Big fan of commandline tools such as vim, htop etc. What is in your opinion must have tools?
- 0xCAFe ( @0xCAFE@feddit.de ) 5•1 year ago
yt-dlp
- ds12 ( @ds12@beehaw.org ) 5•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
- wildbus8979 ( @wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works ) 2•1 year ago
What is the difference between
ripgrep
and just plain grep?- ForthEorlingas ( @ForthEorlingas@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) 3•1 year ago
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.- ShitpostCentral ( @ShitpostCentral@lemmy.world ) 2•1 year ago
It also ignores files in .gitignore and some others by default
- eyolf ( @eyolf@lemmy.world ) 2•1 year ago
It also has a much simpler and forgiving syntax. Just type
rg anything
and it finds anything- wildbus8979 ( @wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works ) 1•1 year ago
grep
does that throughfgrep
- Hal_Canary ( @hal_canary@lemmy.sdf.org ) English3•1 year ago
off the top of my head:
- vim
- git
- bash
- make
- whatever-compiler-im-using
- curl
- less
- grep
- wildbus8979 ( @wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works ) 3•1 year ago
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. - ForthEorlingas ( @ForthEorlingas@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) 3•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 thanvim
could ever be. - user ( @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.
- fossesq ( @fossesq@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
I am thoroughly enjoying using mcfly.
- gcalcli : helps accessing google calendar using calendar api
- neix : rss reader
- I don’t know if it counts but : fish shell
- eyolf ( @eyolf@lemmy.world ) 2•1 year ago
Ranger and/or vifm as file managers. Can’t live without them
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.
- vortexal ( @vortexal@sopuli.xyz ) 1•1 year ago
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.
- starship_lizard ( @starship_lizard@lemmy.world ) 1•1 year ago
I mentioned this in another post, but tmux is awesome
- jdkfbdjdfhfkndd ( @jdkfbdjdfhfkndd@dormi.zone ) 1•1 year ago
i use kibi as a text editor
i also have terminal client called alacritty
also doas instead of sudo
- gfle ( @fleg@szmer.info ) 1•1 year ago
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
- Ramin Honary ( @Ramin_HAL9001@lemmy.ml ) 1•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
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)