Been using the CLI more and more and for whatever reason it gives me more dopamine than using apps with a GUI and I’m curious about what else is out there since I was a windows user til 6 months ago.

Discovering ish and the ability to use alpine linux on my iphone, also has me curious if there is anything useful/fun out there that isn’t openssh, ranger, and ffmpeg. (a-shell is still updated and comes with those two by default but doesn’t have access to alpine repo and apk, uses its own iphone based thing) Tho im curious about cli tools/apps in general to use on my pc or over ssh, not just those that could be installed on my phone

I mostly use ffmpeg to convert video and compress stuff for size limits (so I can convert before sftp when away from my pc after the render finishes) Ranger file manager on phone since it can easily exit at a path, and yazi with the shell script that lets it exit at whatever path your on on pc.

Will update this list as people comment.

  • Conversion/Compression: ffmpeg
  • Email: mutt, neomut
  • File management: mc, nnn, ranger, yazi, sfm
  • File editor: vim, neovim
  • Git: lazygit
  • Piracy: ani-cli (anime) rip (music)
  • Pdf Management: pdftk (pdftk-idk, or stapler)
  • Python: rich, pythondialog, textual
  • Docker management : lazydocker
  • Performance monitor: btop, nvtop (nvidia), ncdu (disk usage)
  • Network management: nmtui
  • Web browser : browsh (firefox backend)
  • Video downloader: yt-dlp
  • Shell scripts: dialog, whiptail
  • Misc: netpbm (plaintext image creation) If you can’t comment this post seems to be bugged for me at least, says I’ve deleted it and I can’t reply to anyone.
  • harsh3466@lemmy.ml
    3·
    6 days ago

    zoxide. It’s cd but better. It remembers which directories you’ve navigated to, and fuzzy finds them.

    So instead of typing:

    cd /really/long/path/to/sime/dir

    You can type:

    zoxide dir

    And it’ll take you right to the directory.

    I’ve got it aliased to zd so I type:

    zd dir

    And I’m there.

    • dizzy@lemmy.ml
      1·
      5 days ago

      Pretty sure zoxide automatically uses “z” as its alias by default. One less letter for you to type.

      • biocoder.ronin@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        You can save tons of time by adding aliases to your .gitconfig such as ‘ga $fname’ (where “fname” would be files you want to add) the alias for git add. You can also do the same thing with gc, gs, etc and if youre like me and you write dozens of lines of code a day, it can save you a lot of time.

        • harsh3466@lemmy.ml
          1·
          5 days ago

          I’ve already aliased gl for git log with my flags, but have been too lazy to add more aliases.