Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

634 points by jaydouken 7 years ago | 385 comments

I really enjoy using a command-line interface instead of a graphical user interface, and was wondering if anyone had any solid recommendations for applications that one can use in a terminal window.

codychan 7 years ago |

Tmux: https://github.com/tmux/tmux/

fish-shell: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/

ranger: https://github.com/ranger/ranger/

tig: https://github.com/jonas/tig/

ag or rg: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

And all my configurations, especially for fish-shell: http://github.com/c02y/dotfiles

vanderZwan 7 years ago | |

I love fish-shell, but after years of using it I switched to Oh My ZSH!. The bash compatibility makes it a whole lot easier to use when you're the type of person who has to look up "how to do X on the command line" on the internet more often than you'd like to admit (that would be me).

https://ohmyz.sh/

bfrydl 7 years ago | | |

But the whole reason I use fish is because I DON'T have to look things up on the internet because it uses sane syntax instead of some arcane combination of brackets, symbols, and the word “if” spelled backwards.

ComputerGuru 7 years ago | | |

fwiw, we are shipping a number of features in fish 3.0 (any day now!) that are specifically targeting at maximizing compatibility with most bash scripts (still not POSIX).

That includes support for && and || and a few other things that should go a long way towards making most code you find drop-in ready.

nil_pointer 7 years ago | | |

I like using a different plugin manager with OMZ. https://github.com/tarjoilija/zgen

If you use a lot of addons, this can load up prompts faster without losing any OMZ goodness.

CGamesPlay 7 years ago | | |

A quick tip for anyone disparaging the compatibility of fish shell, since this has solved most of the interior concerns for me:

  # Bash:
  FOO=bar ./command
  # Equivalent in bash and fish:
  env FOO=bar ./command

mxschumacher 7 years ago | | |

have you tried https://github.com/oh-my-fish/oh-my-fish ? has been serving me well for years

sfdgsdfg 7 years ago | | |

I'm in the same boat as you. Also used Fish for several years and loved it, but there's some incompatibilities here and there (dont remember exactly what, I think it was difference in how to pipe streams vs bash/zsh). In the end i switched to zsh & oh-my-zsh and haven't run into issues since (made the switch maybe 6 years ago). I'm a heavy terminal user so this part I'm not experimenting with again.

h1d 7 years ago | | |

Same except using zplug.

I still use fish for scripting as its syntax is far more casual looking.

lunchables 7 years ago | |

Great list. I recently switched from ranger to nnn and have been really happy. It's tiny and extremely fast:

https://github.com/jarun/nnn

archon810 7 years ago | |

Really happy to see tig in your list and so high in the list of comments. Definitely one of my favorites too.

artwr 7 years ago |

A few of the ones I use almost daily

- Pandoc a handy document format converter: https://pandoc.org/ - Ripgrep, a faster grep: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep - There are quite a few prompt-toolkit based CLI which have been really nice: * mycli (https://github.com/dbcli/mycli), pgcli (https://github.com/dbcli/pgcli) * ptpython/ptipython (https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/ptpython) - Youtube-dl: http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ - fzf a fuzzy finder for the console: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf - jq for JSON manipulation: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/ - Miller for CSV/TSV: https://github.com/johnkerl/miller

I would imagine you have already scoured the "awesome" lists: https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps#terminal-utili...

egze 7 years ago | |

Wow. mycli and pgcli are so good!

h1d 7 years ago | | |

It is. Omitting the semi colon to execute a statement alone feels good.

pingiun 7 years ago | |

ptpython seems really useful, thank you! I was frustrated with the limited capabilities of the vanilla python REPL.

akoster 7 years ago | |

Another awesome list with some command line apps: https://github.com/alebcay/awesome-shell#applications

jaydouken 7 years ago | |

Thank you so much for posting that list, somehow it slipped under my radar. Great suggestions!

Dowwie 7 years ago |

Just about every Rust cli app written by sharkdp:

    https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
    https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
    https://github.com/sharkdp/diskus
    https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine

For viewing csv's as tabular, paged data from the terminal, check out VisiData (python) https://github.com/saulpw/visidata

apjana 7 years ago | |

CLI utilities from jarun for daily use:

    File manager: https://github.com/jarun/nnn
    Google search: https://github.com/jarun/googler
    DuckDuckGo search: https://github.com/jarun/ddgr
    Bookmark manager: https://github.com/jarun/Buku
    Multicore resize & rotate: https://github.com/jarun/imgp
    Calculator: https://github.com/jarun/bcal
    Date diff and timers: https://github.com/jarun/pdd
    Kernel keylogger: https://github.com/jarun/keysniffer

The developer (https://github.com/jarun) writes cmdline utilities only. His tools are highly optimized for performance and integrates seamlessly with the DE. Most of them are available on popular distros and Homebrew.

ComputerGuru 7 years ago | |

Since @sharkdp's work was originally inspired by @burntsushi's rg, you might be interested in xsv for CSV viewing (and manipulation): https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv

qorrect 7 years ago | |

| For viewing csv's as tabular

I use peco for this https://github.com/peco/peco , thanks for sharkdp checking those out.

Dowwie 7 years ago | | |

How are you using peco to view csv's?

ptd 7 years ago | |

I might be revealing my lack of experience here, but why would you need an app to view your csv? What is the benefit of this over running the data frame or df.head?

rutierut 7 years ago |

Ngrok - https://ngrok.com

So easy and super convienient if you quickly need your local server accessible from somewhere else.

npstr 7 years ago | |

This one is even easier because it doesn't require to install anything, just make a good old ssh tunnel: http://localhost.run

jakelazaroff 7 years ago | | |

The thing I really love about ngrok, though, is the web dashboard where you can inspect your tunnelled traffic and even replay requests: https://ngrok.com/docs#inspect

brink 7 years ago | | |

Oh, looks like you can get a consistent sub-domain too, provided it's unique enough. Nice.

vishaltelangre 7 years ago | |

I found https://serveo.net as a good alternative to ngrok since it requires no signup, no installation and provides a custom subdomain for free.

tyrbo 7 years ago | |

<3 ngrok. been paying (love reserved names) for a while now.

for a self hosted option, I've also been using https://github.com/fatedier/frp lately.

Improvotter 7 years ago | |

I keep a VPS running with Nginx on it for a specific port. Then I forward that port via SSH using remote forwarding to enable this exact functionality. It's free if you've already got a server running.

avip 7 years ago | | |

ngrok is free even if you don't have a server running... and you can tunnel raw TCP.

(not affiliated, I just really admire ngrok so I take it personally when people don't use it :))

inp 7 years ago |

Nice question!

Here my personal setting:

- Email : mutt [http://www.mutt.org/]

- Passwords manager : pass [https://www.passwordstore.org/]

- Navigate directories : autojump [https://github.com/wting/autojump]

- Task manager : task [https://taskwarrior.org/]

- Music : cmus [https://cmus.github.io/]

- Text editor : emacs -nw [https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/]

skrebbel 7 years ago |

Scoop - https://scoop.sh

It's basically apt/brew on Windows, but it's particularly awesome because it does not manage dependencies. It just downloads and extracts installers, which works because every self-respecting program that works on Windows distributes binaries as an installer (or just a zip) somewhere. Result: everything just works, every program is self-contained, no admin rights needed, no package maintainers needed either.

superasn 7 years ago | |

So far I've been using Chocolatey (https://chocolatey.org) for doing this (and ninite though that's not command line). But this looks pretty cool too. Thanks for sharing!

PhilippGille 7 years ago | | |

I created a small CLI tool that I package for Homebrew, Snap, Docker, Chocolatey and Scoop, and I prefer the packaging experience for Scoop, which is the most easy and straightforward one.

Compare the respective directories in https://github.com/philippgille/serve.

skrebbel 7 years ago | | |

Yeah I used chocolatey for a while too, but I found it needlessly overengineered, and often the abstraction was leaky. Scoop is dumber, in a good way.

JustFinishedBSG 7 years ago | |

> no admin rights needed,

> Make sure Powershell 3 (or later) and .NET Framework 4.5 (or later) are installed.

Yeah not exactly. Wouldn't work in most ( all ? ) the places I worked at.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 7 years ago | | |

Really? PS 3.0 was integrated as of Win 8 / Server 2012. In 7 and 2008/2008R2 it was in service pack 1.

xelxebar 7 years ago |

Cli-junkie brofist! I only drop out of the command line for occasional one-off browser stuff.

Depending on your current familiarity with things, I can't recommend enough simply combing through the tools in coreutils, util-linux, find-utils etc. If you take just three or so a day, by the end of a few months you'll have a solid survey-understanding of what almost every *nix shell has available.

Apart from that, here are some I use and enjoy:

[0]:http://abook.sourceforge.net/ -- Vintage address book; Plays well with mutt

[1]:http://git-annex.branchable.com -- A better Dropbox, and via git!

[2]:https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/ -- Index and search the contents and metadata of (pdf, word, etc) documents

[3]:https://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind -- Vintage and sophisticated tool for doing calendrical stuff.

[4]:https://github.com/trizen/youtube-viewer -- CLI YouTube with all the bells and whistles!

[5]:https://6xq.net/pianobar/ -- Pandora radio!

joshbaptiste 7 years ago |

Tmux: https://github.com/tmux/tmux/

ts: http://vicerveza.homeunix.net/~viric/soft/ts/ (TaskSpooler) queue commands in different terminals

socat: http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/ -- Multi-purpose relay

most: http://www.jedsoft.org/most/ pager more features than less/more

sshfs: https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs remote filesystem using SFTP via FUSE

passgo: https://github.com/ejcx/passgo Simple golang password manager

rclone: https://github.com/ncw/rclone rsync for cloud storage

autosub: https://github.com/agermanidis/autosub Command-line utility for auto-generating subtitles for any video file

h1d 7 years ago | |

If you want more complete cloud backup, try restic or duplicacy which have encryption, dedup and retention policy.

https://github.com/restic/restic

https://github.com/gilbertchen/duplicacy

rraghur 7 years ago | | |

Also, I found borg better than restic since borg also does compression

https://github.com/borgbackup/borg

haloux 7 years ago | |

Finally, someone who posted socat. Endlessly useful for doing a mitm of a connection for debugging. Paired with tpcdump, you can view _anything_

gHosts 7 years ago | | |

Ahh, socat, the zombo.com of the networking world.

Takes a log time to digest the man page, but once you have you can do anything.

lozf 7 years ago |

Some great contributions here ... some that are missing (or at least scarce) which deserve more attention:

units - for a broad range of conversions without having to resort to Wolfram Alpha or a search engine

bc -l - the -l option really empowers this awesome little calculator.

mpv - awesome media player - point it at a media URL (it uses youtube-dl in the background, so perfect for viewing or listening with no ads,) but can also play from open directories / SMB shares, online radio, Play a series of images as video, Access any FFmpeg/Libav libavformat protocol or filter (including generating tones and images, and more. And once it's playing, has great interactive keyboard controls for many useful functions.

vram22 7 years ago | |

>Some great contributions here ...

Agreed.

>bc -l - the -l option really empowers this awesome little calculator.

Right. Since bc is a Unix filter, you can also pipe expressions into it, to be evaluated, so it can be used in general Unix pipelines. E.g.:

  echo *arithmetic_expression* | bc -l

and the output comes on stdout, so it can be further piped.

Edit: You have to quote any shell special characters in arithmetic_expression with single quotes, or better, just enclose the entire arithmetic_expression in single quotes. If asterisk (for multiplication) is not quoted, for example, it will be treated as a filename wildcard instead, and likely lead to an error. A wrong and a right example:

  $ echo 2 + 3 * 4 | bc -l
  (standard_in) 1: syntax error

  $ echo '2 + 3 * 4' | bc -l
  14

fiddlerwoaroof 7 years ago |

For working on servers, tmux + mosh is a killer combination: mosh makes your connection resilient to network issues and tmux gives you (back) scrollback and cross-session persistence.

mutt is hard to beat as an email client and circe (an emacs package) + znc on a digital ocean instance or equivalent makes for a great persistent irc session.

ianai 7 years ago | |

Mosh also makes it possible to have an ssh client running on a mobile device and still use the mobile device as a mobile.

glup 7 years ago | |

Another vote for tmux + mosh combo.

ivansavz 7 years ago |

youtube_dl an ffmpeg would be my top two in terms of power.

Here are my top commands by frequency of use:

    4421 git
     952 open
     936 vim
     908 cd
     603 ls
     566 grep
     533 cp
     429 rm
     414 mv
     250 atom
     247 pip
     233 mkdir
     223 fab
     163 docker
     130 touch
     128 find
     123 youtube-dl
     113 python
     103 ssh
     100 cat
      99 wget
      81 pytest
      75 brew

total is of ~16k history lines... this means one in ever 4 commands I type is git! Wow I didn't know that. Probably `git status`...

adtac 7 years ago |

rg (ripgrep): https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

I used to use ag (the silver searcher) [1] before, and `ag` was practically a muscle memory to me, but then I came across ripgrep and it was so much faster. I've now installed a static binary of ripgrep in every machine I have SSH access to.

[1] https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

petdance 7 years ago | |

Note that rg and ag don't have the same feature sets. Here's a handy chart that shows the differences.

https://beyondgrep.com/feature-comparison/

burntsushi 7 years ago | | |

That chart is now quite out of date. I don't think there are any substantial features present in ag that are absent from rg. See my note in the README: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep#feature-comparison

mariusmg 7 years ago | |

The first time i use it, I was in shock about how fast ripgrep is. Amazing.

bwoodward 7 years ago |

I use the following (in no particular order) -- definitely nothing fancy.

* weechat

* ffmpeg

* youtube-dl

* zsh

* watchman (https://facebook.github.io/watchman)

* megadl (rarely, but its a handy tool when you need it)

* brew (on my mac)

* mountsshfs (on my mac)

---

I moved away from orgmode and have been using it in VS since I have it open anyway. It covers me.

I also want to start using Mutt or something similar.

For those wondering, you can output an unnecessarily pretty list using:

    history | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f3 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail | perl -lane 'print $F[1], "\t", $F[0], " ", "" x ($F[0] / 12)'

amelius 7 years ago | |

There's a Firefox extension that let's you open a youtube webpage with e.g. youtube-dl:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/open-with/

Sometimes, using a GUI is easier than a CLI :)

tummybug 7 years ago | |

This doesn't look to take commands after a pipe into account so IMHO doesn't accurately reflect command usage. For example running above I was surprised awk wasn't in the list but when I went to investigate I found I almost always am piping something to awk.

yesenadam 7 years ago | | |

Hmm yeah. And often I type multiple commands separated by semicolons, which it bunches together as one. Also that and long paths meant mine was very unpretty. Speaking of AWK, this uses the same flawed method, looks nicer (for my history), and is shorter:

  history | awk '{a[$2]++} END{for (i in a) print a[i]"\t"i}' | sort -n | tail

xte 7 years ago | |

Just for curiosity: you have moved away from Emacs org-mode? If yes may I ask why?

I'm using Emacs since few times and it's now even my WM and org-mode is it's companion for nearly all docs/docs related stuff I use, never found anything even near comfortable and powerful as that combo...

stevewillows 7 years ago | | |

yeah, I've never been a big emacs user outside of org-mode, so it was silly for me to be using it for one feature.

The VS one covers the basics and has treated me well. For more advanced org-mode folks, I don't think the VS org-mode would be enough.

pxc 7 years ago |

This is an abbreviated list of my command-line applications, taken from the Nixpkgs overlay I use for configuring macOS, NixOS, and non-NixOS Linux:

  pxc.common.tui.pkgs = with self.pkgs; [
    # cli basics
    htop                # top, but nicer
    httpie              # curl, but much nicer except for lacking a man-page (--help is very complete)
    ranger              # file manager
    ripgrep             # my favorite grep alternative/replacement
    tree                # prints directory trees

    # stuff my fish config uses and some goodies I want
    fish                # very nice shell, replaces bash
    grc                 # GNU regular colorizer: uses regular expressions to colorize the terminal
    tmux                # terminal multiplexer (tiling window manager for the terminal)
    byobu               # some tmux config that makes things a little nicer. Great for new tmux users, hardly used anymore
    fzf                 # fuzzy filtering: used for changing directories, selecting files to open, browsing shell history
    fasd                # frecency tools: jump to directories, open files, etc., based on fuzzy matches sorted by frecency
    keychain            # simplified SSH and GPG key loading/management
    direnv              # barebones projects, pretty nifty
    gitAndTools.hub     # GitHub CLI extensions for Git
    gitAndTools.tig     # curses TUI for browsing git logs

    # makes tmux pretty with `powerline-config tmux setup`
    pythonPackages.powerline
    findutils           # macOS comes with weak find command
    gawk                # macOS comes with ancient gawk, tmux-fingers wants a newer one

    pass                # GPG+git-based CLI password manager
    pwgen               # for use with pass

    p7zip               # archiving tool that can do pretty much everything

    # chat
    weechat             # nice terminal-based IRC app

    ### extras-ish ###
    mediainfo           # tell me things about multimedia files
    asciinema           # record TTY/terminal sessions (with audio) as moving text for the browser
    cowsay
    graphicsmagick      # image manipulation. lots of fun for quickly uploading custom emoji to Slack
  ];

b3b0p 7 years ago |

I've been digging ncdu recently, which is basically a du replacement: https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu

tyingq 7 years ago | |

Not as nice as ncdu, but if you have to work with what's already installed:

du -k --max-depth=2 * | sort -rn | head

Ymmv, but playing around with max-depth is usually enough to find the culprit for me.

milkmiruku 7 years ago | |

recently created an alias;

ncdu='ncdu --color dark -q'

-q for quiet, slows updating the ncurses interface down for a quicker scan.

also; -1 for scan info pre ncurses display and -0 for no scan info.

jyounker 7 years ago | |

Ncdu is really useful for identifying space hogs.

mav3rick 7 years ago | | |

+1. Really really handy.

cjoelrun 7 years ago |

Music organizer/player http://beets.io

File browser https://github.com/ranger/ranger

Emacs - It does anything you want.

Emacs If you like vim keys bindings - http://spacemacs.org

Terminal multiplexer - Tmux

dewey 7 years ago | |

Beets is really great, before switching mainly to streaming I used it every day to tag new additions to my library.

catacombs 7 years ago | |

Another alternative to Emacs with vim keybindings is Doom Emacs. It's superior to Spacemacs imo.

suprfnk 7 years ago | | |

I've been using Spacemacs for a while, what sets Doom Emacs apart?

zornado 7 years ago |

Aria2: https://github.com/aria2/aria2 an excellent download manager. Supports many functionalities such as downloading torrents, multi-connection downloads, and resuming uncompleted downloads. It also support RPC calls which enables it to be an excellent download manager back-end.

SegFaultCDumped 7 years ago | |

I saw Aria2 has two packages in F-driod. I installed them and looked at the docs but I couldn't figure out how to download stuffs with Aria2. A small example of it's use will be highly appreciated. Thank you.

efreak 7 years ago | | |

you need both. One of them pnly supplies a UI, while the other only supplies the binary. I personally recommend running aria2c via termux and using ziahamza.github.io/webui-aria2

IgorrrR 7 years ago |

I became addicted to these great tools all written in Rust:

fselect - https://github.com/jhspetersson/fselect

ripgrep - https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

exa - https://the.exa.website

They are the replacements for traditional find, grep, and ls.

callahad 7 years ago | |

I suspect you'd also enjoy fd - https://github.com/sharkdp/fd

petdance 7 years ago | |

exa looks pretty slick, except for having the keys required be on the two weakest fingers of my left hand. :-(

donatj 7 years ago |

vim

It's really worth the time to learn. It's pre-installed basically everywhere, it's amazingly useful. It has the features of a modern text editor all in a command line.

amelius 7 years ago | |

Vim is an interactive application.

Lio 7 years ago | | |

So are Midnight Commander, ranger, Mutt, tig, htop, emacs and many of the other great programs mentioned here.

I've taken this list to be of thing things that run in a terminal rather than strictly non-interactive programs.

nurettin 7 years ago | | |

so is less

ScarZy 7 years ago |

I use vim exclusively, and use a terminal for most things.

FZF - fuzzy file finding lightning quick, I use this as a ctrl+p replacement in vim too. Kubectx - Supported by FZF. Quickly change k8s context and define namespaces easily too (Kubens)

mdip 7 years ago |

There are so many to list that I'll skip the more obvious ones (they're well represented in the comments) and pick a few that I've been enjoying a lot lately:

Netflix-Skunkworks/go-jira[0] - Jira interface written in Go that is incredibly flexible.

bat[1] - cat with code highlighting

climate[2] - Shell swiss-army knife of tools

That last one deserves a post on its own. It's certainly not the most portable thing -- requiring that certain binaries be available for some of its functions, but it works as-is for the Linux distributions that I run and provide simple commands for getting information about things that isn't always trivial to remember (such as getting an external IP address of a host from the command-line). Silly things like remembering the CLI options for 'du' (along with the necessary '| sort ... | head -5') are replaced by 'climate biggest-files'. It replaces a mess of tools, but does so, often, by simply calling those tools with the "correct" parameters that I've forgotten.

Yes, a well authored set of aliases for the most common commands would do the same thing, but I end up using 'climate' in cases where the information I need is something I rarely need for a given task and getting that information is going to be a non-obvious exercise involving a few pipes. It's a "kitchen sink" utility with a set of commands that, for the most part, you'd find a hard time grouping them into a single theme -- a command for getting the current weather (after all, it is named climate) next to one to download all files on a web page, next to one to get disk usage stats in a variety of ways. Normally, I don't like tools like this, but this one lands as a big exception to that rule for me.

[0] https://github.com/Netflix-Skunkworks/go-jira

[1] https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

[2] https://github.com/adtac/climate

binaryapparatus 7 years ago |

https://newsboat.org/ Newsboat, fantastic RSS reader, built on top of newsbeuter.

http://www.mutt.org/ Mutt for email of course.

https://vifm.info/ Vifm file manager, I am using it for everything, not having any other file manager on my system.

https://github.com/pimutils/khal Khal for calendar.

https://github.com/scheibler/khard/ Khard for contacts.

https://github.com/pimutils/vdirsyncer Vdirsyncer to sync calendar and contacts with any web calendar service.

stevekemp 7 years ago | |

Mutt is great, but if you want to use a "real" programming language to configure your client you might enjoy my alternative:

https://lumail.org/

https://github.com/lumail/lumail/

em-bee 7 years ago | | |

it's nice to see new approaches to email in a terminal. how about integration with notmuch?

greetings, eMBee.

agentultra 7 years ago |

I love `jq`: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/

scrollaway 7 years ago |

httpie is the nonstandard command I use the most I think (https://httpie.org/). Syntax highlighting for everything that comes down the pipe is pretty awesome. I'm also a sucker for bat (https://github.com/sharkdp/bat) which I just found out about through this thread.

My zshrc includes a bunch of commands you might like, btw: https://github.com/jleclanche/dotfiles

Among them, the ones I use the most are `json` and `yaml` for pretty printing both formats, as well as `urlencode` / `urldecode` / `urlarray` which I recently added.

thelibrarian 7 years ago |

If you need to handle XML, xmlstarlet (http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net) is fantastic, and much more powerful than the standard line-oriented tools like sed and awk for this task.

Similarly jq (https://stedolan.github.io/jq/) for JSON data is great.

CJKerr 7 years ago | |

And to round out the set, xsv (https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv/) is a powerful toolkit for CSV.

fiddlerwoaroof 7 years ago | |

The only issue I have with xmlstarlet is that it can be sort of a pain when there are xml namespaces in the document. Most of the time, you just have to pass it the long option that ignores them all together

bobfromhuddle 7 years ago |

* Email - neomutt + notmuch.

* Chat - Weechat + WeeSlack (https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack)

* Pair Programming - tmate.io + neovim

* Google Play Music - tuijam(https://github.com/cfangmeier/tuijam)

I really like bat (https://github.com/sharkdp/bat) as a cat replacement, and I've been enjoying using entr (http://entrproject.org/) for running tests automatically when code changes.

mike_r_parsons 7 years ago |

websocketd - Turn any command that uses stdin into a web socket server (i.e. connect to it from any browser) https://github.com/joewalnes/websocketd

sqlite shell - https://www.sqlite.org/download.html

combine the two for a high throughput web app - https://hackernoon.com/stream-a-million-websocket-sql-reques...

vram22 7 years ago | |

I had blogged about websocket with an example using Python and JavaScript here:

Use WebSockets and Python for web-based system monitoring:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2014/01/use-websockets-and-pytho...

websocketd and Python for system monitoring - the JavaScript WebSocket client:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2014/01/websocketd-and-python-fo...

Will check out your hackernoon post, sounds interesting.

vram22 7 years ago | | |

I read that post. It's impressive that the combination of websocketd and sqlite can be so fast.

thanksDr 7 years ago |

Not exactly useful, but it makes me smile every time I use it: https://github.com/will8211/unimatrix

arsalanb 7 years ago |

The Fuck — https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck

Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command

dewey 7 years ago | |

If you use zsh something like that is already included.

slenk 7 years ago | | |

Typing fuck is satisfying though

zwischenzug 7 years ago |

Always had a soft spot for 'hollywood'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVMn3xk5mcY

deanmoriarty 7 years ago |

rsync. It’s installed everywhere and makes it super easy to keep source code in sync between laptop and remote servers. It’s so fast that I completely ignore more advanced solutions based on fanotify or similar, and literally include rsync before every “build/run” command during development.

benp44 7 years ago |

I wrote a Python cli tool for getting the git status/history over multiple local repositories. I am often working across several repos on a single project, but generally I find it useful to see what updates are available, and also what my team are up to.

https://github.com/benp44/git-bulk-toolkit

shameless plug alert

fiveFeet 7 years ago | |

I use mr [1] for this

[1] - https://myrepos.branchable.com/

pjs_ 7 years ago |

I love watch.

  watch df -h
  watch ls -sh
  watch cat file
  watch nmcli device wifi list
  watch -n 10 --color curl -s wttr.in

vram22 7 years ago | |

Yes, watch is a cool command. I had written a Python program somewhat like watch:

A Python version of the Linux watch command:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2018/05/a-python-version-of-linu...

ianai 7 years ago | |

I think I remember combining watch with tail before...not sure why since -f keeps a stream open.

dijit 7 years ago | | |

Tail -f works by opening the file and remembering the byte offset, if it’s a log file that gets flushed/wiped then tail -f won’t see anything until the logs fill enough to exceed the previous file contents.

kieckerjan 7 years ago | |

My favorite use is:

  watch ps fx

I find it very soothing. :)

amelius 7 years ago | |

Wishing we could do this without polling, though ...

gyrgtyn 7 years ago | |

always need to install watch and tree

jodrellblank 7 years ago |

If you aren't using tmux or screen, you probably should be, especially over SSH sessions. They allow you to have multiple consoles open and switch between them, split window, and disconnect from SSH and then reconnect with all your things still open and running (as long as the server stayed running).

inp 7 years ago |

A bunch of references from Suckless community that you can enjoy:

http://suckless.org/rocks/

jpeeler 7 years ago |

I really appreciate the people who include descriptions and links for their list. My list has been pruned to avoid duplication (though perhaps knowing what's popular is a good metric too).

asdf: https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf - installs many different programming languages and supports installing different versions concurrently. I use it for go installs since distribution updates aren't usually fast enough.

solaar: https://github.com/pwr/Solaar - handles configuring a logitech unifying receiver in Linux. Not really something you'd use multiple times, but am thankful it exists (also has a GUI too I believe).

anjakefala 7 years ago |

Open-source tool for quickly opening and exploring tabular data: https://jsvine.github.io/intro-to-visidata/index.html

(Disclaimer: I build homebrew, apt, etc packages for VisiData.)

roadnottaken 7 years ago | |

tabview [1] is a somewhat simpler tool for navigating tabular data that I install everywhere

https://pypi.org/project/tabview/

ohiovr 7 years ago |

Goaccess is a great little realtime log file analyzer in a similar vein as webalizer. Not only does it work through the console it can also output html.

https://goaccess.io

(this is just something I found recently, not affiliated with it or anything)

dspillett 7 years ago |

Three tools I make sure are installed on everything I use via CLI: rsync, pv, & progress.

rsync (usually over SSH): the kitchen sync of file transfer commands. In Linux-land it is quite common to find it already installed, and if not it is in the standard repos. Available for Windows too.

pv (pipeviewer, http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml): very useful for monitoring some classes of long-running process.

progress (https://github.com/Xfennec/progress): for similar reasons to pv, wanting to see how a long-running task (that isn't giving its own progress information) is getting on.

modernerd 7 years ago |

z - track most-used directories and jump to them

https://github.com/rupa/z

https://github.com/jethrokuan/z (fish port)

aldanor 7 years ago | |

Used to use that but stopped after while, figured it's easier to just type a name or alias/symlink it if it's used often -- then it's deterministic in a non-interactive way, i.e. I can type it with my eyes closed and I know the end result.

With tools like z I'll have to type less letters in the end but it requires interaction, and interaction/attention is more expensive than keypresses, at least in my world :)

C0d3r 7 years ago |

Useful tool replacements that some people have already mentioned:

- ls -> exa

- cat -> bat

- find -> fd

- top -> htop -> glances

- grep -> ack -> ag -> rg

- hr (to draw a horizontal line in your terminal)

A lightning talk about them: https://youtu.be/hp-1plTKOqc?t=551

kippfe 7 years ago | |

A url link to each toll would be nice

mohitmun 7 years ago |

Checkout command line based spreadsheet editor. sc-im(https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im) if you are heavy vim user, you would definitely love it

hatsubai 7 years ago |

If you do any bash/sh programming, I highly recommend shellcheck: https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck

spudlyo 7 years ago | |

Agreed, highly recommended. I dreaded writing shell scripts for the longest time because of the weird syntax and many gotchas. Having emacs flycheck my shell buffers with shellcheck gives me confidence that I'm not doing anything stupid.

mdip 7 years ago | |

I so wish this worked with zsh -- great tool, none-the-less.

michaelmior 7 years ago |

If I had to pick a single utility, it would be pv[0]. It's very simple, but I find myself using it all the time. Basically you stick it in a pipeline of commands to get a progress bar. The simplest usage is just to replace cat or input redirection with a call to pv. Saves a lot of time when I can quickly find out if the command I wrote is going to take 30 seconds or 30 minutes.

https://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml

akavel 7 years ago |

up - https://github.com/akavel/up

Ultimate Plumber is a tool for writing Linux pipes with instant live preview

It's a new CLI tool I've recently written, and it reached a Top 1 position on HN just after the public release. It works with other classic CLI tools by boosting the speed with which they can be composed together. It's especially useful for quick exploration of logs, CSV files, and other text files or pipelines.

nurettin 7 years ago | |

is it like less?

akavel 7 years ago | | |

Um; I feel it's kinda as if you asked if a dog is like rhinoceros... How do I even answer that? Simplest answer is: "no, it's not"; though if you squint your eyes super hard, you could see some kind of vague resemblance, maybe?

Have you seen the readme? There's an animated gif showing how it works, and a more detailed description.

INTPenis 7 years ago |

I'm a cli junkie but I've gone from using very minimal tiling WMs to vanilla Gnome. So I've stopped using bitlbee for example, but bitlbee is something I'd use a lot in the days of 100% terminal.

It's an IRC proxy for other protocols like Skype or Slack.

I have no idea how it stands up today but I always liked the concept of having one service that handled conversion of all the modern protocols to text based.

Other than that I think people have already given amazing recommendations so I have nothing to add.

lunchables 7 years ago | |

Curious what made you leave tiling WMs? I think about switching back occasionally, but still use dwm.

I also used to use bitlbee, but once AIM died I dropped it.

Slack dropped their irc gateway a while ago. I recommend wee-slack[1] which is a weechat[2] python plugin that uses the Slack API instead of the old IRC gateway, which also means it is a lot more feature rich than the IRC gateway was.

1 - https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack 2 - https://weechat.org/

INTPenis 7 years ago | | |

My focus has always been on being able to work without issue. Without OS locking up or without tools malfunctioning.

Used to have laptops with 256MB RAM for example, or 1024x768 pixel resolution. So I'd do anything to cram as much as possible into a tiny screen using as little resources as possible.

Now my laptop has 8G of RAM and an i7 CPU at 2.5GHz and 4 virtual cores. On top of that Linux and Gnome have made a lot of advances so it runs like a dream and I can work without having ~100 lines of configuration in my WM.

More seamlessly go from my own to someone elses computer without forgetting that caps lock is my Meta key. It all pretty much resembles Windows and Mac OS more.

I just don't see any purpose with torturing myself using a minimal resource desktop environment when I don't have to.

The main program is still gnome-terminal and tmux, I still do a majority of my work there. Habitually use cli for as much as possible, even simple operations that I could do in the Gnome file browser.

But I do it all with a vanilla Gnome configuration and I still don't miss a thing.

spondyl 7 years ago |

It's probably not what you'd use often/at all but I recently was glad to discover Google's import-mailbox-to-gmail[0] script.

Technically a CLI I suppose, it imports an mbox file into Gmail. I had switched to G Suite and wanted to import some old emails. It took a while but this did the trick!

[0]: https://github.com/google/import-mailbox-to-gmail

AJRF 7 years ago |

tig

(That's git backwards)

It's a luxury and you don't need it if you use something like fugitive in vim, but its a lovely little tool.

https://github.com/jonas/tig

Think SourceTree but on the command line.

h1d 7 years ago | |

tig doesn't feel like SourceTree. It's not easy to just see list of changed files from a commit to the next.

In that sense, lazygit is more navigation friendly.

pmlnr 7 years ago |

daily-ish drivers of mine:

- autossh - https://linux.die.net/man/1/autossh

- sshfs - https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs

- pandoc - https://pandoc.org/installing.html

- exiftool - https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

- htop - https://hisham.hm/htop/

- tmux - https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki

- rsync - https://rsync.samba.org/

- midnight commander - https://midnight-commander.org/ (faster, than loop ing ls, cd .., ls)

Still trying to think about the others.

michaelmcmillan 7 years ago |

nc - arbitrary TCP and UDP connections and listens

File transfer between machines:

    $ nc -l 1234 > filename.out

Using a second machine, connect to the listening nc process, feeding it the file which is to be transferred:

    $ nc host.example.com 1234 < filename.in

Or a simple web server:

    $ while true ; do nc -l -p 1500 -c 'echo -e "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\n\n $(date)"'; done

xvilka 7 years ago | |

Try ncat from nmap - it has more features. And for some specific applications - socat.

jac08h 7 years ago |

Ledger is a simple tool to keep track of your expenses.

https://www.ledger-cli.org/

underyx 7 years ago |

Oh, I wrote an article on this a while ago! It's mostly about smaller utilities, not full-fledged apps. Also, I ws focusing on the ones that are lesser known. Still could be useful for some: https://code.kiwi.com/lesser-known-tools-we-love-at-kiwi-com...

em-bee 7 years ago |

here is a nice selection by bryan lunduke:

https://www.networkworld.com/article/3091139/linux/who-needs...

he lists:

email: alpine

webbrowser: w3m

editor: nano

wordprocessing: wordgrinder http://cowlark.com/wordgrinder/index.html

audioplayer: cmus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cmus

instant messaging: finch and hangups https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Finch https://github.com/tdryer/hangups

twitter: rainbowstream https://github.com/orakaro/rainbowstream

reddit: rtv https://github.com/michael-lazar/rtv

ps: htop

filemanager: midnight commander

terminal manager: tmux

presentations: tpp http://www.ngolde.de/tpp.html

greetings, eMBee.

bklaasen 7 years ago |

abcde - A Better CD Encoder (http://lly.org/~rcw/abcde/page/) I bought three cheap USB CD drives and concurrently ripped all of my CDs to FLAC over the course of a couple of weekends. abcde gets the best possible copy.

ddrescue - GNU ddrescue (https://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/) not to be confused with dd_rescue (http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/) This piece of software is outstandingly good for rescuing bits from failing spinning rust. It doesn't care about the filesystem, it just tries really hard to get data from a raw device. Once you've got all the bits onto a safer medium, you can use testdisk to explore the disk image.

homarp 7 years ago |

archiver: https://github.com/mholt/archiver create and extract .zip, .tar, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar.xz, .tar.lz4, .tar.sz, extract.rar

see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18486253

fergie 7 years ago |

I’m surprised that nobody is mentioning plain old Bash. The builtins are pretty powerful, and in many ways Bash is the “standard” cli.

rajadigopula 7 years ago |

Git Standup - https://github.com/kamranahmedse/git-standup

Coinmon (Requires node) - https://github.com/bichenkk/coinmon

dharmab 7 years ago |

httpie + jq is a great duo for exploring and manually probing APIs.

Gron (grep JSON) is handy when you get a massive API response and quickly need to figure out what subkeys interest you.

The silver searcher (ag) is my go-to code search tool. I'll have to try ripgrep to compare.

Pass is neat for injecting personal secrets into bash scripts securely.

petdance 7 years ago | |

Here's a feature comparison chart of the various grepalike tools:

https://beyondgrep.com/feature-comparison/

maxxxxx 7 years ago |

I am always impressed by the usefulness of the git command line. If you wanted to write a GUI for it you usually would have a library to link to but the GUIs (e.g SourceTree) I have seen use the command line and still get good performance.

Another one is ffmpeg. A ton of tools are built on it.

For photographers exiftool is great.

hddherman 7 years ago |

byobu (http://byobu.co/) is an amazing thing to have on your remote server, sessions and switchable windows + splits make this a must-have tool. Think of it as tabs but for your SSH session, plus many more features.

sfdgsdfg 7 years ago | |

People might be more familiar if you would describe it as a t-mux alternative.

nrclark 7 years ago | | |

Just a quick note on this - byobu isn't a tmux alternative exactly. It actually uses tmux (or screen) on the back-end. So it's more like a nicely configured tmux.conf/.screenrc with standardized bindings.

gh02t 7 years ago |

Some of my favorites, apart from the obvious ones like Vim/Emacs and common Unix utils...

    notmuch - email database 
    ncmpcpp - MPD frontend (music player)
    taskwarrior - task and time management
    mutt - email
    ranger - file manager
    pass - password manager

bovermyer 7 years ago |

Besides what others have added, I also love:

proselint: http://proselint.com/

alex: https://github.com/get-alex/alex

Both are CLI linters for prose.

honkycat 7 years ago |

Steam locomotive sl is ESSENTIAL to any command line work. If you don't use it you are a fool.

spurgu 7 years ago |

Lots of great stuff here! Key takeaway though (for me at least) is that a lot of this stuff turns into cumbersome management if you're not doing the bulk of your work on localhost, but instead dealing with a various few dozen or hundreds (in my case) of different servers. Yeah you can use ansible to automate installation/setup, but then again if you suddenly end up on a fresh server without root access you're gonna be/feel crippled, being used to aliasing everything and replacing standard shells with something extra fancy.

Some level of balance is needed, which is what I've been trying to do. That said I always setup oh-my-zsh and `git config --global alias.kurwa status` wherever I go.

em-bee 7 years ago | |

localhost or remote does not make a difference, any manual setup required is annoying either way.

most of the tools don't need manual configuration though and so it's a single command to install all of them that you can have tucked away somewhere to use when needed.

but yeah, i use salt for automating this.

cntlzw 7 years ago |

z - jump around https://github.com/rupa/z

rawoke083600 7 years ago |

Guake - dropdown terminal with tabs for linux :) I can't see my day without it !

em-bee 7 years ago | |

that's not a CLI tool but a tool for running CLI commands :-)

rawoke083600 7 years ago | | |

Hahah true ! But damn its useful!

yesenadam 7 years ago |

Maybe the best part of bash for me is AWK - so useful, and enjoyable to use. I use ffmpeg a lot for making movies from images, video conversion etc. I use Sage on the command line, mostly for programming in Cython and mathematical stuff with the Sage/Python REPL. It was 2.7GB (!) and comes with an absurd number of libraries and packages[0], mostly for maths and graphics. I started by using it in a browser notebook, but switched to the command line and never went back.

[0] http://www.sagemath.org/links-components.html

zzo38computer 7 years ago |

I agree. A lot of them come with a UNIX system, although there are others. I use some of the moreutils stuff. For email, I use Heirloom-mailx. For text editing, I use vim. For database I use SQLite. For typesetting I use TeX. For processing pictures I implemented my own package called Farbfeld Utilities. For making MOD/XM musics, I wrote AmigaMML which uses a text file rather than the GUI that many other programs do. Hopefully other people on here can mention even more, because I am interested in the answer too, and probably my answer is insufficient to the original asker anyways.

app4soft 7 years ago |

1) Moon Buggy -- ASCII art version of moon-buggy game.[0]

2) SHPaint -- ANSI Art editor programmed in bash.[1,2]

[0] http://www.seehuhn.de/pages/moon-buggy.html

[1] http://bruxy.regnet.cz/web/linux/EN/ansi-art-sh-paint

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoAMxMukgPY

em-bee 7 years ago |

a tool that looks very promising is xiki: http://xiki.org/ i haven't been able to try it myself yet, but i am curious to hear if anyone else has played with it.

sadly the creator hasn't been able to work on it since the last funding campaign failed, but he is preparing a new campaign just now: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/xiki/Dvzo14Lhoyg

greetings, eMBee.

rplnt 7 years ago |

> I really enjoy using a command-line interface instead of a graphical user interface

I'm not sure what kind of interface you mean here, but judging by the responses graphical interface in terminal is OK. In that case,

*lazygit https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit

first GUI on top of git that I didn't hate. Primarily because it doesn't break the flow in command line. Instead of diff/add/commit I open this, but for the rest I still use git directly (or through aliases).

non-nil 7 years ago |

BorgBackup: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg

Deduplication, compression, encryption, to local or remote targets.

h1d 7 years ago | |

restic and duplicacy are modern alternatives.

explainplease 7 years ago | | |

They are, but Borg is also modern.

locusofself 7 years ago |

I love 'bpython' , python CLI with syntax highlighting and autocomplete for testing out quick ideas.

Slightly off topic, but can I just say that iTerm2's native tmux integration is really awesome.

spondyl 7 years ago | |

Ah yes! I knew I had forgotten to install something recently

kuroguro 7 years ago |

I wonder if there's any 2FA code storing/generating cli application? I know they aren't supposed to be used like that but storing them all on just a phone doesn't seem wise in the long run. Might be useful while building some automated scripts as well.

_edit_

oathtool seems promising (needs to be paired with something to manage and crypt the keys tho) http://www.nongnu.org/oath-toolkit/oathtool.1.html

erinnh 7 years ago | |

I use totp-cli:

https://github.com/WhyNotHugo/totp-cli

kylebarron 7 years ago | |

https://github.com/rsc/2fa

heuiop 7 years ago | |

If you use pass as a password manager, you can use pass-otp to keep the 2fa keys.

znpy 7 years ago |

I am getting fonder and fonder of xargs. It basically reads some input and appends it to a pre-supplied string. Then executes the newly created string as a command.

Trivial example:

    ls -1 | xargs -L1 echo processing

I am finding it quite useful to load and delete a bunch of netapp volume snapshots in a single line:

    ssh netappuser@netapphost volume snapshot show $volname | awk '/selector_pattern/{print $1}' | xargs -L1 ssh netappuser@netapphost volume snapshot delete $volname

aptmiguk 7 years ago | |

With xargs (and find), I wish I would've found this sooner:

find test -print0 | xargs -0 file

"This allows file names that contain newlines or other types of white space to be correctly interpreted by programs that process the find output. This option corresponds to the -0 option of xargs."

tyingq 7 years ago | | |

Perl also supports -0 and is handy for some use cases because it won't spawn a process per line like xargs.

  # remove files without spawning lots of rm processes
  find . -name "*.xyz" -print0 -type f| perl -0 -ne 'chomp;print "$_\n";unlink;'

Already__Taken 7 years ago |

As a windows admin, docker has actually been super handy for running CLI tools with platforms (linux) that I can't easily get or have no will to compile natively myself on windows.

geowwy 7 years ago |

fzf is awesome. I use it in vim and bash.

https://www.tecmint.com/fzf-fuzzy-file-search-from-linux-ter...

----

I use the Silver Searcher all the time. Very fast.

https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

----

tig, a text mode interface for git.

https://github.com/jonas/tig

CJKerr 7 years ago | |

It's been mentioned previous, but you should check out ripgrep - it's even faster than Silver Searcher a lot of the time

https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

bjoli 7 years ago | | |

Does anyone not working on million-line codebase ever find themselves limited by grep? I am genuinely curious.

msmart 7 years ago |

Haven't seen Hledger [http://hledger.org/] in the recommendations. It is a great accounting tool!

ryannevius 7 years ago |

Sort of on topic...Does anyone know of a good interactive resource for learning some of the tools that are included by default on UNIX systems? RTFM is useful, of course.

yesenadam 7 years ago | |

Not sure what you mean interactive - trying things out on bash itself is a good way to learn. I put together a (quite long) single-webpage not-so-quick guide to bash shell,[0] which covers a lot of the basic stuff (well, with separate pages for grep/sed and AWK), at the bottom of the page are links to the best bash websites and names of the best books that I've found. Hope that's of some use. But yeah, the man pages become perfectly adequate guides/refreshers once you've learnt the basics of a command/tool - especially using them with "/" for searching for what you want.

[0] http://www.adamponting.com/mac-terminal/

pjungwir 7 years ago | |

I don't know about interactive, but the book Unix Power Tools is a great survey, with quite a lot of depth.

If you want something interactive as you work through the book (and even CLI itself), it would be hard to beat bash. ;-)

em-bee 7 years ago | |

is this what you are looking for?

https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-the-command-line

greetings, eMBee.

ronancremin 7 years ago |

I can't believe nobody has mentioned VisiData. It's like Vim, but for structured data.

https://VisiData.org

petdance 7 years ago |

Various grepalike tools like ack, ag and rg have been mentioned. Most comments seem to be based on which tool runs simple searches faster, but note that their feature sets vary widely.

Here's a handy chart that compares the features of each of these tools, along with git grep and plain ol' GNU grep.

https://beyondgrep.com/feature-comparison/

jolmg 7 years ago |

I guess these are so obvious no one mentioned them, but: ssh, git, zsh, bash, curl, wget, gpg, gzip, xz, btrfs, qemu, pv, tar, diff, comm, column, sort, uniq, sed, bc, tr, od, xxd, tcpdump, tshark, ping, nmap, ip, iw, xdotool, xrdb, grep, pgrep, pkill, lsof, inotifywait, journalctl, systemctl, convert, ed, and probably countless more I'm taking too much for granted to remember.

sndean 7 years ago |

My top 4:

     40.2%  ls
     22.8%  cd
     15.6%  python
     3.6%   nano

Since no one's mentioned it yet: I don't necessarily think nano is great, but it's always there and it opens immediately. Almost all small, quick edits I make (where opening VSCode/Emacs/whatever doesn't make sense) are done in nano. Pretty useful.

Lordarminius 7 years ago | |

Nano simply and efficiently gets the job done in 70% of cases.

Nano Vim Xdg youtube-dl wttr git curl top watch

Tepix 7 years ago | |

nano is not on many of the systems i deal with - vi is.

ComputerGuru 7 years ago |

* fish - essential prerequisite in order to live in the command line

* autojump (aka j) - for changing directories quickly

* open - required to interact with the non-cli world, ships by default on macOS and here's one for Windows/WSL: https://github.com/neosmart/open

* imgpaste - for pasting screenshots into a PNG or JPEG directly (https://github.com/neosmart/imgpaste)

* pbpaste - for pasting into the shell (or if you're on Linux or Windows: https://github.com/mqudsi/fish-config/blob/master/functions/...)

* fzf - a general-purpose "selector" ui for choosing "things" from a list based off, such as your history (bound to ctrl+r) or files in a directory (bound to ctrl+p with input generated by bfs or fd)

* neovim - my configuration here: https://github.com/mqudsi/nvim-config

* ripgrep - for finding strings in files

* fd - for finding files quickly

* sed (with -r) - insanely powerful for common string operations

* tr - lets you deal with line endings, which sed can't

* youtube-dl - download youtube videos from the CLI

* curl/httpie - (scriptable) network requests

* aria2c - high-speed (multi-threaded) downloads and torrent downloads, it just works

* jq - for manipulating json in shell scripts

* ncdu - find space taken up by directories/files, but it's aging and in need of a dire rewrite like fd/rg did for find/grep

* pbedit - edit the contents of the clipboard in your favorite editor https://github.com/mqudsi/fish-config/blob/master/functions/...

* weechat - irc in your command line

* ffmpeg - except I am much more likely to use it via one of the wrapper fish scripts I've written such as ffencode, fftrim, ffconcat, ffmute, etc. because it is (necessarily) so damn verbose and infinitely tunable.

* tmux - if I'm working remotely or on a headless machine where I can't just ctrl+shift+n to open a new terminal window (which I prefer)

SamWhited 7 years ago |

I use mcabber and irssi for chat. Mcabber doesn't really support much in the way of features (so even on a modern XMPP server you're missing simple things like fetching history), but its vi style shortcuts and nice layout mean I can't give it up. Combined with jmp.chat I can even send text messages from it.

tyingq 7 years ago |

Some I like...

jq - process json on the command line: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/

perl one liner to debug a regex: perl -e 'use re "debug"; "xyz" =~ /x*y+z/;'

"hd -c" - I like this hexdump format

lsof - debug open files/sockets/etc

sirwitti 7 years ago |

Vue-cli is pretty awesome! https://cli.vuejs.org

rutierut 7 years ago | |

I really really don't like what they did with version 3. What the heck is happening in my app? And what coder whants a gui for his dependencies???

moshohayeb 7 years ago |

I can't believe no one mentioned parallel[1] yet, it is basically a much more powerful replacement to xargs and available at most package managers.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/

pmoriarty 7 years ago |

Here's my list of 369 useful programs:

https://paste.pound-python.org/raw/Uqc8XTFk73Y3PpbRe9hC/

It's not 100% made up of command-line programs, but most of them are.

zwilson 7 years ago |

fzf - command-line fuzzy finder https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

Easy to overlook... I almost don't even notice it, but I use it more than any other application (every time I type).

kh_hk 7 years ago |

peerflix - https://www.npmjs.com/package/peerflix

A streaming torrent client. I guess there are similar ones.

Watching a torrent becomes:

    peerflix <magnet> --mplayer -t subtitle

leeman2016 7 years ago |

neofetch [https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch] for showing a friendly system information

gst123 [http://space.twc.de/~stefan/gst123.php] a music player

prettyping [https://github.com/denilsonsa/prettyping] a prettier ping

kakoune [https://github.com/mawww/kakoune] a nice (relatively friendly) modal text editor

luislezcair 7 years ago |

I use `ack` (https://beyondgrep.com/) as a replacement for `grep`. It is simpler, faster, it has colors by default and it's really fast and very useful for programming.

michilehr 7 years ago | |

Very useful - I use ack-grep for MacOS

em-bee 7 years ago |

supmua. https://github.com/sup-heliotrope/sup beats mutt hands down. groups emails by tags instead of folders.

and it allows to open multiple views at once, keeping state in each. it also supports saved searches as a view.

it's not actively maintained right now, but it is stable. i haven't had any problems yet.

sup is the ancestor of the notmuch libraries which can be integrated into mutt. but i don't know how well that works. perhaps https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18483833 can shed some light on that.

greetings, eMBee.

em-bee 7 years ago | |

quoting https://notmuchmail.org/notmuch-mutt/

> notmuch-mutt, which will create a "virtual" maildir folder with search results whenever a search is made. The upside is that you can search all your folders simultaneously; the downside is that your modifications in the results listing do not carry over, also having to switch folders comes with some more annoyances.

sup does not have that problem. i have used mutt for more than a decade. switching to sup was a revelation. i would really love to see any alternatives that can compete with it.

greetings, eMBee.

Artemix 7 years ago |

I almost constantly listen to music. When I do so, I only use cmus nowadays.

Awesome lightweight music player

EamonnMR 7 years ago |

imagemagick - Clint too for changing images. When you need to turn an entire folder of pictures into a single PDF, encode them so that the file size isn't huge and scale them to avoid morie patterns, it's the tool of choice.

gooseyard 7 years ago |

Everything else I like has been mentioned, save for GNU datamash (https://www.gnu.org/software/datamash/)

expertentipp 7 years ago |

I would gladly see a list of useful aliases for omnipresent CLI utilities like `grep`, `ls`, `cat`, `less`, `cut`, etc. They're surprisingly powerful but going through their man pages is like reading a whole library.

philbarr 7 years ago | |

tldr is really handy for that: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

hrbf 7 years ago |

Check out: https://github.com/herrbischoff/awesome-command-line-apps

You’ll be sure to find something useful.

nodesocket 7 years ago |

For sysadmin needs:

  - htop (better top)
  - nload (network traffic visualization)
  - nano (I know, but works great for simple editing)
  - curl (http everything tool)
  - telnet/nc (check listening ports)

roboyoshi 7 years ago | |

I hate that nano is so looked down on. I use it too and it's a great tool. I don't feel any shame using it.

h1d 7 years ago | |

nethogs - Can show bandwidth per process.

chrisweekly 7 years ago |

lnav - mini-ETL w/ embedded sqlite; parse and query logfiles or any other structured text-based input... it's powerful, intuitive, extensible.

https://lnav.org

plibither8 7 years ago |

Here's a simple game - 2048 in your terminal :) : https://github.com/plibither8/2048.cpp

nazri1 7 years ago |

(shameless plug) git number: https://github.com/holygeek/git-number

Use numbers for dealing with files in git.

0xphk 7 years ago |

multitail, a powerful tail replacement with highlighting, split panes and comfortable buffer search. mostly used in long running tmux sessions.

for example, u could pipe in tcpdump output to analyze dump in realtime

veddox 7 years ago |

My setup on servers and programming environments:

  * fish shell
  * tmux (multiplexer)
  * emacs-nox (non-GUI version)
  * mocp (music player)
  * w3m (web browser)
  * htop (process viewer)

tbrock 7 years ago |

Saw: https://github.com/TylerBrock/saw -- Stream (tail -f) colorized AWS CloudWatch logs

efreak 7 years ago |

for a software keyboard, since I've seen several lists of aliases:

```alias ,v='mv' alias r,='mv'```

Otherwise:

ttyclock tmux/byobu pv ncdu htop megadl webcomix and/or dosage - download webcomics into cbz files for local viewing. Installable via pip. elinks, links2 - Browsers. especially useful if compiled with javascript support. nnn aria2c grc most mlocate (prrovides thelocate and updatedb connands. I can't recall why i like it more than slocate or find-utils)

Generally built-in:

watch tee sed (or just use `perl -pi -e` 7z

'Fun' cli programs:

nyancat sl cowsay toilet ttysolitaire

yoz-y 7 years ago |

subliminal: https://github.com/Diaoul/subliminal

great tool for downloading subtitles, sadly it seems unmaintained and sometimes fails to work

rtorrent: https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent

my preferred way to download ISOs of Linux distributions

And a +1 for some that were already mentioned: tig, ripgrep, htop, midnight commander

cyberpip 7 years ago |

https://github.com/mfaerevaag/wd - Jump to custom directories in zsh

feross 7 years ago |

WebTorrent https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent-cli

hi41 7 years ago |

I love ImageMagick. We were able to write a script to join thousands of images from command line. The manual GUI way of joining images would have been incredibly slow.

purplezooey 7 years ago |

How about Ly, the terminal display manager: https://github.com/cylgom/ly

F yeah, dude.

hjek 7 years ago |

One that I use a lot and I haven't seen mentioned here is `dict` which is fine for looking up word definitions and acronyms if a bit limited for translations.

devonkim 7 years ago |

AWS CLI replacement: awless https://github.com/wallix/awless

nanna 7 years ago |

- pdfgrep : grep search pdfs

- htop : A nicer version of the process viewer top

- rename : bulk rename things via a regex/sed-like interface

- youtube-dl -x : download the audio of a video

- locate : Find something anywhere.

amelius 7 years ago | |

> locate : Find something anywhere.

I strongly dislike updatedb, which is always stealing CPU cycles at inconvenient moments, and locate often seems out of date.

We should have had instant, database-like indexing in our filesystems ages ago.

_arvin 7 years ago | | |

You can run updatedb more frequently. By default it is run on a daily cron job and has the smarts to not run when on battery. (see /etc/cron.daily/mlocate)

You can also exclude directories in /etc/updatedb.conf that you don't want locate to index. I think in your case a more frequent cron job make sense. If run often enough, it finishes very quickly when running updatedb, which will you give you the instant search you're looking for.

paol 7 years ago | |

Second the usefulness of rename, but beware there is some confusion about the name of the tool. It's called 'rename' on debian and derivatives and 'prename' on RH and derivatives.

andersonvom 7 years ago |

gitsh - https://github.com/thoughtbot/gitsh

Since git is by far the command a lot of people type the most, this shell comes in really handy. It supports all regular git aliases, has autocompletion, super useful for setting temporary names when pair programming, and you can set default commands to be run when you just press return.

SuddsMcDuff 7 years ago |

sox - the Swiss Army knife of sound processing programs

http://sox.sourceforge.net/

BasicObject 7 years ago |

remind: https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/

alpine: https://repo.or.cz/alpine.git

mg: https://github.com/hboetes/mg/

RomanZolotarev 7 years ago |

tmux: https://man.openbsd.org/tmux

vi: https://man.openbsd.org/vi

entr: http://entrproject.org/

shellcheck: http://shellcheck.net

krylon 7 years ago |

I really like the find(1) command on Unixoid systems. On Windows, I have installed git some machines simply to have grep and find available.

hypertexthero 7 years ago |

Hugo static website generator - https://gohugo.io/

em-bee 7 years ago |

a very useful set of utilities, that i only recently discovered here on hackernews are imv and qmv from http://www.nongnu.org/renameutils/

it makes renaming of long filenames much easier. especially if there are many files with similar names.

greetings, eMBee.

phxql 7 years ago |

Taskwarrior: https://taskwarrior.org/

dtjohnnymonkey 7 years ago |

Insect for converting between units

https://insect.sh

yboris 7 years ago |

diff2html: https://diff2html.xyz/ -- view your diff color-coded in HTML

just run `npm install -g diff2html-cli` and `diff2html`

I recommend this alias `alias diff='diff2html -s side'`

whyleyc 7 years ago |

One line bash command to convert (almost) any type of file to any another format using the Zamzar API.

Convert PDF to Word, Powerpoint to JPG, WMV to MP4, DWG to PDF etc:

https://github.com/zamzar/zamzar-bash

(Full disclosure: I'm one of the co-founders at Zamzar).

Annatar 7 years ago |

AWK: lighweight, fast, versatile, incredibly powerful programming language.

0xf8 7 years ago |

one of my favorites is Sym. " Symmetric Encryption that's easy on Humans"

https://github.com/kigster/sym

pacifika 7 years ago |

Ncdu

h1d 7 years ago |

pwgen - Handy to create a password. It generates dozens at once which you can pick from.

cal - Obvious but I still launch GUI calendar app when I can just type 3 letters to check on dates.

breck 7 years ago |

* tldr - better than man in 80% of cases

* htop - better version of top for multi-core machines

* tmux - when you want to run long-running commands

sys_64738 7 years ago |

Emacs. Because it is.

tonysdg 7 years ago |

`sl` -- makes you feel better about mis-typing `ls`!

biql 7 years ago |

fasd - fast navigation in command line

asdf - universal installation tool for ruby, node, go, etc

ripgrep - very fast search

zsh - shell (with zsh-autosuggestions and fasd hooks)

qorrect 7 years ago | |

I'll second fasd , for me though bash with bash-it is easier than setting up zsh.

biql 7 years ago | | |

I found zsh to be quite easy to setup with oh-my-zsh. The installation is a few commands and the defaults are sane, I use it with minimum modifications. YMMV

dllthomas 7 years ago |

I'm not big on applications, period. Activities should be decomposed (or at least decomposable) into individual actions that I can stitch together in the shell.

zzo38computer 7 years ago | |

I agree, we can use the pipes to put them together. That is how I do such thing, and design these programs, at least.

For example, one program is "playmod" which read a module music file from stdin, and write the raw audio data to stdout. The program "amigamml" is takes the MML code from stdin and write the module music file to stdout. And then, program "aplay" is playing the audio data from stdin on the speaker. Other example can be, "ls" to list files, "shuf" to put into a random order, and "xargs" to run another program for each one, and a shell script might then do "playmod" and "aplay", you can play the music at random!

chrisseaton 7 years ago | |

Aren’t those individual actions still applications? I don’t know what you mean?

dllthomas 7 years ago | | |

There's a frequent (but by no means universal) distinction drawn between "applications" and "utilities". In the former case, you have repeated interaction with a single process, typically with some measure of "ownership" of its display port. On the other hand, a utility typically does a single thing, produces some output, and then exits.

PJ_Maybe 7 years ago |

dtrx - Do The Right Extraction. It's a tool "for Unix-like systems that takes all the hassle out of extracting archives": https://brettcsmith.org/2007/dtrx/

In Debian/Ubuntu you can install via apt.

Also, I'd second tldr which has been mentioned here already. It provides simplified man pages which common usage examples that normally fit on a few lines on screen: https://tldr.sh/

CJefferson 7 years ago | |

Dtrx is awesome, but is unfortunately slowly dying, as the author seems to have abandoned it -- it can't be installed with pip anymore.

I think I'm going to take it over, just need a name...

Cyphase 7 years ago | | |

Kdtrx: Keep Doing The Right Extraction

PJ_Maybe 7 years ago | | |

Yeah it looks rather unmaintained, but can still be installed via apt on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. So yeah should be fine for a few years to come if you are a Ubuntu user (the system I use, I have no idea about other distros).

chewzerita 7 years ago | |

tar xf <archive> works with all types of tar compressed files.

drpossum 7 years ago |

units

Doing any kind of engineering or science, this is my go to calculator for stuff that I find a lot of people using google for

flavor8 7 years ago |

todo.txt - todo list manager with extensions (e.g. git sync, google tasks integration, etc).

heuiop 7 years ago |

iftop - top for network interfaces.

vnstat - the simplest traffic stat collector I could find.

chapium 7 years ago |

grep is one of the most useful tools that you can use on the commandline

enriquto 7 years ago |

the elinks browser blew my world a few years ago

aprdm 7 years ago |

vim and tmux!

blibble 7 years ago |

moc for a music player

calcurse for calendar

mutt for email client

modernerd 7 years ago |

tldr - community-maintained man pages distilled to snippets

https://tldr.sh/

cpburns2009 7 years ago |

I frequently use:

- git

- grep

- head

- man

- rsync

- screen

- sshfs

- tail

- watch

- vim

I recently discovered:

- colordiff

- paste

kinard 7 years ago |

XTree Gold

twic 7 years ago |

sed

mdekkers 7 years ago |

Midnight Commander (mc);

nano;

htop;

dstat;

git;

tmux;

densone 7 years ago |

pine

em-bee 7 years ago |

here is a list of all tools mentioned in the thread. unfortunately, including descriptions and links made the comment to large, so for now just the names. the number in front is the number of mentions.

links to other lists:

https://beyondgrep.com/feature-comparison/

https://code.kiwi.com/lesser-known-tools-we-love-at-kiwi-com...

https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps#terminal-utili...

https://github.com/alebcay/awesome-shell#applications

https://paste.pound-python.org/raw/Uqc8XTFk73Y3PpbRe9hC/

http://suckless.org/rocks/

https://www.networkworld.com/article/3091139/linux/who-needs...

       2048
       2fa
       abcde
       abook
   [3] ack (ack-grep)
   [5] ag (silver searcher)
       alex
   [2] alpine
   [2] amigamml
       aplay
       archiver
   [4] aria2c
       asciinema
   [2] asdf
       atom
   [2] autojump (aka j)
       autossh
       autosub
   [3] awk
       awless
   [2] bash
       bash-it
       bass
   [5] bat (cat)
       bcal
   [3] bc -l
   [2] beets
       bitlbee
   [3] BorgBackup
   [2] bpython
   [2] brew
       btrfs
       buku
   [2] byobu
       calcurse
       cal
       cat
   [2] cd
       Chocolatey
   [2] climate (shell utility tools)
   [3] cmus
       Coinmon
       colordiff
       column
       comm
       convert
   [2] cowsay
       cp
   [4] curl
       GNU datamash
       ddgr
       ddrescue
       dict
       diff
       diff2html
       direnv
       diskus
       docker
   [2] Doom Emacs
       dosage
       dstat
   [2] dtrx
   [2] duplicacy
       ed
   [2] elinks
   [7] emacs
   [2] entr
   [2] exa
   [2] exiftool
       fab
       Farbfeld Utilities
   [3] fasd
   [5] fd
   [5] ffmpeg
       finch
   [2] find
       findutils
   [8] fish-shell
       frp
       fselect
   [6] fzf
       gawk
  [13] git
       git-annex
       git-annex assistant
       git-bulk-toolkit
       git number
   [3] gitsh
       Git Standup
       glances (top)
       Goaccess
       go-jira
       tuijam
   [2] googler
       gpg
       graphicsmagick
   [2] grc
   [5] grep
       Gron
       gst123
       gzip
       hangups (instant messaging)
       hd -c
       head
       heirloom-mailx
       hledger
       hollywood (tmux UI)
       howdoi
       hr
  [11] htop
   [4] httpie
       hub
       Hugo
       hyperfine
       iftop
   [2] ImageMagick
       imgpaste
       imgp
       import-mailbox-to-gmail
       inotifywait
       Insect (unit converter)
       ip
       irssi + jmp.chat
       iw
       journalctl
   [7] jq
       kakoune
       keysniffer
       keychain
       khal
       khard
       Kubectx
   [2] lazygit
       ledger-cli
       links2
       lnav
       localhost.run
       locate
   [3] ls
   [2] lsof
       lumail
       Ly
       man
       mcabber
       mediainfo
   [2] megadl
       mg
   [4] midnight commander
       Miller (CSV tool)
       mkdir
       mlocate
   [2] mocp
       Moon Buggy (game)
       moreutils
   [3] mosh
   [2] most
       mountsshfs
       mpv
       multitail
   [5] mutt
       mv
   [3] mycli
   [6] nano
   [3] nc
       ncat
   [7] ncdu
       ncmpcpp
       neofetch
       neomutt + notmuch
   [2] neovim
       netcat
       nethogs
       newsboat
   [4] Ngrok
       nload
       nmap
   [3] nnn
       notmuch
       nyancat
       od
       ohmyfish
   [4] ohmyzsh
       oh-my-zsh git plugin
   [2] open
       p7zip
   [2] Pandoc
       GNU parallel
   [5] pass
       passgo
       pass-otp
       paste
       pbedit
       pbpaste
       pdd
       pdfgrep
       peco
       peerflix
   [3] perl
   [3] pgcli
       pgrep
       pianobar
       pine
       ping
       pip
       pipe
       pkill
       playmod
       prettyping
       prezto
       progress
       proselint
       psql
   [2] ptpython/ptipython
   [4] pv
   [2] pwgen
       pytest
   [2] python
       pythonPackages.powerline
       qemu
   [4] ranger
       rclone
       recoll
   [2] remind
   [2] rename
       renameutils
   [2] restic
  [13] rg (ripgrep)
       rm
   [4] rsync
       rtorrent
       rtv
       sage
       Saw (AWS Cloudwatch)
       sc-im
       sclack
       SCM Breeze
   [2] Scoop
   [4] screen
   [4] sed
       serve
       serveo
   [3] shellcheck
       SHPaint
       shuf
   [3] sl
   [4] socat
       solaar
       sort
       sox
   [2] sqlite shell
   [2] ssh
   [3] sshfs
       subliminal
       supmua
       surfraw
       sym
       systemctl
       tabview
       tail
   [2] tar
   [3] Taskwarrior
       tcpdump
       tee
       TeX
   [2] The Fuck
   [6] tig
   [4] tldr
       tmate
  [21] tmux
       todo.txt
       toilet
       top
       totp-cli
       touch
   [2] tr
   [2] tree
       tshark
       ts
       ttp
       ttyclock
       ttysolitaire
       rainbowstream
       unimatrix
       uniq
   [2] units
       up
       vdirsyncer
   [2] vi
       vifm
   [7] vim
   [4] Visidata
       vnstat
       Vue-cli
   [2] w3m
   [6] watch
       watch (python)
       watchman
       wd
       webcomix
   [2] websocketd
       WebTorrent
   [3] weechat
   [2] wee-slack
   [2] wget
       wordgrinder
       wttr
   [2] xargs
       Xdg
       xdotool
       xiki
       xmlstarlet
       xrdb
   [2] xsv
       XTree Gold
       xxd
       xz
   [6] Youtube-dl
       youtube-viewer
   [2] z
       zamzar-bash
       zgen
       zplug
   [4] zsh

em-bee 7 years ago | |

i just discovered some awesome tools in the moreutils package mentioned elsewhere in this discussion:

sponge: soaks up stdin, so you can pipe it back to the same file you just read. compare:

  grep -v "^me:" /etc/passwd > /etc/passwd # failed attempt to remove user *me*.
  grep -v "^me:" /etc/passwd | sponge /etc/passwd # this works because sponge will wait until the grep is completed before writing back to the file.

another is:

vipe: insert vi into a pipe to do some manual editing of the data while it's handled in a pipe. could also be useful to preview pipe contents while they are being processed.

moreutils also includes vidir, an alternative to qmv.

greetings, eMBee.

sgt 7 years ago |

psql

modzu 7 years ago |

pipe

laixintao 7 years ago |

It saved my life.

popee 7 years ago |

netcat

nurettin 7 years ago | |

the one that comes with nmap?

popee 7 years ago | | |

Doesn't matter because every re-implementation of that old unix tool is made for same purpose and mostly accept same arguments.

For example you can make tar archive and pipe it to nc. On other server nc would accept data and pipe it to tar for unpack. This shows real power of unix pipes.

AsyncAwait 7 years ago |

- https://github.com/haskellcamargo/sclack to avoid using Slack's garbage desktop client

gameswithgo 7 years ago |

ripgrep like grep but faster https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

vram22 7 years ago |

I wouldn't call it among the best, but it has a real-life use, and was, and maybe still is, used in production by a large motorcycle manufacturer, for whom I originally wrote it:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2014/09/my-ibm-developerworks-ar...

I had given some more details about it on HN some time ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17327807

#!/bin/bash -- f0() { echo 'select moz_bookmarks.title || '"'"' = '"'"' || url from moz_places, moz_bookmarks on moz_places.id = moz_bookmarks.fk where parent = 2;' | sqlite3 /home/user/.mozilla/firefox/twht79zd.default/places.sqlite } f1() { firefox `echo 'select url from moz_places, moz_bookmarks on moz_places.id = moz_bookmarks.fk where moz_bookmarks.title = '"'$1'"';' | sqlite3 /home/user/.mozilla/firefox/twht79zd.default/places.sqlite` } f$# $1

alias g="git show" alias gh="git show HEAD" alias gs="git status" alias gl="git log" alias gco="git checkout" alias gd="git diff" alias gbl="git branch -v" alias gbd="git branch -D" alias gri="git rebase --interactive" alias grc="git rebase --continue" alias gra="git rebase --abort" alias gst="git stash" alias gsta="git stash apply" alias gx="gco -- \*; git reset HEAD \*" alias gcp="git cherry-pick" alias gcpc="git cherry-pick --continue" alias gcpa="git cherry-pick --abort"

[alias] co = checkout cm = !git add -A && git commit br = branch ci = commit st = status unstage = reset HEAD -- recent = for-each-ref --count=10 --sort=-committerdate refs/heads/ --format="%(refname:short)" overview = log --all --oneline --no-merges recap = !git log --all --oneline --no-merges --author=${1-$(git config user.email)} today = !git log --all --since=00:00:00 --oneline --no-merges --author=${1-$(git config user.email)} changelog = !git log --oneline --no-merges ${1-$(git describe --abbrev=0)}..HEAD upstream = !git log --oneline --no-merges HEAD..${1-$(git branch -lvv | perl -ne '/^\\*.*\\[(.*?)\\]/ and print "$1\n"')} local = !git log --oneline --no-merges ${1-$(git branch -lvv | perl -ne '/^\\*.*\\[(.*?)\\]/ and print "$1\n"')}..HEAD graph = log --oneline --graph --all --decorate --date=iso save = !git add -A && git commit -m 'SAVEPOINT' undo = reset HEAD~1 --mixed backup = !git push origin/backup/$(whoami)/$(git branch) lint = !git branch --merged | grep -v \"^\\s*master$\" | grep -v \"\\*\" | xargs -n 1 git branch -d