What is your favorite CLI tool? (lemmy.zip)

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Howdy y'all!

I'm curious about everyone's favorite/most used CLI tool! Please include your favorite as well as your use case if you don't mind. Mine is rsync, which I use to keep my home music storage synced with my music player's SD card.

Runner up is ranger to navigate files. I mainly use this to quickly visually navigate mounted drives that I did not organize myself.

Hope to hear from you all soon, thanks!

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[-] ZeroGravitas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago

fzf

Thank me later.

[-] ScientifficDoggo@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

So a quick look at the man page says its a fuzzy search. How do YOU use it? So I can get a point of reference to figure things out myself.

[-] ZeroGravitas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

The killer features for me are fuzzy command history match for bash (or zsh, or even powershell) and respectively interactive grep. Lots of other examples here: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/wiki/Examples#searching-file-contents

[-] a14o@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

Good one, although I only use it as ctrl+t or ctrl+r or within scripts

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