Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?

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Post by petepete » Mon, May 07, 2018, 10:44 AM UTC

orcs wrote: post #18

gcb0 wrote: post #13

tig

Link? What's if for?

It's a text interface for git. Great for quickly navigating around a repo and, the thing I use it for most, staging individual lines/hunks

https://github.com/jonas/tig

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?

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Post by kamranahmed_se » Mon, May 07, 2018, 10:46 AM UTC

Some of them that I can't live without are

    - git-standup http://github.com/kamranahmedse/git-standup

    - z https://github.com/rupa/z

    - ZSH https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh

Apart from that, some that I use time to time

    - curl-size https://github.com/egoist/curl-size

    - ripgrep https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

    - jq https://github.com/stedolan/jq

    - asciinema https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?

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Post by orcs » Mon, May 07, 2018, 10:46 AM UTC

maze-le wrote: post #20

orcs wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Link? What's if for?

Its a CLI interface for git. https://github.com/jonas/tig

Very cool, I like ncurses. Before visiting your link I was like 'isn't git already cli?'

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?

#24

Post by pedrorijo91 » Mon, May 07, 2018, 10:48 AM UTC

https://github.com/wting/autojump

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?

#25

Post by nextos » Mon, May 07, 2018, 10:52 AM UTC

emacs

screen

notmuch, isync

powertop

parallel, ag

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?

#26

Post by jimjimjim » Mon, May 07, 2018, 10:55 AM UTC

- emacs

- mc

- git

- ssh

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?

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Post by yread » Mon, May 07, 2018, 10:55 AM UTC

cd

because I never had to lookup how to use it

EDIT: hm it doesn't even have a man/info page. Where can you learn about "cd" or "cd -", then?!

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?

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Post by boyter » Mon, May 07, 2018, 10:59 AM UTC

SOLAR_FIELDS wrote: post #11

sairamkunala wrote: post #6

rg => (ripgrep) alternative to ack and grep.

There’s also ag (the silver searcher)

I must confess based on the strength of the argument buruntsushi had with the Ripgrep comparison I switched from ag to rg and have not looked back. I was a daily ag user but I don’t need the advanced regex support and I do like the speed.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?

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Post by sneak » Mon, May 07, 2018, 11:00 AM UTC

pom

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?

#30

Post by kamranahmed_se » Mon, May 07, 2018, 11:01 AM UTC

yread wrote: post #27

cd because I never had to lookup how to use it EDIT: hm it doesn't even have a man/info page. Where can you learn about "cd" or "cd -", then?!

`cd` is not a command; it is built into your shell.

Some systems, like OS X and CentOS, map the cd man page to builtin which lists all the shell builtins and lets you know you should look at your shell's man page.