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Along with ripgrep, I think GNU Parallel (covered in the slides) and htop (briefly discussed) are great additions to any Unix development environment.
The rest of the standard utilities have stood the test of time surprisingly well. But top is a bit wonky, xargs has many pitfalls and, as I said, ripgrep is great for speeding up some find-grep workflows.
One useful thing when managing one's time is to know when a command will complete. I have a habit of using "pv" anywhere I wait for a result so that I know how long it takes: http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml It's basically "cat", but with a progress bar. Also useful for measuring IO speed and volume (e.g. decompression: `pv -c largefile | gzip | pv -c > /dev/null` )
cat /tmp/foo.json | python -m json.tool
https://docs.python.org/3/library/json.html#module-json.tool
The python utils section missed the very cool json.tool that can pretty print JSON files (and exists on your OS if it includes Python): cat /tmp/foo.json | python -m json.tool https://docs.python.org/3/library/json.html#module-json.tool
It's a very flexible tool for filtering, querying and manipulating JSON data, but when run with no arguments, it performs a no-op transformation that just pretty-prints its input.
Its table of contents doesn't do it justice. this is a great deck! super dense and straightforward. my tiny tip to contribute: for those who could never be bothered to remember the ctrl-commands for traversing words, but are familiar with `vi`-style movements: you can go one step above the suggestion in this deck with `set -o vi`.
How much of these is really still relevant with now Python quickly becoming new scripting language across all platforms? I now tend to prefer 3 lines of Python vs 1 line of cryptic unmaintanable Linux-only bash. With new great subprocess module in Python, I feel bash scripting is really unnecessary except in few situations like .bashrc or really quick onliners.
All of it? A very small chunk of these slides are even about bash scripts. Most of it is about standard unix commands and pipe and redirection operators.
1. Xournal to annotate PDFs (aka sign contracts without printing them and scanning them back).
2. LibreOffice of course for most document related work
3. OBS Studio for recording webcam videos along with screen sharing
4. Audacity for audio editing (heck, I used this even when I was on Mac OS X)
5. Technically I've tried video editing with OpenShot, but do find myself back at Final Cut Pro X on my now 6 year old Macbook Pro for that for now
6. pdfsandwich and Tesseract OCR for OCR/turning PDFs into searchable files
7. Chrome/Firefox are both first class and run all the modern day web application stuff
8. Tons and tons and tons of command line stuff that Linux is well known for
9. QEMU/KVM for hosting arbitrary virtual machines with almost native performance
10. GnuCash for double entry accounting for personal and volunteer society finances. I used GnuCash for a while to run the S Corp accounting when we were on Freshbooks and Harvest, but we've since graduated to QuickBooks Online for better invoicing and CPA office professional services support.
11. GIMP for photo editing
12. Inkscape for messing around with vector graphics
Once you get past locating the tools to do your job. Linux has everything.
Its table of contents doesn't do it justice. this is a great deck! super dense and straightforward. my tiny tip to contribute: for those who could never be bothered to remember the ctrl-commands for traversing words, but are familiar with `vi`-style movements: you can go one step above the suggestion in this deck with `set -o vi`.
YMMV, of course.
I do my development work and run most of my agency (with multiple employees) with Linux. For some of the business things that most people don't assume Linux can do, I use: 1. Xournal to annotate PDFs (aka sign contracts without printing them and scanning them back). 2. LibreOffice of course for most document related work 3. OBS Studio for recording webcam videos along with screen sharing 4. Audacity for audio editing…