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1/ There's a whole universe of alt Unix tools that are easier and more powerful than the de facto standards, while still being quite mature and having a decent community around them. Here's a few ...
2/ Ag ("Silver Searcher") and Ack are waaaay faster than grep and have nice features like smart case matching
geoff.greer.fm/ag/
beyondgrep.com
3/ MyCli is a much nicer MySQL client with auto-completion, warnings, better multi-line mode, and theming.
mycli.net
4/ HTTPie (@clihttp) is a curl-like HTTP client where you don't have to commit command-line flags to memory, because everything is all ridiculously intuitive. httpie.org

(Bonus: The self-explanatory format makes HTTPie great for executable API docs!)
@clihttp 5/ htop is a prettier and more interactive version of top, easier to monitor and kill processes
hisham.hm/htop/
@clihttp 6/ So those are some handy alt tools on Linux, all of them being quite mature (5+ yrs ongoing dev with active communities) despite not being mentioned much compared to their original counterparts. What are some other great tools you've used?
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