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-# moderntools
+# Modern Unix Tools
+
 Modern problems require modern solutions.
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+This is a collection of very useful utilities that I've collected by asking the internet "What modern utilities should be a standard part of a modern unixy distro and why?" 
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+Additions and corrections via raised issue or pull requests are welcome.
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+# Utilities
+
+*   [htop](https://htop.dev/), "a cross-platform interactive process viewer". An [htop-like utility called bottom](https://github.com/clementtsang/bottom) also got some votes.
+*   [tmux](https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki), a terminal multiplexer. Some people mentioned [screen](https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/screen.html), the classic tool in this space, but noted that it's getting pretty long in the tooth and tmux is a pure improvement.
+*   [HTTPie](https://httpie.io/), a CURL-adjacentish command-line HTTP client for testing and debugging web APIs.
+*   [glow](https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow), a markdown-on-the-command-line tool that looks great. [Lowdown](https://github.com/kristapsdz/lowdown) is also interesting.
+*   [fzf](https://github.com/junegunn/fzf), a command-line "fuzzy finder" that a few people suggested.
+*   [tldr](https://tldr.sh/) - simplified man pages with practical examples. The world has needed this for a long time.
+*   [Datamash](https://www.gnu.org/software/datamash/): Gnu, I know, but an interesting command-line-math tool.
+*   [zsh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_shell) + [OhMyZsh](https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/) + [Alacritty](https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty): this trifecta came up a lot and it looks pretty amazing.
+*   [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.
+*   [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.
+*   [Gron](https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron), a tool for making JSON greppable.
+*   [ncdu](https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu), friend of htop and a nice disk usage display for the terminal.
+*   [duc](https://duc.zevv.nl/), also a nice drive-use visualizer.
+*   [rclone](https://rclone.org/), a cloud-storage data-moving multitool.
+*   [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.
+*   The [moreutils](https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/) collection.
+*   [nushell](https://www.nushell.sh/): A structured-data pipeline-building shell. This looks amazing.
+*   [miller](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller), a CSV multitool.
+
+# Improvements on "classic" tools and utilities:
+
+*   [duf](https://github.com/muesli/duf) a better df.
+*   [ripgrep](https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep), a line-oriented search tool that recursively searches the current directory for a regex pattern described as a better grep.
+*   [sd](https://github.com/chmln/sd), a better sed.
+*   [fd](https://crates.io/crates/fd-find), a better find
+*   [atool](https://linux.die.net/man/1/atool), a set of scripts that wrap common compressed-file-format handlers.
+*   [bat](https://github.com/sharkdp/bat), a "better cat".
+*   [lsd](https://github.com/Peltoche/lsd) and [exa](https://the.exa.website/), both new takes on the venerable ls.
+*   There's also [zoxide](https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide): an interesting update to, of all things, cd!
+*   Not really a new thing but a quality of life improvement: [the "ducks" alias.](https://gist.github.com/thebouv/8657674)
+*   [ag](https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher), the "silver searcher". "Fast ack".
+*   [ijq](https://sr.ht/~gpanders/ijq/), an "interactive jq".
+*   [Broot](https://github.com/Canop/broot): better navigation of directory trees.
+*   [dust](https://github.com/bootandy/dust): "du on steroids".
+*   [dyff](https://github.com/homeport/dyff): diff for yaml.
+*   [LazyDocker](https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker) and [LazyGit](https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit), CLI improvements for Docker and Git respectively.
+*   procs: a replacement for ps written in Rust.
+*   [mcfly](https://github.com/cantino/mcfly): replaces the usual ctrl-r shell-history search handler with a more powerful tool, super cool.