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Command-line Swiss Army Knife for the developer

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Swk – single-binary CLI toolkit for everyday developer tasks

by inversion42·Mar 24, 2026·2 points·0 comments
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AI Analysis

●MidShip It

Yet another CLI swiss-army-knife competing with jq, yq, and miller.

Strengths
  • •Zero-dependency Go binary works across macOS, Linux, and Windows.
  • •Pipes cleanly with curl and other Unix tools via stdin/stdout.
  • •Shell completion built-in for bash, zsh, and fish.
Weaknesses
  • •jq, yq, miller, and pup already dominate each command category.
  • •No clear differentiation beyond bundling existing patterns together.
Target Audience

Backend developers, DevOps engineers

Similar To

jq · yq · miller

Post Description

There are plenty of websites and GUI apps that provide similar tools, but I wanted something that stays in the terminal and works with pipes, e.g.:

curl -s 'https://dummyjson.com/products?limit=5&select=title,price,brand' \ | swk query json '$.products' \ | swk format json2table

~50 commands to convert, format, encode, escape, generate, inspect, query, diff. Single Go binary, zero dependencies.

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