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Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

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* Email - neomutt + notmuch.

* Chat - Weechat + WeeSlack (https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack)

* Pair Programming - tmate.io + neovim

* Google Play Music - tuijam(https://github.com/cfangmeier/tuijam)

I really like bat (https://github.com/sharkdp/bat) as a cat replacement, and I've been enjoying using entr (http://entrproject.org/) for running tests automatically when code changes.

Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

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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

Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

#94
websocketd - Turn any command that uses stdin into a web socket server (i.e. connect to it from any browser) https://github.com/joewalnes/websocketd

sqlite shell - https://www.sqlite.org/download.html

combine the two for a high throughput web app - https://hackernoon.com/stream-a-million-websocket-sql-reques...

Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

#95
dtrx - Do The Right Extraction. It's a tool "for Unix-like systems that takes all the hassle out of extracting archives": https://brettcsmith.org/2007/dtrx/

In Debian/Ubuntu you can install via apt.

Also, I'd second tldr which has been mentioned here already. It provides simplified man pages which common usage examples that normally fit on a few lines on screen: https://tldr.sh/

Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

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dtrx - Do The Right Extraction. It's a tool "for Unix-like systems that takes all the hassle out of extracting archives": https://brettcsmith.org/2007/dtrx/ In Debian/Ubuntu you can install via apt. Also, I'd second tldr which has been mentioned here already. It provides simplified man pages which common usage examples that normally fit on a few lines on screen: https://tldr.sh/

Dtrx is awesome, but is unfortunately slowly dying, as the author seems to have abandoned it -- it can't be installed with pip anymore.

I think I'm going to take it over, just need a name...

Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

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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…

Wow. mycli and pgcli are so good!

Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

#99
Cli-junkie brofist! I only drop out of the command line for occasional one-off browser stuff.

Depending on your current familiarity with things, I can't recommend enough simply combing through the tools in coreutils, util-linux, find-utils etc. If you take just three or so a day, by the end of a few months you'll have a solid survey-understanding of what almost every *nix shell has available.

Apart from that, here are some I use and enjoy:

[0]:http://abook.sourceforge.net/ -- Vintage address book; Plays well with mutt

[1]:http://git-annex.branchable.com -- A better Dropbox, and via git!

[2]:https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/ -- Index and search the contents and metadata of (pdf, word, etc) documents

[3]:https://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind -- Vintage and sophisticated tool for doing calendrical stuff.

[4]:https://github.com/trizen/youtube-viewer -- CLI YouTube with all the bells and whistles!

[5]:https://6xq.net/pianobar/ -- Pandora radio!

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