When it comes to features (images, tabs, etc); kitty has them. People argue that Alacritty is faster, but it’s only marginal and only in some areas (some it’s slower). I use WezTerm (another gpu terminal) exclusively as a scratchpad since it’s suitable ootb for Newsboat and moc(p). Kitty is also just easier to type and has the coolest icon (for those that still use them).
Lolcat, thef*ck, cmatrix, micro, aafire, cowsay, pacman, and fish are my favorites most are just because I am a goof off the others are because I think they are neat alternatives to the normal(pacman, micro, and fish for instance)
I liked this one, but decided that it needed a pager. I tried pipping the output of the curl command to “less” my preferred pager, but I got garbage, so I tried “more” and that seems to work.
I put the following in my .bashrc
function cheat() {
curl "https://cheat.sh/$1" | more
}
I’m loving this thread. I looking for more ways to extend the usefulness of my RPi 1B that is on all the time at work since it isn’t power hungry. CLI tools rule on that 1st generation RPi.
I ran a test and those are ANSI color escape sequences that less doesn’t like parsing. I checked to see if there was a non-color mode with this:
curl 'https://cheat.sh/:help'
It seems you can add a querystring to the request to apply different options including no color. So for no color sequences with pipe into less it’d be:
Thanks @Ulfnic for figuring that out. I’m still debating whether I prefer this over tldr since I believe you can use tldr without a connection to the Internet. cheat.sh seems to offer more information though, because the one for git was pages long.
Hard to remember since they just get memorized or aliased.
newsboat - Great for most any selfhosted RSS service.
glances - chains over SSH, supports containers, webui and more.
mocp Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - playable over SSH or with graphical tiles. More modern take on nethack. Pretty ascii water effects and such.
vi
nano
pycp
elinks
anything from https://suckless.org/
surf
This one isn’t actually a CLI application itself, but a webpage that outputs in CLI compatible content for weather information. It can even generate images. It is pretty cool idea imho: