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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

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jq – parse, transform, and format json.

Super handy for off the cuff queries w/curl, pretty printing, scraping, processing files, even small bash scripts.

examples:
pretty print: curl $url | jq
export user fields as csv: curl $url | jq -r '.result.users[] | [.id, .name] | @csv > users.csv'

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+1 to jq! I used it the other day to parse some data. Super handy to not have to whip up a quick node or python script to handle json in the terminal