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Great Command Line Tools Developed in Rust

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GQL

GQL is a query language with a syntax very similar to SQL with a tiny engine to perform queries on .git files instance of database files, the engine executes the …

Command Line Tools for Mac File System

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Note: When work both in Linux and macOS, a painful burden to use command-line is to remember subtle differences between Linux commands and macOS commands. A a matter of fact, GNU …

Show Image in Terminal

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viu is a simple terminal image viewer written in Rust. It works perfectly in kitty . In terminals which does not support inline image display protocols, viu will show the image in …

Tools for Differencing Text Files

General Tips

  1. If 2 files are formatted differently, you can first format them and then check the differences between them. An extreme way is to get rid of all white spaces in the 2 files and then compare them.
    sed -i 's/ //g' file_1 file_2
    

Command-line Tools

git-diff

git diff …