Ask HN: What are your CLI apps for daily use?

#1

Post by beli3ver » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 5:34 AM UTC

I am currently trying to switch to cli. I am faster and more concentrated. So I want to know what are your cli apps for your daily work? MY

- neomutt - khard - khal - irssi - mcabber

Re: Ask HN: What are your CLI apps for daily use?

#2

Post by Triv888 » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 5:55 AM UTC

I also like irssi, but I would not use it without my config file.

youtube-dl and python are also nice.

Re: Ask HN: What are your CLI apps for daily use?

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Post by ve55 » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 6:50 AM UTC

I love a lot of CLI apps, although they can take a good deal of configuration and time to get used to until they're more efficient than alternatives.

Some of my favorites for personal (non-server) use are zsh, tmux, irssi, youtube-dl, ranger, vim, mpd+ncpcpp, redshift, git, python, and all the usual core utils.

Don't forget to use as many custom aliases, themes, and functions as possible if you're going to stick with it. I even use many one-character aliases for common things, e.g. 'p' for python.

Re: Ask HN: What are your CLI apps for daily use?

#4

Post by nathias » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 7:14 AM UTC

I use CLI for everything except browsing and drawing. I haven't updated my dotfiles in a while, but I have a list of a lot of CLI programs I use here: https://github.com/nath1as/.files

Re: Ask HN: What are your CLI apps for daily use?

#5

Post by approxim8ion » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 10:35 AM UTC

fzf, I use it in conjunction with cd as an alternative to z.lua (another great tool)and in conjunction with xdg-open for quick file launching.

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