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cbonsai
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Use a terminal window as Screensaver
So there’s this awesome CLI tool called cbonsai that generates a random bonsai tree, and it is incredible.
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Bonsai ASCII art
there’s cbonsai for all you terminal enthusiasts. for years, I’ve wanted to add options for species / style/ container but I am merely a Python dev. surely someone in this sub knows enough C to take that script to the next level.
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Finally installed Mint on my desktop PC after having it on my laptop for over a year. Still have to figure out some problems with Steam, but I'm happy with the result.
Don't worry. It's Cbonsai.
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Nordic Desktop
that's exa instead of ls there, cbonsai, and dt's shell color scripts, pipes-rs
- bedroom community
- cbonsai
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[WIP] devdeck
It’s the awesome cbonsai.
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🌲 treefetch - my very first Rust program after learning it for three days
An adorable fast fetch for screenshots. Goes well with cbonsai.
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Bonsai generator program on linux
You can find the program here: https://gitlab.com/jallbrit/cbonsai
- What are some neat and useful CLI programs?
bat
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Hired: A Modern Take on 'Ed'
That’s the same as bat:[1] one of the features is syntax highlighting. Kind of unexpected to find a concatenation program… which also does that.
[1] https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
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Essential Command Line Tools for Developers
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5 Developer CLI Essentials
4. bat
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Ugrep – a more powerful, ultra fast, user-friendly, compatible grep
Good find, thanks! I'll check if I prefer it to moar.
As for bat, according to https://github.com/sharkdp/bat#using-bat-on-windows, the Chocolatey package simply installs `less` alongside `bat`. Seems like a good idea, but I haven't tried it.
- Tell HN: My Favorite Tools
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MacOS tools to make your life easier
Try bat (it’s like cat but better) https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
- Bat: A cat clone for syntax highlighting in the terminal
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🐚🦀Comandos shell reescritos em Rust
bat
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Tell HN: Please don't print –help to stderr in your CLI tools
For this reason I have a zsh function in my .zshrc with bat (which pages by default, if it's longer than your console height):
https://github.com/sharkdp/bat#highlighting---help-messages
# in your .bashrc/.zshrc/*rc - Bat: A Cat Clone with Wings
What are some alternatives?
scripts - various scripts and tools
vim-colors-solarized - precision colorscheme for the vim text editor
tmux - tmux source code
exa - A modern replacement for ‘ls’.
matrix-rain - The famous Matrix rain effect of falling green characters in a terminal
awesome-zsh-plugins - A collection of ZSH frameworks, plugins, themes and tutorials.
glances - Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative for GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS and Windows operating systems.
iTerm2-Color-Schemes - Over 250 terminal color schemes/themes for iTerm/iTerm2. Includes ports to Terminal, Konsole, PuTTY, Xresources, XRDB, Remmina, Termite, XFCE, Tilda, FreeBSD VT, Terminator, Kitty, MobaXterm, LXTerminal, Microsoft's Windows Terminal, Visual Studio, Alacritty
chezmoi - Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely.
fzf - :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder
miniplayer - A curses based mpd client with basic functionality and album art.
glow - Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! 💅🏻