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 [deleted] » Mon, May 07, 2018, 3:33 PM UTC

cdancette wrote: post #12

ncdu to analyze disk space and find huge folders you can clean And `z` (the zsh plugin) to cd into your most common directories

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

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Post by isostatic » Mon, May 07, 2018, 3:33 PM UTC

MikkoFinell wrote: post #37

history | awk '{CMD[$2]++;count++;}END { for (a in CMD)print CMD[a] " " CMD[a]/count*100 "% " a;}' | grep -v "./" | column -c3 -s " " -t | sort -nr | nl | head -n10 1 167 16.7% git 2 130 13% ll 3 94 9.4% clear 4 90 9% make 5 80 8% cd 6 57 5.7% e 7 52 5.2% cat 8 45 4.5% man 9 38 3.8% valgrind 10 37 3.7% rm Where ´e´ is an alias for ´vim´.

Clear? I always press ctrl-l

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

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Post by kamranahmed_se » Mon, May 07, 2018, 3:35 PM UTC

peterwwillis wrote: post #75

kamranahmed_se wrote: post #22

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

git-standup seems cool, but misses the one thing I would want from it: show me the commits I've made from each repo that I work in, sorted by time. That way I can see that I made commit 1 in repo X, then commit 2 in repo Y, then commit 3 in repo X. Also instead of "-d 4" to see 4 days ago, "January 15th" or "Thursday" would be handy.

> show me the commits I've made from each repo that I work in, sorted by time

It does show the commits from each repo sorted by time. Repositories are not sorted though, if that is what you are asking for.

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

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Post by grzm » Mon, May 07, 2018, 3:36 PM UTC

Dowwie wrote: post #36

Written in Rust: - fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find' https://github.com/sharkdp/fd - ripgrep: ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep - exa: Replacement for 'ls' written in Rust https://github.com/ogham/exa - bat: A 'cat' replacement. I recommend following the customizations. https://github.com/sharkdp/bat Written in Python: - asciine…

Thanks for the links. In the future, please don’t use indentation to set off lists like this. It makes it difficult to read due to side scrolling, particularly on mobile. People often use - (hyphen) or * set of bullet points, and separate lines with new lines. You don’t get elements, but it does work. Plus, your links will work, too :)

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

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Post by v_lisivka » Mon, May 07, 2018, 3:37 PM UTC

NVRM wrote: post #46

micro, mc, ag silver searcher, stat, find, aria2c, xev, w3m, wmctrl, nohup, xdotool, docker, php, ffmpeg, phantomjs, du, ls [From my history file, all others are homemade scripts and little functions in .bashrc]

ncdu is much better than just du.

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

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Post by jlgaddis » Mon, May 07, 2018, 3:37 PM UTC

lastpass-cli ("LastPass command line interface tool") [0], with several aliases:

  $ alias | grep lpass
  lp=lpass
  lpls='lpass ls'
  lppw='lpass show -c -G --password'
  lpsh='lpass show -G'
  lpst='lpass status'

[0]: https://github.com/lastpass/lastpass-cli

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

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Post by foobarchu » Mon, May 07, 2018, 3:38 PM UTC

I find myself using noti a lot. It's effectively just a message generator that can receive data over stdout or trigger manually. It uses whatever the most appropriate notification method for your system is, so it feels very seemless. I use it for long-running tasks where I don't really know how long it's going to take.

https://github.com/variadico/noti

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

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Post by accnumnplus1 » Mon, May 07, 2018, 3:41 PM UTC

kaushalmodi wrote: post #85

Dowwie wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

The benefit of tmuxp is pretty clear from its README[1]. It gives this example: session_name: 4-pane-split windows: - window_name: dev window layout: tiled shell_command_before: - cd ~/ # run as a first command in all panes panes: - shell_command: # pane no. 1 - cd /var/log # run multiple commands in this pane - ls -al | grep \.log - echo second pane # pane no. 2 - echo third pane # pane no. 3 - echo forth pane # pan…

I use a shell script for such config. eg tmux split-window -h ; tmux send-keys "ls -la" C-m; ...

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

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Post by laumars » Mon, May 07, 2018, 3:47 PM UTC

kjeetgill wrote: post #69

laumars wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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'

But at least there you're searching for specific files. I was talking only about running a find to launch an instance of grep for every file found. That's more keystrokes to get a slower result.

For what it's worth, my biggest usage of find is similar to your java example (except a different file extension). I also do do '-exec sed...') a lot too.