@RareBird15 @programming @linux @selfhosted Can’t believe nobody has mentioned top/btop/htop.

• tldr (aka tealdeer) for quick command usage examples

• bat (aka batcat) for most uses of less/more/cat

• difft (aka difftastic) which I’ve just learnt about here/here. Use in git diff by running $ git config --global diff.external difft

• btm (aka bottom) for viewing processes & system status

• This code in my .bashrc for colored man output:

# Colors for Manpages
function _colorman() {
  env \
    LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$'\e[1;35m' \
    LESS_TERMCAP_md=$'\e[1;34m' \
    LESS_TERMCAP_me=$'\e[0m' \
    LESS_TERMCAP_se=$'\e[0m' \
    LESS_TERMCAP_so=$'\e[7;40m' \
    LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$'\e[0m' \
    LESS_TERMCAP_us=$'\e[1;33m' \
    LESS_TERMCAP_mr=$(tput rev) \
    LESS_TERMCAP_mh=$(tput dim) \
    LESS_TERMCAP_ZN=$(tput ssubm) \
    LESS_TERMCAP_ZV=$(tput rsubm) \
    LESS_TERMCAP_ZO=$(tput ssupm) \
    LESS_TERMCAP_ZW=$(tput rsupm) \
    GROFF_NO_SGR=1 \
      "$@"
}
alias man="LANG=C _colorman man"
function perldoc() { command perldoc -n less "$@" |man -l -; }

https://textual.textualize.io/ - wrote my own

Emacs.

Emacs all the way

Nushell

I’ve been enjoying rmpc, a tui front end for mpd.

I spend a lot of time in k9s, the TUI used to interface with kubernetes clusters

Wonderful day!

@RareBird15@allovertheplace.ca , I am sorry, but just in case, the Communities/Member should have the following syntax, if required:
- !community@instance.test
- @member@instance.test

Meanwhile, I hope you’ll find what your you’re looking for, of course!

A few handy commands that aren’t in the traditional unix kit…

$ whatis ffmpeg lsblk mmv nc pv wcurl wrestool xxd
ffmpeg (1)           - ffmpeg media converter
lsblk (8)            - list block devices
mmv (1)              - move/copy/link multiple files by wildcard patterns
nc (1)               - arbitrary TCP and UDP connections and listens
pv (1)               - monitor the progress of data through a pipe
wcurl (1)            - a simple wrapper around curl to easily download files.
wrestool (1)         - extract resources from Microsoft Windows(R) binaries
xxd (1)              - make a hex dump or do the reverse.

Btm - Like a task manager thing

Zellij - Like tmux, but in rust

Nushell

Yazi - File explorer

Helix - Text editor

• Nushell - because open blah.json | get foo.bar.2 just works. It also just works with yaml and any other formats I want to support (you can define custom commands to support any extension you want).
• uv/fnm - good tools for Python and JS
• Starship - nice looking prompt with useful info
• zoxide/fzf - because z myproject saves enough time and effort to justify using it over cd most of the time
• Carapace as my default completer for better completions on most common tools
• Gitui - super nice git tool. I still use git directly a lot, but Gitui’s interface is more convenient for staging changes

Aside from vim or emacs text editors I’ll usually try to keep it to the gnu core utils and programs that are included with most installs just to keep things universal and simple aside from a couple shell functions and aliases for backing up files and navigating for convenience.

Today I used vim, top, ps, grep, du, sort, ls, find, rm, a backup function that suffixes a date to the filename or adds tildes if it already has one, nohup, sudo, cp, tar, unzip off the top of my dome. It’s not the same every day but pretty typical if I’m doing some ops or analysis work.

I’m on my phone, but here’s what I’m using off the top of my head

Helix editor

Yazi - file browser

Aichat

Juju - Jutusu Scm

Ec - conflict resolver

Mergiraf - ast aware conflict resolver

Jiq - jq tui

Radicle - self hosted code forge

Bat - better cat

Fish shell

Nushell

Sqlit - db browser

Zoxide - directory changer

Scooter - find/replace

Mole - Mac cleaner

Devenv - per project dependencies and scripts

Lix - nix client ( largest package manager, great for testing tools too)

Home-manager

Television - fuzzy finder with a nixpkgs plugin

@RareBird15 @programming @linux @selfhosted I have been playing with mise to manage all my cli tooling. It starts (for me) by being a better version of Volta for node, doing automatic node version switching whenever you try and run node in a configured project. Except it can also be configured to read configs for other node version managers like nvm, and to act like corepack to use the right npm or yarn version configured in package.json. It does that for other languages, and other tools too!

Mostly Linux built-in commands like grep, awk, and cat when working with bash scripts

For more serious projects that rely on a CLI interface, tools that allow for ANSI codes to be used. For example, I use prompt_toolkit (for actual menus) and framed_text (for ANSI messages and yes, this is something I made) for my Python projects.

git is my main project branch program. It’s just too good to pass up.

I don’t really use CLI/TUI text editors other than quick edits over SSH when I’m not at my PC. For that, I use neovim with nvchad, or nano.