Julia Evanswhat's a popular command line tool (other than git) that you wish had a clearer / more intuitive UI? I'm thinking of tools like `dig` which has this IMO pretty arcane output format
for ffmpeg: ffmprovisr is am amazing list of ffmpeg recipes https://amiaopensource.github.io/ffmprovisr/
I often wish I could search through other people's shell histories for commands I'm learning, to see how they're using them (in some kind of privacy-preserving way)
Florian Schmidt@b0rk
In a way, you can do this on https://www.commandlinefu.com
In case you didn't know it already, people post their favourite one-liners along with explanations, and vote for/against possible alternatives.
Lisa W. E.@schmidt_fu @b0rk Oh, that's cool!
In the same vein, I like Cheat (https://github.com/cheat/cheat) - it's *kind of* like seeing how people use commands (because people contribute to the cheat sheets). I use the cheat command way more often than man, that's for sure.
GitHub - cheat/cheat: cheat allows you to create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line. It was designed to help remind *nix system administrators of options for commands that they use frequently, but not frequently enough to remember.
cheat allows you to create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line. It was designed to help remind *nix system administrators of options for commands that they use frequently, but not ...
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