DEV Community

What are the CLIs you use very often?

Matthieu Cneude on August 13, 2020

I was wondering what people were using the most in their favorite terminal, for inspiration. Of course, I guess many of you use ls, cat and cd, but...

Read full post

Heiker • Aug 14 '20

I spend most of my time editing files so.

tmux
nvim (neovim)

Other often and not so often.

pnpm to replace npm.
task. A task runner I use for my personal projects.
exa as an alias of ls because of pretty colors and their integration with git.
nnn as my file manager.
lazygit for when I need a GUI for git but I really don't want to use a GUI.
lynx a text-based browser for really quick search. To make it more comfortable I have this funny things in my .zshrc

# Transform the arguments into a valid url querystring
urlencode()
{
  local args="$@"
  jq -nr --arg v "$args" '$v|@uri'; 
}

# Query duckduckgo
duckduckgo()
{
  lynx "https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/?q=$(urlencode "$@")"
}

alias '?'='duckduckgo'

Since we are sharing dotfiles, here is mine.

Matthieu Cneude • Aug 14 '20

Nice! I'm also using Neovim and tmux, with Zsh as shell.

I didn't know task, looks pretty cool! It's true that I'm a bit lost in my Makefiles sometimes :D

I always wanted to use a text browser for quick search, your scripts look cool for that too. Thanks!

Heiker • Aug 14 '20

Hope you find something useful.

Using tmux + neovim + lynx is definitely something interesting.

Edenn Touitou • Aug 14 '20

I used to use lazygit as a replacement for Gitkraken, but in the end I missed too much all the features and the simplicity of use of it. Even if it takes 1,5G of RAM...

Heiker • Aug 14 '20

I have used GitKraken before, but after a while I realized that I'm not a "git power user" so my needs for the GUI are very basic. When I saw lazygit I said "that's it, that's all I need".

David • Aug 13 '20 • Edited

I use all the ones that you've listed except find, plus a few others:

less over cat or bat
ping for quick latency check
wtf WTF Util as a quick command line utility for statuses on almost everything that I care about

My dotfiles