Ask HN: What are interesting do you know any terminal utilities?

5•FerkiHN•6mo ago

The terminal is a very cool place, you can perform a bunch of actions in one command, but of course it is also fashionable to download utilities in the terminal, and some of them are very strange and some are very useful and interesting.

What are interesting do you know any terminal utilities?

Comments

rrr_oh_man•6mo ago

Not so interesting, but strange: I built itter.sh

FerkiHN•6mo ago

Why, it's quite an interesting thing, as it were HN in terminal, looks cool, maybe I'll try it sometime.

I also do interesting things, you can also check out their other ones:

https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/phono-in-terminal-image...

https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/TurboStitchGIF-HeaderOn...

em-bee•6mo ago

there were a number threads in the past discussing great terminal utilities. to many top list, so here are a few:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36491704 macOS command-line tools you might not know about(https://saurabhs.org/advanced-macos-commands) 2039 points|Gadiguibou|2 years ago|442 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31009313 New(ish) command line tools(https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/04/12/a-list-of-new-ish--command-l...) 760 points|grappler|3 years ago|244 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44126612 Show HN: I wrote a modern Command Line Handbook(https://commandline.stribny.name/) 454 points|petr25102018|2 months ago|109 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42057431 Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities(https://weiyen.net/articles/useful-macos-cmd-line-utilities) 837 points|yen223|8 months ago|231 comments

btw: you may want to correct the grammar in the title: "What are interesting terminal utilities that you know?"

jasonthorsness•6mo ago

Since you asked on Hacker News, I will plug my "unl" command-line utility which finds active discussions:

https://github.com/jasonthorsness/unlurker

This is not the only CLI HN client, nor is it the best, here are a few others I've seen:

https://github.com/donnemartin/haxor-news

https://github.com/bensadeh/circumflex

https://github.com/aome510/hackernews-TUI

FerkiHN•6mo ago

Your utility sounds like something incredible, it's strange that I've never thought about such things.

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