7 Amazing CLI Tools You Need To Try

[@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!

[@FullLifeFrank]

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!

[@jasonm23]

Heya Jose nice video, have a look at difftastic as diff tool. It's syntax aware and very cool.

[@TimmWimmers]

As a terminal enthusiast for more than 20 years now, I know most of these tools. But I've never seen such a compact and well presented tutorial on using and configure these tools. Well done Josean, it's a masterpiece.

[@joseanmartinez]

@@TimmWimmers Thank you so much!

[@galporgy]

Most videos in the "10 things you can't live without" genre are garbage clickbait, this one is the rare gem which explains not just the *what* but the *why* of these tools. Well done!

[@brunesi]

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

[@thestaffengineer]

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.

[@gorgeous_cloud]

Overwhelmed with possibilities to become one more useless human being.

[@davidpower3102]

When I was an engineer we used to spend a lot of time doing exactly this. I've noticed my engineers barely know how to use the command line these days. If it isn't done by clicking a button on a cloud interface somewhere they an't interested. Great to see so many people super into the Terminal still. I loved this video.

[@nkristianschmidt]

sounds like a bright future for real engineers

[@dustin6336]

Making me love terminal even more. It's so easy to get caught up in the daily grind and let gems like these pass you by. So glad I found your vids. Keep it up. This is a great format!

[@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

[@richardrhodes9664]

I have used almost all of these tools, but not nearly to this extent and I am so excited to get home and further customize my set up. Thank you for this extremely informative video.

[@robboerman9378]

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

[@adamdrake39]

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

[@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

[@robertluong3024]

40 year old developer here, loving your content always.

[@perkio30]

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

[@JSiuDev]

WOW!! I can't follow exactly the video, but just to see what the tools can do. I am reading the blog. This is amazing!!

[@aron2922]

This is a really fucking awesome video, im on WSL myself but this really makes me see the fun of linux. Genuinely the most useful video ive seen in like 5 years.

[@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!

[@bibalavida]

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

[@АльбертХарисов-м8с]

Thank you very much! A lot of perfect tools!

[@sdsa007]

Wow! This is so Hollywood! I think they are really gonna use these CLIs for the next Batman! I can't wait to give it try! Thanks!

[@dothgaerwenoakblossom15]

I know and use all of these tools, but was curious why fzf was such a long section, turns out the fzf keybinds are amazing and crazy fast. Thanks!

[@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.

[@mrwerevamp]

Wow I have had fzf for many years and had no idea of the ** functionality. Very cool!

[@gregd2431]

Absolute banger. 10/10 thank you

[@stannylou1636]

What keyboard do you use, nice vid!

[@jelmermulder7276]

More than the boring "Must have command line tools" by pointing out how these tools can work together. Great video

[@HannoBuhmes]

Nice! What is that auto complete/ suggestion feature we can see all the time you type... Is it fig?

[@ardnys35]

that fzf config with bat and eza is really cool. i'll definitely try that

[@ryanmatsua33]

How do you show your git hashes like that on the terminal?

[@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 🙏

[@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!

[@kevinluis4179]

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

[@joseanmartinez]

Saludos! Muchas gracias!! Orgulloso de representar 🇵🇷

[@MnemonicCarrier]

You Sir, are a CLI guru! Now I have CLI envy 😢

[@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.

[@PaulWilliams-jh7vh]

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

[@particularist11]

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

[@emjizone]

Very demonstrative. Thanks.

[@chandragie]

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

[@joseanmartinez]

Happy to help!

[@cainux]

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

[@digital42082]

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

[@micmacha]

Most graphical terminals have a theme setting which adjusts transparency.

[@prze-mek]

Very nice synergy between fzf bat and delta!

[@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.

[@emiljohansson4946]

This video really leveled up my nix

[@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!

[@jasonevans498]

Love the sound of those keys. What switch are they?

[@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?

[@i_am_batman_ph]

Hi! I noticed that you are using a different zsh theme? May I know you are using here?

[@10tronic]

Very useful tools. Thanks. Did you have some recommendations related with ranger? (fzf looks amazing but i thing i will use it just like finder not like explorer)

[@stebanrider]

Very good. I used some of them but I didn't remember them all. thefuck is a very good discovery for me. Thanks for the cool video, it has a cool style

[@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

[@MK_UTD]

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

[@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!

[@i.hate.artists]

awesome video as always, fzf and eza my fav

[@joseanmartinez]

Thanks!

[@maxreuv]

Superuseful, thank you very much!

[@joseanmartinez]

Happy to hear that!

[@ChozoSR388]

installing from the fzf git repo gives you a few more options like keybinds and history search plus the latest version.

[@utvikler-no]

Awesome tips, even for a long time cli user ❤

[@joseanmartinez]

Thanks!!

[@synen]

Exceptional tools, are they all available for Windows cmd?

[@69k_gold]

It's impossible for someone like me who got used to the default CLI to use these extensions. Nice video I guess but most of these are forcing TUI, which is not easy to copy and paste to, as you use more CLI you'll find the advantages of having everything in plaintext

[@MichaelProcario]

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

[@hyperiontitan463]

you got my whole attention.

[@abimanyu86ece]

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

[@fegyi001]

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

[@joseanmartinez]

Happy to hear that!

[@joaocalixtodaschagas8630]

awesome video man thank you very much

[@karlhuang9]

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

[@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

[@NickyDekker89]

Great video. Slick workflow.

[@yayinternets]

Great video man, very concise. I wish my super hobbled neurodivergent brain worked this quickly. 😂

[@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!!

[@slowook]

do you use iTerm? What do you use?

[@aamirm5117]

As impressive as this seems, it feels almost counterintuitive to learn all these non-standard tools. I think there would be a lot of upfront learning of these new utilities and I’m not sure if it would be beneficial, especially if I have to work in a different environment than my home machine.

[@nkristianschmidt]

its very useful for admins and programmers working big projects with thousands of files

[@tridibbiswas3361]

Could you also share how you setup the prompt

[@tstephansen]

This is a really solid video.

[@aryanrahman3212]

Great explanation

[@yilongliu-e8p]

what is the shortcuts of C-GH that you have been use in select git commit ?

[@brighamdent310]

Just started using eza its great!

[@ebouchut]

Thank you. This is really helpful!

[@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.

[@nanashi7726]

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

[@puzzledl]

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

[@SamLaw1]

Incredible set of tips! So much magic!

[@nickmills8476]

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

[@zhangkevin8147]

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

[@weedfreer]

Why is it that i can never seem to relate to the Linux terminal in the same way i can to the MS MDOS terminal? This is a constant frustration for me as i see it as a massive barrier between me connecting with what you're doing and not. And believe me when i say, i would love to get my head around this. Jowever, i just end up baseless without reference points going round in circles every time i try getting into it. This and the whole Git hub sharing to and downloading from. The barrier to entry as someone on their own tryi g to figure it out in their mid 40s just seem to be soo damn high!

[@noelguiavieira]

great goodies, as always! Cheers

[@joseanmartinez]

Thanks! 🙏🏽

[@ultrasys]

WOW. What keyboard is that?

[@Edelgrim]

Was wondering the same thing. It clicks beautifully and seems to be separated.

[@ultrasys]

@@Edelgrim on further inspection, I found out he’s got specific videos about how to build that keyboard. Worth getting a look at. Check his channel videos.

[@Edelgrim]

Hey @@ultrasys, thank you, that's awesome. I'd love to build one myself but I can see it takes a lot of soldering and some 3d printing for the case. I also found some prebuilt ones but they sure are expensive and I don't think I can justify the cost right now... Also, I can't seem to find a local store for all the components so I would have to import them :(

[@yodabyte]

In reference to fzf, ctrl t just opens a new terminal for me. Is there another way?

[@micmacha]

First thing I would do is check the config file for it

[@ALL-IN-ONE-short-x1t]

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

[@joseanmartinez]

Thank you!

[@markring40]

Another great video!! Thank you 🙏

[@fuzzy-02]

Thef*ck was way cooler than I thought it'd be

[@SouNin_]

How did you get those icons onto terminal?

[@Spainog]

Awesome video awesome setup! Thanks for sharing the knowledge

[@itzzRaghav]

Your videos are always amazing.

[@GeorgelPreput]

CTRL-T also shows directories, and bat will give off an error on those. You could use `export FZF_CTRL_T_OPTS="--preview '[[ -d {} ]] && eza --tree --color=always {} | head -200 || bat -n --color=always --line-range :500 {}'"` in bash/zsh, or `set -gx FZF_CTRL_T_OPTS "--preview 'if test -d {}; eza --tree --color=always {} | head -200; else; bat -n --color=always --line-range :500 {}; end'"` in fish to have it show previews more nicely.

[@JulianInsua]

This was next level! Loved it!

[@joseanmartinez]

Thank you!

[@charfractal9441]

amazing video as always!!

[@joseanmartinez]

Thank you!

[@davidlee588]

somehow my kill -9 ** won't work, the tab is always presenting suggestions for folder navigation, wonder if it is the zoxide block, i cannot use tab to trigger fzf like you did, may I know why? ** won't work for me in any situation, even I have fzf installed and it worked just fine.

[@d3mist0clesgee12]

Wow, great stuff