The commands UNIX are a real Swiss knife for administrators, developers and users. But over time there have been new tools based on the excellent UNIX ones with more features and the latest technology.
In this list we will know the most frequently used and created by the developer community around the world!
01. bat
A clone of the cat command with syntax highlighting and Git integration.
02. exa
An alternative to ls written in Rust
03. lsd
Another alternative to ls that even includes icon display for the file type.
04. delta
A viewer for output git and diff
05. dust
A more intuitive version of the du command written in Rust.
06. duf
An improved alternative to the df command.
07. broot
A modern alternative to the tree command
08. fd
A find faster and friendlier!
09. ripgrep
An extremely fast alternative to grep that respects your gitignore.
10. ag
A code search tool similar to ack, but faster.
11. fzf
Forget the Ctrl + r in the terminal to do searches, use fzf.
12. mcfly
Fly through your shell history.
13. choose
A friendly and fast alternative to the command cut and in some cases even to the awk.
14. jq
A Sed for JSON files.
15. sd
An alternative to find and Sed
18. cheat and kmdr
Tools that are even more complete and available for even more environments such as Docker, Git and others.
19. tldr
Consult man pages via the command line.
20. bottom
Another cross-platform graphical system/process monitor.
21. glances
Monitor your system. An alternative top / htop for operating systems GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS and Windows.
22. gtop
Another system monitor similar to gotop, but written in JavaScript
23. hyperfine
A tool for benchmarking via the command line.
25. procs
A modern replacement for ps written in Rust.
26. httpie
A modern and friendly command line HTTP client for the API i.
27. curlie
The power of curl, the ease of use of httpie.
28. xh
A friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests. It re-implements HTTPie’s excellent design as much as possible, with a focus on improving performance.
29. zoxide
A smarter cd command inspired by z.
30. dog
A friendly command-line DNS client. A dig with steroids.
This list was inspired with some minor modifications to the original list in the repository .
