Modern tools, that can make your life easier and more productive
Replacement for df (disk free)
df
Replacement for du (disk usage) dua interactive for an interactive mode, like ncdu
du
dua interactive
ncdu
"du + rust = dust. Like du but more intuitive."
dust
"Modern, cross-platform, multi-threaded, and general purpose filesystem and disk-usage utility"
Very fast replacement for grep
grep
Replacement for ls with more colors
ls
Replacement for less with syntax highlighting
less
Replacement for man with bat for syntax highlighting
man
bat
Another top alternative
top
Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands
Fast and user-friendly replacement for find
find
Structural diff tool that compares files based on their syntax
Replacement for screen and tmux that allows copying from panels and has sane shortcuts
screen
tmux
The best git TUI I know, better than most commercial GUIs Watch 15 Lazygit Features In Under 15 Minutes
A simple terminal UI for both docker and docker-compose
Fast directory switcher with search Has br alias for changing into directories
br
"Blazing Fast Terminal File Manager" I use a yy alias for changing into directories
yy
A smarter cd command that learns your habits
cd
A command-line fuzzy finder, for example find * -type f | fzf
find * -type f | fzf
An fzf terminal UI for systemctl
fzf
systemctl
Painless compression and decompression in the terminal (tar, zip, gzip, bzip2, xz, 7z, rar, ...)
tar
zip
gzip
bzip2
xz
7z
rar
# Compress two files into `archive.zip` ouch compress one.txt two.txt archive.zip # Decompress a file ouch decompress archive.zip # List the contents of a compressed file ouch list archive.zip
A modern replacement for ps
QOwnNotes command-line snippet manager from Markdown files