fyi, exa is unmaintained, although there is a maintained fork called eza (repo)
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"bat" seemed interesting, until I remembered that I'd just do a "git diff" if I wanted to see a diff. The rest do not strike me as substantially better than what they're trying to replace. Enjoy them all as you will, but I would recommend refraining from describing them as "modern unix" in the presence of any old-timers.
I use bat as a drop in replacement for cat (overriding cat in my .zshrc) by using --style=plain --paging=never on the bat command. Basically looks and works the same as cat, except with syntax highlighting.
Bat also adds lots of stuff to the output. Is there a clean print functionality without the extra numbers?
Edit: but with the parameters its great!
--style=plain will do it!
just 2 in the list were GPL licensed :/
I know that MIT is no Copyleft license, but is that really a problem?
not actually. I also use many programs that are MIT or BSD licensed.
it's just that replacing working GPL'd programs with MIT ones might be more appealing to corporations than someone like me who cares as much about ideology as the programmes themselves.
I don't wish to see services being sucked for their value by corporates who give little to nothing in return. history is replete with such instances.
I do understand your scepticism towards companies; the reason for my question was that I got the impression from your first comment that you don't like/install MIT code and was just confused as to why someone might dislike that.
Exa dev couldn't even spell license right...
licence is a word, commonly used in commonwealth countries.
english english is wrong. american english is good. jeff foxworthy told me in a dream.
Most of that stuff is MIT/Apache licensed unlike programs from GNU. Interesting.
It would be cool if the GNU project sponsored a new updated 'standard' set of tools though.
Why would they? The “old” tools work very well, are well known and are likely used in millions of scripts.
The new tools will have more bugs, unfamiliar options and unexpected behavior (due to them being new), and the improvements current “modern” alternatives bring to the table are often very minor.
I'd expect they'd 'adopt' the tools and redistribute them under the GPL, if they did.
Probably because that's basically the default license rust projects use and a lot of this stuff is made in rust.
Great list, but a couple could be added:
- btop (process/resouces monitor, highly customizable)
- lnav (log navigator, grouping folder of files in one display, search/filter etc...)
Btop++ is general better since it's written in c++ and is faster
How come half of the commands in this readme were written in Rust
Rust specializes in making parallel processing secure and approachable, so it's going get used in problems where parallel processing and efficiency matter.
Rust is also now allowed to be used in the Linux kernel for the same reasons, which is exciting!
Cause it's awesome?
Are these built to handle pipes? If I bat a file and redirect it to a file, does it work as expected or does it add in the escape sequences for the colors, for example?
bat foo | bar behaves like cat foo | bar same with > and such.
Oh broot is really cool. Better than exa --tree, because it has that sweet "xxx hidden" thing. This command makes it pretty close to tree, as it prints it out rather than present you with an interactive screen, which I'm not interested at:
broot --sort-by-type-dirs-first --cmd :print_tree
This is a really good list. I already use the majority of them. Thanks!
These programs are actually really cool and I un-ironically want to use them.
Here’s a slightly better list. Call out to nushell and fish, my two modern shell favourites.
Fish is overrated imo.
Nushell is better but not quite what I'm looking for.
Fish is no longer overrated.