Underrated? I'd say lftp is the best FTP command line client there is. And Midnight Commander is a very very good file browser. I don't see either praised enough.
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GNU datamash (https://www.gnu.org/software/datamash/alternatives/) - handy tool for data munching. There's also https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv
Wow, I might try learning this over the next few days. Nice replacement for tidyverse on the cli
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tmux - makes managing remote SSH sessions a breeze.
tomb - A little FOSS encryption utility that runs in the CLI. Easy, cute, effective. Tomb Utility
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starship and all these shell frameworks are overbloated. Just write your own prompt command and be done with it.
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restic, ongoing issue with the author to allow people to backup without a password. Seems like a no-brainer but he's being difficult
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zoxide. It's a fabulous cd replacement. It builds a database as you navigate your filesystem. Once you've navigated to a directory, instead of having to type cd /super/long/directory/path, you can type zoxide path and it'll take you right to /super/long/directory/path.
I have it aliased to zd. I love it and install it on every system
You can do things like using a partial directory name and it'll jump you to the closest match in the database. So zoxide pa would take you to /super/long/directory/path.
And you can do partial paths. Say you've got two directories named data in your filesystem.
One at /super/long/directory/path1/data
And the other at /super/long/directory/path2/data
You can do zoxide path2 data and you'll go to /super/long/directory/path2/data
Better than fasd?
You can do
zoxide path2 data
I usually would just do z 2data. Yes, I'm lazy. It's the perfect tool for lazy people.
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