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    List of 30 Modern Alternatives to UNIX Commands

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    List of 30 Modern Alternatives to UNIX Commands

    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.

    bat

    02. exa

    An alternative to ls written in Rust

    exa

    03. lsd

    Another alternative to ls that even includes icon display for the file type.

    lsd

    04. delta

    A viewer for output git and diff

    delta

    05. dust

    A more intuitive version of the du command written in Rust.

    dust

    06. duf

    An improved alternative to the df command.

    duf

    07. broot

    A modern alternative to the tree command

    broot

    08. fd

    A find faster and friendlier!

    fd

    09. ripgrep

    An extremely fast alternative to grep that respects your gitignore.

    ripgrep

    10. ag

    A code search tool similar to ack, but faster.

    ag

    11. fzf

    Forget the Ctrl + r in the terminal to do searches, use fzf. fzf

    12. mcfly

    Fly through your shell history.

    mcfly

    13. choose

    A friendly and fast alternative to the command cut and in some cases even to the awk.

    choose

    14. jq

    A Sed for JSON files.

    jq

    15. sd

    An alternative to find and Sed

    sd

    18. cheat and kmdr

    Tools that are even more complete and available for even more environments such as Docker, Git and others.

    cheat

    19. tldr

    Consult man pages via the command line.

    tldr

    20. bottom

    Another cross-platform graphical system/process monitor.

    bottom

    21. glances

    Monitor your system. An alternative top / htop for operating systems GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS and Windows.

    glances

    22. gtop

    Another system monitor similar to gotop, but written in JavaScript

    gtop

    23. hyperfine

    A tool for benchmarking via the command line.

    ![hyperfine](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/88a0cb35f42e02e28b0433d4b5e0029e52e723d8feb8df753e1ed06a5161db56/68747470733a2f2f692e696d677572e52e723d9f2f

    24. gping

    A ping, but with a graphic.

    gping

    25. procs

    A modern replacement for ps written in Rust.

    procs

    26. httpie

    A modern and friendly command line HTTP client for the API i.

    httpie

    27. curlie

    The power of curl, the ease of use of httpie.

    curlie

    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.

    xh

    29. zoxide

    A smarter cd command inspired by z.

    zoxide

    30. dog

    A friendly command-line DNS client. A dig with steroids.

    dog

    This list was inspired with some minor modifications to the original list in the repository .

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