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Must have commandline tools? (feddit.dk)

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Big fan of commandline tools such as vim, htop etc. What is in your opinion must have tools?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

ranger and mc - both are file managers, and their approach is so different that I choose one of them I need at the moment depending on what do I want to do (mc for traditional file management, ranger for looking around the directory tree and peeking into files)
htop, tmux - classics
weechat, profanity - for my IM needs
ripgrep - for searching through files
magic-wormhole for file and ssh public key exchange
mosh for when the network conditions aren't ideal
nmap to see if that machine I've connected into the network is up and what IP did it get
bat for quick looking into files
gdb, with mandatory gdb dashboard
nvim for serious text and code editing, micro for more casual editing