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9 command-line jewels for your developer toolkit

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Some developers use the command line because we have no choice; others use it because we kind of love it. Either way, you know who you are. Whether you are a lover of the CLI or just using it for work, here are nine command-line tools that will help make you more efficient, on or off the job.

9 CLI tools to use for better developer experience

  • tldr
  • ngrok
  • screen
  • sdkman and nvm
  • fzf
  • exa
  • bat
  • nethack

Tldr

I won’t wax poetic here about that peculiar magic of the Unix shell. Sometimes you just need to get work done, and sometimes you need to read the manual first. Traditionally, Unix docs (the man-pages, or manual) are a two-edged sword: the information is there, somewhere. Finding the documentation you need in a sea of detail is a daunting task.

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