What are the CLIs you use very often?

I was wondering what people were using the most in their favorite terminal, for inspiration. Of course, I guess many of you use ls, cat and cd, but what else?

For me, it would be:

• ripgrep
• find
• fzf
• tail -f
• awk
• sed

It would be nice to share our dotfiles, too. Here's mine: https://github.com/Phantas0s/.dotfiles

Comments

[Heiker]

I spend most of my time editing files so.

• tmux
• nvim (neovim)

Other often and not so often.

• pnpm to replace npm.

• task. A task runner I use for my personal projects.

• exa as an alias of ls because of pretty colors and their integration with git.

• nnn as my file manager.

• lazygit for when I need a GUI for git but I really don't want to use a GUI.

• lynx a text-based browser for really quick search. To make it more comfortable I have this funny things in my .zshrc
  

# Transform the arguments into a valid url querystring
urlencode()
{
  local args="$@"
  jq -nr --arg v "$args" '$v|@uri'; 
}

# Query duckduckgo
duckduckgo()
{
  lynx "https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/?q=$(urlencode "$@")"
}

alias '?'='duckduckgo'

Since we are sharing dotfiles, here is mine.

[Matthieu Cneude]

Nice! I'm also using Neovim and tmux, with Zsh as shell.

I didn't know task, looks pretty cool! It's true that I'm a bit lost in my Makefiles sometimes :D

I always wanted to use a text browser for quick search, your scripts look cool for that too. Thanks!

[Heiker]

Hope you find something useful.

Using tmux + neovim + lynx is definitely something interesting.

[Edenn Touitou]

I used to use lazygit as a replacement for Gitkraken, but in the end I missed too much all the features and the simplicity of use of it. Even if it takes 1,5G of RAM...

[Heiker]

I have used GitKraken before, but after a while I realized that I'm not a "git power user" so my needs for the GUI are very basic. When I saw lazygit I said "that's it, that's all I need".

[David]

I use all the ones that you've listed except find, plus a few others:

• less over cat or bat
• ping for quick latency check
• wtf WTF Util as a quick command line utility for statuses on almost everything that I care about

My dotfiles

[Pacharapol Withayasakpunt]

• trash rather than rm -rf (or rimraf)
• concurrently
• docker
• nano rather than vi or nvim

[Matthieu Cneude]

Nice! I didn't know trash, but I should definitely try it. I'm a bit tired to delete files I didn't wanted to delete :D

[Nans Dumortier]

jx
k9s
git
npm / npx
serverless (this one is for a side project!)
mongo (sometimes CLI is faster than GUI!)

That's about it I guess 😁

[Matthieu Cneude]

git of course. I forgot this one from my list.

[Nans Dumortier]

Oh and I forgot grep!
Very useful for finding a specific commit like so :
git log | grep "what I'm looking for"

[Manish Sinha]

• tig

• pushd, popd

• grep

• git edit alias for git commit -p --amend

• git rebase

• less

[Matthieu Cneude]

pushd / popd are great. I thought it was working only in Zsh, but it's available in Bash to.

I often use tig too. Great tool!

[Edenn Touitou]

• docker-compose
• htop
• cat
• messer (facebook messenger TUI)
• cordless (snap package for a discord TUI)
• mpsyt (youtube TUI player, mostly for music)

The first 3 are for work, the last 3 are to reduce ram usage by not using more chrome tabs. But mostly because I'm a fan of TUI apps

[Matthieu Cneude]

I love TUI too! I even developed one for analytics stuff.

I didn't know mpsyt.That's cool, I sometimes listen to music from Youtube.

[Francisco Quintero 🇨🇴]

GitHub Hub to create PRs from the command line.

[Matthieu Cneude]

I tried this one but I don't write that much PRs on Github :) but it's a good tool for sure. Thanks!

[Anshaj Khare]

• bat

• docker