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0 pointspdimitar5y ago0 comments

I just started like 6 months ago but...

- `lazygit` is extremely valuable.

- `lnav` for inspecting log files has turned out to be surprisingly good.

- Do you use `fzf` in tandem with your shell so you can also search your command history (and not just look for files)? I use that for like a year now and can't live without it.

- `mc` for TUI file management has been moderately alright.

- How about `ripgrep`? Can't believe I lived without that one too.

- Rust's tool `skim` (the command is `sk`) in tandem with `ripgrep` or `the_silver_searcher` to very quickly search in file contents in big directories has saved me a ton of time already (although I moved to search file contents in projects in Emacs since). To be fair, you can just use `fzf` instead of `sk` here though; I am just positively biased towards Rust.

- `ripgrep_all` allows you to search in ZIP archives, PDF docs, Office docs/spreadsheets etc. Really useful.

- `ht` is a Rust rewrite of `httpie`, the Python friendlier `curl`. I like `ht` much more because it doesn't incur any startup overhead and started replacing my scraping / syncing scripts with `ht` where applicable which is NOT everywhere because `curl` is extremely powerful and it doesn't often make sense to replace it.

- Command-line or in-terminal charting/plotting: `jp`. I have made a CSV file out of all file sizes on my NAS (bucketed by powers of 2) and then invoked it on the input. Here's a sample CSV from a random directory:

0k,79

1k,6

2k,1

4k,166

8k,34

16k,7

32k,6

64k,3

128k,27

256k,2

512k,2

1M,3

2M,4

4M,8

8M,10

16M,135

Then do this:

`cat THIS_FILE.csv | jp -input csv -xy '[*][0,1]' -type bar -height 57`

And enjoy an in-terminal vertical bar charts. :)

- ...And I have a ton more.

But your question makes me sigh. I really have to start a blog. I am a very practical guy and people usually love my posts (scattered on different forums) where I make such lists. I should roll my own blog static web site generator in Rust I suppose, because the existing ones are either slow or don't support what I need... So, not going to happen in the next year, most likely. :(

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Shared4045y ago

I'll have to try some of those out. I've used fzf a little, but haven't really looked at it enough to get the full productivity gains. I've heard of rg ofc, but ripgrep_all has flown under my radar thus far, and actually sounds amazing, I've got a decently large library of pdf's I keep losing stuff in.

The rest I haven't looked at, but will have to add to my list, they fill a couple voids I've been feeling.

> I should roll my own blog static web site generator in Rust I suppose, because the existing ones are either slow or don't support what I need... So, not going to happen in the next year, most likely. :(

It isn't powerful enough to support what you need I'm sure, but I actually did something similar a little while ago.

http://a-shared-404.com/programs/

It's written in Rust, with dependencies on sh and markdown. I'm thinking about adding the ability to automatically execute an (optional) shell script in each directory, so that it would be easier to do things that markdown doesn't.

The code quality is atrocious (first Rust program of any size, and I'm not great at programming in the first place), but it may be useful. If you're interested in me adding that functionality, let me know, it may be the push I need to move it to the top of my pile.

pdimitarOP5y ago

The `sssss` program might have a potential. But let me give you an example: I want my every blog article to also have versions / revisions and I'd like visitors to be able to read the older versions as well as the last version.

I'd also like multilingual article ability (but I think some of the engines out there can do that). The more I think of it, the more I wonder if it should be something like Ghost.org: namely backed by sqlite and not naked files. But who knows.

Shared4045y ago

Interesting. I haven't done much at all with DB's, so I can't speak as to whether or not that would be more effective.

That being said, I'd be quite interested in reading your blog, whenever you are able to get it going.

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Shared4045y ago

The rest I haven't looked at, but will have to add to my list, they fill a couple voids I've been feeling.

It isn't powerful enough to support what you need I'm sure, but I actually did something similar a little while ago.

http://a-shared-404.com/programs/

pdimitarOP5y ago

Shared4045y ago

Interesting. I haven't done much at all with DB's, so I can't speak as to whether or not that would be more effective.

That being said, I'd be quite interested in reading your blog, whenever you are able to get it going.

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