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Ask HN: What CLI tools do you wish existed?
Who cares about mobile apps, what command line tools (platform in/dependent) do you wish existed?
The question comes from boredom and wanting to write something in Rust...
- bwilliams 12y agoI'm really interested in writing a command line client for Slack since the IRC gateway is heavily hit or miss. Once there's a decent websockets crate I'll jump on the idea.
- jetblackio 12y agoI haven't thoroughly investigated possible CLI solutions for the following, but here are some things that come to mind. * iMessages / SMS * Viber / Slack / Whatsapp / Facebook (messages) * Better calendar app * Better Pivotal Tracker CLI As you can see, I think messaging is a perfect use-case for the CLI, and you don't lose much functionality when compared to a GUI (except images, gifs and movies for the most part). So seeing development in that area would be awesome.
- zaptheimpaler 12y agoThis might already exist, but while tailing logs today I wished for a tool that would let me view a log file as its changing - like "tail -f" so new lines appear at the bottom, but with the added ability to scroll up, jump to any line, search etc like a text editor.
- bracewel 12y agoHm, this is a interesting idea, I'm not sure I know of a tool for doing this (beyond using tail -f .. | grep .. as a primitive search)
- skuhn 12y agoless can do this: less +F /var/log/blah.log then ctrl-c to switch into regular less mode (for scrolling back or searching), and 'F' to go back into follow mode to watch changes roll in. You don't have to start less in follow mode either, 'F' will work regardless.