Improved command line tools

Using command line tools for your job can be highly effective and productive. The author of CLI: improved have been using them over 20 years. He often find better CLI tools to use. In that article, he gives a list of improved CLI tools for the traditional ones. Below are some examples of them. A tip to use the new tools is to create an alias for each new tool with the old one.

Use bat to replace cat, bat offers some useful features like highlight, paging, even file concatenation. It also integrate some other tools including fd (Another command replacement for find ), git, tail -f, man, etc. It can work on Ubuntu, Linux, macOS, Windows.

Use fd to replace find. It comes from the same author of bat. find is always difficult to remember the right syntax. fd is handy and fast. Such as fd js is used to find files with filenames containing js. Pretty easy to remember, isn’t it?

The full list enhanced commands:

• cat to bat

• ping to prettying

• ctrl+r to fzf

• top to htop

• diff to diff-so-fancy

• find to fd

• du to ncdu

• man to tldr

• grep et al to jq

• cowsay to ponsay

• awk et al to cvskit

• noti to display notification

• watch to entr