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5 CLI Utilities to Boost Your Productivity

Darren Burns on May 07, 2019

Here are 5 command line tools I've found recently which can speed up your workflow. fx, a command-line JSON processing tool fx (GitHub)...

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derek • May 7 '19 • Edited

Nice! Thanks for sharing!

Also...

fzf🌸: command line fuzzy finder (that can be integrated to everything)
z 🐸: z - jump around; for lazy people like 🙋🏽‍♂️
tig 😺: Text-mode interface for git; also fun fact it is git spelt backwards
p7zip 📂: Maximum file compression

Darren Burns • May 7 '19

Hey Derek, thanks for your comment.

I covered all of these tools except p7zip in my previous posts in this series :)

derek • May 7 '19 • Edited

Nice! Great 🧠 think alike😉

Also... I just figured out that these 👇🏽are links 🤦🏽‍♂️.

Nicholas Cloud • May 9 '19 • Edited

For those using nvm and homebrew on OSX, be aware that installing fx (a slick utility!) via homebrew will also install node as a homebrew dependency, which nvm will then treat as the "system" version of node. I clubbed my head against the wall for some time trying to figure out why my native npm packages wouldn't compile correctly (node version mismatch) before checking nvm and realizing that it had switched to "system" node. As an alternative, fx may be installed with npm itself: npm install -g fx.

Great article, love your posts!

Vinay Hegde • May 9 '19 • Edited

Awesome post Darren especially the http-prompt tool usable to test HTTP APIs

Adding some more CLI tools I've found useful over the years.

Updating multiple git repos cleanly via a single command - Gitup (tested on 15+ repos on a daily basis)
Checking which of your multiple repos need a pull, push, stash or upstreams - Multi-Git-Status
Random collection of even more CLI tools, link1 && link2 - (most of them are something even I wish to explore)