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

  • Ramin Honary@lemmy.ml
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    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)
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    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

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    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.

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        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.