cli-tools.md

A collection of useful tools for CLI

Terminal

Alacritty

• Config

  Alacritty looks for configuration files in:

  $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/alacritty/alacritty.toml
  $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/alacritty.toml
  $HOME/.config/alacritty/alacritty.toml # Recommended
  $HOME/.alacritty.toml

Warp

Kitty

• Install (Linux/Mac)

  curl -L https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/installer.sh | sh /dev/stdin

  kitty will be install to

  • /Applications/kitty.app on Mac
  • ~/.local/kitty.app on Linux

• Add icon for kitty to taskbar on Linux

  # Create symbolic links to add kitty and kitten to PATH (assuming ~/.local/bin is in your system-wide PATH)
  ln -sf ~/.local/kitty.app/bin/kitty ~/.local/kitty.app/bin/kitten ~/.local/bin/
  
  # Place the kitty.desktop file somewhere it can be found by the OS
  cp ~/.local/kitty.app/share/applications/kitty.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
  
  # If you want to open text files and images in kitty via your file manager also add the kitty-open.desktop file
  cp ~/.local/kitty.app/share/applications/kitty-open.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
  
  # Update the paths to the kitty and its icon in the kitty desktop file(s)
  sed -i "s|Icon=kitty|Icon=/home/$USER/.local/kitty.app/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/kitty.png|g" ~/.local/share/applications/kitty*.desktop
  sed -i "s|Exec=kitty|Exec=/home/$USER/.local/kitty.app/bin/kitty|g" ~/.local/share/applications/kitty*.desktop

• Change default icon to kitty-icon dark

  # Fedora
  curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DinkDonk/kitty-icon/main/kitty-dark.png -o ~/.local/kitty.app/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/kitty.png
  gtk-update-icon-cache -f -t ~/.local/kitty.app/share/icons/hicolor

  For more information, see Install kitty

• Shortcuts

  Action	Keyboard Shortcut
  Create a new tab	Ctrl + Shift + T
  Create a new window	Ctrl + Shift + Enter
  Change layout	Ctrl + Shift + L
  Close window	Ctrl + Shift + W
  Next window	ctrl + shift + ]
  Previous window	ctrl + shift + [

  For more information, see:

  • Overview | Kitty
  • Keyboard Shortcuts | kitty.config

Shell

bash

zsh

oh-my-zsh: Framework for Zsh, comes with plugins, themes, functions, helpers

Antidote: zsh plugin manager (successor of Antibody - successor of Antigen) - Cure to slow zsh loading time

Completion, suggestions & syntax highlight for zsh

• Completions (for a command)

  • argc-completions
  • zsh-users/zsh-completions ?

• Suggestions (from history)

  • zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

• Syntax highlight

  • zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting
  • zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlighting
  • z-shell/F-Sy-H

fish

Shell Plugins

argc-completions

Argc-completions: Completions for any shell. Supports 1000+ commands. Automatically generate completion definition from help text and man page.

fzf: A command-line fuzzy finder

• Key bindings for command-line¹:
  • CTRL-T - Get a list of files and directories
  • CTRL-R - Get a list of command history
  • ALT-C - Get a list of directories
• Fuzzy Complete for files/directories²:
  • **<TAB>: COMMAND [DIRECTORY/][FUZZY_PATTERN]**<TAB>

Shell Prompt

Starship: Cross-shell Prompt

See Starship

CLI tools

File navigate

broot³: A better way to navigate directories 🌟🌟🌟

broot can replace a lot of CLI tools (e.g. ls, cd, tree, df, find...)

• Config
  • The default configuration file location is ~/.config/broot/conf.toml
  • How to config Broot?

Data process

sed, awk, grep

jq⁴: The original JSON processor 🌟🌟

jq clones:

• jaq⁵: Rust clone
• gojq⁶: Go clone

yq⁷: YAML (JSON, XML, CSV, TOML, ...) processor 🌟🌟

xq⁸: XML, HTML processor

fx⁹: Interactive JSON/YAML viewer & processor 🌟🌟🌟

Footnotes

1. https://github.com/junegunn/fzf?tab=readme-ov-file#key-bindings-for-command-line ↩

2. https://github.com/junegunn/fzf?tab=readme-ov-file#fuzzy-completion-for-bash-and-zsh ↩

3. https://github.com/Canop/broot ↩

4. https://github.com/jqlang/jq ↩

5. https://github.com/01mf02/jaq ↩

6. https://github.com/itchyny/gojq/ ↩

7. https://github.com/mikefarah/yq ↩

8. https://github.com/sibprogrammer/xq ↩

9. https://fx.wtf/ ↩