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Discussion on: Poor Man's Tools that are actually awesome! 💪

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Slavius

I highly recommend these:

generic colourizer

bat (cat/less replacement)

fzf

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Fernando B 🚀

+1 fzf

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KeyboardInterrupt

Nice, thank you.
I did not know about grc Bringing color into the terminal to better highlight deviations is really helpful, I will probably set up a few Aliases now ;)
I already knew about bat, which is indeed another cool colorful helper i use from time to time.
Instead of fzf I used peco in the past, do you know of peco? If so, could you point out differences that make choosing fzf instead worthwhile?

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Slavius

I did not know about peco. I will definitely check it out. Grc comes with bash and zsh profiles in /etc you just include it in your ~/. {Shell} rc and you should be up and running.

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xtofl

Did you know tac?

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Slavius

I've heard about it but for some reason I'm not using it.
The best tools for me are the ones that are invisible. I copy over my .bashrc and .zshrc with all the aliases around so every time I work I get the benefit of enhanced productivity and output by default.