Posted on Sep 30, 2020

What's your favourite command-line tool that makes you 💯 more productive?

I started a Twitter thread on this subject and got a ton of interesting replies, and I thought it would be useful to collect it here too!

Leave your top choice (only one!) in the comments 👇

Top comments (2)

Douglas Parsons • Sep 30 '20

I have a little bash script that takes a screenshot and copies it to the clipboard based on a (drawn rectangle) selection. It's probably my favourite.

#!/usr/bin/env bash FILENAME="$(mktemp).png" scrot -a $(slop -f '%x,%y,%w,%h') "$FILENAME" xclip -selection clipboard -t image/png -i "$FILENAME" rm -f "$FILENAME" notify-send "Sshot taken"

Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard • Sep 30 '20

$ idea <FOLDER>

and then I do everything inside jetbrains intellij idea :)