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