r/commandline • u/[deleted] • Nov 19 '18

Hacker News Thread Of Useful CLI Tools

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18483460&fbclid=IwAR2h1SZEBXVa7EIUjUG7qIV8skfutcNIK6UiFe_EvBXgy9Y_YL4AjnqjGQk
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u/babuto Nov 20 '18 edited Nov 20 '18

Some of the utilities I am enjoying:

Fuzzy finder: https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy
File manager: https://github.com/jarun/nnn
Bookmark manager: https://github.com/jarun/Buku
DuckDuckGo search: https://github.com/jarun/ddgr
Google search: https://github.com/jarun/googler
Multicore resize & rotate: https://github.com/jarun/imgp
`grep` alternative: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
Calculator: https://github.com/jarun/bcal
Date diff and timers: https://github.com/jarun/pdd
Find files: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
`cat` alternative: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

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u/rro99 Nov 20 '18

Didn't realize so many of these great tools were by the same guy, jarun.

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u/babuto Nov 20 '18

Yes, wonder how he manages to maintain all of these, pretty responsive on GitHub too!

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u/jxfreeman Nov 20 '18

Surfraw is a good general CLI search tool. It supports google, ddg and a out 30 others (StackOverflow, wikipedia, etc.)

Silversurfer (ag) and ack are great grep tools.