[HN Gopher] A Collection of Modern/Faster/Saner Alternative Unix...
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       A Collection of Modern/Faster/Saner Alternative Unix Commands
        
       Author : ibraheemdev
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2021-04-22 16:23 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | ibraheemdev wrote:
       | I created this small list of alternative Unix commands that do
       | something better than existing tools. Many of these (ripgrep,
       | fzf) have gotten very popular recently. Let me know if you know
       | of any others that I missed!
        
       | gumby wrote:
       | It's always a dilemma: add these tools and become more productive
       | or stick to the standard ones because you could be on a machine
       | that only has the "standard" ones (base distro or even just
       | POSIX).
       | 
       | I finally decided that having the "better" (for me) tools was the
       | better way to go; now that it's more common to deploy on "cattle"
       | it's not so hard to look for accidental dependencies.
        
         | kaba0 wrote:
         | I have created aliases to the new tools, so I get to use the
         | new tool and most flags are the same.
        
       | oweiler wrote:
       | My two favorite tools: lsd, a fast alternative to exa
       | https://github.com/Peltoche/lsd mcfly, reverse-search on steroids
       | https://github.com/cantino/mcfly
        
         | ibraheemdev wrote:
         | I haven't heard of McFly, it looks really awesome, I'll
         | definitely add it! I'm also curious, why do you like lsd over
         | exa?
        
           | oweiler wrote:
           | I've used exa in the past but lsd is more focused (basically
           | a drop in replacement for ls) and a lot faster.
        
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