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10 Command Line Tools Every Developer Should Know
Top 10 Command Line Tools to Become a 10x Productive Programmer
The terminal is one of the programmer's necessary tools. How is a 10x programmer's terminal different from an ordinary programmer's?
This article will cover a number of cool and useful open source tools that will not necessarily make you a 10x programmer but will make you feel like a 10x programmer.
This article will give you a basic introduction to the tools but will not provide you with a way to install them, as they are generally available on the project's GitHub home page.
Terminal
Before we start, we need to install a Terminal on our computer.
1. Windows Terminal
81k stars.
Look at this number of stars, you can see that without much introduction, Microsoft finally realized after many years of their old Terminal is too simple, with this new Windows Terminal you can discard cmder, Cygwin.
For the power of the terminal to work, you'll also need to install WSL2, which is recommended.
The Windows Subsystem for Linux(WSL2) lets developers run a GNU/Linux environment — including most command-line tools, utilities, and applications — directly on Windows, unmodified, without the overhead of a traditional virtual machine or dual-boot setup.
