email: notmuch/Rmail/Gnus/&c. - password manager: pass.el (uses pass under the covers) - navigate directories: shell or eshell, with autocompletion and/or Helm - task management: Org Mode - music: emms Emacs is crazy-powerful!

dired-mode by itself is pretty excellent for navigating directories.

Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

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Post by spudlyo »

hatsubai wrote: post #269

If you do any bash/sh programming, I highly recommend shellcheck: https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck

Agreed, highly recommended. I dreaded writing shell scripts for the longest time because of the weird syntax and many gotchas. Having emacs flycheck my shell buffers with shellcheck gives me confidence that I'm not doing anything stupid.

Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

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Post by Aweorih »

mdip wrote: post #278

There are so many to list that I'll skip the more obvious ones (they're well represented in the comments) and pick a few that I've been enjoying a lot lately: Netflix-Skunkworks/go-jira[0] - Jira interface written in Go that is incredibly flexible. bat[1] - cat with code highlighting climate[2] - Shell swiss-army knife of tools That last one deserves a post on its own. It's certainly not the most portable thing -- re…

> such as getting an external IP address of a host from the command-line.

What about using `ping host`? This also prints the ip

Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

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Post by vram22 »

I wouldn't call it among the best, but it has a real-life use, and was, and maybe still is, used in production by a large motorcycle manufacturer, for whom I originally wrote it:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2014/09/my-ibm-developerworks-ar...

I had given some more details about it on HN some time ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17327807

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