Hello! Today I asked on twitter about newer
command line tools, like ripgrep and fd and fzf and exa and bat.

I got a bunch of replies with tools I hadn’t heard of, so I thought I’d make a
list here. A lot of people also pointed at the modern-unix list.

replacements for standard tools

• ripgrep, ag, ack (grep)
• exa, lsd (ls)
• mosh (ssh)
• bat (cat)
• delta (a pager for git)
• fd (find)
• drill, dog (dig)
• duf (df)
• dust, ncdu (du)
• pgcli (psql)
• btm, btop, glances, gtop, zenith (top)
• tldr (man, sort of)
• sd (sed)
• difftastic (diff)
• mtr (traceroute)
• plocate (locate)

new inventions

Here are some tools that are not exactly replacements for standard tools:

• z, fasd, autojump, zoxide (tools to make it easier to find files / change directories)
• broot (a file manager)
• direnv (load environment variables depending on the current directory)
• fzf, peco (“fuzzy finder”)
• croc and magic-wormhole (send files from one computer to another)
• hyperfine (benchmarking)
• httpie, curlie, xh (for making HTTP requests)
• entr (run arbitrary commands when files change)
• asdf (version manager for multiple languages)
• tig, lazygit (interactive interfaces for git)
• lazydocker (interactive interface for docker)
• choose (the basics of awk/cut)
• ctop (top for containers)
• fuck (autocorrect command line errors)
• pbcopy/pbpaste (for clipboard <> stdin/stdout) maybe aren’t “new” but were mentioned a lot. You can use xclip to do the same thing on Linux.

JSON/YAML/CSV things:

• jq (a great JSON-wrangling t