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Let's make a list of our favorite CLI utilities. (self.commandline)
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Any extra tips or tricks are welcome!

Yesterday I learned that set -x enables trace for a bash, sh, or zsh script and prints the trace to the terminal.

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[–] Algae 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My answers (mostly running in powershell - not that it makes much of a difference!)

Rust-based utilities I couldn't live without:

  • fd (fd-find) for finding my files
  • rg (ripgrep) for string searches
  • sd (sed) for search and replace
  • dust (dust) for information about my directories
  • lsd (aliased to ls or l) for replacing Dir
  • bat (better cat) - for when the help pages are too long

Other stuff I love:

  • htop - I just learned you can run this in WSL to see all your system cores. It's pretty!
  • nvim - obviously. The best vim. Even works in VSCode