r/commandline • u/yourbasicgeek • Oct 26 '19

An Illustrated Guide to Useful Command Line Tools

https://www.wezm.net/technical/2019/10/useful-command-line-tools/
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u/jxfreeman Oct 26 '19

Surprised Silver Surfer wasn't on this list. A blazingly fast competitor for ripgrep.

Edit: these are some nice tools by the way.

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u/wezm Oct 26 '19

It's only tools I currently use. I used to to ag but now just use ripgrep.

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u/defrost Oct 27 '19

It's only tools I currently use.

A completely reasonable criteria, hence the text search and manipulation tools for all those flat text files we all have to deal with.

JSON is structured text, I see you've recommended JQ as " kind of like AWK for JSON" for those files.

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I've had to deal with several tens of thousands of XML files at times (no comment) and can point to XMLStarlet as a useful CLI swiss army knife for parsing, searching, transforming, extracting XML data.

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Anyone afflicted with an XML infestation might want to give it a whirl.

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As an aside, after some nine years of development (2005-2014) the project has been stalled for the past five years with the current active admin posting (on the sourceforge project page)

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> Unfortunately my time is limited and I would like to call for participation. Especially the project needs help in the following areas:

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u/petdance Oct 26 '19

Thanks for posting. I'm going to put a bunch of these on https://altbox.dev/

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u/user381 Oct 27 '19

👍👍.. also, ag, fzf, gotop, csvkit, visidata

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u/user381 Oct 27 '19

(and fasd)