Useful Command Line Tools

I use fish in Alacritty on CachyOS. Hardware, editors, and the rest of the setup are on the uses page.

These are the extra tools that stayed. Not a POSIX starter kit.

Modern core replacements #

• bat: cat with syntax highlighting and Git annotations.
• delta: Readable git diff (and grep) with syntax highlighting.
• eza: ls with better defaults and visuals.

Search and navigation #

• fd: Fast, sane find.
• fzf: Fuzzy finder. Pipes into everything.
• ripgrep: Recursively search code, fast.
• zoxide: cd that learns the directories I actually use.

Workflow #

• chezmoi: Dotfiles, the same way on every machine.
• mise: Runtime and tool versions per project.
• lazygit: Git as a terminal UI when the index is messy.

Network, sync, and backup #

• aria2: Downloads over HTTP, FTP, and BitTorrent.
• restic: Encrypted, deduplicated backups.
• Syncthing: Private, peer-to-peer file sync. No cloud account.