Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

Re:Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications? by PJ_Maybe on Monday November 19, 2018 @04:28AM (#18485107)

dtrx - Do The Right Extraction. It's a tool "for Unix-like systems that takes all the hassle out of extracting archives": https://brettcsmith.org/2007/dtrx/

In Debian/Ubuntu you can install via apt.

Also, I'd second tldr which has been mentioned here already. It provides simplified man pages which common usage examples that normally fit on a few lines on screen: https://tldr.sh/

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Re:Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications? by CJefferson on Monday November 19, 2018 @04:33AM (#18485125)

Dtrx is awesome, but is unfortunately slowly dying, as the author seems to have abandoned it -- it can't be installed with pip anymore.

I think I'm going to take it over, just need a name...

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Re:Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications? by Cyphase on Monday November 19, 2018 @05:03AM (#18485259)

Kdtrx: Keep Doing The Right Extraction

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Re:Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications? by PJ_Maybe on Monday November 19, 2018 @05:36AM (#18485413)

Yeah it looks rather unmaintained, but can still be installed via apt on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. So yeah should be fine for a few years to come if you are a Ubuntu user (the system I use, I have no idea about other distros).

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Re:Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications? by chewzerita on Monday November 19, 2018 @08:06AM (#18486104)

tar xf <archive> works with all types of tar compressed files.

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