commands.md

Advanced & Third Party Commands

More commands to supplement Bash / Shell Scripting.

• Terminal Trove
• Awesome Lists
• Third Party Tools
  • PwGen
  • JSON
  • tldr
  • fzf
  • navi
  • nb
  • WatchExec
  • Entr
  • Just
  • Pet
  • taskwarrior
  • x cht
  • lazygit
  • Glances
  • Atuin

Terminal Trove

https://terminaltrove.com/

Treasure trove off CLI tools.

Awesome Lists

rothgar/awesome-tuis

agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps

toolleeo/cli-apps

Third Party Tools

PwGen

Generate random passwords on the command line easily.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/pwgen/

Usually you can just install this with your package manager, eg. on Mac:

brew install pwgen

JSON

See the JSON tools page.

tldr

tldr-pages/tldr

Quick examples of command line usage that is easier than reading man pages.

fzf

junegunn/fzf

Aloxaf/fzf-tab

Fuzzy finder.

navi

denisidoro/navi

Interactive cheat sheet tool.

nb

https://xwmx.github.io/nb/

WatchExec

watchexec/watchexec

Execute commands when files change.

Easier to select files to watch than entr, which requires using find to select files, then pipe those to entr.

Whereas watchexec can watch extensions, recurse subdirectories to find matching files to watch.

Entr

eradman/entr

https://eradman.com/entrproject/

Execute commands when files change.

Just

casey/just

New alternative to the classic make command.

Pet

knqyf263/pet

CLI snippet manager.

taskwarrior

GothenburgBitFactory/taskwarrior

Manage task list on the command line.

x cht

https://www.x-cmd.com/mod/cht

lazygit

jesseduffield/lazygit

Glances

nicolargo/glances

Cross-platform monitoring tool.

Atuin

atuinsh/atuin

Magical shell history, replaces shell history with SQLite database, and can share history between machines using an Atuin server.

Partial port from private Knowledge Base page 2008+