7 Amazing CLI Tools You Need To Try

These are 7 game-changing cli tools for macOs or Linux operating systems. I've been incorporating them into my workflow recently and they are incredibly helpful for working on the terminal. Hope you enjoy the video!
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00:00 - introduction
00:25 - fzf
06:27 - bat
09:00 - delta
10:15 - eza
13:07 - tldr
13:52 - thef*ck
14:49 - zoxide
17:32 - conclusion
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[@joseanmartinez]

Hey guys! I’ve made a slight modification to the code for fzf previews so that when looking for files and directories, we check what type it is first and use eza to preview directories instead of bat (which shows an error). I’ve added the code to the blog and repo!

[@frankcarv]

what do you use to show what you're typing as it's not just the letter but the full key cleanly and it's movement. Super clean. Thanks for this video!

[@brunesi]

This was not a video, it was a show on how to use the terminal more efficiently. Just amazing.

[@unlobs]

Your videos are dense, I can rarely watch them in one go, I get overwhelmed by the possibilities. Thank you for compacting all that info in an objective format.

[@robboerman9378]

When I saw the video title first I thought “another one of those open door videos”… but I was wrong. Super useful tools!!

[@IainSimmons]

I never knew about the ** for fzf, that's awesome!

[@joseanmartinez]

🚀

[@charfractal9441]

@@joseanmartinez would you know how to use this specific command with fish ? apparently ** does not work in fish for me nevermind , i got it to work

[@esamlasheen453]

@@charfractal9441 how you make it work on fish bro ?

[@faustozampa]

@@charfractal9441 i have the same problem... what did you do?

[@mkdir7005]

@@charfractal9441 me too

[@PaulWilliams-jh7vh]

hands down you are one of the best creators for this thank you. You are so concise and clear.

[@fulcain8596]

Litterly what i was looking for. specially the fzf thingi. Thank you so much!

[@user-tt1ru8og2n]

Nicely intersects with my list of useful CLI apps. Thank you for the video!

[@TheGamingTitan]

Usually I pick out things that are useful when a video creator recommends it, but I found myself installing all of these in the end, haha. Great set of tools, thank you!

[@imrellx]

You are absolutely incredible! It's refreshing to see someone on KZbin who is genuinely trying to teach what they know, and you're really good at it. I hope you continue on this path because you are awesome.

[@joseanmartinez]

Means a lot, thank you!

[@JonathanMorrisMusic]

Excellent content as usual, Josean, keep up the great work!

[@joseanmartinez]

Thank you 🙏🏽

[@alaouiamine3835]

I really enjoyed every minute, thank you for gold tier content 🙏

[@Spainog]

Awesome video awesome setup! Thanks for sharing the knowledge

[@SamLaw1]

Incredible set of tips! So much magic!

[@adamdrake39]

Not the usual recommendations and I like the more in depth view of each one. Thanks for making this!

[@perkio30]

I’ve just been rawdogging it with a barebones default terminal for work 😂 you just changed my life

[@nanashi7726]

Nice Work! I didn't know the theme management! I'll try it!

[@ebouchut]

Thank you. This is really helpful!

[@chandragie]

never know I could expand fzf usage like this. Thanks!

[@joseanmartinez]

Happy to help!

[@MK_UTD]

WoW! you motivated me again to get back to work more in terminal. thanks :)

[@markring40]

Another great video!! Thank you 🙏

[@JulianInsua]

This was next level! Loved it!

[@joseanmartinez]

Thank you!

[@nickmills8476]

Great in depth information. Got some setting up to do…

[@i.hate.artists]

awesome video as always, fzf and eza my fav

[@joseanmartinez]

Thanks!

[@itzzRaghav]

Your videos are always amazing.

[@Good-and-Geeky]

Excellent - Had fzf and zoxide installed but learned some new stuff about them too. All looking great in the terminal now...

[@joseanmartinez]

Happy to hear that!

[@ignrey]

This is literally the info I've been looking for while. I've created functions in bash for making myself more productive but it's time poorly invested. Thanks for sharing!

[@joseanmartinez]

Happy to hear it was helpful!

[@fegyi001]

that was awesome, I added a lot of stuff to my configs, thanks!

[@joseanmartinez]

Happy to hear that!

[@user-hh4br5tk5p]

This is genius. Thanks!!!

[@utvikler-no]

Awesome tips, even for a long time cli user ❤

[@joseanmartinez]

Thanks!!

[@noelguiavieira]

great goodies, as always! Cheers

[@joseanmartinez]

Thanks! 🙏🏽

[@NickyDekker89]

Great video. Slick workflow.

[@MichaelProcario]

Very good video. The best intro to far I have seen.

[@hrayati]

Great tools, thank you.

[@maxreuv]

Superuseful, thank you very much!

[@joseanmartinez]

Happy to hear that!

[@dimitarkostov7113]

Awesome, I'm using your configs for almost a year.I was working on a Mac 2019 with Intel chip, then moved on a PC using Linux, recently I switched to M3Pro chip, I feel like iTerm2 is slow, I can't wait the video of your terminal config.

[@hamm8934]

Just switch to alacritty. Its gpu accelerated and cross platform

[@dimitarkostov7113]

@@hamm8934 I know, I'm using it on my arch setup, but by default I went to iterm2 on my Mac, and it is noticeable performance difference, even Konsole the default kde terminal is performing better than iterm2.

[@hamm8934]

@@dimitarkostov7113gotcha Yeah i just gave up on iterm. Its so bloated and slow

[@brighamdent310]

Just started using eza its great!

[@ashishpandeyone]

This is amazing and definitely educational and eases up working on your system but that 30 to 50 sec time to source the zshrc is abysmal. A couple of seconds is alright, anything more than that is too much and should be made async or should be lazy loaded.

[@charfractal9441]

amazing video as always!!

[@joseanmartinez]

Thank you!

[@tstephansen]

This is a really solid video.

[@cainux]

Svelte! I already knew you have good taste but this further confirms it 👍👍

[@bibalavida]

wow, thank you! btw, what keyboard do you use?

[@defectus]

Thanks a lot!

[@adityakumartiwari8882]

Bro, you are making very awesome video , keep it up

[@joseanmartinez]

Thank you!

[@digital42082]

Good content! How do you keep your terminal transparent so you can put a video of yourself behind the terminal?

[@MarkJaquith]

Incredible video.

[@d3mist0clesgee12]

Wow, great stuff

[@particularist11]

I'm loving that marbly keyboard acoustic. What one are you using?

[@kevinluis4179]

Dimelo, saludos! Aqui otro boricua apoyando! Gracias por representar la islita🇵🇷

[@joseanmartinez]

Saludos! Muchas gracias!! Orgulloso de representar 🇵🇷

[@rakeshvenkat9971]

Brilliant video!!! Thanks for sharing. Is it possible to share tips n tricks on how you learnt to type this fast?

[@joseanmartinez]

Thank you! Happy to hear that! My typing speed has come down to proper technique and a lot of practice over the years. Using a custom split also has made it easier to be very efficient when typing symbols and numbers, etc...

[@rakeshvenkat9971]

@@joseanmartinez thank you so much for taking your time to answer. Appreciate it!!

[@ericlindell3777]

Great vid!

[@joseanmartinez]

Thank you!

[@rafalk0]

Awesome video, subscribed! 🔥 Re: eza, I guess it's worth mentioning that the icons need to be supported by the font used in the terminal.

[@puneetdhiman5194]

Great video

[@joseanmartinez]

Thanks!

[@scottfwalter]

Great video!

[@joseanmartinez]

Thanks!

[@stannylou1636]

What keyboard do you use, nice vid!

[@zeal514]

another banger video!

[@joseanmartinez]

Thank you🙏🏽

[@marcin.sobocinski]

This is the next level of the next level of using terminal 😀... I am at the base lever currently...

[@LostBoyLA]

Very interesting. Been using the terminal the same for 30 years. Time to modernizen it?

[@CodingWithAuryn]

Very cool. Thank you for the in depth explanation. Didn’t know about thef***k and will install it now :)

[@joseanmartinez]

Thanks for the feedback Auryn! Happy to hear you found it helpful!

[@CodingWithAuryn]

@@joseanmartinez It absolutely was, love your videos and watch all of them :)

[@joseanmartinez]

@@CodingWithAuryn Thanks man!

[@ercudu]

i really like your terminal is there any video explain the customization u have

[@joseanmartinez]

I will be doing a new video on that soon🙏🏽

[@_haakon_]

Thanks

[@joseanmartinez]

Thank you for your support! Means a lot 🙏🏽

[@tridibbiswas3361]

Could you also share how you setup the prompt

[@puzzledl]

please make a video about setup python (pylsp) in nvim .

[@karlhuang9]

Would be good if you can also talk about why you chose alacrity over iterm2 or warp in next video, cheers

[@synen]

Exceptional tools, are they all available for Windows cmd?

[@beardedgiant]

A couple new tools in here I didn’t know I “needed”. Pumped that alacritty video! Struggling mightily with copy and paste from alacritty. Almost seems impossible

[@V0R73X]

is there a way to have the lines wrap in the bat preview when Ctrl + T is pressed?

[@slowook]

do you use iTerm? What do you use?

[@Feedback406]

You don’t need number 7 either In zsh you can travel to a path by just typing the path without “cd” if you have the correct zsh option set. You could use a zsh widget to run code every time a terminal line is initiated and have that code read the command line and if the command line starts with a pathname in the first position save that pathname And then you can output those path names to a completion menu to replicate what “z” does And then bind that completion menu to a key so you can pull up all the paths you traveled to Reminds me of the harpoon neovim plugin

[@Feedback406]

You don’t need tool #6 You can just bind the “spell-word” zsh widget to a key or create a zsh widget and call a zsh correction completion to do the same thing and bind it to a key

[@jcgonzalez9122]

As soon as you pulled up neovim I hit subscribe. I seriously cringe when devs use a mouse when editing.

[@SouNin_]

How did you get those icons onto terminal?

[@juanal07]

hey do you know how to implement fzf + delta for diffs? It's like not full width on my machine, dont know why

[@GeorgeGzirishvili]

14:50: There's also _autojump._

[@mattjensen3092]

First time viewer, good video!!!

[@mattjensen3092]

Would love to know more about your setup (config, OS, etc), hopefully explained in your other vids or blog

[@joseanmartinez]

Thank you! And yes, I have videos on most of my setup including my terminal setup as well as Neovim and tmux. The terminal setup for this particular video is new so I'm planning on doing a new one for that.

[@abimanyu86ece]

What is the terminal that you are using? Have you added any plugins to it?

[@zhangkevin8147]

Could you tell me how to build a blog like yours?Thanks

[@SB-qm5wg]

I didn't know fzf had keybindings. I've been using it just for pipes.

[@subbunittala2012]

I'm currently running wsl on windows 10 ...and i want to trigger the obsdian app (more importantly the obsidian urls ) .. i found xdg-open will work ..and it uses wsl-open under the hood ..but it is giving me some error ..can you please advise me !

[@dhakhoa93]

From WSL, I'd just leverage powershell to open the file using the associations set by Windows. You can try putting the following in a function in your .bashrc file=$(echo "$1" | sed -e 's/\//\\/g') powershell.exe -Command "Invoke-Item $file"

[@wild_shaman]

Oh. As a tmux-zsh-nvim fan, who doing some lectures with these tools I WILL USE THEFUCK. Thank you pal.

[@thatpaulschofield]

Did anybody else think the thumbnail said "C L I T O R I S..."

[@vnsmrr]

Fr

[@_HetShah_]

it says "CLI TOOLS"

[@vnsmrr]

@@_HetShah_ we know hahaha but it looks like something else

[@xthebumpx]

No

[@armynyus9123]

No. But I think tool nr 6 is for you.

[@user-xo6vr8vz9x]

thank you sir. how to vim auto suggestion ?? 05:41

[@ElMarcoh]

didn't know fzf now shipped with the zsh config as a flag, I guess it was added within this month since a month ago was when I set up my laptop and my fzf didn't have the flag

[@talderson1]

tldr... that's worth the visit all by itself.

[@mattcargile]

Missing ripgrep and fd-find! With fzf that is the holy trinity.

[@Ulchie]

Ya, don't enable `--git` by default for eza. It will take a long time to run on large codebases (even with git maintenance + git untracked file cache etc etc enabled). Otherwise, very nice video. I use half these tools already and was not aware of some of the features you showed.

[@joseanmartinez]

I didn't know that! Thanks for the tip.

[@MatthieuPETIOT]

Thanks for the video. 12:32 there is a typo here. This should be: fzf --preview "eval 'echo \${}'" "$@" ;;

[@joseanmartinez]

Yep, the typos have been fixed in the blog post, thanks

[@imrongamidli5190]

Keyboard update review?

[@shaice]

SUBSCRIBEEEED you are the CLI god that everyone would need.

[@10tronic]

Sin duda instalaré fzf

[@iounios_italia]

Which terminal app are you using?

[@sheevys]

From env variables I would guess alacritty

[@sheevys]

He even mentioned it at the end

[@joseanmartinez]

Yes I recently switched to Alacritty

[@musagillani5399]

try exa, similar to eza

[@Theosibo]

Rust really is taking over for a lot of long standing gnu utils.

[@Danitruc6]

Man the F*CK command is awesome

[@dragonmax2000]

it looks like ** is a special consideration in your terminal

[@JacquesvanWyk]

There is also exa I use that did not know about eza will see what is difference.

[@joseanmartinez]

eza is just the version being maintained by the community! exa is no longer maintained.

[@JacquesvanWyk]

@@joseanmartinez awesome then its time for a change. thanks

[@somnukwongkhan4233]

Great

[@chrissmith6028]

Mint 20 had a antiquated fzf v.0.20.0 in the repo. Best to head to the Git page, grab the source zip file and just run the install script. Let it modify your rc file. Just a heads up, that the ".fzf.bash" script uses the _static_ location that you unpacked it in. So if you do **not** want it in the dir that you downloaded it to, move it first. Or if you move it later, go back and update the .fzf.bash script.

[@PEdulis]

I'm running Debian 12, installed fzf and added the lines to the .zshrc file. When I ran source .zshrc, I got the error "unknown option: --zsh" so I ran fzf --zsh and I got the same error: "unknown option: --zsh" What did I miss?

[@adonespitogonaif]

Probably your fzf is outdated

[@PEdulis]

@@adonespitogonaif I freshly installed it after watching your video but maybe Debian installs an outdated version? Mine is 0.38.0-1+b1

[@GustavoWidman-ze8dx]

Can you share your powerlevel10k config please?