About CLI Tools Guide
What is CLI Tools Guide?
CLI Tools Guide is a curated resource for developers, sysadmins, and anyone who wants to level up their command-line workflow. Each guide combines a complete tool introduction with practical tips, tricks, and real-world usage patterns — so you can go from "what is this?" to "I use this every day" in one page.
What You'll Find Here
Each tool page includes:
- 📖 Introduction — what the tool is and why you'd want to use it
- ⚙️ Installation — commands for every major platform
- 🚀 Basic usage — get productive immediately
- 💡 5–8 practical tips & tricks — the things that make the tool truly powerful
- 🔬 Advanced applications — combining tools and real-world patterns
- 🔗 Related resources — official docs, books, and communities
Tools Covered
Currently we cover:
- bat — a beautiful replacement for
catwith syntax highlighting - vim — the ubiquitous modal text editor
- fzf — a blazing-fast fuzzy finder for everything
More tools are added regularly. Planned additions include ripgrep, tmux, jq, delta, zoxide, and many more.
About the Site
This site is built with Astro and Tailwind CSS, deployed on Cloudflare Pages for global CDN performance. Content is authored in Markdown, making it easy to add and update tools.
Contributing
Found an error, outdated command, or want to suggest a tool? Contributions are welcome! The source code is on GitHub.