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If you're not using this CLI tools you're losing money

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I don’t know about you but I only became a console cowboy cause of Keanu Reeves.

I’ve hand picked these. I’m sure you will find something to your liking here. If it’s not fast and pretty I don’t use it.

lnav

It’s like tail but can handle multiple files on the same interface and jumping between errors.

Install via

sudo apt install lnav

lnav

sssh

Do you find yourself waiting for a machine to come up after you rebooted it? Does the machine not respond to ping? Why keep trying to SSH into the box when you can be checking your crypto portfolio instead.

Save this script as sssh and make it executable. It will continue attempting to connect to a server via ssh until it gets in.

#!/bin/bash

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
  echo '' && echo 'Please also provide server name as in config file...' &&
  exit 1
fi

retries=0
repeat=true
today=$(date)

while "$repeat"; do
  ((retries+=1)) &&
  echo "Try number $retries..." &&
  today=$(date) &&
  ssh "$@" &&
  repeat=false
  if "$repeat"; then
    sleep 5
  fi
done

echo "Total number of tries: $retries"
echo "Last connection at: $today"

sssh 99.99.99.99

icanhazip

icanhazip

Get the IP of the server you’re on via curl.

fd

fd

It’s like find except it’s not shit. It’s fast too.

Install via

sudo apt install fd-find

fd

ncdu

ncdu

Is the client calling you cause the machine is hung cause there’s no HD space left? Find out what’s eating up all the space.

Install via

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:eugenesan/ppa
sudo apt install ncdu

ncdu

htop

htop

It’s like top except it doesn’t hurt the artist in you looking at it.

Install via

sudo apt install htop

bat

bat

bat

It’s an esthetically pleasing cat

Install via

sudo apt install bat

bat

fzf

fzf

fzf is a general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder. You can integrate it into your vim and shell. Use it to fuzzy find anything.

Install via

sudo apt install fzf

fzf

tig

tig

Git repo browser. Merge, commit, browse. Very useful for figuring out who broke the build on production.

tig

tree

tree

Recursively ls the subdirectories

Install via

sudo apt install tree

pgcli

pgcli

PostgreSQL CLI with autocomplete. Aware of columns, tables and PostgreSQL commands.

Install via

sudo apt install libpq-dev python-dev python-pip
sudo pip install pgcli

pgcli