Ask HN: Which CLI tools do you use daily?

4 pointselC0mpa1mo ago10 comments

Hello, as a CLI lover and Software Engineer, I really love CLIs. I spent most of my day using the terminal, mainly because I use NeoVIM as my "IDE" (I know it is not an IDE). So basically I want you to tell me which CLI tools you on a daily basis.

My own answer: zsh with oh-my-zsh neovim gemini serverless framework aws-doctor kiro-cli fastfetch

As you can see most of these are related to work, software engineering, the cloud and AI Assistants

You can tell me about these, but I am looking for general purpose CLIs, something like a music player or something like this. Thanks a lot!!!!

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Hackbraten1mo ago

Completely boring technology: aurutils, bash (with bash-it), bat, cp, git, grep, head, man, mv, pacman, rm, rsync, ssh, sudo, tmux, tree, vim.

sgbeal1mo ago

According to:

    $ history | awk '{print $2}' | sort -u

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bash, bc, convert, cp, df, du, fossil, grep, less, tail, make, man, mc, mkdir, mv, ps, rm, ssh, scp, sudo, tar, gzip, unzip

Curiositry1mo ago

Fish, zoxide, tmux, helix, ripgrep, fd-find, htop. There are many more, but these are the ones that I enjoy using. (Other than tmux.)

chunpaiyang1mo ago

- tmux

- vim: NERDTree, Gblame

- zsh

- tig: best way to browse git history in terminal

- claud code

elC0mpaOP1mo ago

Reaaly nice one tig, will definitely try it out. Thanks!!!!

verdverm1mo ago

The Dagger TUI is pretty sweet. They have an awesome renderer for OTEL spans (how they emit and view the steps). Built on the Charm suite, it is a better way (imo) to define, build, and run containers and containerized workflows (not at scale).

I back my agents and sessions with it for superpowers beyond sandboxing.

My personal CLI/TUI is https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof and starts from a CUE centric developer experience. The above is also a part of it

elC0mpaOP1mo ago

hof looks pretty nice, definitely deserves a star, will also take a look at The Dagger. Thanks

verdverm1mo ago

Thanks, hof has 3-6 cli/tui depending on how you count. A subset of Dagger and CUE cli commands are embedded for convenience. There is an old tcell TUI inspired by the bloomberg terminal and the start of a new Charm based TUI in the agentic area. There may still be a repl in there, not sure if it's wired up currently.

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Hackbraten1mo ago

Completely boring technology: aurutils, bash (with bash-it), bat, cp, git, grep, head, man, mv, pacman, rm, rsync, ssh, sudo, tmux, tree, vim.

sgbeal1mo ago

According to:

    $ history | awk '{print $2}' | sort -u

Slightly edited:

bash, bc, convert, cp, df, du, fossil, grep, less, tail, make, man, mc, mkdir, mv, ps, rm, ssh, scp, sudo, tar, gzip, unzip

Curiositry1mo ago

Fish, zoxide, tmux, helix, ripgrep, fd-find, htop. There are many more, but these are the ones that I enjoy using. (Other than tmux.)

chunpaiyang1mo ago

- tmux

- vim: NERDTree, Gblame

- zsh

- tig: best way to browse git history in terminal

- claud code

elC0mpaOP1mo ago

Reaaly nice one tig, will definitely try it out. Thanks!!!!

verdverm1mo ago

I back my agents and sessions with it for superpowers beyond sandboxing.

My personal CLI/TUI is https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof and starts from a CUE centric developer experience. The above is also a part of it

elC0mpaOP1mo ago

hof looks pretty nice, definitely deserves a star, will also take a look at The Dagger. Thanks

verdverm1mo ago

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