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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[-] a14o@feddit.org 7 points 2 months ago

I ditched screen for tmux ~10 years ago and never looked back

[-] ScientifficDoggo@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

Why the switch? What features drew you in and kept you in? I haven't dove into multiplexing yet so no need to get too in the weeds, I wanna do some research then make a separate post about that later.

[-] a14o@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago

Better configurability and scripting iirc

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