Big fan of commandline tools such as vim, htop etc. What is in your opinion must have tools?

  • ds12@beehaw.org
    3·
    1 year ago

    fzf for quickly matching file names especially deep in the directory hierarchy

    ripgrep for quickly searching for text content within files

    dtrx for handling the right extractions of different archive types

  • Ramin Honary@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    I have mostly replaced all command line stuff with Emacs, but there are still a few CLI utilities that I continue to use, whether I am in the CLI directly or whether I am using Emacs:

    • tmux or screen (terminal multiplexing)
    • bash (shell scripting)
    • grep, sed (filtering, formatting)
    • ps, pgrep, pkill (process control)
    • ls, find, du (filesystem search)
    • ssh, nc, rsync, sshfs, sftp (remote access, file transfer)
    • tee, dd (pipe control)
    • less, emacs, diff, patch, pandoc (text editing)
    • man, apropos (manual)
    • tar, gzip, bzip2, xz (archiving)
    • hexdump, base64, basenc, sha256sum (data encoding, checksums)
    • wget, curl, (HTTP client)
    • dpkg, apt-get, guix (package management)
    • mpv (media player)
    • ldd, objdump, readelf (inspecting binary files)
    • zfs (maintaining my backup filesystem)
  • user@discuss.tchncs.de
    2·
    1 year ago

    Ncdu is a really useful little utility that shows you what directories are using the most space on whichever drive/directory you select. Really useful little piece of software.

    hdparm is another neato one that let’s you test the read speeds of your drives, though it’s more so something ya use once and forget exists.

    Also, though Neovim is more popular, Helix deserves some recognition. It’s a rust based, vim inspired text editor which removes the need to configure it, making it easier for people trying to get into terminal text editors.

    Edit: Jerboa removed the first name, my bad.

  • ForthEorlingas@lemmy.fmhy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    I basically live in nvim. Being able to configure my editor in an actual programming language makes it so much more useful to me than vim could ever be.

      • ForthEorlingas@lemmy.fmhy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yes, Vimscript is way more intuitive than Lua in a lot of ways. And as far as programming languages go, Lua has some strange design choices that I’m not the biggest fan of, either. However, it really does open up a lot of possibilities when your configuration is programmatic.

  • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    1 year ago

    xclip is incredibly useful to get and set data from the clipboard!

    gopup is to html what jq is to JSON. It allows you to parse html to extract specific data for a given selector.

  • Fubarberry@lemmy.fmhy.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

    Kakoune (kak) has become my go to vim replacement. Keybinds are tweaked slightly to be more user friendly and more transparent about what it is you’re doing.

    I never mastered vim binding as well as I liked, but the more intuitive and better communicated binds for kak were easy to learn in comparison and I quickly swapped over.