List of not-so-known handy CLI utils

CLI-not-so-known_handy_utils.md

List of not-so-known handy CLI utils

Inspired from this Twitter post.

• tig # text-mode interface for Git
• diff-so-fancy # 11.5k
• ncdu # Disk usage analyzer
• bat # cat alternative
• fzf # 20.4k A command-line fuzzy finder. Probably there is a oh-my-zsh plugin
• httpie # 40.3k CLI, cURL-like tool for humans. See https://httpie.org/
• entr # A utility for running arbitrary commands when files change
• DevOp
  • dive # 14.5k A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image
  • hadolint # 1.7k Dockerfile linter, validate inline bash
  • Kubernetes
    • kubectx # 3.7 a tool to switch between Kubernetes contexts
    • stern # 1.8k Multi pod and container log tailing for Kubernetes
    • k9s # 1.5k Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!
• pet # 2.1k Simple command-line snippet manager
• JSON
  • fx # 7.6k Command-line tool and terminal JSON viewer Much powerfull than just jq
  • jid # 4.9k json incremental digger
• mycli # 7.2k A Terminal Client for MySQL with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting
• Pretty known
  • byobu # Like tmux, on top of it, friendlier
  • mosh # 8.1k Mobile Shell
  • ag -G "md$" searchterm # 17.5 The Silver Searcher - A code-searching tool
  • j # 9.1k Autojump - A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line
  • trans # 3.1k Command-line translator
  • gtts-cli -l es "Adios amigos" | play -t mp3 - &> /dev/null # TTS using Google undocumented API
  • youtube-dl
  • rxvt-unicode # Terminal emulator like Guake
  • mutt
  • elinks
  • mpd

Others

• Peek - 4.1k an animated GIF recorder. See https://asciinema.org/ and byzanz-gui
• tldr # 21.7k site and Github
• cheat.sh - 16.3k examples (also has a command line client)
  • curl https://cheat.sh/ss
  • curl https://cheat.sh/kubectl
  • curl https://cheat.sh/bat

ZSH / oh-my-zsh plugins

plugins+=(command-not-found extract)