Big fan of commandline tools such as vim, htop etc. What is in your opinion must have tools?

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    I have mostly replaced all command line stuff with Emacs, but there are still a few CLI utilities that I continue to use, whether I am in the CLI directly or whether I am using Emacs:

    • tmux or screen (terminal multiplexing)
    • bash (shell scripting)
    • grep, sed (filtering, formatting)
    • ps, pgrep, pkill (process control)
    • ls, find, du (filesystem search)
    • ssh, nc, rsync, sshfs, sftp (remote access, file transfer)
    • tee, dd (pipe control)
    • less, emacs, diff, patch, pandoc (text editing)
    • man, apropos (manual)
    • tar, gzip, bzip2, xz (archiving)
    • hexdump, base64, basenc, sha256sum (data encoding, checksums)
    • wget, curl, (HTTP client)
    • dpkg, apt-get, guix (package management)
    • mpv (media player)
    • ldd, objdump, readelf (inspecting binary files)
    • zfs (maintaining my backup filesystem)
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    fzf for quickly matching file names especially deep in the directory hierarchy

    ripgrep for quickly searching for text content within files

    dtrx for handling the right extractions of different archive types

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    I personally like bat, fd, rsync, btm, btop, rg, and nix. Nix is a package manager tho, so that’s a whole bag of worms.

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    argos-translate for offline machine language translation.

    tmux & neovim for editing files and organizing the terminal displays.

    asciinema for recording and playing back terminal sessions.

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    I basically live in nvim. Being able to configure my editor in an actual programming language makes it so much more useful to me than vim could ever be.

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        Yes, Vimscript is way more intuitive than Lua in a lot of ways. And as far as programming languages go, Lua has some strange design choices that I’m not the biggest fan of, either. However, it really does open up a lot of possibilities when your configuration is programmatic.

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    • ranger and mc - both are file managers, and their approach is so different that I choose one of them I need at the moment depending on what do I want to do (mc for traditional file management, ranger for looking around the directory tree and peeking into files)
    • htop, tmux - classics
    • weechat, profanity - for my IM needs
    • ripgrep - for searching through files
    • magic-wormhole for file and ssh public key exchange
    • mosh for when the network conditions aren’t ideal
    • nmap to see if that machine I’ve connected into the network is up and what IP did it get
    • bat for quick looking into files
    • gdb, with mandatory gdb dashboard
    • nvim for serious text and code editing, micro for more casual editing
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    zoxide, makes file navigating so much easier.

    btop is gorgeous ofc.

    cheat, for cheat-sheets.