sluongng / awesome-command-line

An opinionated guide to an ideal command line environment

awesome-command-line

An opinionated guide to an ideal command line environment

Linux

• Terminator
• Linuxbrew: http://linuxbrew.sh/

MacOS

• Iterm
• Brew: https://brew.sh/

Shell

ZSH

https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/wiki/Installing-ZSH

Linux

# Linux
sudo apt-get install zsh

# MacOS
brew install zsh zsh-completions

chsh -s $(which zsh)

Oh-my-zsh

https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh#basic-installation

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

Essential Oh-my-ZSH plugins

plugins=(
  docker
  docker-compose
  git
  sudo
  zsh-autosuggestions
  mvn
  node
  kubectl
  zsh-better-npm-completion
  spring
  golang
)

## TODO: split this into language specific section

• zsh-autosuggestions:

  https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions/blob/master/INSTALL.md

  git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions

Binaries / CLI toolings

JQ: JSON prettifier, powerful data extraction tool (built with C)

https://stedolan.github.io/jq/download/

sudo apt install jq
brew install jq

Pup: HTML data extraction (built with Golang)

https://github.com/ericchiang/pup#install

go get github.com/ericchiang/pup

brew install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/EricChiang/pup/master/pup.rb

XMLStarlet: XML data extraction (written in C)

(do not recommend because its not very intuitive)

sudo apt search xmlstarlet

FZF: Fuzzy search over commandline history and file path (built with Golang)

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf#installation

brew install fzf

# To install useful key bindings and fuzzy completion:
$(brew --prefix)/opt/fzf/install

RipGrep: Faster `grep` (built with Rust)

https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep#installation

brew install ripgrep
sudo apt install ripgrep

FD: Faster `find` (built with Rust)

https://github.com/sharkdp/fd#installation

brew install fd

# Linux
# https://github.com/sharkdp/fd/releases

• Note: This can be use in combination with FZF to search and navigate through directory tree even faster

Exa / LSD: Improved `ls` (built with Rust)

Both Exa and LSD are rust implementation of gnu `ls` command The different is that Exa is **NOT** in active development thus I would recommend using LSD instead

https://github.com/Peltoche/lsd#installation

brew install lsd

cargo install lsd

alias ls=lsd

https://github.com/ogham/exa#installation

brew install exa

cargo install exa

Bat: Improved `cat` (built with Rust)

https://github.com/sharkdp/bat#installation

brew install bat
cargo install bat

FastMod: Improved `sed` (built with Rust)

Facebook awesome code refactoring tool using Rust regex (same lib as FD and Ripgrep)

See Also: https://github.com/facebook/codemod, https://github.com/facebookarchive/pfff/

https://github.com/facebookincubator/fastmod

cargo install fastmod

Mycli: Commandline `mysql` with autocorrect (built with Python)

https://github.com/dbcli/mycli#quick-start

brew install mycli

sudo apt install mycli

• Postgres: https://github.com/dbcli/pgcli#quick-start

• MSSQL / SQL Server: https://github.com/dbcli/mssql-cli#mssql-cli

Additional Notes

• More information on usages, tips and tricks HERE