Useful CLI tools

There are many useful tools that may not come out of the box. In this chapter, we review several useful command-line tools.

Classics rebooted and replaced

There is a trend to re-write staple CLI tools with more features and with modern languages like Rust.

Eza: ls replacement

• https://github.com/eza-community/eza
  • https://github.com/ogham/exa - unmaintained

Bat: cat replacement

• https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

Autojump: cd replacement

• https://github.com/wting/autojump

dust: du replacement

• dust

Power-ups

• fzf
• peco
• strace
• ren
• ripgrep
• silversearcher

Lazygit

A convenient git interface.