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ezafd-findWhich other modernized tools to get and enjoy fam?
So many things from the Modern UNIX tools repo!
My daily drivers are:
lsdinstead ofls- colors, icons, tree-view, more formatting,dustinstead ofdufor better formatting,jqfor viewing JSON,gtopinstead oftopjust because it's so pretty(I've aliased most of these, but there are a few toolchains that have broken)
That
dustis looking fine. I have been usingbtopmyself.I find btop's color schemes don't with well with changing between light and dark mode in the terminal when theme background is turned off.
This is very true. I find
flat-remix-lightto be somewhat decent (still pretty bad) among the options.Oof zoxide is my baby. One of the best new utils.
also ripgrep and fzf.
check out this blog post I wrote about cool TUI and CLI tools I use. Not all of them are "modernized" but you'll find some cool things there.
https://alavi.me/blog/cool-cli-tui/
dustandripgrep