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ndotb 14 points 3 years ago

tldr is great. I can't stand --help output that drones on like Proust.

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art 8 points 3 years ago

Most of these are good but cat isn't just about looking at text.

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Yearly1845 7 points 3 years ago

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pivot_root 1 point 3 years ago

The guy who created bat also has two other projects on that list: hyperfine and fd. Kudos to him for making not one but three actually-useful tools.

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zygo_histo_morpheus 6 points 3 years ago

If you pipe bat to another command it will act like cat so you can use it as a drop-in replacement and have it print things nicely when you want to view text and otherwise work as a normal commandline tool.

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silt 1 point 3 years ago

In my experience it was much slower, which is unfortunate. I still use bat, but that alias got removed pretty quickly.

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SneakyThunder 8 points 3 years ago

What's the point of colorful 'ps' alternative? If you want fancy representation of running processes — you use *top. 'ps' is mostly useful in scripts, or in situations where eye-candy isn't important.

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odium 6 points 3 years ago

One alternative I will never go back on is fish. Sure bash might be better for scripting. But in terms of actual human usage of a terminal, it's so much better than bash and zsh.

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h_a_r_u_k_i 3 points 3 years ago

+1. I use Fish as my main shell now. It makes my scripting life so much easier.

At work, I still have to use Bash/Zsh though.

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jrandiny 2 points 3 years ago

Do you have some example use cases where fish is much better?

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h_a_r_u_k_i 5 points 3 years ago

Not just the commands, you can try a modern shell: Nushell.

It takes a while to get used to, but after you get the basics your productivity for querying interactively would increase tenfold!

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rony4102 1 point 3 years ago

Thensksoo

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pelya 4 points 3 years ago

But, but, sd is not Turing-complete, unlike sed! Why would you ever use a commandline tool which cannot implement a general-purpose programming language? And sd cannot even parse XML! I'm totally not bitter spending so much time learning wonderful and powerful sed programming language, and I would never think of replacing my perfect sed scripts with a python -c one-liner.

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JackbyDev 2 points 3 years ago

What sed does to a mf

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RocketBoots 3 points 3 years ago

Thanks so much op! This is really going to help me out.

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purahna 3 points 3 years ago

this is rad as hell thanks for sharing

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bnjmn 3 points 3 years ago

This is soooo cool, thanks for sharing <3

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swordsmanluke 3 points 3 years ago

I'm familiar with some of these, but there are some new tools in there I can't wait to try out!

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tatterdemalion 3 points 3 years ago

Wow I installed almost all of these. Very nice!

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firelizzard 2 points 3 years ago

Interesting, but I have no interest in retraining myself when I have tools that already work

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pijon 4 points 3 years ago

Some of them are drop-in replacements. You can create an alias and use the command as before, but you get a better interface (and sometimes better speed as well).

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1984 2 points 3 years ago

Fzf will change your life.

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anzo 1 point 3 years ago

Skim is the rusty rewrite.

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tatterdemalion 1 point 3 years ago

Is it actually better UX?