Command-line tools

I love the command-line. I grew up with computer that boots into a BASIC prompt and learned how to write code when I was a kid. Although I use MacOS for the most part these days, I spent close to 25 years running Linux as my main OS which made me feel at home after my upbringing on the Amstrad and Amiga.

Some of these tools are more useful than others and some are definitely more actively developed than others.

Actively maintained and useful

• retro-sort

  Sorts ROM collections into a folder structure suitable for use on retro hardware.

  brew install stilvoid/tools/retro-sort

• git-get

  A tool I still use every day. Replaces git clone but organises repositories by their origin under ~/code.

  brew install stilvoid/tools/git-get

• please

  Please is a command line utility that makes it easy to integrate web APIs into your shell scripts.

  brew install stilvoid/tools/please

• shue

  A command line tool for modifying and converting colour values for use with CSS etc.

  brew install stilvoid/tools/shue

• PS1

  My custom bash prompt with some nice features. I've been using this daily ever since I wrote it.

Less well maintained

• Babel

  An easy-to-parse and easy-to-produce data exchange format for easing communication between processes written in different programming languages. There are definitely better choices for this now but I do have some ideas for a future iteration of this.

• git-aux

  Allows you to use git to manage replicating your dotfiles between machines and that sort of thing.

• git-cube

  Reminds you to commit before you exit a shell session.

• maur

  A minimal tool for searching and installing packages from the AUR.