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Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

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Post by RichardCA »

ryannevius wrote: post #42
adtac wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 that... alias glol="git log --oneline" ...comes in handy as well, and it's fun to type.

Try this one sometime...

  alias lg = log --date=format:'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S' --pretty=format:'%cd %

Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

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Post by dijit »

ianai wrote: post #29
pjs_ wrote: post #8

I love watch . watch df -h watch ls -sh watch cat file watch nmcli device wifi list watch -n 10 --color curl -s wttr.in

I think I remember combining watch with tail before...not sure why since -f keeps a stream open.

Tail -f works by opening the file and remembering the byte offset, if it’s a log file that gets flushed/wiped then tail -f won’t see anything until the logs fill enough to exceed the previous file contents.

Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

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Post by [deleted] »

artwr wrote: post #3

A few of the ones I use almost daily - Pandoc a handy document format converter: https://pandoc.org/ - Ripgrep, a faster grep: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep - There are quite a few prompt-toolkit based CLI which have been really nice: * mycli ( https://github.com/dbcli/mycli ), pgcli ( https://github.com/dbcli/pgcli ) * ptpython/ptipython ( https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/ptpython ) - Youtube-dl: http://rg3…

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Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

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Post by lloeki »

adtac wrote: post #25
ivansavz wrote: post #14

youtube_dl an ffmpeg would be my top two in terms of power. Here are my top commands by frequency of use: 4421 git 952 open 936 vim 908 cd 603 ls 566 grep 533 cp 429 rm 414 mv 250 atom 247 pip 233 mkdir 223 fab 163 docker 130 touch 128 find 123 youtube-dl 113 python 103 ssh 100 cat 99 wget 81 pytest 75 brew total is of ~16k history lines... this means one in ever 4 commands I type is git! Wow I didn't know that. Prob…

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 --oneline --no-merges --author=${1-$(git config user.email)}
        today = !git log --all --since=00:00:00 --oneline --no-merges --author=${1-$(git config user.email)}
        changelog = !git log --oneline --no-merges ${1-$(git describe --abbrev=0)}..HEAD
        upstream = !git log --oneline --no-merges HEAD..${1-$(git branch -lvv | perl -ne '/^\\*.*\\[(.*?)\\]/ and print "$1\n"')}
        local = !git log --oneline --no-merges ${1-$(git branch -lvv | perl -ne '/^\\*.*\\[(.*?)\\]/ and print "$1\n"')}..HEAD
        graph = log --oneline --graph --all --decorate --date=iso
        save = !git add -A && git commit -m 'SAVEPOINT'
        undo = reset HEAD~1 --mixed
        backup = !git push origin/backup/$(whoami)/$(git branch)
        lint = !git branch --merged | grep -v \"^\\s*master$\" | grep -v \"\\*\" | xargs -n 1 git branch -d

Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

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Post by suprfnk »

catacombs wrote: post #36
cjoelrun wrote: post #12

Music organizer/player http://beets.io File browser https://github.com/ranger/ranger Emacs - It does anything you want. Emacs If you like vim keys bindings - http://spacemacs.org Terminal multiplexer - Tmux

Another alternative to Emacs with vim keybindings is Doom Emacs. It's superior to Spacemacs imo.

I've been using Spacemacs for a while, what sets Doom Emacs apart?
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