Fresh(ish) disclose line tools

Hello! This day I requested on twitter about more moderen
disclose line tools, admire ripgrep and fd and fzf and exa and bat.

I obtained a bunch of replies with tools I hadn’t heard of, so I method I’d abolish a
checklist right here. Plenty of other folks additionally pointed at the fresh-unix checklist.

replacements for commonplace tools

• ripgrep, ag, ack (grep)
• exa, lsd (ls)
• mosh (ssh)
• bat (cat)
• delta (a pager for git)
• fd (discover)
• drill, dog (dig)
• duf (df)
• grime, ncdu (du)
• pgcli (psql)
• btm, btop, glances, gtop, zenith (high)
• tldr (man, originate of)
• sd (sed)
• difftastic (diff)
• mtr (traceroute)
• plocate (detect)
• xxd, hexyl (hexdump)

current innovations

Right here are some tools that are no longer precisely replacements for commonplace tools:

• z, fasd, autojump, zoxide (tools to abolish it more uncomplicated to search out recordsdata / switch directories)
• broot, nnn, ranger (file supervisor)
• direnv (load atmosphere variables looking out on the most up-to-date directory)
• fzf, peco (“fuzzy finder”)
• croc and magic-wormhole (send recordsdata from one computer to 1 other)
• hyperfine (benchmarking)
• httpie, curlie, xh (for making HTTP requests)
• entr (flee arbitrary instructions when recordsdata switch)
• asdf (version supervisor for extra than one languages)
• tig, lazygit (interactive interfaces for git)
• lazydocker (interactive interface for docker)
• resolve (the fundamentals of awk/slice)
• ctop (high for containers)
• fuck (autocorrect disclose line errors)
• tmate (piece your terminal with a buddy)
• lnav, angle-grinder (tools for managing logs)
• mdp, glow (ways to video display markdown in the terminal)
• pbcopy/pbpaste (for clipboard stdin/stdout) presumably aren’t “current” however were talked about plenty. That probabilities are you’ll exhaust xclip to conclude the same element on Linux.

JSON/YAML/CSV things:

• jq (a gargantuan JSON-wrangling tool)
• jc (convert various tools’ output into JSON)
• jo (form JSON objects)
• yq (admire jq, however for YAML). there’s additionally one other yq
• fq (admire jq, however for binary)
• htmlq (admire jq, however for HTML)
• fx (interactive json tool)
• jless (json pager)
• xsv (a disclose line tool for csv recordsdata, from burntsushi)
• visidata (“an interactive multitool for tabular records”)
• miller (“admire awk/sed/slice/join/form for CSV/TSV/JSON/JSON traces”)

grep things:

• pdfgrep (grep for PDF)
• gron (abolish JSON greppable)
• ripgrep-all (ripgrep, however additionally PDF, zip, ebooks, etc)

much less-current tools

Right here are about a of no longer-so-current tools other folks talked about aren’t that effectively-known:

• pv (“pipe viewer”, offers you a development bar for a pipe)
• vidir (from moreutils, permits you to batch rename/delete recordsdata in vim)
• sponge, ts, parallel (additionally from moreutils)

about a of my favourites

My favourites of those that I exhaust already are entr, ripgrep, git-delta,
httpie, plocate, and jq.

I’m eager on making an try out direnv, btm, z, xsv, and duf, however I
say the most lovely tool I learned about is vidir.