Favorite Cli Tools

03 Nov 2020

A personal list of some of the best CLI tools I’ve found so far and using on a regular basis.

• exa (replacement for ls, GitHub)
• fd (replacement for find but more user friendly, GitHub)
• bat (replacement for cat but sooo much better!, GitHub)
• rg (ripgrep) (replacement for grep, searches for content inside files, super fast!, GitHub)

All of these are written in rust, neat! I also aliased all of them:

alias ls="exa --long"
alias li="exa --icons"
alias cat="bat"
alias find="fd"
alias grep="rg"