Member-only story

7 Awesome Command-Line Tools

Some familiar tools and some you probably haven’t tried yet

Eric Chi
Better Programming
6 min readAug 24, 2020

Photo by Maxwell Nelson on Unsplash.

The terminal/command line is a sacred tool that developers have under their belt. It is possibly the most used tool for programmers. I believe that is because of how lightweight it is and also the unbelievable amount of things you can do with it. Some developers even go the extra mile to do everything inside of the terminal. Kudos to them.

I’ll be showing some of the CLI (Command-Line Interface) tools that I personally think are awesome and use pretty much on a daily basis. Granted, there are so many tools out there for the command line that this list barely scratches the surface.

1. vim

What kind of terminal list wouldn’t include vim? There are tons of debates about whether or not vim is the editor for programming or if it’s a tool invented for lunatics, but we will not be discussing that here.

For those of you who are not familiar with vim, it is a text editor that improves on the out-of-the-box vi tool shipped with any UNIX system. It allows you to edit or create a file through your terminal.

Create an account to read the full story.

The author made this story available to Medium members only.
If you’re new to Medium, create a new account to read this story on us.

Or, continue in mobile web

Already have an account? Sign in

Eric Chi
Eric Chi

Written by Eric Chi

Passion for learning, teaching, and helping others understand the world of software. Currently working @ Apple

Responses (12)

What are your thoughts?