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

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• ndotb@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  tldr is great. I can’t stand --help output that drones on like Proust.

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• SneakyThunder@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What’s the point of colorful ‘ps’ alternative? If you want fancy representation of running processes — you use *top. ‘ps’ is mostly useful in scripts, or in situations where eye-candy isn’t important.

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• art@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Most of these are good but cat isn’t just about looking at text.

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  • Yearly1845@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I replaced cat with bat and you honestly can’t make me go back.

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  • zygo_histo_morpheus@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If you pipe bat to another command it will act like cat so you can use it as a drop-in replacement and have it print things nicely when you want to view text and otherwise work as a normal commandline tool.

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    • silt@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      In my experience it was much slower, which is unfortunate. I still use bat, but that alias got removed pretty quickly.

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• pelya@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But, but, sd is not Turing-complete, unlike sed! Why would you ever use a commandline tool which cannot implement a general-purpose programming language? And sd cannot even parse XML! I’m totally not bitter spending so much time learning wonderful and powerful sed programming language, and I would never think of replacing my perfect sed scripts with a python -c one-liner.

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• 1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fzf will change your life.

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• flees@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Dang, that’s neat!

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• somegeek@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Btop is missing! Definitely the best htop replacement

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