- kosmoz ( @kosmoz@beehaw.org ) English5•1 year ago
Fish (suggested by the article as well) is amazing. Also:
- bat (better cat),
- btm (better top),
- httpie (better curl),
- ripgrep (better grep),
- zoxide (cd with fuzzy search)
- jq (for manipulating JSON)
But honestly, lots of classics are still great: git, htop, rsync, vim, nano, …
- comicallycluttered ( @comicallycluttered@beehaw.org ) English1•1 year ago
Hello, fellow fish user! Oh, shit, am I doing the Arch thing?
Will have to check some of those other ones out.
I’ve personally replaced nano with micro, though. Find it much friendlier to use.
- mr_strange ( @mr_strange@discuss.tchncs.de ) English4•1 year ago
I’m usually a bit scornful of “bling” commands, but
bat
seems genuinely useful.- SeeJayEmm ( @SeeJayEmm@lemmy.one ) English2•1 year ago
Agreed. Many on this list, to me, seem too busy or an outright eyesore (btop). But bat does appear truly useful. I’ll be giving that one a try.
- Los ( @Los@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year ago
Interesting suggestion of btop. How does it compare to htop?
- MangoPenguin ( @MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English4•1 year ago
Personally I find btop really hard to glance at and see what’s happening, htop is much better for opening up and quickly checking what process is hogging CPU/RAM/IO/whatever.
- sin_free_for_00_days ( @sin_free_for_00_days@lemmy.one ) English4•1 year ago
I like btop better just on an aesthetic level. But they all show the same shit as far as I can tell.
- maynarkh ( @maynarkh@feddit.nl ) English5•1 year ago
Real programmers cat the data directly from /proc
- flakusha ( @flakusha@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
Be careful not to replace bash with fish as some systems fail to work with new shell. I usually init fish/nu shells with other instruments, like alacritty and/or zellij
- lovesyouandhugsyou ( @lovesyouandhugsyou@beehaw.org ) English1•1 year ago
This repo has another good list of alternatives.