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What is your favorite lightweight tool or CLI utility in 2026?

What is your favorite lightweight tool or CLI utility in 2026?

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  • ...yes?
    by fragmede
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    Fresh account with two Ask HN questions that are bound to get replies

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  • https://github.com/rupa/z (z - jump around)
    by scary-size
  • ssh and scp just never fails to impress

    -J for jumping -L for port forwarding -X for pulling remote applications to view on my laptop (waypipe for Wayland)

    Adding all those, and ips and whatnot to .ssh/config so I just type:

    ssh foo

    by ddxv
  • setup LocalCommand, in ~/.ssh/config, so your config files get copied to every server you connect to, so you have all your aliases and scripts.
    by fragmede
  • SFTP is just simpler and better, if available.
    by aborsy
  • dust: https://github.com/bootandy/dust - This has ben immensely useful for me
    by vismit2000
  • ssh, scp, tmux, (grml-)zsh, grep, less, file, tar, git

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    by rft
  • Everything/es.exe for searching every file on disk, its nice for AI agents to use
    by charlie90
  • grep + es.exe on windows is the only way to look for files
    by BorisMelnik
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    by gforce_de
  • GitHub CLI -- I'm using it every day and just about anything I'd want to do on GitHub, I can do straight from the command line

    https://cli.github.com/

    by wbnns
  • Big fan of gron[0] and zoxide[1]. Gron for flattening and viewing JSON, and zoxide (z) for fuzzily jumping around on my system or on remote systems with z installed.

    Also been using Rad [2] (disclaimer: am author) to replace my suite of Bash scripts and write new ones, quite happy with one atm which sets reminders e.g. 'remind 2h check the CI build' which will give me an OS reminder in two hours, I use it a ton at work.

    [0] https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron [1] https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide [2] https://github.com/amterp/rad

    by amterp