<story><title>Command Line Tools to Break Your Dependence on the GUI</title><url>https://www.putorius.net/5-cool-command-line-tools.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cranekam</author><text>This article is awful. You&amp;#x27;re not going to &amp;quot;break your dependence on the GUI&amp;quot; by replacing 5 things you do a few times a day with obscure, less good CLI alternatives. What about things like manipulating files and running programs? Aren&amp;#x27;t they the things people do with computers?&lt;p&gt;Also, bc is especially terrible. Nobody who is already &amp;quot;dependent on the GUI&amp;quot; is going to want to know about scale= and all that. Better to use Python or even bash (echo $((123+456)) etc)</text></comment>
<story><title>Command Line Tools to Break Your Dependence on the GUI</title><url>https://www.putorius.net/5-cool-command-line-tools.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>msluyter</author><text>I love finding good command line replacements for UIs. One I&amp;#x27;ve grown to rely on a lot these days is awslogs:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;jorgebastida&amp;#x2F;awslogs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;jorgebastida&amp;#x2F;awslogs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Which allows you to stream Cloudwatch logs via a command like:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  awslogs  get &amp;lt;log group name&amp;gt; ALL --watch
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
which is cool because you can just specify the log group and get all streams without having to dig around for the specific stream in the AWS console.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a python based command line HN client (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;donnemartin&amp;#x2F;haxor-news&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;donnemartin&amp;#x2F;haxor-news&lt;/a&gt;) that&amp;#x27;s nice, although I think the dependencies need updating (I get various conflicts if I try to install other packages in the same venv).&lt;p&gt;For twitter, rainbowstream is nice:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;orakaro&amp;#x2F;rainbowstream&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;orakaro&amp;#x2F;rainbowstream&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>