Ask HN: Which CLI tools do you use daily?

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!!!!

2 points | by elC0mpa 2 hours ago

5 comments

  • Hackbraten 2 hours 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 2 hours 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

  • chunpaiyang 2 hours ago
    - tmux

    - vim: NERDTree, Gblame

    - zsh

    - tig: best way to browse git history in terminal

    - claud code

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    • elC0mpa 2 hours ago
      Reaaly nice one tig, will definitely try it out. Thanks!!!!
  • verdverm 2 hours 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

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    • elC0mpa 2 hours ago
      hof looks pretty nice, definitely deserves a star, will also take a look at The Dagger. Thanks
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      • verdverm 2 hours 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.
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        • elC0mpa 2 hours 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
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          • verdverm 1 hour 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.

  • danielszlaski 2 hours ago
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