Command Line Tools

Curated Resources for Customisation and Productivity

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Callum's Dotfiles

Package Manager

• Homebrew 
• Linuxbrew

Terminal Multiplexer

• Tmux 🍺
  • Install without root access
  • Tmux Plugin Manager
  • Tmux sensible
  • Dim inactive windows

Shell

• Zsh 🍺

  • Oh My Zsh
  • newline after prompt
  • completion of filenames, command flags, history, git/kill commands
  • zsh-autosuggestions (Fish style)
  • zsh-syntax-highlighting (Fish style)

• Fish 🍺

• Hotkeys

  • Readline (Emacs)
  • Vi(m)

Terminal Emulator

• Emulators

  • MacOS Terminal 
  • iTerm2 
  • Hyper
  • Upterm
  • Terminator
  • Gnome Terminal
  • cmder ⊞

• Themes

  • Base16
  • Gotham
  • iTerm Colors collection

• Fonts

  • Inconsolata (Tmux & Powerline mod version)
  • Adobe Source Code Pro

• Mouse

  • MouseTerm plus mouse support for Tmux in OSX Terminal

• Window management

  • Spectacle
  • BetterSnapTool alternatives 
  • Tiling Window Managers: Xmonad, i3

Source Control

• Git 🍺
  • Pretty git log
  • simple git status: git config --global sb 'status -sb'
  • git command aliases

File Manager

• Ranger 🍺
  • ranger-cd
  • ra alias ra="ranger" (add to .zshrc)
  • mkcd: mkcd() { mkdir -p "$@" && cd "$@"; } (add to .zshrc)

Remote Computing

• SSH

  • aliases in ~/.ssh/config
  • generate ssh keys
  • Unlock a broken pipe connection: ~.

• Mosh

• Pair Programming

  • Cloud9
  • tmate 🍺
  • Wemux 🍺

Debugger

• LLDB GDB for OSX 
• Pdb - Python Debugger

Search (grep)

• ripgrep
• Ag the Silver Searcher 🍺

Text Editor

• Vim 🍺

  • spf13-vim
  • vim-cheatsheet

• Emacs 🍺

  • spacemacs

• micro

• Readline

Python REPL

• Ptpython (includes ptipython)
• iPython 🍺
• bpython 🍺

System Monitor

• htop 🍺

Web Browser

• w3m 🍺

Misc CLI tricks

• alias
• cd - / git checkout -
• stream into file with >
• !! to expand last command
• Meta-. to insert last parameter
• tail -f / less +F
• bash script "strict mode"
• Xargs 🍺/
• GNU Parallel 🍺

Rust Utils

• ripgrep
• skim
• exa
• walker

Further Reading

• Callum's Dotfiles
• The Text Triumvirate
• Awesome Zsh
• Linux Beards

Key

🍺 Available through Homebrew
 Available on Mac OSX only
⊞ Available on Windows only