Any CLI programs for daily use?

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  • awesome-cli-apps

    🖥 📊 🕹 🛠 A curated list of command line apps

  • jq

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

    Ripgrep, fd, fzf, bat, jq, micro, mercurial

  • 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.

  • ripgrep

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

    Ripgrep, fd, fzf, bat, jq, micro, mercurial

  • micro-editor

    A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

    Ripgrep, fd, fzf, bat, jq, micro, mercurial

  • fd

    A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'

    Ripgrep, fd, fzf, bat, jq, micro, mercurial

  • fzf

    :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

    Ripgrep, fd, fzf, bat, jq, micro, mercurial

  • bat

    A cat(1) clone with wings.

    Ripgrep, fd, fzf, bat, jq, micro, mercurial

  • 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.

  • nvim

    My neovim config (by ChristianChiarulli)

  • edex-ui

    Discontinued A cross-platform, customizable science fiction terminal emulator with advanced monitoring & touchscreen support.

    Check out edex-UI

  • clifm

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

    If you do a decent amount of file managing clifm could be good for you.

  • nb

    CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + more, in a single portable script.

    nb for note-taking

  • neofetch

    🖼️ A command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2+

    The other suggestions are great tools, but I liked your original goal of looking more like a hacker: try running neofetch every time you start your terminal. Then, pretend like the output is interesting when you're really just interested in the distro-specific terminal image.

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