What's your favourite command-line tool that makes you 💯 more productive?

#linux #discuss #productivity

I started a Twitter thread on this subject and got a ton of interesting replies, and I thought it would be useful to collect it here too!

Robin Moffatt 🍻🏃🥓

@rmoff

What's your favourite command-line tool that makes you 💯 more productive? I'll start:

💥 jq

10:54 AM - 30 Sep 2020

Leave your top choice (only one!) in the comments 👇

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Douglas Parsons • Sep 30 '20

I have a little bash script that takes a screenshot and copies it to the clipboard based on a (drawn rectangle) selection. It's probably my favourite.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

FILENAME="$(mktemp).png"
scrot -a $(slop -f '%x,%y,%w,%h') "$FILENAME"
xclip -selection clipboard -t image/png -i "$FILENAME"
rm -f "$FILENAME"
notify-send "Sshot taken"

Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard • Sep 30 '20

$ idea <FOLDER>

and then I do everything inside jetbrains intellij idea :)

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What's your favourite command-line tool that makes you 💯 more productive?

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