ibraheemdev / modern-unix
A collection of modern/faster/saner alternatives to common unix commands.
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Repository Summary (README)
PreviewModern Unix
bat
A cat clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration.
eza
A modern, maintained replacement for ls, built on exa.
lsd
The next gen file listing command. Backwards compatible with ls.
delta
A viewer for git and diff output
dust
A more intuitive version of du written in rust.
duf
A better df alternative
broot
A new way to see and navigate directory trees
fd
A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.
ripgrep
An extremely fast alternative to grep that respects your gitignore
fzf
A general purpose command-line fuzzy finder.
mcfly
Fly through your shell history. Great Scott!
choose
A human-friendly and fast alternative to cut and (sometimes) awk
jq
sed for JSON data.
sd
An intuitive find & replace CLI (sed alternative).
> echo 'lots((([]))) of special chars' | sd -F '((([])))' '' lots of special chars
> echo 'lorem ipsum 23 ' | sd '\s+$' '' lorem ipsum 23
cheat
Create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line.
tldr
A community effort to simplify man pages with practical examples.
bottom
Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.
glances
Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative for GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS and Windows operating systems.
gtop
System monitoring dashboard for terminal.
hyperfine
A command-line benchmarking tool.
gping
ping, but with a graph.
procs
A modern replacement for ps written in Rust.
httpie
A modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era.
curlie
The power of curl, the ease of use of httpie.
xh
A friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests. It reimplements as much as possible of HTTPie's excellent design, with a focus on improved performance.
zoxide
A smarter cd command inspired by z.
doggo
🐶 Command-line DNS client for humans. dig on steroids
lazygit
A simple terminal UI for git commands