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.

Package management

• Homebrew

Terminal

• https://ghostty.org

Classics rebooted and replaced

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

ls -> Eza

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

cat -> bat

• https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

cd -> z, Autojump, or zoxide

• https://github.com/wting/autojump
• https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide

dust: du replacement

• dust

Power-ups

• fzf
• peco
• strace
• ren
• silversearcher or ripgrep: ag xxx or rg xxx
• https://github.com/sahib/rmlint - clean up tool.

monitor & execute

• monex.py: https://gist.github.com/yy/729404
• entr: https://github.com/eradman/entr ls *.py | entr python xx.py

git

• lazygit: A convenient git interface.
• hub: github CLI: https://hub.github.com