Tell ONE terminal app you use everyday but no one seems know about the app

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  • fnt

    apt for fonts, the missing font manager for macOS/linux

  • tera

    Interactive Bash script terminal music radio player. Play your favorite radio station, CRUD your favorite lists, and explore new radio stations from your terminal. (by shinokada)

  • I use Tera (Terminal radio) everyday.

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  • vis

    A vi-like editor based on Plan 9's structural regular expressions (by martanne)

  • My text editor is vis. It "aims to be a modern, legacy-free, simple yet efficient editor, combining the strengths of both vi(m) and sam). It extends vi's modal editing with built-in support for multiple cursors/selections and combines it with sam's structural regular expression based command language."

  • xsv

    A fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust.

  • official answer: having to do tons of data manipulations due to my job, shout out to xsv and visidata

  • helix

    A post-modern modal text editor.

  • Helix code editor

  • focus

    A fully featured productivity timer for the command line, based on the Pomodoro Technique. Supports Linux, Windows, and macOS. (by ayoisaiah)

  • I use focus daily as my pomodoro timer. (Disclaimer: I built it).

  • chafa

    πŸ“ΊπŸ—Ώ Terminal graphics for the 21st century.

  • I have a few too, but would rather shout out others. chafa is really cool.

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  • todo.txt-cli

    β˜‘οΈ A simple and extensible shell script for managing your todo.txt file.

  • I use todo.sh https://github.com/todotxt/todo.txt-cli to manage my todo list.

  • go-chromecast

    cli for Google Chromecast, Home devices and Cast Groups

  • Google Chromecast CLI

  • chatty

    πŸ’¬ Chat with your gpg contacts without leaving the terminal (by navxio)

  • pipe-viewer

    A lightweight YouTube client for Linux, without requiring an API key.

  • pipe-viewer from the trizen(AUR helper) dev. The app has too many features to list here.

  • xpe

    Finally, a commandline xpath tool for linux that is easy to use.

  • I use the heck out of xpe. It's a super simple command-line xpath parser using lxml in python.

  • theme.sh

    A script which lets you set your $terminal theme.

  • Oh and i really appreciate theme.sh which sets terminal color schemes. It interacts with other tools to do it in various fancy ways like matching your wallpaper or other tricks like that.

    I'd recommend lnav, the log navigator : https://github.com/tstack/lnav

  • tdrop

    A Glorified WM-Independent Dropdown Creator

  • You guys should check out tdrop

  • csv.vim

    A Filetype plugin for csv files

  • I work with data science, so a lot of the time I'm looking at CSV files, and lately, I've been using https://github.com/chrisbra/csv.vim with I can recommend. Other than that, I wrote a CLI tool to help manage microservices and many-repo setups, https://manicli.com/.

  • mani

    :robot: CLI tool to help you manage repositories

  • I work with data science, so a lot of the time I'm looking at CSV files, and lately, I've been using https://github.com/chrisbra/csv.vim with I can recommend. Other than that, I wrote a CLI tool to help manage microservices and many-repo setups, https://manicli.com/.

  • sydent

    Sydent: Reference Matrix Identity Server

  • Unrelated, but is there a good "getting started with matrix" thing somewhere? I haven't seen anything that is precisely what I'm looking for - lots of clients and the like, but not much in the way of actually how it is used, where to sign up (matrix.org seems to not accept applications), things like that.

  • gcalcli

    Google Calendar Command Line Interface

  • gcalcli: terminal interface for Google Calendar.

  • bat

    A cat(1) clone with wings.

  • bat: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat - just cat but colorful and awesome (especially the extra scripts like batman for man pages)

  • mconnect

    mconnect - KDE Connect protocol implementation in Vala/C

  • mconnect combined with KDE Connect. Send files (or directories recursively!) in either direction easily; send clipboard text both ways, open URLs in either direction, control your mouse from your phone, sync alerts, see your battery...

  • vimv

    Batch-rename files using Vim

  • I find myself using vimv quite a lot as I need to rename files on regular basis. It's a bulk renamer that uses vim. I also just created a similar tool for bulk removing files virm. The motivation was that one time when I opened vimv and deleted a line and expected it to delete that file xD.

  • virm

    Bulk-remove files and directories using vim/nvim

  • I find myself using vimv quite a lot as I need to rename files on regular basis. It's a bulk renamer that uses vim. I also just created a similar tool for bulk removing files virm. The motivation was that one time when I opened vimv and deleted a line and expected it to delete that file xD.

  • show-struct

    Shows possible jq paths in a JSON file

  • Of many JSON linters, formatters, I have not see one that provides a quick, human readable map/structure of your JSON data except show-struct .

  • sc-im

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

  • ranger

    A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console

  • for others wondering what it is: https://github.com/ranger/ranger

  • fff

    πŸ“ A simple file manager written in bash.

  • readmail

    eMail client in Bash

  • financeager

    Organize your finances easily - from the command line!

  • wrt finances: I use financeager (developed by myself) almost daily for tracking expenses. It's a single-entry book-keeping program written in Python

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