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Group similar utilities together
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## System use and management
* [htop](https://htop.dev/), "a cross-platform interactive process viewer".
* An [htop-like utility called bottom](https://github.com/clementtsang/bottom) also got some love, as did
* [bottom](https://github.com/clementtsang/bottom), an htop-like utility that also got some votes.
* [btop++](https://github.com/aristocratos/btop), another 'better top' variant.
* [ncdu](https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu), friend of htop and a nice disk usage display for the terminal.
* [HTTPie](https://httpie.io/), a CURL-adjacentish command-line HTTP client for testing and debugging web APIs.
* [Xh](https://github.com/ducaale/xh) is related, described as reimplementing a subset of HTTPie's interface with an emphasis on simplicity and speed.
* [glow](https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow), a markdown-on-the-command-line tool.
* [Lowdown](https://github.com/kristapsdz/lowdown), also a markdown tool, also interesting.
* [fzf](https://github.com/junegunn/fzf) and [skim](https://github.com/lotabout/skim) are both interesting CLI "fuzzy finders" (but take a look at 'z' further down this list.)
* [tldr](https://tldr.sh/) - simplified man pages with practical examples. The world has needed this for a long time.
* [zsh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_shell): A modernized, modular update to Bash with a lot of new utility built in.
** [OhMyZsh](https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/) + [Alacritty](https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty): this trifecta of terminal emulator, shell and shell extensions turns out to be a powerful combination.
* [fish](https://fishshell.com): Finally, a command line shell for the 90s. Non-posix, but with nice defaults for interactive use right out of the box (very little need for custom configuration and plugins).
** [OhMyFish](https://github.com/oh-my-fish/oh-my-fish): Plugin system for fish, for those missing complexity.
** [Fisher](https://github.com/jorgebucaran/fisher): The other plugin manager for fish, compatible with oh-my-fish plugins.
* [Tree](https://linuxhandbook.com/tree-command/): show you the tree structure of directories, a bit like microdosing on Midnight Commander from back in the day.
* [Broot](https://github.com/Canop/broot): better navigation of directory trees.
* [atool](https://linux.die.net/man/1/atool), a set of scripts that wrap common compressed-file-format handlers.
* [ncdu](https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu), friend of htop and a nice disk usage display for the terminal.
* [LazyDocker](https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker) and [LazyGit](https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit), CLI improvements for Docker and Git respectively.
## Data management
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A collection of modern data migration, conversion and management tools.
* [Gron](https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron), a tool for making JSON greppable.
* [VisiData](https://www.visidata.org/): a tabular data visualization multitool.
* [jq](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/) and [jid](https://github.com/simeji/jid) are both fantastic tools for inspecting and manipulating JSON.
* [duc](https://duc.zevv.nl/), also a nice drive-use visualizer.
* [rclone](https://rclone.org/), a cloud-storage data-moving multitool.
* [unison](https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison): a file synchronizer, can keep two directories in sync bi-directionally.
* [csvkit](https://github.com/wireservice/csvkit): if you spend a lot of time working with comma-separated values, accept no substitutes.
* [matplotlib](https://matplotlib.org/): the upgrade over gnuplot you've been waiting for.
* [xidel](https://github.com/benibela/xidel): this looks like jq-for-html, and I'm intrigued.
* [nushell](https://www.nushell.sh/): A structured-data pipeline-building _shell_.
* [miller](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller), a CSV multitool.
* [st](https://github.com/nferraz/st), "Simple Statistics", a command-line app that calculates the sum, mean, standard deviation, and a few other things about a set of numbers.
* [ijq](https://sr.ht/~gpanders/ijq/), an "interactive jq".
* [xidel](https://github.com/benibela/xidel): this looks like jq-for-html, and I'm intrigued.
* [csvkit](https://github.com/wireservice/csvkit): if you spend a lot of time working with comma-separated values, accept no substitutes.
* [miller](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller), a CSV multitool.
* [VisiData](https://www.visidata.org/): a tabular data visualization multitool.
* [duc](https://duc.zevv.nl/), also a nice drive-use visualizer.
* [matplotlib](https://matplotlib.org/): the upgrade over gnuplot you've been waiting for.
* [st](https://github.com/nferraz/st), "Simple Statistics", a command-line app that calculates the sum, mean, standard deviation, and a few other things about a set of numbers.
* [Datamash](https://www.gnu.org/software/datamash/): Gnu, I know, but an interesting command-line-math tool.
* [Dasel](https://github.com/TomWright/dasel), short for Data Selector, like jq/yq but with more supported data formats.
* [nushell](https://www.nushell.sh/): A structured-data pipeline-building _shell_.
* [rclone](https://rclone.org/), a cloud-storage data-moving multitool, similar to rsync.
* [unison](https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison): a file synchronizer, can keep two directories in sync bi-directionally.
## Specialized tools
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* [bat](https://github.com/sharkdp/bat), a better cat.
* [dust](https://github.com/bootandy/dust), a better du.
* [lsd](https://github.com/Peltoche/lsd) and [exa](https://the.exa.website/), new takes on the venerable ls.
* There's also [zoxide](https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide): an interesting update to, of all things, cd!
* [zoxide](https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide): an interesting update to, of all things, cd!
* [z](https://github.com/rupa/z): another "better cd", but a very cool frecency-and-regex-matching "faster/smarter cd".
* [ag](https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher): the Silver Searcher, a better ack (which was in turn born "a better grep").
* [just](https://github.com/casey/just): Just, a modernization of the venerable Make.
* [Meli email](https://meliemail.org/): An extensible terminal based mail client; a work in progress, but an elegant improvement on Mutt.
* [z](https://github.com/rupa/z): another "better cd", but a very cool frecency-and-regex-matching "faster/smarter cd".
* [Aerc](https://aerc-mail.org/): Another email client for the terminal, described as highly efficient and extensible, perfect for the discerning hacker.
## Shells, shell customizations and ergonomic improvements
* The [Fish Shell](https://fishshell.com/), "a command line shell for the 90's."
* [fish](https://fishshell.com): Finally, a command line shell for the 90s. Non-posix, but with nice defaults for interactive use right out of the box (very little need for custom configuration and plugins).
* [OhMyFish](https://github.com/oh-my-fish/oh-my-fish): Plugin system for fish, for those missing complexity.
* [Fisher](https://github.com/jorgebucaran/fisher): The other plugin manager for fish, compatible with oh-my-fish plugins.
* [zsh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_shell): A modernized, modular update to Bash with a lot of new utility built in.
* Building on zsh, [OhMyZsh](https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/) + [Alacritty](https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty): this trifecta of terminal emulator, shell and shell extensions turns out to be a powerful combination.
* [OhMyZsh](https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/) + [Alacritty](https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty): this trifecta of terminal emulator, shell and shell extensions turns out to be a powerful combination.
* [Starship.rs](https://starship.rs/): Cross-shell prompt customization that looks very pretty.
* [atuin](https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin): "magical shell history", storing shell history in an SQLite DB and offering fully-encrypted shell-history sync between devices.
* [mcfly](https://github.com/cantino/mcfly): replaces the usual ctrl-r shell-history search handler with a more powerful tool, super cool.