Caffeine-like utility to keep you MacBook awake with its lid closed(github.com)
10 points by clash | 15 comments
GitHub repository for caffeinate+, a small C command-line utility for macOS that keeps a MacBook awake after the lid is closed.
#command-line on Hacker News
64 stories tagged command-line, newest first.
OpenAI CLI(github.com)
203 points by armcat | 110 comments
GitHub repository for openai-cli, OpenAI's official command-line interface for the OpenAI API, written mainly in Go and licensed Apache-2.0.
PHP2Shell(php2shell.com)
26 points by nr378 | 5 comments
PHP2Shell, a website for a tool that appears to provide an interactive shell for PHP; no page content was captured.
A third way of using Linux(hisvirusness.com)
24 points by speckx | 35 comments
Blog post arguing that text user interfaces (TUIs) are an underappreciated third way of using Linux, between the command line and graphical desktops.
Terminal Email: terminal email clients for every system(terminalemail.com)
12 points by shaunatfe | 1 comments
A website cataloging terminal-based email clients available for various operating systems.
Jevotron: Multiple Jev integrations from the command line(cmungall.github.io)
8 points by chrismungall | 1 comments
Documentation homepage for jevotron, a command-line tool that scores field-level anomalies in data files and produces a review queue with caching.
cp: -r or -R?(movq.de)
115 points by zdw | 104 comments
Blog post examining whether cp's -r and -R options ever differed, tracing GNU coreutils source history back to 1992.
Small programming tricks(will-keleher.com)
606 points by signa11 | 266 comments
A blog post arguing that small nuggets of programming knowledge boost productivity, sharing examples like fzf-powered ctrl+r and python3 -m http.server.
Stop Making TUIs(sockpuppet.org)
406 points by underdeserver | 516 comments
Blog post arguing developers should stop building terminal user interfaces (TUIs) and instead build native GUI applications, re-evaluating the field's attachment to the command line.
Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics(ratty-term.org)
625 points by orhunp_ | 206 comments
Landing page for Ratty, a GPU-rendered terminal emulator that supports inline 3D graphics and features a spinning rat cursor.
GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry(cli.github.com)
422 points by ingve | 306 comments
GitHub CLI documentation page explaining the pseudoanonymous telemetry it sends, why it is collected, and what data is included.
Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)(hamvocke.com)
417 points by speckx | 254 comments
Blog post by Ham Vocke explaining how to customize tmux.conf to make tmux look nicer and easier to use.
Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)(blog.hofstede.it)
564 points by zdw | 246 comments
A blog post sharing practical Unix shell tricks and keyboard shortcuts for bash and other shells to speed up everyday terminal work.
The Missing Semester of Your CS Education – Revised for 2026(missing.csail.mit.edu)
409 points by anishathalye | 118 comments
Homepage of MIT's Missing Semester course (IAP 2026), teaching CS students practical tools like the shell, editors, version control, and agentic coding.
I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs(spencer.wtf)
649 points by spencerldixon | 222 comments
A blog post sharing a shell one-liner for deleting merged git branches, found in CIA internal developer docs leaked in WikiLeaks' Vault7.
Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)(rhodesmill.org)
628 points by theblazehen | 227 comments
Brandon Rhodes' 2009 blog post suggesting prefixing personal shell script names with a comma to avoid collisions with system commands.
Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)(adamdrake.com)
373 points by tosh | 251 comments
A 2014 blog post by Adam Drake showing that shell pipelines on a laptop processed 1.75GB of chess game data about 235x faster than a Hadoop EMR cluster.
Ratatui – App Showcase(ratatui.rs)
704 points by AbuAssar | 201 comments
Ratatui documentation page showcasing terminal applications built with the Rust TUI library, starting with Atuin shell history.
Scripts I wrote that I use all the time(evanhahn.com)
1171 points by speckx | 335 comments
Evan Hahn's blog post listing personal shell scripts from his dotfiles that he uses frequently, such as clipboard wrappers copy and pasta.
Ripgrep 15.0(github.com)
370 points by robin_reala | 90 comments
GitHub release page for ripgrep 15.0.0, a major version of the line-oriented search tool with mostly bug fixes, minor performance improvements, and minor new features.
./watch(dotslashwatch.com)
371 points by shrx | 106 comments
Product page for ./watch, a quartz watch whose design exposes electronic components and draws inspiration from command-line interfaces and computer hardware.
Jujutsu for everyone(jj-for-everyone.github.io)
403 points by Bogdanp | 342 comments
A beginner-oriented tutorial for the Jujutsu (jj) version control system that assumes no prior experience with Git or other version control.
lsr: ls with io_uring(rockorager.dev)
320 points by mpweiher | 153 comments
A blog post and repository for lsr, a Zig reimplementation of the Unix ls command that uses io_uring to reduce syscalls.
Gemini CLI(blog.google)
1325 points by sync | 719 comments
Google's announcement of Gemini CLI, an open-source AI agent that brings Gemini models into the terminal, with its GitHub repository.
Starship: The minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell(starship.rs)
419 points by benoitg | 188 comments
Homepage of Starship, a minimal, fast, customizable cross-shell prompt written in Rust.
How I use my terminal(jyn.dev)
488 points by todsacerdoti | 254 comments
A blog post by jyn describing their unconventional terminal workflow and setup, introduced with a demo video of a PowerShell session.
Show HN: I wrote a modern Command Line Handbook(commandline.stribny.name)
397 points by petr25102018 | 107 comments
Landing page for the Command Line Handbook, a 120-page pay-what-you-want PDF ebook on the Linux command line sold via Gumroad.
Show HN: My LLM CLI tool can run tools now, from Python code or plugins(simonwillison.net)
494 points by simonw | 157 comments
Simon Willison's blog post announcing LLM 0.26, which adds tool support to his LLM CLI and Python library via Python functions and tool plugins.
A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers(alexwlchan.net)
437 points by ingve | 169 comments
Blog post by Alex Chan describing a faster method to copy large SQLite databases from remote servers to a local machine than plain rsync.
Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia(derflounder.wordpress.com)
548 points by zdw | 430 comments
Blog post explaining that Apple replaced its old GPLv2 rsync 2.6.9 with openrsync in macOS Sequoia, due to GPLv3 licensing of newer rsync versions.
A love letter to the CSV format(github.com)
652 points by Yomguithereal | 630 comments
A markdown document in the medialab/xan GitHub repository arguing in defense of the CSV format against claims it is obsolete.
fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'(github.com)
597 points by tosh | 253 comments
GitHub repository for fd, a simple, fast and user-friendly Rust command-line alternative to the Unix 'find' utility.
Using uv as your shebang line(akrabat.com)
436 points by Einenlum | 125 comments
Blog post by Rob Allen explaining how to use uv run --script in a shebang line to run Python scripts with inline metadata directly from the command line.
Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers?(blog.gitbutler.com)
409 points by birdculture | 227 comments
GitButler blog post by Scott Chacon explaining why Git's help.autocorrect setting waits only 0.1 seconds before running a mistyped command.
Show HN: Interactive systemd – a better way to work with systemd units(isd-project.github.io)
504 points by kai-tub | 193 comments
Documentation site for isd (interactive systemd), a terminal UI for managing systemd units with fuzzy search, live previews, and sudo handling.
Oh Shit, Git?(ohshitgit.com)
334 points by Anon84 | 190 comments
Oh Shit, Git!? is a website giving plain-language fixes for common Git mistakes, such as undoing commits or recovering lost work.
FFmpeg by Example(ffmpegbyexample.com)
812 points by piyushsthr | 221 comments
FFmpeg By Example is a community documentation site showcasing example ffmpeg commands with copy and try-online options.
Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities(weiyen.net)
748 points by yen223 | 207 comments
A blog post by Wei Yen listing interesting built-in macOS command-line utilities, such as accessing the Keychain programmatically.
You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web(github.com)
364 points by Anon84 | 136 comments
GitHub repository for you-get, an open-source Python command-line tool that downloads media such as videos from websites by scraping them.
Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, etc.(github.com)
465 points by bukacdan | 52 comments
GitHub repository for ripgrep-all (rga), a tool extending ripgrep to search inside PDFs, e-books, Office documents, and archives like zip and tar.gz.
Show HN: Semantic Grep – A Word2Vec-powered search tool(github.com)
322 points by arunsupe | 49 comments
GitHub repository for semantic-grep, a command-line tool that uses Word2Vec embeddings to grep for words with meanings similar to the query.
In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999)(web.stanford.edu)
375 points by conanxin | 229 comments
Plain-text copy of Neal Stephenson's 1999 essay on operating systems, graphical interfaces, and the command line, hosted on a Stanford course site.
Devzat – Chat over SSH, with some nice quality-of-life features(github.com)
406 points by humanperhaps | 101 comments
GitHub repository for Devzat, an open-source chat server that developers connect to over SSH, with plugins and an API.
Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)(rhodesmill.org)
344 points by vmbrasseur | 140 comments
Brandon Rhodes' 2009 blog post suggesting prefixing personal shell script names with a comma to avoid collisions with system commands.
lsix: Like "ls", but for images(github.com)
323 points by gaws | 132 comments
GitHub repository for lsix, a tool like ls that shows image thumbnails in the terminal using sixel graphics.
Popular Git config options(jvns.ca)
343 points by ingve | 107 comments
Julia Evans blog post compiling popular git config options gathered from asking people on Mastodon about their favourite settings.
Sudo for Windows(devblogs.microsoft.com)
526 points by zadjii | 388 comments
Microsoft Windows Command Line blog post announcing Sudo for Windows, letting users run elevated commands from an unelevated console in Windows 11 Insider Preview.
—-libcurl(everything.curl.dev)
604 points by Tomte | 114 comments
A page from the Everything curl book explaining the --libcurl option, which generates a C program using libcurl that replicates a curl command-line transfer.
Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage(rclone.org)
386 points by thunderbong | 143 comments
Homepage of Rclone, an open-source command-line program for syncing and managing files across 70+ cloud storage providers.
DNS Toys (2022)(dns.toys)
420 points by finallyy | 54 comments
Homepage of dns.toys, a DNS server offering handy utilities and services such as time, weather, and conversions queryable from the command line via DNS.
Csvlens: Command line CSV file viewer. Like less but made for CSV(github.com)
343 points by ingve | 72 comments
GitHub repository for csvlens, an open-source command line CSV file viewer similar to less, written in Rust.
Gooey: Turn almost any Python command line program into a full GUI application(github.com)
681 points by lsferreira42 | 105 comments
GitHub repository for Gooey, a Python library that turns command line programs into full GUI applications with one line of code.
Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, Git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)(blog.burntsushi.net)
344 points by subset | 171 comments
Andrew Gallant's 2016 blog post introducing ripgrep, a Rust command-line search tool, with 25 benchmarks against grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt and sift.
My favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central Bank's website(csvbase.com)
951 points by qsantos | 249 comments
A csvbase blog post showing how to fetch and analyze the European Central Bank's exchange-rate zipfile using curl, sqlite, pandas and gnuplot.
CLI text processing with GNU awk(learnbyexample.github.io)
360 points by asicsp | 118 comments
Introductory chapter of the free online book 'CLI text processing with GNU awk', covering awk syntax and filtering examples.
GNU Parallel, where have you been all my life?(alexplescan.com)
380 points by alexpls | 192 comments
Blog post describing how the author used GNU Parallel to repeatedly run long end-to-end tests and gather pass/fail statistics on flakiness.
Ffmprovisr – Making FFmpeg Easier(amiaopensource.github.io)
353 points by nice__two | 86 comments
ffmprovisr is an AMIA open-source reference of FFmpeg command recipes with explanations for common audio and video processing tasks.
No-more-secrets: recreate the decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers(github.com)
954 points by tambourine_man | 245 comments
GitHub repository for no-more-secrets, a command line tool that recreates the data decryption effect from the 1992 movie Sneakers.
Hurl 4.0.0(hurl.dev)
547 points by jicea | 90 comments
Blog post announcing the 4.0.0 release of Hurl, a curl-powered command line tool that runs and tests HTTP requests defined in plain text.
CLI tools hidden in the Python standard library(til.simonwillison.net)
436 points by swyx | 114 comments
A TIL post by Simon Willison exploring Python standard library modules that can be run as command-line tools via python -m, such as gzip and site.
macOS command-line tools you might not know about(saurabhs.org)
1910 points by Gadiguibou | 411 comments
A personal blog post listing macOS-specific command-line utilities such as caffeinate, with usage examples and flags.
Try: run a command and inspect its effects before changing your live system(github.com)
1029 points by espressoRunner | 179 comments
GitHub repository for try, a tool that runs a shell command in an overlay sandbox so its filesystem effects can be inspected before committing them.
Linux tool to show progress for cp, mv, dd(github.com)
430 points by jxi | 160 comments
GitHub repository for progress, a Linux tool that shows progress of running coreutils commands like cp, mv, and dd (formerly cv).
The networkQuality tool on macOS(cyberhost.uk)
363 points by cyberhost | 74 comments
A CyberHost blog post explaining the built-in macOS networkQuality command-line tool for testing internet speed and responsiveness.