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

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Post by laumars »

veganjay wrote: post #48

First of all, you might want to check out the subreddit: /r/commandline https://www.reddit.com/r/commandline/ general commands - awk/grep/sed/wc - text file processing - convert (image magick) - image processing tool - cpulimit - limit the cpu usage of a process - fdupes - check for duplicate files and optionally remove them - pdftk - concatenate pdf files and more - https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolki…

If you're just using find to run grep against all files then you would be better off using the recursive flag in grep instead

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

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Post by jamestomasino »

There's so many programs and scripts I use it's hard to keep them all straight. So, instead of trying I just exported a list of every command in my history that I've used at least twice:

https://gist.github.com/jamestomasino/9d912b409e5b6067ac233e...

Also of interest, my custom functions:

https://github.com/jamestomasino/dotfiles/tree/master/bash/....

And finally, my OSX & Linux Mint install scripts which include a lot of great app packages:

https://github.com/jamestomasino/dotfiles/blob/master/osxset... https://github.com/jamestomasino/dotfiles/blob/master/mintse...

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

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Post by cevn »

Dowwie wrote: post #59
kaushalmodi wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As you are using tmux, also check out the awesome tmuxp written in Python. The author is very thorough with the package; testing and documentation. Tmuxp allows you to quickly launch pre-configured tmux sessions.

Thanks for the tip. I briefly read through the docs and it's not clear what this offers above and beyond what tmux does?

I think the idea is to be able to use tmux in different layouts, configured by simple plaintext. I'll try it out.

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

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Post by kjeetgill »

laumars wrote: post #61
veganjay wrote: post #48

First of all, you might want to check out the subreddit: /r/commandline https://www.reddit.com/r/commandline/ general commands - awk/grep/sed/wc - text file processing - convert (image magick) - image processing tool - cpulimit - limit the cpu usage of a process - fdupes - check for duplicate files and optionally remove them - pdftk - concatenate pdf files and more - https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolki…

If you're just using find to run grep against all files then you would be better off using the recursive flag in grep instead

I like the composition of tools, it lets you extend your usage pretty easily. I personally run this 20 times a day: find -name '*.java' | xargs grep 'pattern'

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

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Post by poops »

Since iTunes has been getting buggier and buggier for me (and I'm trying to switch to programs that run on all platforms), I've replaced with...

beets http://beets.io/ for library management

mpd https://www.musicpd.org/ for serving music &

ncmpcpp https://rybczak.net/ncmpcpp/ for playing music (which I alias to `music`)

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