What are your best CLI apps? Looking for the unknown gems!

cat grep awk sed head tail jq tee

Anything that's not above is usually a combination of them.

If not, I usually build my own with whatever language is handy.

fuck.

no. srsly. it is called fuck.

bombardier. A quick http benchmarking tool. https://github.com/codesenberg/...

cBonsai makes a nice screensaver.

bat exa and other rust rewritings of the old unixes

Every cli app comes with steroids.

Besides that, Spotify Rui, mpg321

ncdu

It's basically spaceniffer for linux servers. Saved the day (literally!) a couple of times.

Screenshots: https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu/scr

@hack love that russian domain in their readme. "realworld example" lol

Bat. Try it and you will be pleased.

sponge, ts both from moreutils.

cgdb if you want to debug on cli.

rename to rename multiple files at once.

gitstats

And of course the usual stuff: tmux, vim, tee, du, pstree, vimdiff, python, convert, column, git, df, lsblk, valgrind, ssh ....

I just realized I forgot the best one.

xclip

Allows you to interact with your clipboard via cli. Extremely helpful when you're processing content from a browser or logs from a server you only have access to select and copy from.

@sariel Yooooooo. I've never heard of jq, looked it up, looks really fucking helpful, thanks a lot dude! I discovered a gem today :D

@SoldierOfCode there's also a yq if you work with yaml

My regular tools I use (that are uncommon) are

Tmux, k9s, jq, yq, bat, ranger, xclip, fzf, pyenv, nvm, and tig. I'm always looking to expand my repertoire though!

bsdgames

Especially the "wtf" executable from them

Onefetch
https://github.com/o2sh/onefetch

Also https://cht.sh has a shell script which is very handy

@jonas-w wow! More like this, please