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Ask HN: Which CLI tools do you use daily?
Hello, as a CLI lover and Software Engineer, I really love CLIs. I spent most of my day using the terminal, mainly because I use NeoVIM as my "IDE" (I know it is not an IDE). So basically I want you to tell me which CLI tools you on a daily basis.
My own answer:
zsh with oh-my-zsh
neovim
gemini
serverless framework
aws-doctor
kiro-cli
fastfetch
As you can see most of these are related to work, software engineering, the cloud and AI Assistants
You can tell me about these, but I am looking for general purpose CLIs, something like a music player or something like this. Thanks a lot!!!!
- verdverm 6mo agoThe Dagger TUI is pretty sweet. They have an awesome renderer for OTEL spans (how they emit and view the steps). Built on the Charm suite, it is a better way (imo) to define, build, and run containers and containerized workflows (not at scale). I back my agents and sessions with it for superpowers beyond sandboxing. My personal CLI/TUI is https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof and starts from a CUE centric developer experience. The above is also a part of it
- elC0mpa 6mo agohof looks pretty nice, definitely deserves a star, will also take a look at The Dagger. Thanks
- verdverm 6mo agoThanks, hof has 3-6 cli/tui depending on how you count. A subset of Dagger and CUE cli commands are embedded for convenience. There is an old tcell TUI inspired by the bloomberg terminal and the start of a new Charm based TUI in the agentic area. There may still be a repl in there, not sure if it's wired up currently.
- elC0mpa 6mo agoDon't know if you have any experience with golang or aws, but maybe it worth taking a look at aws-doctor (https://github.com/elC0mpa/aws-doctor https://github.com/elC0mpa/aws-doctor). This is a CLI tool I built myself, in the future want to make it more interactive and I am looking for some CLI apps to take ideas from there
- verdverm 6mo agoI'm a gopher but stay away from AWS Google recently launched a cli for gmail and docs that I've been meaning to try.
- chunpaiyang 6mo ago- tmux - vim: NERDTree, Gblame - zsh - tig: best way to browse git history in terminal - claud code
- elC0mpa 6mo agoReaaly nice one tig, will definitely try it out. Thanks!!!!
- danielszlaski 6mo ago[dead]
- Hackbraten 6mo agoCompletely boring technology: aurutils, bash (with bash-it), bat, cp, git, grep, head, man, mv, pacman, rm, rsync, ssh, sudo, tmux, tree, vim.
- sgbeal 6mo agoAccording to: $ history | awk '{print $2}' | sort -u Slightly edited: bash, bc, convert, cp, df, du, fossil, grep, less, tail, make, man, mc, mkdir, mv, ps, rm, ssh, scp, sudo, tar, gzip, unzip
- Curiositry 6mo agoFish, zoxide, tmux, helix, ripgrep, fd-find, htop. There are many more, but these are the ones that I enjoy using. (Other than tmux.)