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

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Post by e12e »

maxdata wrote: post #133

Piggybacking on OP's suggestion of youtube-dl, i have this alias for quickly grabbing the audio-only version of a youtube video. (I use it when I come across a song on youtube that I can't find for sale or streaming anywhere else) alias dl-audio='youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3' If you have ffmpeg installed, just drop the video ID after dl-audio, and you'll get an mp3 of the highest quality audio stream…

I wouldn't specify mp3, unless you need to support legacy/device playback - there are often better audio versions available (ogg, aac etc).

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

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Post by laumars »

vram22 wrote: post #130
laumars wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Also, for saving (and then viewing) man pages (about commands or other topics), without the formatting characters (such as ^H), on some Linux distros, I find this useful: ^H is one of the two backspace characters (the other being ^?) depending on which VT standard you're configured to use. So you shouldn't really need a dedicate script to do that as it's just a problem between your pseudo-TTY (Linux console) and yo…

Thanks for your inputs. A few comments: I first created that script called m years ago on some Unix boxes that I was using. Could have been HP-UX or other version. And I've used it over the years on many Unix and Linux versions that I worked on. It could be that in some cases, the script is needed due to a tty or TERM or other configuration issue. But I'm pretty sure that I've had the need for it (to remove those con…

Yeah I'm familiar with groff et al. I used to get this issue on old UNIX boxes but not seen it in any of the Linux distros I use daily (not Freebase).

The other thing worth trying is seeing whether your locals are set correctly and/or set the GROFF_TYPESETTER environment variable. Though this might only by GNU specific. Or just redirect the output (as suggested by the other reply) which is how I used to get around the issue on SunOS at least.

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

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Post by laumars »

vram22 wrote: post #139
vram22 wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for your inputs. A few comments: I first created that script called m years ago on some Unix boxes that I was using. Could have been HP-UX or other version. And I've used it over the years on many Unix and Linux versions that I worked on. It could be that in some cases, the script is needed due to a tty or TERM or other configuration issue. But I'm pretty sure that I've had the need for it (to remove those con…

Also see the man page for the col command, which is used in my m script: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/col.1.html

I don't make a habit of commenting on shell scripts what I haven't first read. But thank you all the same.

I used to use 'col' alot to resolve the tabs Vs spaces problem with different actors imposing different preferences in their source code. It's a handy tool but often overlooked.

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

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Post by O_H_E »

xrandr: Manege external monitors

zsh: Stepping up your terminal game - https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh

tmux: A terminal multiplexer, aka turns your terminal to a minimalist workspace (the only sane way I found to copy terminal output without using a mouse)

howdoi: Search stachoverflow/stackexchange from the CLI - https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi/

nmtui: WIFI/Networking from the terminal - https://github.com/heftig/NetworkManager

bluetoothctl: Bluetooth from the terminal

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Lists for exploration:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unix_commands

- https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/List_of_applications

- https://github.com/alebcay/awesome-shell

- https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps

- https://github.com/herrbischoff/awesome-command-line-apps

(The github links seems similar, but there are some differences indeed)

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

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Post by e12e »

For Windows, I'd like to point to http://scoop.sh as mentioned here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17019197

It's a bit like a mix of (x)stow and apt for Windows. Or the good parts of arch aur with binary distribution.

Should probably also mention that I'm experimenting with asdf as a version manager - to avoid a long list of setup in bashrc to adjust paths to various interpreters. It follows a lot of best practices that various dedicated version managers seem to pick up eventually:

https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf

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

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Post by O_H_E »

O_H_E wrote: post #164

xrandr: Manege external monitors zsh: Stepping up your terminal game - https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh tmux: A terminal multiplexer, aka turns your terminal to a minimalist workspace (the only sane way I found to copy terminal output without using a mouse) howdoi: Search stachoverflow/stackexchange from the CLI - https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi/ nmtui: WIFI/Networking from the terminal - https://github.com…

Apperanlty I can't make a list of urls on HN, WTF

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

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Post by everybodyknows »

locate may be the most-overlooked timesaver on the GNU distro. For searches of more than ~50000 directories, it's an order of magnitude faster than find:

  $ time locate -0 /{opt,usr}/\*.gitignore |
    xargs -0 stat --format=%s | wc
      387     387    1225

  real	0m0.087s

  $ time find /{opt,usr} -name '.gitignore' -print0 2>/dev/null |
    xargs -0 stat --format=%s | wc
      387     387    1225

  real	0m0.748s
The speedup comes from reading a single database file rather than every directory within the tree to be searched. If the files you want were last touched today, a manually triggered rebuild of the database may be needed:

  $ sudo updatedb
The argument syntax for path specification of locate I find more convenient as well.

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

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Post by apjana » 

  - googler: Google from the terminal
  - Buku: Bookmark manager like a text-based mini-web
  - nnn: The missing terminal file browser for X
  - bcal: Storage expression calculator
  - imgp: Multi-core batch image resizer and rotator
  - keysniffer: Linux kernel mode debugfs keylogger
  - ddgr: DuckDuckGo from the terminal 
  - pdd: Tiny date, time diff calculator

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

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Post by mping »

jweir wrote: post #64

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf Fuzzy Finder for files, history and more. Integrates with Vim (and maybe other editors). It is wicked fast.

And if you use the bash/zsh functions the provide in the wiki, it becomes even more useful for git, file opening, etc

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

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Post by musicmatze »

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´.

     1  401  16.04%  git
     2  337  13.48%  fg
     3  241  9.64%   cargo
     4  234  9.36%   cd
     5  197  7.88%   ls
     6  195  7.8%    tig
     7  165  6.6%    task
     8  81   3.24%   vim
     9  38   1.52%   imag
    10  31   1.24%   pwd
"imag" is my own tool, a personal information management suite for the commandline.
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