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)Ranger and/or vifm as file managers. Can't live without them
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 - classicsweechat, profanity - for my IM needsripgrep - for searching through filesmagic-wormhole for file and ssh public key exchangemosh for when the network conditions aren't idealnmap to see if that machine I've connected into the network is up and what IP did it getbat for quick looking into filesgdb, with mandatory gdb dashboardnvim for serious text and code editing, micro for more casual editingfzf 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
What is the difference between ripgrep and just plain grep?
ripgrep is a reimplementation of grep in Rust. It benchmarks faster for large file searches and also comes with quality of life features like syntax highlighting by default.
It also ignores files in .gitignore and some others by default
It also has a much simpler and forgiving syntax. Just type rg anything and it finds anything
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