What are some neat and useful CLI programs?

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  • tmux

    tmux source code

  • tmux

  • InfluxDB

    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.

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  • stimer

    stimer stands for "simpletimer" and is a command line timer that features short "fuzzy" syntax and basic output.

  • Im plugging my own: https://github.com/deynh/stimer

  • ripgrep

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

  • Ripgrep

  • bat

    A cat(1) clone with wings.

  • Bat

  • chezmoi

    Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely.

  • Chezmoi

  • BorgBackup

    Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.

  • Borg

  • WorkOS

    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.

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  • jq

    Discontinued Command-line JSON processor [Moved to: https://github.com/jqlang/jq] (by stedolan)

  • Jq

  • Hugo

    The world’s fastest framework for building websites.

  • Hugo

  • castero

    TUI podcast client for the terminal

  • Podcasts client: castero.

  • rtv

    Discontinued Browse Reddit from your terminal

  • Reddit client: rtv (abandoned but still works).

  • miniplayer

    A curses based mpd client with basic functionality and album art.

  • Music player: miniplayer.

  • newsboat

    An RSS/Atom feed reader for text terminals

  • Feeds reader: newsboat.

  • glances

    Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative for GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS and Windows operating systems.

  • sn

    Simple Notes using fzf

  • bpytop

    Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor

  • scripts

    various scripts and tools (by xkcd386at)

  • ddi

    A safer dd

  • I made a small and kinda pointless wrapper for dd because I wanted to check out Rust. It warns you and gives you information about the disk you're about to write to, in case it's a disk. If not it just skips it and calls dd in the background. You can check it out here.

  • C++ Middleware Writer

    The repo contains library code to support messaging and serialization. There are also two programs in the repo that are needed to use the CMW.

  • The front tier of my partially closed-source C++ code generator is a CLI. It's 27 lines long and runs on Windows and *nix so far. The code generator writes messaging and serialization code based on high-level input.

  • ranger

    A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console

  • ranger - awesome file manager with vim like keybindings

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