Command Line Tools

I use many CLI tools.
Favorite
​ripgrep - Line-oriented search tool that recursively searches your current directory for a regex pattern. (Andrew Gallant, creator of ripgrep - Sourcegraph Podcast (2020)) (Lobsters)
Interesting
​rga - Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz, etc. (Article) (HN)
Notes
Look into gh cli for example of a well designed CLI. The -h is amazing.
Links
​Awesome command line tools​
​Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?​
​What's an awesome Linux/Unix command that you wish someone had told you about earlier?​
​Awesome Console Services​
​tldr - Collection of simplified and community-driven man pages. (Web)
​Awesome jq - Curated list of awesome things built with the JSON processor and turing-complete functional language jq.
​cli.fan blog - Introduction.
​One Things Well blog - Weblog about simple, useful software.
​Terminals Are Sexy - Curated list of Terminal frameworks, plugins & resources for CLI lovers.
​Inconsolation - Adventures with lightweight and minimalist software for Linux.
​Arabesque - Systems, Tools, and Terminal Science.
​The Art of Command Line​
​cheat - Allows you to create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line. (HN)
​hyperfine - Command-line benchmarking tool.
​An Illustrated Guide to Useful Command Line Tools (2019) (Lobsters) (HN)
​uutils coreutils - Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils.
​The Language Agnostic, All-Purpose, Incredible, Makefile (2019) (Lobsters) (HN)
​CLI: improved (2018)​
​Awesome CLI apps​
​Fast Searching with ripgrep (2020)​
​Awk in 20 Minutes (HN)
​Grep for System Admins: Using Grep to Automate Daily Tasks (2020)​
​Command line interfaces are reified UIs (2017) (HN) (Lobsters)
​My Favorite CLI Tools (2020) (HN)
​wttr.in - Console-oriented weather forecast service. (HN)
​Structured text tools - List of text-based file formats and command line tools for manipulating each.
​Conventions for Command Line Options (2020) (HN)
​Rewritten in Rust: Modern Alternatives of Command-Line Tools (2020) (Lobsters)
​Search and replace tricks with ripgrep (2020) (Lobsters)
​What are your favorite non-standard CLI utils/applications (2020)​
​cheat.sh - Unified access to the best community driven cheat sheets. Available via CLI. (Web)
​My growing list of Rust programs to use (Lobsters)
​dasel - Allows you to query and modify data structures using selector strings.
​You Don't Need GUI - CLI commands as alternatives to GUI.
​CLI Guidelines - Guide to help you write better command-line programs, taking traditional UNIX principles and updating them for the modern day. (Code) (HN) (Lobsters)
​nq - Utils for creating lightweight job queue systems. (HN)
​Building Rich Terminal Dashboards (2021) (HN)
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