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I’m usually a bit scornful of “bling” commands, but
bat
seems 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.
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
Fish (suggested by the article as well) is amazing. Also:
But honestly, lots of classics are still great: git, htop, rsync, vim, nano, …
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.
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