cli tools i actually use daily

@sam_ships2 events in the last 7 days341130 forks14 items4#cli#terminal

the test: did i type it today without thinking about it. yes these are all in my dotfiles

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ctrl-r replacement was the gateway, now half my aliases pipe into it
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aliased to j out of old autojump habit. the muscle memory transferred in a day
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syntax highlighting in cat. sounds cosmetic until you're reading minified json at 2am
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jq
six years of daily use and i still google the syntax every single time
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my shell history from every machine, searchable. i self host the sync server (of course i do)
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ls *.go | entr -r go run . and suddenly everything has hot reload. been around forever and somehow nobody knows it exists
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make without the .PHONY nonsense. definitly the fastest adopted tool on this list
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trying it as my ranger replacement. previews are stupid fast, ymmv on the default keybinds

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