List of not-so-known handy CLI utils

Inspired from this Twitter post.

tig # text-mode interface for Git
diff-so-fancy # 11.5k
ncdu # Disk usage analyzer
bat # cat alternative
fzf # 20.4k A command-line fuzzy finder. Probably there is a oh-my-zsh plugin
httpie # 40.3k CLI, cURL-like tool for humans. See https://httpie.org/
entr # A utility for running arbitrary commands when files change
DevOp
- dive # 14.5k A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image
- hadolint # 1.7k Dockerfile linter, validate inline bash
- Kubernetes
  - kubectx # 3.7 a tool to switch between Kubernetes contexts
  - stern # 1.8k Multi pod and container log tailing for Kubernetes
  - k9s # 1.5k Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!
pet # 2.1k Simple command-line snippet manager
JSON
- fx # 7.6k Command-line tool and terminal JSON viewer Much powerfull than just jq
- jid # 4.9k json incremental digger
mycli # 7.2k A Terminal Client for MySQL with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting
Pretty known
- byobu # Like tmux, on top of it, friendlier
- mosh # 8.1k Mobile Shell
- ag -G "md$" searchterm # 17.5 The Silver Searcher - A code-searching tool
- j # 9.1k Autojump - A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line
- trans # 3.1k Command-line translator
- gtts-cli -l es "Adios amigos" | play -t mp3 - &> /dev/null # TTS using Google undocumented API
- youtube-dl
- rxvt-unicode # Terminal emulator like Guake
- mutt
- elinks
- mpd

Peek - 4.1k an animated GIF recorder. See https://asciinema.org/ and byzanz-gui
tldr # 21.7k site and Github
cheat.sh - 16.3k examples (also has a command line client)
- curl https://cheat.sh/ss
- curl https://cheat.sh/kubectl
- curl https://cheat.sh/bat

ZSH / oh-my-zsh plugins

plugins+=(command-not-found extract)