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15 Command-Line Tools to Make You Better at Shell & CLI

Zaiste on August 05, 2020

Shell is the essential tool for every programmer. The more familiar you become with the available tools, the more efficient you can be with using y...
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Jérémie Astor

Nice article!
I already switched to bat and ripgrep, but I just added fd and procs as alias to my zshrc.
Not so sure about about sd or exa, as I use lsd and like sed as is.
grex seems very nice, I don't know if I have a use case for it.

I think you should provide links to those programs, that's the only thing you missed.

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𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️

More than make you better, it seems these tools will just make your life easier. Also, why is thefuck not on the list? :D

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Nishith Savla

Just checkout it out!!! How thefuck can it be so amazing...😁

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Matthieu Cneude • Edited

These tools display more colors indeed.

They don't make you better, but they are useful.

We should keep in mind that most tools used out there in scripts are the one created decades ago.

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Isaiah Mowbray

Very true!!

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James

I had a few of these already, so was interested by other alternatives (like procs, which is great), but initially didn't bother with tealdeer because "tldr is fine". Just gave it a go and let out an audible "oh" because it's so much faster. Thanks for the article!

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Emre Savcı

Awesome tools, thank you for that. I can suggest another which name is docker-shell to the list. It is a command line prompt for docker, with command & port suggestions with image search capability.

github.com/Trendyol/docker-shell

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Sandro

Great list but the link to bandwhich is missing.

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yofri

I use sheldon for managing my shell plugin github.com/rossmacarthur/sheldon

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Andrew Baisden

Good list of tools!

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ricardokl

I’ll try some of these!
I have also hear of bashtop and seems nice
These days I navigate directories with fzf

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Vlastimil Pospichal

I was not interested in this list of tools, but I respect it.

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Madza

could you please share your cli configuration? 🙂
that font and theme looks super clean ❤ 👍

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Parwinder 👨🏻‍💻

Great job @zaiste ! The list is excellent and much appreciated.

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cromatikap

Awesome tools!

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alessandrolia

Great list!!!

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Ionita Matei Iosif

This is an awesome list !