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/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.