7 great Terminal/CLI tools not everyone knows

• exa

  129 23,340 3.5 Rust

  A modern replacement for ‘ls’.

exa (https://github.com/ogham/exa) is a modern replacement for the venerable file-listing command-line program ls that ships with Unix and Linux operating systems, giving it more features and better defaults. It uses colours to distinguish file types and metadata. It knows about symlinks, extended attributes, and Git. And it’s small, fast, and just one single binary.

• clink

  11 3,120 9.8 C++

  Bash's powerful command line editing in cmd.exe

Clink (https://github.com/chrisant996/clink) combines the native Windows shell cmd.exe with the powerful command line editing features of the GNU Readline library, which provides rich completion, history, and line-editing capabilities. Readline is best known for its use in the Unix shell Bash, the standard shell for Mac OS X and many Linux distributions.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• ripgrep

  351 45,538 9.2 Rust

  ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore

ripgrep (https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep) is a line-oriented search tool that recursively searches the current directory for a regex pattern. By default, ripgrep will respect gitignore rules and automatically skip hidden files/directories and binary files. ripgrep has first class support on Windows, macOS and Linux, with binary downloads available for every release. ripgrep is similar to other popular search tools like The Silver Searcher, ack and grep.

• bat

  195 47,055 9.4 Rust

  A cat(1) clone with wings.

bat (https://github.com/sharkdp/bat) is a cat clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration.

• jq

  306 25,063 0.0 C

  Discontinued Command-line JSON processor [Moved to: https://github.com/jqlang/jq] (by stedolan)

  

jq (https://github.com/stedolan/jq) is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor.

• thefuck

  305 83,232 4.2 Python

  Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.

thefuck (https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck) is a magnificent app, inspired by a @liamosaur tweet, that corrects errors in previous console commands.

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