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Ask HN: What are your favorite cli/unix tool?

3 points by xinau ↗ HN
I use some cli/unix tools in my day to day business and by looking into various awesome list, i know there are a ton of probably useful tools. I've used:

  * fzf -- fuzzy finding anything  
  * tmux -- when working over ssh*
  * fasd -- to get into my last used directories
  * ag -- for searching through files
  * dmenu -- for various selection tasks and starting of small  scripts
  * jq -- json search tool
But what are tools you like/love to use.

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purpun
Obviously git for version control and make in combination with watchman as my goto buildtool, even though I like bazel just as much. I prefer tldr over manpages sometimes. I also use pass as my primary passwordstore and xclip for copying. Other well implemented tools I use in my daily life are taskwarrior (task and todo manager), hledger (for finances and accounting purposes), ncmpcpp (mpd client) and watson (as timetracking in multiple projects).
xinau
Going to take a look, at tldr and watchman. Thanks