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

[jarbus]

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

[eindiran]

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/

[Shared404 → eindiran]

Wow, some of these look really cool.

Thanks for the link.

[jarbus → eindiran]

This is a great link, thanks

[iordachej]

TheFuck https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck

“Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command”

[malikNF]

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

[bradknowles → malikNF]

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

[gitgud]

> 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

[2] https://httpie.org/

[blitblitblit]

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

[Shared404]

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.

[uberman]

I would have to say my favorite would be:

https://imagemagick.org/

[jarbus → uberman]

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

[lmedinas]

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/

- irssi -> IRC client

- mplayer -> Video player console

- cmus -> Console Audio Player

- htop -> top but pretty

- powertop -> save power on your Linux laptop

[namaljayathunga]

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

[nickporter]

  fzf
  nmap
  socat
  stow

[reddit_clone]

ag : Silver Searcher (grep code)

jq : Json command line parser and manipulator

fd : Search filesystem for files

[gotorazor]

YouTube-dl

[chovy]

tmux and bashtop