awesome cli

An awesome list for modern drop-in replacements for common tools with sane defaults.

Commands such as netstat -tulpen, ps aux or ls -lah are in your muscle memory, because you always forget what the individual parameters stand for? You get confused with inconsistencies betweendu . -h --max-depth 1 and find -name "CMake*" -maxdepth 2 -type f -exec grep -i "Debug" {} \;. Are you tired of searching how to do simple things with your tool on StackExchange in general? This list is for you. Also ❤ for speed.

grep

typical usage grep -r PATTERN *. This will print results in .git or search for files in .gitignore which is cumbersome in git repositories.

grep PATTERN will read/wait standard-input for standard input.

ripgrep

ripgrep (Rust, MIT)

$ rg awesome
README.md
1:# awesome cli
2:[![Awesome](https://awesome.re/badge.svg)](https://awesome.re)
5:An awesome list for modern drop-in replacements for common tools with sane defaults.

ag

ag the silver searcher (C, Apache 2.0)

$ ag awesome
README.md
1:# awesome cli
2:[![Awesome](https://awesome.re/badge.svg)](https://awesome.re)
5:An awesome list for modern drop-in replacements for common tools with sane defaults.

others

ack (Perl 5, Artistic 2.0)

cat

bat

cat/less with line number, colors and syntax highlighting.

──────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
       │ File: README.md
───────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
   1   │ # awesome cli
   2   │ [![Awesome](https://awesome.re/badge.svg)](https://awesome.re)
   3   │ 
   4   │

ls

exa (Rust, MIT)

$ exa -lT
drwxr-xr-x    - root  2 Jul 11:45 .
.rw-r--r-- 6,8k root 12 Jun 18:09 ├── bounds.s
lrwxrwxrwx   40 root 12 Jun 18:09 ├── bpf -> ../../linux-headers-4.15.0-24/kernel/bpf
lrwxrwxrwx   43 root 12 Jun 18:09 ├── cgroup -> ../../linux-headers-4.15.0-24/kernel/cgroup
lrwxrwxrwx   42 root 12 Jun 18:09 ├── debug -> ../../linux-headers-4.15.0-24/kernel/debug

find

fd (Rust, MIT/Apache 2.0)

http client (curl, wget..)

httpie (Python..)

http server

python -m SimpleHTTPServer

python3 -m http.server

parsing with sed, awk, grep

jq (C, MIT) json parser

top

htop

ssh

mosh

screen

tmux

collections

GNU coreutils rewritten in Rust, multi-platform

lehmannro / awesome-cli