Terminal

What’s a handy cli tool you think others probably don’t but should know about?

Mine would be tldr; which is a community contributed and modern replacement for man pages. Gets you the information you’re looking for 90% of the time with way less reading.

h/t to @we for putting me down on it

father, husband, css golfer, ux engineer, silently defining variables as /sdv sdv.wtf

on macs pbcopy and pbpaste. you can easily write and read from the system clipboard. i often pipe things to pbcopy then paste in editors etc

seems like you can use xclip

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5130968/how-can-i-copy-the-output-of-a-command-directly-into-my-clipboard#5130969

most linux terminals copy on selecting text which can be handy. iterm2 also does this by default.

pbcopy is indeed elite and I’ve yet to utilize pbpaste but am eager to now.

I feel clumsy hopping on a Linux distro and not finding them there; I don’t even know a viable alternative for them.