• Algae@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    My answers (mostly running in powershell - not that it makes much of a difference!)

    Rust-based utilities I couldn’t live without:

    • fd (fd-find) for finding my files
    • rg (ripgrep) for string searches
    • sd (sed) for search and replace
    • dust (dust) for information about my directories
    • lsd (aliased to ls or l) for replacing Dir
    • bat (better cat) - for when the help pages are too long

    Other stuff I love:

    • htop - I just learned you can run this in WSL to see all your system cores. It’s pretty!
    • nvim - obviously. The best vim. Even works in VSCode
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    1 year ago

    pv, which is like cat, simply copying files or stdin to stdout, but prints statistics to the terminal.

    A related tip: dd isn’t special in the way most people use it. This works too, if you’re root: pv my-fav-distro.iso > /dev/sdc