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

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.

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.