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May 1, 2016
What are your top cli tools / hacks for productivity?
Git
So, starting with git, I am a bit fan of git-extras and hub, both save a hell lot of time, while working with terminal git.
Stop repeating yourself!
There's a cool trick, if you're tired of repeating yourself. Best examples are sudo commands. How often somone type something like
$ service nginx restart
And gets a "You need sudo rights to execute dat?"
So, we type $ sudo service nginx restart again. For faster workflow we arrow up, then ctrl +a to get to the beginning of the line and type sudo. But theres even a shorter way:
$ sudo !!
The double exclamation mark will redo the last typed command.
Creating nested folders
A really cool trick that also saves a lot of time for creating nested folders via terminal:
mkdir -p parent/{child1,child2,child3}
You can also create files into this folders.
touch !!:2/{yolo.txt,swag.txt}
Navigating
I am using z to navigate to all my project folders. It basically saves all the recent folders you visit and keeps a history on how often you visit them to create a ranking. You can then simply type
$ z cool-project
and it will navigate you to $ home/User/x/projects/code/cool-project
So, what are your top cli tools, tricks and hacks?
Responses(10)
Late into the party and many have already been mentioned (The more it goes the more I use peco for everything).
I still have 3 more to add, that I use and rely heavily on a daily basis:
HTTPie: a CLI, cURL-like tool for humans
I still use curl regularly, but for most of my work I do use HTTPie a lot, it automatically escapes the inputs, makes them easier to add and edit, and the outputs are just gorgeous, much more easy to readjq , a command line JSON processor, which make it easy to fitler, parse, transform, or just read json. The most basic use is the
cat file.json | jq "."which will just treat the complete json. It does automatically beautify/indent it, colorize it. And when you're only interested in some specific json paths, or are searching for values, then the query syntax let you work with JSON directly from the command line. Go have a look at their short tutorial to get the idea of the potential, and you'll realize that's it's the ultimate JSON command line tool (cat is used for illustrative purpose, but with inputs from curl or httpie it becomes a great friend for working with JSON APIs)
Here's a quick intro to JQ: Handling JSON from the Command Line with Jq
jid, an interactive version of jq. I still use jq for any pipe-stuff or scripts, but jid is so nice for exploratory work in json data!
(On a side note, because I only spotted it very recently and didn't have the chance yet to use it extensively, http-prompt looks like a great tool build from HTTPie
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Sébastien Portebois
Software architect at Ubisoft
I already answered this a while ago, but I need to update my participations because the more it goes, the less I use peco, which is awesome, in favor or fzf, which is even more awesome, and I believe it's worth sharing this awesomeness ;)
It's fast, it's slick, it get the jobs done. Think of it as a blog+grep built in 2017 ;-)
The repo and readme: github.com/junegunn/fzf
Tons of examples scripts to use it, if you want to get a preview: github.com/junegunn/fzf/wiki/examples
Here's a preview: