Recent command-line tools to check out

dugan · 02-25-2018, 11:46 AM

Over the last couple of years, there have been a number of very cool new command-line tools, mostly written in Rust or Go. Here are some I recommend at least looking at:

fzf: A command-line fuzzy finder
ripgrep: ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern
fd A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'.
exa is a modern replacement for ls
even-better-ls ls with customizable icons and colors,

BW-userx · 02-25-2018, 02:29 PM

fd A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'.

bad page 404 message on that one.

dugan · 02-25-2018, 03:46 PM

Fixed.

Myk267 · 02-28-2018, 11:29 AM

It's not that new and not very interactive but, I really like syncthing for syncing files between my computers without resorting to: jamming tons of junk into my git repo or google.drive or USB stick just to copy files between my computers.

dugan · 04-05-2018, 11:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dugan

exa is a modern replacement for ls
even-better-ls ls with customizable icons and colors,

I just found this. I haven't tried it:

https://github.com/athityakumar/colorls

fatmac · 04-06-2018, 05:31 AM

The tools we already have are very powerful, but there is a program that is missing.

What would really improve working at the command line is a web browser that is really usable but light weight.

We have a few, but none of them can play videos straight up, & most have trouble with PDF files, also they work in peculiar ways mostly.

Graphics can be done in the frame buffer, so I don't think it would be impossible, but no one seems to be interested in programming something like this, which is a shame.

FlinchX · 04-06-2018, 10:55 AM

tmsu (tmsu.org)