[HN Gopher] Command Line Tools I Like (2022)
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Command Line Tools I Like (2022)
Author : yu3zhou4
Score : 71 points
Date : 2024-10-09 19:27 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| netol wrote:
| exa is abandoned. There is now a maintained fork called eza:
| https://github.com/eza-community/eza
| yu3zhou4 wrote:
| I just ran `brew install eza` and I'm overwhelmed with amount
| of dependencies it installs. Among many others - openjdk, qt,
| node - what is going on?
| quadhome wrote:
| You're likely running on an old version of MacOS that isn't
| able to use the precompiled binaries. So, brew is installing
| all the dependencies necessary to build eza from scratch.
|
| Intel-era Mac?
| yu3zhou4 wrote:
| MacBook Air M2 2022, macOS Sequoia 15.0
| IshKebab wrote:
| But why would it need all of those dependencies?
| groby_b wrote:
| Because all dependency managers at some point devolve to
| "install ocean, then boil ocean".
|
| (If you care, "brew deps <package> --tree" will tell
| you.)
| yu3zhou4 wrote:
| brew deps eza --tree prints:
|
| eza
|
| +-- libgit2 +-- libssh2 |
| +-- openssl@3 | +-- ca-certificates
| +-- openssl@3 +-- ca-certificates
| jasonpeacock wrote:
| Because most of those are dependencies required to
| _build_ the actual dependencies.
|
| There's (generally) 4 types of dependencies:
| - Toolchains (frameworks, compilers) - Build
| (headers and libraries) - Runtime (libraries)
| - Test (frameworks, headers, libraries)
|
| And those dependencies all bring their own
| dependencies...
| skdd8 wrote:
| I love ranger: https://github.com/ranger/ranger It is a file
| manager inspired by vim and midnight-commander.
| petepete wrote:
| xh is a clone of httpie written in Go, it's a little snappier if
| that's important to you.
| gigatexal wrote:
| Zoxide looks really cool
| kstrauser wrote:
| I adore it. `z <project I'm working on>` is my brain's
| hardwired shortcut to get back to what I was doing.
|
| Pair it with dotenv to automatically set my my shell
| environment for that project, _whatever_ it is I 'm doing at
| the moment, and it's _sooo_ ergonomic to bounce around between
| tasks.
| elmariachi wrote:
| It is! It's saved me quite a bit of typing since I started
| using it.
| stared wrote:
| It is a simple tool, yet it makes a day-and night difference
| when traversing directories.
| AtlasBarfed wrote:
| IS EXA PARSEABLE????!!!???
|
| It's a slowly developing trend, but I also wish that a --json
| output flag was a part of all cli utility output.
|
| Tldr sounds interesting. Man pages are awful for quick reference.
| At this point it should be possible to collect the statistically
| ranked most common example usages of commands and provide them,
| especially if there are very very common associated commands that
| are piped with them.
| dingnuts wrote:
| I tried out tldr a few years back and in practice tldr never
| seemed to have what I want in it
|
| now, for the same use case, I search for the man page on Kagi,
| use the LLM "ask this page questions" feature to ask the man
| page how to do what I want, and then ctrl-f with the flags it
| outputs and read the man page entries for those to ensure no
| hallucinations.
| KneeAwn wrote:
| I love these tools. A few more I like are: eget - good for
| getting these little tools (https://github.com/zyedidia/eget)
| dust - fd is to find as dust is to du
| (https://github.com/bootandy/dust) yank - nice to quickly copy
| things from the command line (https://github.com/mptre/yank)
| jftuga wrote:
| eget looks great! Thanks for mentioning it.
| terminaltrove wrote:
| If you're looking for more or new tools, we have lots at Terminal
| Trove and continuously add new ones.
|
| https://terminaltrove.com/new/
|
| https://terminaltrove.com/tool-of-the-week/
|
| Every tool added has images/gifs and a quick way to install it.
|
| We love this list and sponsored the development of fd which we
| heavily use ourselves!
| Diti wrote:
| Your website recommends using `nix-env` to install tools. This
| hasn't been the recommended way for a while. It should either
| be installed declaratively, used in a shell without installing,
| or be installed using `nix profile`.
| terminaltrove wrote:
| Oh right, we didn't know this, most of the tools install
| guides have nix-env like fd, lychee, gtrash, etc and others
| we listed which we just use for installation.
|
| https://github.com/lycheeverse/lychee?tab=readme-ov-
| file#nix...
|
| https://github.com/sharkdp/fd?tab=readme-ov-file#on-nixos--
| v...
|
| https://github.com/umlx5h/gtrash?tab=readme-ov-
| file#nixpkgs-...
|
| Thanks for the heads up!
| jasonpeacock wrote:
| I really enjoy `glow`, it makes me smile when I use it:
|
| https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow
|
| It's a commandline markdown viewer/renderer.
| donatj wrote:
| Eternal Terminal `et` when we worked from an office where our
| connection would drop regularly was a life saver. It's like Mosh
| but less opinionated and doesn't interfere with scrollback.
|
| https://eternalterminal.dev/
|
| Probably goes without saying, but for anyone who doesn't know
| about it, `jq` is life changing, was kind of surprised not to see
| it. It's a sort of query language for querying JSON blobs. I use
| it almost every single day. It's indispensable.
|
| https://jqlang.github.io/jq/
| ExtremisAndy wrote:
| I have never heard of "jq". Oh my goodness. Your comment may
| have just changed my life. I cannot emphasize enough how many
| times I have needed a tool like this (and, yes, shame on me for
| not making a better effort to find one). Thank you!
| jftuga wrote:
| I've recently made a new command line tool:
|
| https://github.com/jftuga/DateTimeMate
|
| Golang package and CLI to compute the difference between date,
| time or duration
|
| Here is a more detailed announcement:
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41058826
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