Modern Unix

A collection of modern/faster/saner alternatives to common unix commands.
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Modern Unix

bat

A cat clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration.

exa

A modern replacement for ls.

lsd

The next gen file listing command. Backwards compatible with ls.

delta

A viewer for git and diff output

dust

A more intuitive version of du written in rust.

duf

A better df alternative

broot

A new way to see and navigate directory trees

fd

A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.

ripgrep

An extremely fast alternative to grep that respects your gitignore

ag

A code searching tool similar to ack, but faster.

fzf

A general purpose command-line fuzzy finder.

mcfly

Fly through your shell history. Great Scott!

choose

A human-friendly and fast alternative to cut and (sometimes) awk

jq

sed for JSON data.

sd

An intuitive find & replace CLI (sed alternative).

cheat

Create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line.

tldr

A community effort to simplify man pages with practical examples.

bottom

Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.

glances

Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative for GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS and Windows operating systems.

gtop

System monitoring dashboard for terminal.

hyperfine

A command-line benchmarking tool.

gping

ping, but with a graph.

procs

A modern replacement for ps written in Rust.

httpie

A modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era.

curlie

The power of curl, the ease of use of httpie.

xh

A friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests. It reimplements as much as possible of HTTPie's excellent design, with a focus on improved performance.

zoxide

A smarter cd command inspired by z.

dog

A user-friendly command-line DNS client. dig on steroids

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