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

• age

  82 13,537 7.3 Go

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

• modern-unix

  22 26,788 0.0

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

  Modern Unix

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• duf

  9 11,019 4.7 Go

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

  duf

• hyperfine

  31 15,982 9.2 Rust

  A command-line benchmarking tool

  hyperfine

• chezmoi

  22 9,337 8.6 Go

  Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely.

  chezmoi

• rclone

  397 38,696 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

  11 8,348 2.2 Rust

  Count your code, quickly.

  tokei

• SonarQube

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• watchexec

  9 4,010 9.4 Rust

  Executes commands in response to file modifications

  

  watchexec

• ripgrep

  118 38,123 9.0 Rust

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

  How has ripgrep not been mentioned yet?

• cb

  4 100 0.0 Shell

  📋 Universal command-line clipboard with automatic copy and paste detection. Eg, `cb|sort|cb`.

• nnn

  45 16,432 9.3 C

  n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager

  nnnfile manager

• gitui

  26 13,105 3.5 Rust

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

  gitui -- git tui

• zellij

  36 12,102 7.7 Rust

  A terminal workspace with batteries included

  

  zellij -- terminal multiplexor

• exa

  45 21,779 5.2 Rust

  A modern replacement for ‘ls’.

  exa -- a better ls

• pueue

  10 3,591 5.0 Rust

  :stars: Manage your shell commands.

  pueue -- a queue for tasks, running in background

• dotter

  3 566 6.4 Rust

  A dotfile manager and templater written in rust 🦀

  dotter-rs -- config manager with templates

• onefetch

  13 7,795 5.8 Rust

  Command-line Git information tool

  onefetch -- info about git repo

• tldr

  4 1,289 10.0 Go

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

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

• z

  8 15,254 0.0 Shell

  z - jump around

  z

• moreutils

  10 1 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

  44 5,688 9.1 C++

  Log file navigator

  Can't believe nobody mentioned lnav

• SpeedTest

  3 273 0.0 C++

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

• buku

  13 5,681 5.0 Python

  :bookmark: Personal mini-web in text

  buku bookmark manager. Gets more useful as you age.

• bash-git-prompt

  1 6,458 0.0 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

  33 979 0.0 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

  3 5,736 0.0 Shell

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

• julia

  114 42,469 9.9 Julia

  The Julia Programming Language

  

  Or Julia!

• magic-wormhole

  25 15,842 7.5 Python

  get things from one computer to another, safely

  

  magic wormhole

• dust

  22 6,277 8.0 Rust

  A more intuitive version of du in rust

  dust is also really nice.

• gum

  35 13,425 8.9 Go

  A tool for glamorous shell scripts 🎀

  

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

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