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CLI: Improved
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#42GNU Parallel is the first thing I usually install on top of a standard Unix userland. It's almost a superset of xargs, with many interesting features. It depends on perl, though. htop is also pretty much a great replacement for top. And ripgrep a great replacement for the find | xargs grep pattern. Aside from that, I'm pretty content with the Unix userland. It's remarkable how well tools have aged, thanks to being co…
I don't feel the plain text portion has aged well at all in regards to composability. It leads to a lot of headache as the complexity of the task grows because of the in-band signaling and lack of universal format. I think it is high time the standard unix tools were replaced with modern equivalents that had a consistent naming scheme and pipelined typed object data instead of plain text.
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#43"I'm not sure many web developers can get away without visiting the command line." IIS has significant market share. I'll bet most web developers who deploy on it get away without having to use the command line interface very often if at all. https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2018/08/24/august-2018-we...
Configuring IIS is much better in the command line. You either have a complex and slow process of going through menus and ticking boxes, or you put all the settings in one semi colon separated string and it's done in one command.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most tools mentioned are completely different tools from the ones they're suggested to be better versions of. I understand the comparison is for specific use-cases. For example, csvkit is far better than trying and failing to parse CSV with awk, but it's very much useless for any other type of text format. Same thing with jq (a JSON query tool) vs grep (a general text search tool). The only ones I can agree with in t…
If you don't mind me asking, in roughly what cases do you reach for grep instead of ag || ack? Is it a familiarity thing, or specific features or something else?
Not the gp, but I generally use ripgrep when I want to find something manually, and regular grep in a script.
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#45GNU Parallel is the first thing I usually install on top of a standard Unix userland. It's almost a superset of xargs, with many interesting features. It depends on perl, though. htop is also pretty much a great replacement for top. And ripgrep a great replacement for the find | xargs grep pattern. Aside from that, I'm pretty content with the Unix userland. It's remarkable how well tools have aged, thanks to being co…
Why not grep -r or rgrep?
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#46rg > all other grep tools https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
Also you can get ripgrep and fzf plugins for vim which are fantastic.
I think VSCode uses ripgrep too.
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#48I was wondering if any of you use alternatives or hacks for the cd command?
I've been testing out a couple of different ones, like xd, fcd, wcd and pushd/popd, but I'm not quite sure which I should commit to or if there are better ways :)
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#49GNU Parallel is the first thing I usually install on top of a standard Unix userland. It's almost a superset of xargs, with many interesting features. It depends on perl, though. htop is also pretty much a great replacement for top. And ripgrep a great replacement for the find | xargs grep pattern. Aside from that, I'm pretty content with the Unix userland. It's remarkable how well tools have aged, thanks to being co…
I don't feel the plain text portion has aged well at all in regards to composability. It leads to a lot of headache as the complexity of the task grows because of the in-band signaling and lack of universal format. I think it is high time the standard unix tools were replaced with modern equivalents that had a consistent naming scheme and pipelined typed object data instead of plain text.
I think you should check out Powershell.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you don't mind me asking, in roughly what cases do you reach for grep instead of ag || ack? Is it a familiarity thing, or specific features or something else?
Not the gp, but I generally use ripgrep when I want to find something manually, and regular grep in a script.
Ah yeah, me too! That's a good one.