HACKER Q&A
📣 acaloiar

What are your favorite non-standard CLI/TUI applications?


I use “non-standard” loosely here. I’m looking for CLI utilities that are definitely not part of the POSIX required or optional utilities, and more colloquially not considered to be standard BSD or *nix fare.


  👤 girishso Accepted Answer ✓
fzf, ncdu, sd (sed alternative), fd (find alternative)

👤 asicsp
ripgrep

GNU datamash - handy for field processing like collapse, sum, etc (instead of awk/perl)


👤 djaouen
httpie