📟Command line tools

cli

Keyboard shortcuts

  • ctrl-r - Search previously used commands
  • ctrl-t - Invoke FZF fuzzy file finder (see below)
  • ctrl-l - Clear the terminal screen
  • ctrl-k - Clears the terminal screen but no-scroll back. Basically wipes the
  • ctrl-w - Cut one word backwards using white space as delimiter
  • esc-t - Swap the last two words before the cursor

Commands

cal

Show a calendar

❯ cal
   February 2020
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
                   1
 2  3  4  5  6  7  8
 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29

date

Show the date

❯ date
Sat  7 Sep 2019 09:22:28 BST

tree

Show directory contents as a tree

❯ tree -L 1
.
├── README.md
├── example
├── gatsby-theme-code-notes
├── node_modules
├── package.json
└── yarn.lock

List global packages

# with yarn
❯ yarn global list

# with npm
❯ npm -g ls --depth=0

Flush DNS cache

1. Clear OS-level DNS cache

On Mac OS, run this in the terminal:

sudo dscacheutil -flushcache;sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder

On Windows:

ipconfig /flushdns

2. Clear DNS cache via Chrome

Go to chrome://net-internals/#dns and click Clear host cache.

This button sounds like it should clear the OS-level cache, but my experience just doing this isn’t enough by itself.

Chrome DNS page

3. Close existing server connections

Go to chrome://net-internals/#sockets and click Flush socket pools.

Chrome Sockets page

Then reload the page you’re testing and you should see the DNS lookup again, as well as the time spent on establishing the TCP connection.

Custom packages

Autojump

https://github.com/wting/autojump

autojump is a faster way to navigate your filesystem. It works by maintaining a database of the directories you use the most from the command line.

❯ j code

exa

https://github.com/ogham/exa

A modern version of ls

❯ exa -l
❯ exa -T -L 2 # like tree

FZF

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

Fuzzy find files. Use ctrl+t to access it

serve

https://github.com/zeit/serve

Static file serving and directory listing

emma

https://github.com/maticzav/emma-cli

Search for npm packages. Run emma to initialise the search, then enter your search criteria

ibrew

https://github.com/mischah/ibrew

Interactive search CLI for Homebrew

Run ibrew to initialise the search, then enter your search criteria

yalc

https://github.com/whitecolor/yalc

Work with yarn/npm packages locally like a boss.

hub

https://hub.github.com/

# clone one of your GitHub repos
❯ hub clone dotfiles
# Same as → git clone git://github.com/YOUR_USER/dotfiles.git

# clone another project's repo
❯ hub clone github/hub
# → git clone git://github.com/github/hub.git

# open the current project's issues page
❯ hub browse -- issues
# → open https://github.com/github/hub/issues

# open another project's wiki
❯ hub browse mojombo/jekyll wiki

List the current repo’s PRs

# this is an alias
alias prs 'hub pr list -L 20 -b develop --format="%t%n - Branch: [%H]%n - %U%n - %l%n%n"'
# e.g. ❯ prs

Create a branch and switch to it

# FYI This is a fish shell function
function branch
  git branch {$argv} && git checkout {$argv}
end
# e.g. ❯ branch feature/WL-88-hello

standup

https://github.com/kamranahmedse/git-standup

Shows a list of commits for the past 24 hours

❯ standup
/Users/zander/code/fairfx/fx-holiday-money-app
5315f033 - build(multi): HM-925 Improve perf for a couple of pages (16 hours ago) <Zander Martineau>
4b41c048 - index on feature/HM-925-improve-performance:
1b854d84 fix(ci): AWS-99 Remove builds/deployments associated (#845) (17 hours ago) <Zander Martineau>

cross-port-killer

https://github.com/milewski/cross-port-killer

Kill a process running on a particular port

❯ kill-port 9001

doctoc

https://github.com/thlorenz/doctoc

Generated markdown table of contents

❯ doctoc README.md --github

fx

https://github.com/antonmedv/fx

Command-line JSON processing tool

❯ fx package.json

jq

https://stedolan.github.io/jq/

jq is like sed for JSON data - you can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data with the same ease that sed, awk, grep and friends let you play with text.

# use jq to extract just the first commit from a repos list
❯ curl 'https://api.github.com/repos/stedolan/jq/commits?per_page=5' | jq '.[0]'

npq

https://github.com/lirantal/npq

Safely* install packages with npm or yarn by auditing them as part of your install process

# with npm ❯ npq install express # with yarn, set an alias like so:alias npq="NPQ_PKG_MGR=yarn npq-hero"
❯ npq add express

youtube-dl

https://youtube-dl.org

# install
❯ brew install youtube-dl
# use
❯ youtube-dl d2qfa3tlgH8

https://blog.balthazar-rouberol.com/text-processing-in-the-shell