Big fan of commandline tools such as vim, htop etc. What is in your opinion must have tools?
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xclip
is incredibly useful to get and set data from the clipboard!gopup
is to html whatjq
is to JSON. It allows you to parse html to extract specific data for a given selector.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
What is the difference between
ripgrep
and just plain grep?ripgrep
is a reimplementation ofgrep
in Rust. It benchmarks faster for large file searches and also comes with quality of life features like syntax highlighting by default.It also ignores files in .gitignore and some others by default
It also has a much simpler and forgiving syntax. Just type
rg anything
and it finds anythinggrep
does that throughfgrep
Even better, there is ripgrep-all that can also search in binary files like PDFs and office documents: https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all
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I mentioned this in another post, but tmux is awesome
Couldn’t live without it!
Took me a while to get used to. As i have used screens for years. But tmux is so much better in the end
yt-dlp
I basically live in
nvim
. Being able to configure my editor in an actual programming language makes it so much more useful to me thanvim
could ever be.I found lua to be a better programming language, but the text specific design of vimscript makes way more sense to my brain.
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.
Also use nvim and love it. Not vim as the title says.
- gcalcli : helps accessing google calendar using calendar api
- neix : rss reader
- I don’t know if it counts but : fish shell
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
orscreen
(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)
k9s is a game changer
Love k9s! I just pull dnit down and used it again today.
off the top of my head:
- vim
- git
- bash
- make
- whatever-compiler-im-using
- curl
- less
- grep
Ranger and/or vifm as file managers. Can’t live without them
They might have specific uses that most users might not need and there may be better alternatives but some of the ones I’ve been using are:
CISO - A command line tool for making compressed ISO files that can be used in emulators and some video game consoles running custom firmware.
RAR - The Linux version of WinRAR, which doesn’t have a UI like the Windows version does.
Flatpak - Probably well known but in case a newer Linux user sees this, it’s used to download and install flatpaks from Flathub.
ranger
andmc
- both are file managers, and their approach is so different that I choose one of them I need at the moment depending on what do I want to do (mc
for traditional file management,ranger
for looking around the directory tree and peeking into files)htop
,tmux
- classicsweechat
,profanity
- for my IM needsripgrep
- for searching through filesmagic-wormhole
for file and ssh public key exchangemosh
for when the network conditions aren’t idealnmap
to see if that machine I’ve connected into the network is up and what IP did it getbat
for quick looking into filesgdb
, with mandatory gdb dashboardnvim
for serious text and code editing,micro
for more casual editing
argos-translate for offline machine language translation.
tmux & neovim for editing files and organizing the terminal displays.
asciinema for recording and playing back terminal sessions.
I am thoroughly enjoying using mcfly.