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I'd love to hear other tools that you guys are using for your daily workflow.

sthatipamala 14y ago
This was a good list for the intermediate command line user looking to customize. For the absolute newbie I'd reduce it down to git/hg, ssh, grep/ack and curl. For crazy power users, I'm a huge fan of vim+tmux+zsh combo as described in http://www.drbunsen.org/text-triumvirate.html http://www.drbunsen.org/text-triumvirate.html
- commadelimited 14y ago
  That's a good list. I considered including Git but that could be an entire article by itself. I've looked at TMux but I just don't I'd use it.
  - devgutt 14y ago
    What's the difference between Tmux and iTerm2?
    - johncoltrane 14y ago
      tmux is a CLI terminal multiplexer. As an interactive CLI program, you need a shell to use it. To run such a shell, you need a terminal emulator. iTerm2 is a Mac OS X only GUI terminal emulator. You can run tmux in iTerm2.
jkbr 14y ago
HTTPie, an easy to use cURL replacement: https://github.com/jkbr/httpie https://github.com/jkbr/httpie (disclaimer: I'm the author)
rys 14y ago
zsh, vim, git, pry, ack, htty, pv, multitail to name just a few of the most common and powerful things in my daily text shell arsenal.
johncoltrane 14y ago
CLI (Mac OS X and Linux): bash, git/tig, svn, cdargs, vifm or ranger (can't decide), vim, grep, man, ssh, a few custom functions and tmux. GUI (Mac OS X): MacVim, ClipMenu, YummyFTP, Quicksilver, iTerm2, SourceTree, FileMerge, Chrome dev tools. GUI (Linux): GVim, Glippy, FileZilla, Synapse, Gnome terminal, SmartGit/SmartSVN, Meld, Chrome dev tools.
- AdamGibbins 14y ago
  Terminator (http://www.tenshu.net/p/terminator.html http://www.tenshu.net/p/terminator.html) is a nice replacement for Gnome Terminal thats very similar to iTerm2.
  - johncoltrane 14y ago
    Thanks, I'll take a look. I don't use any advanced features of iTerm, though, I just use it over Terminal.app because it supports 256 colors. We have not been updated to Lion or Mountain Lion at work so Terminal.app is still limited to 16 colors for me.

This was a good list for the intermediate command line user looking to customize. For the absolute newbie I'd reduce it down to git/hg, ssh, grep/ack and curl. For crazy power users, I'm a huge fan of vim+tmux+zsh combo as described in http://www.drbunsen.org/text-triumvirate.html http://www.drbunsen.org/text-triumvirate.html

commadelimited 14y ago
That's a good list. I considered including Git but that could be an entire article by itself. I've looked at TMux but I just don't I'd use it.
- devgutt 14y ago
  What's the difference between Tmux and iTerm2?
  - johncoltrane 14y ago
    tmux is a CLI terminal multiplexer. As an interactive CLI program, you need a shell to use it. To run such a shell, you need a terminal emulator. iTerm2 is a Mac OS X only GUI terminal emulator. You can run tmux in iTerm2.

jkbr 14y ago

HTTPie, an easy to use cURL replacement: https://github.com/jkbr/httpie https://github.com/jkbr/httpie (disclaimer: I'm the author)

rys 14y ago

zsh, vim, git, pry, ack, htty, pv, multitail to name just a few of the most common and powerful things in my daily text shell arsenal.

johncoltrane 14y ago

CLI (Mac OS X and Linux): bash, git/tig, svn, cdargs, vifm or ranger (can't decide), vim, grep, man, ssh, a few custom functions and tmux. GUI (Mac OS X): MacVim, ClipMenu, YummyFTP, Quicksilver, iTerm2, SourceTree, FileMerge, Chrome dev tools. GUI (Linux): GVim, Glippy, FileZilla, Synapse, Gnome terminal, SmartGit/SmartSVN, Meld, Chrome dev tools.

AdamGibbins 14y ago
Terminator (http://www.tenshu.net/p/terminator.html http://www.tenshu.net/p/terminator.html) is a nice replacement for Gnome Terminal thats very similar to iTerm2.
- johncoltrane 14y ago
  Thanks, I'll take a look. I don't use any advanced features of iTerm, though, I just use it over Terminal.app because it supports 256 colors. We have not been updated to Lion or Mountain Lion at work so Terminal.app is still limited to 16 colors for me.