Linux Journal 10 commands

[Bill Jacqmein]

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/transform-your-workflow-these-10-essential-yet-overlooked-linux-tools-you-need-try

bat, ripgrep, entr were my top favorite new commands.

[Darrell Lee]

Thanks Bill

Darrell Lee

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On May 30, 2025 7:20:40 AM Bill Jacqmein <wrjac...@gmail.com> wrote:

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/transform-your-workflow-these-10-essential-yet-overlooked-linux-tools-you-need-try

bat, ripgrep, entr were my top favorite new commands.

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[George Law]

Hey Bill,

I've been using `rg` now for a while as opposed to `grep -ir` - saw it used on another case I was working and it works good

years ago I used `inotify` when I was doing some work for Eric - looks like `entr` is similar

#10 on the list, asciinema - been using the `script` command for years to capture a terminal session, works the same and I think its generally a part of most base distros without having to install anything extra - my only pet peeve with both is the output file contains escape codes to show things like the prompts and special characters.

to add to the list, I recently converted to Wezterm https://wezterm.org/ for my preferred terminal - at Red Hat I do most of my analysis on remote "bastion" servers - so I do a lot of copy/paste via SSH sessions.  Wezterm supports OSC52 escape sequences which interacts with the terminal emulator to allow you to copy/paste - 

I think this is what got me started - https://oroques.com/2020/11/27/vim-osc52.html 

I am using a VI plugin  - vim-oscyank - configured like so :

~~~

$ cat .vimrc

Plug 'ojroques/vim-oscyank', {'branch': 'main'}

let g:oscyank_max_length = 0  " maximum length of a selection
let g:oscyank_silent     = 1  " disable message on successful copy
let g:oscyank_trim       = 0  " trim surrounding whitespaces before copy
let g:oscyank_osc52      = "\x1b]52;c;%s\x07"  " the OSC52 format string to use

map <leader>c <Plug>OSCYankOperator
map <leader>cc <leader>c_
vmap <leader>c <Plug>OSCYankVisual

~~~

So this lets me shift+V to highlight parts of a VI buffer on a remote system, then leader+c (leader=space) to copy to the clip board. 

So this allows me to do all of that mouse free, then puts that on the clipboard to use on my local machine.

Cool thing about wexterm is that it also supports sixel graphics which allows me to use the ranger file manager tool over the same SSH session and let's me view image files within my terminal window as well (no remote X to view via eog or some other image viewer).

~George

On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 7:20 AM Bill Jacqmein <wrjac...@gmail.com> wrote:

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/transform-your-workflow-these-10-essential-yet-overlooked-linux-tools-you-need-try

bat, ripgrep, entr were my top favorite new commands.