I’m usually a bit scornful of “bling” commands, but bat seems genuinely useful.

@SeeJayEmm@lemmy.one
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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.

@Los@beehaw.org
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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.

@maynarkh@feddit.nl
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Real programmers cat the data directly from /proc

@kosmoz@beehaw.org
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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, …

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Hello, fellow fish user! Oh, shit, am I doing the Arch thing?

Will have to check some of those other ones out.

I’ve personally replaced nano with micro, though. Find it much friendlier to use.

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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

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