I recently saw this awesome blog post and I'm desperate to share it to you :)
https://remysharp.com/2018/08/23/cli-improved
This blog post mainly introduces:
- bat:
cat
super-powered. Built-in syntax highlighting & scrolling. - prettyping: Beautified
ping
. You can also alias this to the defaultping
.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/denilsonsa/prettyping/master/prettyping && chmod +x prettyping && sudo mv prettyping /usr/local/bin
- fzf: A fuzzy search against the terminal history, with a fully interactive preview of the possible matches.
- htop:
top
improved - diff-so-fancy:
diff
enhanced - fd: modern replacement for
find
- ncdu: DaisyDisk alternative in CLI. Calculates disk usage, interactively.
- tldr: Throw away man pages! tldr is the new hype.
- ack / ag: I don't personally use it, but I'm looking forward to using it in the future.
- jq: JSON parser in the CLI