diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 422781e..730a714 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -11,23 +11,18 @@ Additions and corrections via raised issue or pull requests are welcome. ## 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 @@ -35,20 +30,20 @@ Additions and corrections via raised issue or pull requests are welcome. 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 @@ -69,18 +64,20 @@ A collection of tools best described as "A better $X" * [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.