Linux - Command Line Tools

Targetting for more features and conveniences, some extremely excellent command line tools are listed in this document, which is encouraged to use.

Starship

Starship can provide an exciting prompt to a variety of shells, e.g., bash, csh/tcsh, zsh, etc.

pacman -S starship

eval "$(starship init bash)"

Fd is a replacement for classic find, which can be easily installed by

pacman -S fd

Fzf stands for fuzzy finder, which can be easily installed by

pacman -S fzf

Ripgrep is a replacement for classic grep, which can be easily installed by

pacman -S ripgrep

Htop is an interactive provess viewer, envisaged as a replacement of classic top, which can be installed by

pacman -S htop

Glances is a system monitor developped in Python, which can be installed by

pacman -S glances

Ncdu, ncurses based disk usage, is a disk usage analyzer, and very useful to clean and release storage. It can be directly installed by

pacman -S ncdu

Diff-so-fancy is a replacement of diff, with more colors and highlights, which can be installed by

pacman -S diff-so-fancy

It can be integrated with git, by running following commands.

git config --global core.pager "diff-so-fancy | less --tabs=4 -RFX"
git config --global interactive.diffFilter "diff-so-fancy --patch"

Exa is a ls replacement. It can be installed by

pacman -S exa

Bat is a replacement of cat, with more colorful syntax highlighting, which can be installed by

pacman -S bat

Tldr is a simplified manual tool, aiming to replace man.