Ask HN: What are your favorite non-standard CLI/TUI applications?
I use “non-standard” loosely here. I’m looking for CLI utilities that are definitely not part of the POSIX required or optional utilities, and more colloquially not considered to be standard BSD or *nix fare.
fzf, ncdu, sd (sed alternative), fd (find alternative)
With a list like this it's kinda hard to tell what's interesting and what is not.
I'm familiar with fzf and it deserves more love if you're a shell user. Essentially it's a completion/selection framework. You pipe potential options to it and it helps you narrow/select them.
What that looks like is, you hit C-r in your terminal, and it shows you all of your history and you can start typing to narrow the command you're looking for.
The other thing it does, is say you're looking for a while, but you don't really remember where it is. Hit C-t and it'll pop up a completion interface that has all of the files from the local directory. Then you can narrow it down to the files you need and dump it into the command line. It's very fast.
This is just a subset of what it can do, because it integrates with Emacs and other editors.
https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
ripgrep
GNU datamash - handy for field processing like collapse, sum, etc (instead of awk/perl)
httpie