my modern personal list of modern command-line utility replacements for macos bash

modern-cli.md

Replacements

• grep
  • rg (ripgrep)
  • ack
• find
  • fd; HN discussion
• cut (extracting delimited data)
  • xsv
  • csvkit
  • miller; HN discussion
• cd
  • z
• history
  • fzf
• xargs
  • parallel
• top
  • htop

TOTRY

• cat

  • bat
    • Remy's note

• jq

  • rq
    • HN thread
    • tutorial

hget:
  npm install hget -g
  https://github.com/bevacqua/hget

ttygif:
  https://github.com/icholy/ttygif
  brew install ttygif


gifsicle:
  https://github.com/kohler/gifsicle

aria:
  github: https://github.com/aria2/aria2

ping:
  prettyping:
    url: http://denilson.sa.nom.br/prettyping/
    github: https://github.com/denilsonsa/prettyping


du:
  ndcu:
    urls: 
      home: https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu
      repo: https://code.blicky.net/yorhel/ncdu
    install:
      url: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/ncdu
      brew: brew install ncdu


ls:
  nnn:
    repo: https://github.com/jarun/nnn
    install: https://github.com/jarun/nnn/wiki/Usage#installation
    brew: `brew install nnn`

curl:
  httpie: 
    home: https://httpie.org/
    docs: https://httpie.org/docs
    install: https://httpie.org/
    repo: https://github.com/jakubroztocil/httpie

excel/sc: 
  sc-im:
    home: https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im
    brew: 'brew tap nickolasburr/pfa && brew install sc-im'

Later

• imagemagick
  • imageflow too hard to install for now
    • installation macos

Independent necessities

• youtube-dl
• pandoc

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Other resources and listings

• CLI improved, by Remy Sharp; HN

• Cli on steroids

• https://stackify.com/top-command-line-tools/#WebDevelopment