Modern Unix

A collection of modern/faster/saner alternatives or complements to common unix commands.

File Listing

• exa — A modern replacement for ls.
• dust — A more intuitive version of du in rust.
• lsd — The next gen ls command.
• broot — A modern alternative to tree.
• fd — A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.

Text Search

• ag — A code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster.
• ack — A grep like search tool optimized for source code.
• ripgrep — An extremely fast alternative to grep that respects your gitignore.

Text Processing

• choose — A human-friendly and fast alternative to cut and (sometimes) awk
• sd — An intuitive find & replace CLI (sed alternative).

man

• tldr — A community effort to simplify man pages with practical examples.
• tealdeer — A very fast implementation of tldr in Rust.

cat

• bat — A cat clone with wings.

cd

• zoxide — A blazing fast alternative to cd

System Info

• bottom — Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.
• glances — Glances an Eye on your system. A top and htop alternative.
• gtop — System monitoring dashboard for terminal.
• procs — A modern replacement for ps.

curl

• httpie — A modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era.

Other

• coreutils — Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils.