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ezafd-findWhich other modernized tools to get and enjoy fam?
So many things from the Modern UNIX tools repo!
My daily drivers are:
lsdinstead ofls- colors, icons, tree-view, more formatting,dustinstead ofdufor better formatting,jqfor viewing JSON,gtopinstead oftopjust because it's so pretty(I've aliased most of these, but there are a few toolchains that have broken)
That
dustis looking fine. I have been usingbtopmyself.I find btop's color schemes don't work well with changing between light and dark mode in the terminal when theme background is turned off.
This is very true. I find
flat-remix-lightto be somewhat decent (still pretty bad) among the options.Okay cool, I'll test that out. Thanks!
Hope it works for you
I've been using btop, this seems interesting
Thanks for sharing this!
If you have (or start) a blog with RSS, please let us know. I would be down to read more of these tips!
Oof zoxide is my baby. One of the best new utils.
also ripgrep and fzf.
check out this blog post I wrote about cool TUI and CLI tools I use. Not all of them are "modernized" but you'll find some cool things there.
https://alavi.me/blog/cool-cli-tui/
dustandripgrep