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https://lnav.org/2021/05/03/tailing-remote-files.html
As for integrating with a “genders” host DB, there’s no direct support for it. But, lnav is scriptable, so I’m pretty sure it’s possible to write a script that does what you want. I can help with that if post in the github discussion: https://github.com/tstack/lnav/discussions
A new fave I recently discovered - render markdown in the terminal for easy reading (and proofing):
> I recently found out about mdp too, a way to display markdown in the terminal as slides.
> https://github.com/visit1985/mdp
I use pandoc to convert markdown to powerpoint decks, it's a great workflow as you can preview and tweak the content and then apply the firm theme before the presentation.
As an alternative allowing the use of any shell command/pipeline on the results interactively, see also: https://github.com/akavel/up
Awesome, thanks for that! It has a bunch of useful stuff merged, but it's still missing the export tree view feature (https://github.com/wagoodman/dive/pull/324), which can be handy.
No such list is complete without hexyl!
I'm a big fan of jo[1] for making generating JSON from the shell not terrible.
Shameless plug for my own tool, fx: a simple CLI tool for making consistent CLI tools in large repositories: https://github.com/jathu/fx
pcstat and vmtouch (page cache statistics and control)
Combine that with git-crypt[0] (obviously, don't commit secrets in plaintext to your repo!) for example and you have some really nice ergonomics.
Not enough people know about direnv.
I use spruce for many thing but it's ability to merge y'all files smartly is very useful. Think global yaml merged with one of [prod, staging, dev].yaml, merged with override.yaml creating a deployment yaml. https://github.com/geofffranks/spruce
There's a ripgrep ticket for multiple patterns. No one seems to have come up with a good specification for exactly how it ought to work, so no development has started.
I’m a fan of nnn for a terminal file manager, so I’m keen to try out broot. Does anyone have other recommendations I should try?
[pwru](https://github.com/cilium/pwru) is a fun new tool from the Cilium folks for tracing network packets in the kernel. Like tcpdump but it shows you the full path including kernel syscalls. Lets you debug much deeper than "when the packet gets to this port it gets dropped".
Another nnn fan here, great tool!
Been meaning to try out xplr[1] which I came across the other day.
I found https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch recently and it's quite nice. There's also a VSCode extension that doesn't look like it's actively developed any more: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=rangav.v...
I do things like that inside Emacs with the consult-grep command from the Consult package, combined with the Orderless matching style.
1. Consult: https://github.com/minad/consult/
There is a cli tool to run postman collections: https://github.com/postmanlabs/newman
You still have to create the collections in Postman, however.
Related to ranger, nowadays I use lf[0], which is a clone of ranger written in Go. There's also pistol[1] which is a replacement for ranger's rifle file viewer
Missing from this list is f2 (golang), one of my happiest finds of recent memory:
I use pup for this. People who tried both, any difference?
I use skim / `sk` for this kind of task: https://github.com/lotabout/skim . For example, for iterating on jq incantations, I have in my shell rc file:
function jqsk {
I really like the approach of pipe-rename (https://github.com/marcusbuffett/pipe-rename) for renaming many files. It's especially convenient for people who can efficiently edit many files in their favorite text editor (so everybody here, I guess).
Main problem: you maybe don't do this kind of operation frequently enough to remember how it's called or how you aliased it.
Shameless plug: a tool I wrote to manage downloads directory :)
A-ha! I knew I had one more.
How many times have you wanted to dedup a (text) file, but definitely didn't have enough memory to perform the task? I found this one day when I had to dedup a set of .ndjson.gz files which totaled a cumulative 312 GBs. Utilizing the bloomfilter option, I was able to dedup the records without any large investment on my part.
Anyways, runiq[1], "[an] efficient way to filter duplicate lines from input, à la uniq".
It provides several ways to filter of which I almost always default to utilizing the bloomfilter implementation (`-f bloom`).
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Another entry in such a list might be tig (https://jonas.github.io/tig/), which is an adjunct to various git commands.
Some time ago I have in fact written a small utility based on fzf that solves this problem by letting you comment aliases in your shell config file and fuzzy-search through them:
https://github.com/nmaggioni/wat - Which Alias To...?
The tag system is especially useful to me when I know the general concept I'm after but don't remember the exact wording of the command.
Doesn't recommend tools, but rags[0] will look through your history to recommend aliases.
Some might find `ffsend` useful to securely share files from your command line:
Oh, don’t worry, I am familiar[1] with it! It doesn’t quite do this one thing as well as jo, so I like using both.
[1] https://github.com/flurie/AdventOfCode/blob/main/2021/jq/d14... - unfortunately, this is the point at which I realized the stdlib was a little too anemic for general purpose solving and gave up
Oh wow, that's a pretty new feature! It was added in v569, 2020[1].
[1]: https://github.com/gwsw/less/commit/6a070fc53799fb86e0fe3880...
OMG! I created a GUI tool for this: Simplest File Renamer (Win, Mac, Linux).
In my app, you can rename using your favorite code editor, so you have access to all your keyboard shortcuts.
https://github.com/whyboris/Simplest-File-Renamer - MIT open source
I have found https://github.com/denisidoro/navi very useful for remembering nifty one-liners.
It's like a bookmark manager for commands.
Also good for sharing them with the rest of your team, via a git repo.
A little late to the party, but if you ever need to do basily anything with dates, check out dateutils (https://github.com/hroptatyr/dateutils).
I'd like to mention two tools that I love and use:
1. detox -- for sanitising filenames, https://github.com/dharple/detox