ddgr VS duf

Using the shell commands plugin and ddgr, I managed to create a nice trick, which allows you to add the link to selected text without having to google it (hard to describe, but the gif should give you the idea). Here is how it works: - install the shell commands plugin https://obsidian.md/plugins?id=obsidian-shellcommands - install ddgr https://github.com/jarun/ddgr - add the following code as shell command: bash query="{{selection}}" link=$(ddgr --num=1 --json "$query" | grep "url" | cut -d'"' -f4) mdlink="[$query]($link)" echo -n "$mdlink" - in the settings for that shell command, set the stdout to "current file: caret position" - you are good to go. (Maybe give it a hotkey)

search from the CLI is hardly new.. some examples by jarun: - google: https://github.com/jarun/googler - duckduckgo: https://github.com/jarun/ddgr

Leveraging filter commands (i.e. :!) to easily/quickly manipulate lines or entire buffers/files. For example, :!date will run the external date and show you results, but :.!date (which is done by typing !! then date will run the external date command and put the result on the current line. But, also, if you have the word date on a line, then you can run :.!bash (which is done by typing !! then bash), which will execute the command date and replace the current line with the result. There are infinite uses for this, like :!sort (for sorting text), :!column -t (for aligning/tabulating text), :!awk for text manipulation, :!ddgr duckduckgo cli, ...etc

I like ddgr https://github.com/jarun/ddgr. Duckduckgo for the terminal. googler (https://github.com/jarun/googler) was great but google seem to have crippled it, at least for me. ddgr --site youtube.com QUERY .... You can use the builtin URL handler, or the JSON output, to pass the URL to a video player like mpv. yt-dlp is required for mpv to launch the video from URL.

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Not sure these are really popular, but I cannot resist advertising a few utilities written in Go that I regularly use in my daily workflow:

- gdu: a NCDU clone, much faster on SSD mounts [1]

- duf: a `df` clone with a nicer interface [2]

- massren: a `vidir` clone (simpler to use but with fewer options) [3]

- gotop: a `top` clone [4]

- micro: a nice TUI editor [5]

Building this kind of tools in Go makes sense, as the executables are statically compiled and are thus easy to install on remote servers.

[1]: https://github.com/dundee/gdu

[2]: https://github.com/muesli/duf

[3]: https://github.com/laurent22/massren

[4]: https://github.com/xxxserxxx/gotop

[5]: https://github.com/zyedidia/micro

Somewhat related - `duf` is "a better `df` alternative":

https://github.com/muesli/duf

I'm normally using duf but this looks pretty neat.

Otherwise the last option is to get the deb/appimage files from their official git repos or website, like for my use cases, MongoDB Compass (which was not officially maintained on flatpak) or duf (not available in Ubuntu repos)

duf

What cool CLI tools do you know, that are do something faster than regular commands, and do something useful? For example: https://github.com/muesli/duf.

duf - Disk Usage/Free Utility - a better 'df' alternative.