Fish (suggested by the article as well) is amazing. Also:
- bat (better cat),
- btm (better top),
- httpie (better curl),
- ripgrep (better grep),
- zoxide (cd with fuzzy search)
- jq (for manipulating JSON)
But honestly, lots of classics are still great: git, htop, rsync, vim, nano, …
Interesting suggestion of btop. How does it compare to htop?
I like btop better just on an aesthetic level. But they all show the same shit as far as I can tell.
Real programmers cat the data directly from /proc
Personally I find btop really hard to glance at and see what’s happening, htop is much better for opening up and quickly checking what process is hogging CPU/RAM/IO/whatever.
I’m usually a bit scornful of “bling” commands, but
batseems genuinely useful.Agreed. Many on this list, to me, seem too busy or an outright eyesore (btop). But bat does appear truly useful. I’ll be giving that one a try.
Be careful not to replace bash with fish as some systems fail to work with new shell. I usually init fish/nu shells with other instruments, like alacritty and/or zellij
