ag the silver searcher

• here

• usually the_silver_searcher on homebrew

• preserve color when paging! (This is amazing!)

  ag "search term" --pager "less -R"
  

Faster and more colorful find!

• Wow fd , brew install fd , from https://github.com/sharkdp/fd

• Preserve color when paging like this

  fd "foo" --color always |less -R
  

jq

• command line json parsing
• here

markdown to pdf

• With pandoc (I used brew install pandoc ).
• And thanks stackoverflow , pandoc MANUAL.md -o example13.pdf
• documentation
• from markdown to latex

pandoc -f markdown -t latex hello.txt

• Even --toc, --table-of-contents , --toc-depth=NUMBER , for automatic table of contents.

• Specifically for double spaced output pdf this stackoverflow tip was amazing, to create a file like options.sty

 \usepackage{setspace}
 \doublespacing
 \usepackage[vmargin=1in,hmargin=1in]{geometry}
 \usepackage{lineno}
 \linenumbers) 

And then use pandoc -H options.sty blah.md -o blah.pdf . Amazing!

pdf for kindle !!

• Equally as amazing is the k2pdf software which restructures pdf files to comfortable kindle viewing. This is absolutely mind blowing work!