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Ask HN: What are your favorite command-line applications?

12 points by jarbus 6y ago

Looking for fast, easy to use, and powerful cli applications. Especially interested in programs written in Rust.

uberman 6y ago
I would have to say my favorite would be: https://imagemagick.org/ https://imagemagick.org/
- jarbus 6y ago
  Stumbled upon this when needing to convert to and from SVGs. Very good application, has come in handy more often than I'd think.
chovy 6y ago
tmux and bashtop
blitblitblit 6y ago
Notcurses https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses
gotorazor 6y ago
YouTube-dl
malikNF 6y ago
jq[1] comes in handy when I need to make sense of json data and search through it fast. grep, because I find myself piping data to grep all the time to search for what I am looking for. [1]https://github.com/stedolan/jq https://github.com/stedolan/jq
- bradknowles 6y ago
  Don’t forget gron, which can turn JSON output into something grep-able.
lmedinas 6y ago
the whole Unix shell is wonderful but apart from the "normal" tools i absolutely love: - ack -> grep on steroids, really useful for coding. https://beyondgrep.com/ https://beyondgrep.com/ - irssi -> IRC client - mplayer -> Video player console - cmus -> Console Audio Player - htop -> top but pretty - powertop -> save power on your Linux laptop
reddit_clone 6y ago
ag : Silver Searcher (grep code) jq : Json command line parser and manipulator fd : Search filesystem for files
eindiran 6y ago
If you're looking for some new cli applications written in Rust in particular, this list is quite good and covers several: https://zaiste.net/posts/shell-commands-rust/ https://zaiste.net/posts/shell-commands-rust/
- Shared404 6y ago
  Wow, some of these look really cool. Thanks for the link.
- jarbus 6y ago
  This is a great link, thanks
Shared404 6y ago
Don't think any of these are Rust, but here you go: youtube-dl: Download video from many sites all across the internet. nvlc: ncurses interface to VLC, my personal favourite music player. htop: Pretty good system monitor for terminal. lynx/links: Web browsers for terminal.
namaljayathunga 6y ago
save web page into a complete single file https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
gitgud 6y ago
> Looking for fast, easy to use, and powerful cli applications. Especially interested in programs written in Rust. Seems like a vague question, are you looking for inspiration for your own CLI application? If so, I recommend leveraging libraries like [1] commander. Which allows you to intuitively wire up your CLI app with --option and --help on every command. One of my favourite CLI apps is [2] httpie. It has a simple, easy to use API, which is intuitive and fast too. [1] https://crates.io/crates/commander-rust/1.2.1 https://crates.io/crates/commander-rust/1.2.1 [2] https://httpie.org/ https://httpie.org/
iordachej 6y ago
TheFuck https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck “Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command”
nickporter 6y ago
fzf nmap socat stow

12 points by jarbus 6y ago

Looking for fast, easy to use, and powerful cli applications. Especially interested in programs written in Rust.

uberman 6y ago

I would have to say my favorite would be: https://imagemagick.org/ https://imagemagick.org/

jarbus 6y ago
Stumbled upon this when needing to convert to and from SVGs. Very good application, has come in handy more often than I'd think.

chovy 6y ago

tmux and bashtop

blitblitblit 6y ago

Notcurses https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/index.php/Notcurses

gotorazor 6y ago

YouTube-dl

malikNF 6y ago

jq[1] comes in handy when I need to make sense of json data and search through it fast. grep, because I find myself piping data to grep all the time to search for what I am looking for. [1]https://github.com/stedolan/jq https://github.com/stedolan/jq

bradknowles 6y ago
Don’t forget gron, which can turn JSON output into something grep-able.

lmedinas 6y ago

the whole Unix shell is wonderful but apart from the "normal" tools i absolutely love: - ack -> grep on steroids, really useful for coding. https://beyondgrep.com/ https://beyondgrep.com/ - irssi -> IRC client - mplayer -> Video player console - cmus -> Console Audio Player - htop -> top but pretty - powertop -> save power on your Linux laptop

reddit_clone 6y ago

ag : Silver Searcher (grep code) jq : Json command line parser and manipulator fd : Search filesystem for files

eindiran 6y ago

If you're looking for some new cli applications written in Rust in particular, this list is quite good and covers several: https://zaiste.net/posts/shell-commands-rust/ https://zaiste.net/posts/shell-commands-rust/

Shared404 6y ago
Wow, some of these look really cool. Thanks for the link.
jarbus 6y ago
This is a great link, thanks

Shared404 6y ago

Don't think any of these are Rust, but here you go: youtube-dl: Download video from many sites all across the internet. nvlc: ncurses interface to VLC, my personal favourite music player. htop: Pretty good system monitor for terminal. lynx/links: Web browsers for terminal.

namaljayathunga 6y ago

save web page into a complete single file https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile

gitgud 6y ago

> Looking for fast, easy to use, and powerful cli applications. Especially interested in programs written in Rust. Seems like a vague question, are you looking for inspiration for your own CLI application? If so, I recommend leveraging libraries like [1] commander. Which allows you to intuitively wire up your CLI app with --option and --help on every command. One of my favourite CLI apps is [2] httpie. It has a simple, easy to use API, which is intuitive and fast too. [1] https://crates.io/crates/commander-rust/1.2.1 https://crates.io/crates/commander-rust/1.2.1 [2] https://httpie.org/ https://httpie.org/

iordachej 6y ago

TheFuck https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck “Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command”

nickporter 6y ago

fzf nmap socat stow