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[–] huf@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

atools, which includes als, aunpack, apack. so you can stop caring about the kind of archive and just unpack it. it also saves you from shit archives that have multiple files/dirs in their root.
perl -e / perl -lne / ...
units
bc - a calculator that's actually good
pass - the only non-shit password store tool i've found so far. no gui, uses gpg and git to do the encrypting and storage/sharing
alias lr='ls -lrth' - so you can easily find the newest file, cos that's frequently what you want
unip - my script to look up things in the unicode db
find -type f -exec xzgrep 're' {} + - because xzgrep cant do -r

oh yeah, and for the shell readline, alt-b, alt-f, ctrl-w, ctrl-u, ctrl-k, ctrl-a, ctrl-e