Couple ones there that I’m keen to try out. bat in particular seems like such an easy win
I use both bat and cat often. cat normally, but bat for source code since it comes with syntax highlighting and line numbers by default.
New(ish) command line tools
11–20 of 252 posts
Re: New(ish) command line tools
#12A new fave I recently discovered - render markdown in the terminal for easy reading (and proofing): https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow
I recently found out about mdp too, a way to display markdown in the terminal as slides.
Re: New(ish) command line tools
#13direnv is such a godsend that I shill for it on every team and in every company now, it's such a great tool.
direnv should have been part of unix/linux/posix environments from the start. Whenever something's install steps tell you "go add this export statement to your .bashrc" or similar, it never sat well. That sort of thing should be scoped by path, and shell independent -- exactly the thing direnv enables.
The first thing I did recently in some cleanup work for a team was set up direnv and have it auto-switch kubernetes context by location.
Re: New(ish) command line tools
#14I'm a big fan of jo[1] for making generating JSON from the shell not terrible.
Re: New(ish) command line tools
#15Couple ones there that I’m keen to try out. bat in particular seems like such an easy win
fd and ripgrep are the ones that have really stuck with me, replacing find and grep in my finger memory.
Re: New(ish) command line tools
#16Glad to discover fd. I've always struggled with find syntax. It's easy enough, but always kind of fiddly IME.
Re: New(ish) command line tools
#17rclone is another useful cli tool I use frequently.
Re: New(ish) command line tools
#18Mosh isn't a replacement for SSH, it uses it.
> The mosh client logs in to the server via SSH
This is a cool list overall though.
Re: New(ish) command line tools
#19Is mosh secure? Looks like it's been unmaintained for quite a few years.
Re: New(ish) command line tools
#20I'd like a command line tool that could transform `history` into a list of alternate tool recommendations. Bonus if it could also generate recommended aliases and functions according to your habits.