Ask HN: Which CLI tools do you use daily?

2•elC0mpa•1h ago

Hello, as a CLI lover and Software Engineer, I really love CLIs. I spent most of my day using the terminal, mainly because I use NeoVIM as my "IDE" (I know it is not an IDE). So basically I want you to tell me which CLI tools you on a daily basis.

My own answer: zsh with oh-my-zsh neovim gemini serverless framework aws-doctor kiro-cli fastfetch

As you can see most of these are related to work, software engineering, the cloud and AI Assistants

You can tell me about these, but I am looking for general purpose CLIs, something like a music player or something like this. Thanks a lot!!!!

Comments

verdverm•1h ago

The Dagger TUI is pretty sweet. They have an awesome renderer for OTEL spans (how they emit and view the steps). Built on the Charm suite, it is a better way (imo) to define, build, and run containers and containerized workflows (not at scale).

I back my agents and sessions with it for superpowers beyond sandboxing.

My personal CLI/TUI is https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof and starts from a CUE centric developer experience. The above is also a part of it

elC0mpa•1h ago

hof looks pretty nice, definitely deserves a star, will also take a look at The Dagger. Thanks

verdverm•54m ago

Thanks, hof has 3-6 cli/tui depending on how you count. A subset of Dagger and CUE cli commands are embedded for convenience. There is an old tcell TUI inspired by the bloomberg terminal and the start of a new Charm based TUI in the agentic area. There may still be a repl in there, not sure if it's wired up currently.

elC0mpa•49m ago

Don't know if you have any experience with golang or aws, but maybe it worth taking a look at aws-doctor (https://github.com/elC0mpa/aws-doctor). This is a CLI tool I built myself, in the future want to make it more interactive and I am looking for some CLI apps to take ideas from there

verdverm•44m ago

I'm a gopher but stay away from AWS

Google recently launched a cli for gmail and docs that I've been meaning to try.

chunpaiyang•1h ago

- tmux

- vim: NERDTree, Gblame

- zsh

- tig: best way to browse git history in terminal

- claud code

elC0mpa•1h ago

Reaaly nice one tig, will definitely try it out. Thanks!!!!

Hackbraten•1h ago

Completely boring technology: aurutils, bash (with bash-it), bat, cp, git, grep, head, man, mv, pacman, rm, rsync, ssh, sudo, tmux, tree, vim.

sgbeal•1h ago

According to:

    $ history | awk '{print $2}' | sort -u

Slightly edited:

bash, bc, convert, cp, df, du, fossil, grep, less, tail, make, man, mc, mkdir, mv, ps, rm, ssh, scp, sudo, tar, gzip, unzip

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