6 Command Line Tools for Productive Programmers

Lately, I’ve been doing a lot more things at the command line. I’m not a hard-core terminal guy – I use VSCode more than Vim – but I’m always surprised at the number of complex tasks that can be done using just the POSIX standard command-line tools like grep, cat and sort. Tools are powerful. A good tool makes work easier and faster, and a great tool unlocks new abilities: Previously impossible th