What are your coolest tools for one-liners ?

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/commandline

Scout Monitoring - Free Django app performance insights with Scout Monitoring
Get Scout setup in minutes, and let us sweat the small stuff. A couple lines in settings.py is all you need to start monitoring your apps. Sign up for our free tier today.
www.scoutapm.com
featured
InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
www.influxdata.com
featured
  • Python Fire

    Python Fire is a library for automatically generating command line interfaces (CLIs) from absolutely any Python object.

  • python fire autogenerates CLI wrappers for python modules, which really synergizes with method-chaining APIs like pandas.

  • dasel

    Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV files with a single tool. Supports conversion between formats and can be used as a Go package.

  • There also is dasel which combine jq, yq as well handling TOML, XML and CSV

  • Scout Monitoring

    Free Django app performance insights with Scout Monitoring. Get Scout setup in minutes, and let us sweat the small stuff. A couple lines in settings.py is all you need to start monitoring your apps. Sign up for our free tier today.

    Scout Monitoring logo
  • jc

    CLI tool and python library that converts the output of popular command-line tools, file-types, and common strings to JSON, YAML, or Dictionaries. This allows piping of output to tools like jq and simplifying automation scripts.

  • kellyjonbrazil/jc: CLI tool and python library that converts the output of popular command-line tools, file-types, and common strings to JSON, YAML, or Dictionaries. This allows piping of output to tools like jq and simplifying automation scripts.

  • gnu-parallel

    A clone of GNU Parallel (git://git.savannah.gnu.org/parallel.git)

  • Parallel is very underestimated, it's written in perl https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/

  • xidel

    Command line tool to download and extract data from HTML/XML pages or JSON-APIs, using CSS, XPath 3.0, XQuery 3.0, JSONiq or pattern matching. It can also create new or transformed XML/HTML/JSON documents.

  • Download an entire subreddit to JSON Lines with Xidel:

  • xsv

    A fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

Suggest a related project

Related posts

  • Modern Linux Tools vs. Unix Classics: Which Would I Choose?

    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Sep 2023
  • Move over jq I found something easier: fx

    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jun 2023
  • Looking for a CLI tool that can format a json file.

    9 projects | /r/commandline | 12 Feb 2022
  • Tips on Adding JSON Output to Your CLI App

    20 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Dec 2021
  • XML processor similar to jq

    4 projects | /r/commandline | 2 May 2021