z - track most-used directories and jump to them
https://github.com/jethrokuan/z (fish port)
Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
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Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
#82Music 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
Beets is really great, before switching mainly to streaming I used it every day to tag new additions to my library.
Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
#83tldr - community-maintained man pages distilled to snippets
Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
#84Scoop - https://scoop.sh It's basically apt/brew on Windows, but it's particularly awesome because it does not manage dependencies. It just downloads and extracts installers, which works because every self-respecting program that works on Windows distributes binaries as an installer (or just a zip) somewhere. Result: everything just works, every program is self-contained, no admin rights needed, no package maintainer…
So far I've been using Chocolatey
(https://chocolatey.org) for doing this (and ninite though that's not command line). But this looks pretty cool too. Thanks for sharing!
Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
#85One that I use a lot and I haven't seen mentioned here is `dict` which is fine for looking up word definitions and acronyms if a bit limited for translations.
Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
#86It's probably not what you'd use often/at all but I recently was glad to discover Google's import-mailbox-to-gmail[0] script.
Technically a CLI I suppose, it imports an mbox file into Gmail. I had switched to G Suite and wanted to import some old emails. It took a while but this did the trick!
Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
#87Nice 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/]
Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
#88I love 'bpython' , python CLI with syntax highlighting and autocomplete for testing out quick ideas. Slightly off topic, but can I just say that iTerm2's native tmux integration is really awesome.
Ah yes! I knew I had forgotten to install something recently
Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
#89If you aren't using tmux or screen, you probably should be, especially over SSH sessions. They allow you to have multiple consoles open and switch between them, split window, and disconnect from SSH and then reconnect with all your things still open and running (as long as the server stayed running).
As someone who hasn't invested much time into tmux/screen, what are the benefits of it over just using eg; multiple terminal tabsn or using the terminal's built in split windowing? I'm sure there's probably a benefit but I dunno what it is
Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
#90A bunch of references from Suckless community that you can enjoy: