Is there any command-line application that you wish existed but doesn't (or isn't as good as you wished)?

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  • ytfzf

    A posix script to find and watch youtube videos from the terminal. (Without API)

  • ytfzf

  • ouch

    Painless compression and decompression in the terminal

  • ouch - a command-line app to unify file compression and decompression

  • 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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  • bustd

    Process killer daemon for out-of-memory scenarios

  • bustd - a process killer daemon to handle out of memory scenarios

  • jacarex-old

    Discontinued (WIP) Interactive Regex tutorial and playground

  • jacarex - command-line Regex tester

  • kindly

    kindly is a simple Rust implementation of a set-user-ID-root program, similar to sudo but in a much reduced way.

  • kindly - a privilege escalation program (like sudo) for learning purposes

  • yewtube

    yewtube, forked from mps-youtube , is a Terminal based YouTube player and downloader. No Youtube API key required.

  • sc-im

    sc-im - Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised -- An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal

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  • xsv

    A fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust.

  • I’ll level with you mate, I understood half of that. I’m a much more casual Linux user. A lil above average, but I’d be lying if I said I understood the difference between go, rust, C, and python. I know it’s built off of sc, but that’s written in C according to Wikipedia. I did a search for terminal based csv editors written in rust and through some google-fu I found Xsv but I’m not certain if that hits the criteria. I’ve got nothing better to do, so I’m down to keep digging if you point me in a direction.

  • fzf

    :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

  • Yup, I use that method all the time. Most of the time you'll find that they've already precompiled the binary you need. Here's a good example: fzf. Already has the Windows binaries prebuilt, so if you don't know how, don't have the time, or just plain don't want to build it, you don't have to.

  • up

    Ultimate Plumber is a tool for writing Linux pipes with instant live preview (by akavel)

  • Would https://github.com/akavel/up solve your problem?

  • micro-editor

    A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

  • dotfiles

    🌃 Dotfiles (configurations and scripts) for my current Arch machine (by dybdeskarphet)

  • yes, you just need to install slop

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