HACKER Q&A
📣 pranav_tech26

What is your favorite lightweight tool or CLI utility in 2026?


Tools like ripgrep, fzf, and htop have saved me countless hours over the years. What small utilities do you rely on daily?


  👤 rhysha Accepted Answer ✓
bearer-cli for static application security testing

👤 soupspaces
timeshift baobab tmux tealdeer zoxide

👤 rft
ssh, scp, tmux, (grml-)zsh, grep, less, file, tar, git

The time saving of a well filled ~/.ssh/config is impressive, especially once you start juggling ProxyJump hops.


👤 nozzlegear
Gotta be jujutsu. I've completely stopped using git and use jj everywhere instead. It works so much better for my workflow.

👤 ddxv
ssh and scp just never fails to impress

-J for jumping -L for port forwarding -X for pulling remote applications to view on my laptop (waypipe for Wayland)

Adding all those, and ips and whatnot to .ssh/config so I just type:

ssh foo


👤 justsomehnguy

    user: pranav_tech26
    created: 16 hours ago
    karma: 7

👤 mansi1010
screen

👤 charlie90
Everything/es.exe for searching every file on disk, its nice for AI agents to use

👤 vismit2000
dust: https://github.com/bootandy/dust - This has ben immensely useful for me

👤 wseqyrku
rustc