What "nice-to-have" CLI tools do you know?

• age

  213 15,264 5.5 Go

  A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.

• modern-unix

  55 29,689 0.0

  A collection of modern/faster/saner alternatives to common unix commands.

Modern Unix

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• duf

  26 12,249 2.9 Go

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

duf

• hyperfine

  74 19,874 8.2 Rust

  A command-line benchmarking tool

hyperfine

• chezmoi

  59 11,639 9.7 Go

  Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely.

chezmoi

• rclone

  963 43,720 9.8 Go

  "rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Yandex Files

  

rclone

• tokei

  30 9,969 6.2 Rust

  Count your code, quickly.

tokei

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• watchexec

  20 4,825 8.6 Rust

  Executes commands in response to file modifications

  

watchexec

• ripgrep

  348 44,747 9.3 Rust

  ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore

How has ripgrep not been mentioned yet?

• cb

  6 118 3.0 Shell

  📋 Universal command-line clipboard with automatic copy and paste detection. Eg, `cb|sort|cb`. The missing link between GUIs and CLIs!

• nnn

  200 18,170 8.1 C

  n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager

nnnfile manager

• gitui

  82 16,990 9.5 Rust

  Blazing 💥 fast terminal-ui for git written in rust 🦀

gitui -- git tui

• zellij

  90 17,340 9.4 Rust

  A terminal workspace with batteries included

  

zellij -- terminal multiplexor

• exa

  129 23,258 3.2 Rust

  A modern replacement for ‘ls’.

exa -- a better ls

• pueue

  37 4,553 8.7 Rust

  :stars: Manage your shell commands.

pueue -- a queue for tasks, running in background

• dotter

  8 763 6.9 Rust

  A dotfile manager and templater written in rust 🦀

dotter-rs -- config manager with templates

• onefetch

  36 8,973 9.3 Rust

  Command-line Git information tool

onefetch -- info about git repo

• tldr

  4 1,350 4.7 Go

  fast and interactive tldr client written with go (by isacikgoz)

tldr++ is interactive tldr aur/tldr++ 1.0.0.alpha-5

• z

  46 16,036 3.9 Shell

  z - jump around

z

• moreutils

  19 2 0.0 Shell

  moreutils is a growing collection of the unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago when unix was young. Read-only version of `git://git.joeyh.name/moreutils`

vidir and a few others from moreutils

• lnav

  75 6,686 9.5 C++

  Log file navigator

Can't believe nobody mentioned lnav

• SpeedTest

  6 302 0.0 C++

  Yet another unofficial speedtest.net client cli interface (by taganaka)

• buku

  47 6,136 6.7 Python

  :bookmark: Personal mini-web in text

buku bookmark manager. Gets more useful as you age.

• bash-git-prompt

  2 6,623 4.0 Shell

  An informative and fancy bash prompt for Git users

bash-git-prompt ncduhttps://github.com/magicmonty/bash-git-prompt podman - latest deb build cscope+vim kpartx zerofree - zeros unlinked file data, better compression for disk and vbox image copies. yt-dlp

• clifm

  90 1,239 9.9 C

  The shell-like, command line terminal file manager: simple, fast, extensible, and lightweight as hell.

Clifm file manager.

• ytp

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I use this script almost daily to easily search youtube from the terminal and watch videos without having to open a browser. It can stream just audio if you just want something to listen to in the background too. I think it's broken in with newer versions of python tho.

• fasd

  18 5,736 0.0 Shell

  Discontinued Command-line productivity booster, offers quick access to files and directories, inspired by autojump, z and v.

• julia

  350 44,510 10.0 Julia

  The Julia Programming Language

  

Or Julia!

• magic-wormhole

  74 18,149 8.1 Python

  get things from one computer to another, safely

  

magic wormhole

• dust

  48 7,746 7.4 Rust

  A more intuitive version of du in rust

dust is also really nice.

• gum

  39 16,699 8.3 Go

  A tool for glamorous shell scripts 🎀

  

I sometime use gum , A tool for glamorous shell scripts, prompts, loadings, checkboxes...

• SaaSHub

  www.saashub.com sponsored

  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

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