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Feb 24, 2022, 12 tweets

Life is too short to use dated CLI tools that suck

Try these new ones instead 🧵

exa is `ls` but with coloring.
github.com/ogham/exa

`bat` is `cat` with syntax highlighting for a large number of programming and markup languages , line numbers and supports paging which is very handy when viewing a long file.
github.com/sharkdp/bat

`duf` shows a better `du` summary
github.com/muesli/duf

htop/btop++ are modern `top` replacements

hexyl is a beautiful hex viewer it replaces xxd.
github.com/sharkdp/hexyl

fzf is an insanely fast fuzzy search tool as compared to locate and find.
github.com/junegunn/fzf

`fd` is a simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to `find`
github.com/sharkdp/fd

glow allows you to render markdown on the CLI
github.com/charmbracelet/…

fx is the best command-line JSON processing tool you will ever use.
github.com/antonmedv/fx

zoxide is a smarter cd command.
It remembers which directories you use most frequently, so you can "jump" to them in just a few keystrokes. zoxide works on all major shells.
github.com/ajeetdsouza/zo…

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