Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs? • Hacker News Board

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…

As you are using tmux, also check out the awesome tmuxp written in Python. The author is very thorough with the package; testing and documentation. Tmuxp allows you to quickly launch pre-configured tmux sessions.

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

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Post by kaushalmodi » Mon, May 07, 2018, 12:41 PM UTC

Emacs, tmux, tmuxp, ripgrep, eless[1], ncdu, exa (ls replacement. I often use 'exa --tree'), sed, awk, peco (I use this in aliases to select one or more items from a command outputting multiple values), hugo, dtrx, textract (npm), wget, shellcheck, rsync, htop.

I heavily use git, but via Magit in Emacs.

[1]: My own little utility to use bare bones Emacs as less/pager: https://eless.scripter.co

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

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Post by sshine » Mon, May 07, 2018, 12:58 PM UTC

sairamkunala wrote: post #6

rg => (ripgrep) alternative to ack and grep.

I love how command-line tools are seeing the same explosion of choices as web-frameworks.

I changed to 'ack' six months ago after having used 'grep' for two decades, and already its successor 'ag' has been made redundant in favor of 'rg'.

My only peeve with 'ack' is that I can't make it switch nicely between paging and not paging:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50135983/less-waits-when...

I doubt any of 'ack's competitors have a fix for this, since it seems to be a pager feature that I'm looking for.

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

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Post by falcolas » Mon, May 07, 2018, 1:29 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´.

Guessing 'll' is an alias for 'ls -al' or similar as well?

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

#59

Post by Dowwie » Mon, May 07, 2018, 1:32 PM UTC

kaushalmodi wrote: post #55

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…

As you are using tmux, also check out the awesome tmuxp written in Python. The author is very thorough with the package; testing and documentation. Tmuxp allows you to quickly launch pre-configured tmux sessions.

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

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

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Post by falcolas » Mon, May 07, 2018, 1:36 PM UTC

A few I don't see otherwise listed:

    export MARKPATH=$HOME/.marks
    function jump {
        cd -P $MARKPATH/$1 2> /dev/null || (echo "No such mark: $1" && marks)
    }
    function mark {
        mkdir -p $MARKPATH; ln -s $(pwd) $MARKPATH/$1
    }
    function unmark {
        rm -i $MARKPATH/$1
    }
    function marks {
        ls -l $MARKPATH | sed 's/  / /g' | cut -d' ' -f9- && echo
    }
    _jump()
    {
        local cur=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}
        COMPREPLY=( $(compgen -W "$( ls $MARKPATH )" -- $cur) )
    }
    complete -F _jump jump

I used to use this one more; converted to vimwiki instead: http://todotxt.org/

Local documentation:

    wget --recursive --level=5 --convert-links --page-requisites --wait=1 --random-wait --timestamping --no-parent $1

The only other ones which top the charts are jq, aws, curl, and docker.