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Ask HN: What CLI tools do you wish existed?

11 pointsby bracewelover 10 years ago
Who cares about mobile apps, what command line tools (platform in&#x2F;dependent) do you wish existed?<p>The question comes from boredom and wanting to write something in Rust...

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bwilliamsover 10 years ago
I&#x27;m really interested in writing a command line client for Slack since the IRC gateway is heavily hit or miss. Once there&#x27;s a decent websockets crate I&#x27;ll jump on the idea.
jetblackioover 10 years ago
I haven&#x27;t thoroughly investigated possible CLI solutions for the following, but here are some things that come to mind.<p>* iMessages &#x2F; SMS<p>* Viber &#x2F; Slack &#x2F; Whatsapp &#x2F; Facebook (messages)<p>* Better calendar app<p>* Better Pivotal Tracker CLI<p>As you can see, I think messaging is a perfect use-case for the CLI, and you don&#x27;t lose much functionality when compared to a GUI (except images, gifs and movies for the most part). So seeing development in that area would be awesome.
zaptheimpalerover 10 years ago
This might already exist, but while tailing logs today I wished for a tool that would let me view a log file as its changing - like &quot;tail -f&quot; so new lines appear at the bottom, but with the added ability to scroll up, jump to any line, search etc like a text editor.
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