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Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

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Post by kippfe »

lloeki wrote: post #67
adtac wrote: post #25

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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…

I find my git graph, git save, and git lint (also, git fetch --prune but lo alias for that one) extremely useful. Aliases in my ~/.gitconfig: [alias] co = checkout cm = !git add -A && git commit br = branch ci = commit st = status unstage = reset HEAD -- recent = for-each-ref --count=10 --sort=-committerdate refs/heads/ --format="%(refname:short)" overview = log --all --oneline --no-merges recap = !git log --all --on…

Thanks for the tip.. :)

Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

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Post by em-bee »

jimktrains2 wrote: post #297
em-bee wrote: post #222

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sure, conceptually it does, but that's not the point. what matters for most is the fact that i can run the application in a text only terminal, on any machine (remote or local), from any device (be it linux, windows, mac or even a mobile phone (ok, that's rarely practical, but it's possible)) a GUI does not offer that advantage. greetings, eMBee.

> what matters for most is the fact that i can run the application in a text only terminal, on any machine (remote or local), from any device (be it linux, windows, mac or even a mobile phone (ok, that's rarely practical, but it's possible)) > a GUI does not offer that advantage Sure, not in the terminal, but X forwarding is a thing and works on every system I've had to use it on.

it doesn't work on the majority of systems i have to work with, which is servers that don't have the necessary tools installed.

it's also very susceptible to latency and most applications don't handle slow connections in a usable manner. (they are designed with the expectation that the gui always responds instantly)

to get something of a tmux/screen like experience, xpra is available, which is an awesome piece of work, but it doesn't help with the latency. even over just local wifi i have some applications become unusable over xpra when they work ok over plain remote X.

the problem is not necessarily X but in part GUI in general. i can't click the mouse anywhere until the respective UI item is visible, so i have to wait for that.

on a commandline on the other hand in most cases i can keep typing even on extremely slow connections because i can anticipate what will happen and i know what keys are appropriate to type next.

using mosh i even get something like editable typeahead which is a marvel and very hard to imagine on X.

greetings, eMBee.

Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

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Post by kippfe »

C0d3r wrote: post #271

Useful tool replacements that some people have already mentioned: - ls -> exa - cat -> bat - find -> fd - top -> htop -> glances - grep -> ack -> ag -> rg - hr (to draw a horizontal line in your terminal) A lightning talk about them: https://youtu.be/hp-1plTKOqc?t=551

A url link to each toll would be nice

Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

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Post by colelyman »

catacombs wrote: post #310
colelyman wrote: post #256

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I am a convert from Spacemacs to Doom, and I have found that one of the main differences that sets Doom apart is easier configurability than Spacemacs. In Doom, there is still the concept of "layers," but IMO it is much easier to figure out what the layers are doing and customize them from there. Also, I have found Doom to be much quicker (takes about 2 seconds to load, not using server/client) and less buggy than Sp…

This. Also, the developer is responsive on his Discord server should you have any issues with the editor. Henrik is patient, kind and reliable, rare traits for open source projects these days.

I completely agree, I have had a very similar experience with Henrik.

Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

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Post by ComputerGuru »

vanderZwan wrote: post #161
codychan wrote: post #93

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

I love fish-shell, but after years of using it I switched to Oh My ZSH! . The bash compatibility makes it a whole lot easier to use when you're the type of person who has to look up "how to do X on the command line" on the internet more often than you'd like to admit (that would be me). https://ohmyz.sh/

fwiw, we are shipping a number of features in fish 3.0 (any day now!) that are specifically targeting at maximizing compatibility with most bash scripts (still not POSIX).

That includes support for && and || and a few other things that should go a long way towards making most code you find drop-in ready.

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Post by ComputerGuru »

Dowwie wrote: post #195

Just about every Rust cli app written by sharkdp: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd https://github.com/sharkdp/bat https://github.com/sharkdp/diskus https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine For viewing csv's as tabular, paged data from the terminal, check out VisiData (python) https://github.com/saulpw/visidata

Since @sharkdp's work was originally inspired by @burntsushi's rg, you might be interested in xsv for CSV viewing (and manipulation): https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv

Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

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Post by bhengaij »

sebcat wrote: post #113
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/ ]

A few of these (all?) are TUIs and not CLIs. CLIs are command driven. TUIs are driven by user interactions. I'm sure more/better distinctions between the two can be made.

I wish more people made the distinction and more people made TUIs too...

Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

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Post by nil_pointer »

vanderZwan wrote: post #161
codychan wrote: post #93

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

I love fish-shell, but after years of using it I switched to Oh My ZSH! . The bash compatibility makes it a whole lot easier to use when you're the type of person who has to look up "how to do X on the command line" on the internet more often than you'd like to admit (that would be me). https://ohmyz.sh/

I like using a different plugin manager with OMZ. https://github.com/tarjoilija/zgen

If you use a lot of addons, this can load up prompts faster without losing any OMZ goodness.

Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

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Post by archon810 »

codychan wrote: post #93

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

Really happy to see tig in your list and so high in the list of comments. Definitely one of my favorites too.
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