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noisrucer/girok
Girok, which means “to record” in Korean, is a powerful terminal-based task manager which provides a multitude of scheduling operations that can be done in less than 10 seconds. It also supports beautiful and responsive calendar GUI in which you can move around with VIM key bindings.
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https://github.com/noisrucer/girok

loteoo/icsp
Fast and simple command-line tool to convert calendar exports (.ics files) into CSV files for easy analysis and usage in broader use-cases. Combine this with CSV tools such as xsv, q or csvkit for calendar data superpowers.
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https://github.com/loteoo/icsp

5 Bash Coding Techniques That Every Programmer Should Know
Bash undoubtedly became every modern Unix-like or Unix-based operating system’s native, inbuilt automation solution. Programmers use Bash to automate their repetitive command-line tasks by creating shell scripts.
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https://levelup.gitconnected.com/5-bash-coding-techniques-that-every-programmer-should-know-f63b11b59e8d

All commands (14,164)
Entire command: sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -cpu host -M q35 -m 2G -smp 4 –bios /usr/share/edk2/ovmf/OVMF_CODE.
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https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse

rustyflavor/clr.sh
What? | Usage | Why? | How? It will allow you to use all 16 foreground and background colors in all 256 combinations of the standard 4-bit ANSI color palette. It also supports bold text and underlines.
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https://github.com/rustyflavor/clr.sh

We believe that shell scripts have a much higher potential
Over 84.6% of Bash scripts you can find on the Internet don’t accept command-line arguments, which greatly limits their usefulness. This has a reason – Bash doesn’t make command-line argument parsing easy.
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https://argbash.dev/

What is Miller?
What is Miller? Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for data formats such as CSV, TSV, tabular JSON and positionally-indexed.
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https://github.com/johnkerl/miller

Xidel – HTML/XML/JSON data extraction tool
Xidel – HTML/XML/JSON data extraction tool Xidel is a command line tool to download and extract data from HTML/XML pages as well as JSON APIs . 2018-04-02: New release 0.9.8 The 0.9.
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https://www.videlibri.de/xidel.html

adoyle-h/bash-completor
Creating a bash completion script in a declarative way. Read tags for versions. The versions follow the rules of Semantic Versioning 2.0.0.
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https://github.com/adoyle-h/bash-completor

Modern Problems Require Modern Solutions
Over on Mastodon I asked: “What modern utilities should be a standard part of a modern unixy distro? Why? I’ve got jq, pandoc, tldr and a few others on my list, but I’d love to know others.”
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https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2023/02/17/modern-problems-require-modern-solutions/