Command Line Tools

CLI tools I love

  • neovim is my default text-editor.

  • git for version control.

  • fzf - command-line fuzzy finder.

  • tmux - terminal multiplexer.

  • Translate Shell - easy access to translation engines in your terminal.

  • Todo.txt - simple todo list based on a todo.txt file.

  • bat - a cat(1) clone with wings.

  • exa - a modern replacement for ‘ls’.

  • httpie - a modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era.

  • openvpn - an open source VPN daemon.

  • protonvpn-cli-ng - command-line client for ProtonVPN

  • ranger - a VIM-inspired filemanager for the console.

  • tldr - simplified and community-driven man pages.

  • transfer.sh - easy file sharing from the command line.

  • youtube-dl to download videos from youtube and other sites.

  • mps-youtube - terminal based YouTube player.

  • mpv - media player.

  • how2 - stackoverflow from the terminal.

  • pnpm - fast, disk space efficient package manager

  • ddgr - search DuckDuckGo from the command line.

  • mutt - terminal email client.

  • thefuck corrects errors in previous console commands.

  • diff-so-fancy - make your diffs human readable instead of machine readable.

  • btop - a cool monitor of resources.

  • streamlink - a CLI utility which pipes video streams from various services into a video player.

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