Big fan of commandline tools such as vim, htop etc. What is in your opinion must have tools?
off the top of my head:
- vim
- git
- bash
- make
- whatever-compiler-im-using
- curl
- less
- grep
I have mostly replaced all command line stuff with Emacs, but there are still a few CLI utilities that I continue to use, whether I am in the CLI directly or whether I am using Emacs:
tmux
orscreen
(terminal multiplexing)bash
(shell scripting)grep
,sed
(filtering, formatting)ps
,pgrep
,pkill
(process control)ls
,find
,du
(filesystem search)ssh
,nc
,rsync
,sshfs
,sftp
(remote access, file transfer)tee
,dd
(pipe control)less
,emacs
,diff
,patch
,pandoc
(text editing)man
,apropos
(manual)tar
,gzip
,bzip2
,xz
(archiving)hexdump
,base64
,basenc
,sha256sum
(data encoding, checksums)wget
,curl
, (HTTP client)dpkg
,apt-get
,guix
(package management)mpv
(media player)ldd
,objdump
,readelf
(inspecting binary files)zfs
(maintaining my backup filesystem)
ranger
andmc
- both are file managers, and their approach is so different that I choose one of them I need at the moment depending on what do I want to do (mc
for traditional file management,ranger
for looking around the directory tree and peeking into files)htop
,tmux
- classicsweechat
,profanity
- for my IM needsripgrep
- for searching through filesmagic-wormhole
for file and ssh public key exchangemosh
for when the network conditions aren’t idealnmap
to see if that machine I’ve connected into the network is up and what IP did it getbat
for quick looking into filesgdb
, with mandatory gdb dashboardnvim
for serious text and code editing,micro
for more casual editing
argos-translate for offline machine language translation.
tmux & neovim for editing files and organizing the terminal displays.
asciinema for recording and playing back terminal sessions.
yt-dlp
I basically live in
nvim
. Being able to configure my editor in an actual programming language makes it so much more useful to me thanvim
could ever be.I found lua to be a better programming language, but the text specific design of vimscript makes way more sense to my brain.