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There are so many to list that I'll skip the more obvious ones (they're well represented in the comments) and pick a few that I've been enjoying a lot lately:

by mdip 8y ago

There are so many to list that I'll skip the more obvious ones (they're well represented in the comments) and pick a few that I've been enjoying a lot lately: Netflix-Skunkworks/go-jira[0] - Jira interface written in Go that is incredibly flexible. bat[1] - cat with code highlighting climate[2] - Shell swiss-army knife of tools That last one deserves a post on its own. It's certainly not the most portable thing -- requiring that certain binaries be available for some of its functions, but it works as-is for the Linux distributions that I run and provide simple commands for getting information about things that isn't always trivial to remember (such as getting an external IP address of a host from the command-line). Silly things like remembering the CLI options for 'du' (along with the necessary '| sort ... | head -5') are replaced by 'climate biggest-files'. It replaces a mess of tools, but does so, often, by simply calling those tools with the "correct" parameters that I've forgotten. Yes, a well authored set of aliases for the most common commands would do the same thing, but I end up using 'climate' in cases where the information I need is something I rarely need for a given task and getting that information is going to be a non-obvious exercise involving a few pipes. It's a "kitchen sink" utility with a set of commands that, for the most part, you'd find a hard time grouping them into a single theme -- a command for getting the current weather (after all, it is named climate) next to one to download all files on a web page, next to one to get disk usage stats in a variety of ways. Normally, I don't like tools like this, but this one lands as a big exception to that rule for me. [0] https://github.com/Netflix-Skunkworks/go-jira https://github.com/Netflix-Skunkworks/go-jira [1] https://github.com/sharkdp/bat https://github.com/sharkdp/bat [2] https://github.com/adtac/climate https://github.com/adtac/climate

Aweorih 8y ago
> such as getting an external IP address of a host from the command-line. What about using `ping host`? This also prints the ip
- sfdgsdfg 8y ago
  or "dig host" for a proper dns lookup
- mdip 8y ago
  Ah, sorry, I wasn't clear in my statement: A function that it provides is to display the public IP address from a host behind the NAT. Another way to do this: `dig @resolver1.opendns.com ANY myip.opendns.com +short`[0] ... it's just trickier to remember. And since dig is a tool for performing DNS lookups, `man dig` doesn't hint at this particular trick. In fact, I didn't actually remember the command that displays that for `climate`[1], because if I had, I would have written it as `public-ip`, which `climate help` informed me of. :) [0] ... or if you prefer a more interactive and profane experience, try `lynx wtfismyip.com` [1] My public IP is displayed on terminal start since I need it with some frequency; Of course, it's displayed as "External IP:", which is something I'll have to remedy.

by mdip 8y ago

Aweorih 8y ago

> such as getting an external IP address of a host from the command-line. What about using `ping host`? This also prints the ip

sfdgsdfg 8y ago
or "dig host" for a proper dns lookup
mdip 8y ago
Ah, sorry, I wasn't clear in my statement: A function that it provides is to display the public IP address from a host behind the NAT. Another way to do this: `dig @resolver1.opendns.com ANY myip.opendns.com +short`[0] ... it's just trickier to remember. And since dig is a tool for performing DNS lookups, `man dig` doesn't hint at this particular trick. In fact, I didn't actually remember the command that displays that for `climate`[1], because if I had, I would have written it as `public-ip`, which `climate help` informed me of. :) [0] ... or if you prefer a more interactive and profane experience, try `lynx wtfismyip.com` [1] My public IP is displayed on terminal start since I need it with some frequency; Of course, it's displayed as "External IP:", which is something I'll have to remedy.