My 2023 Terminal, Shell and Command-Line Toolbox

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/programming

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  • autocomplete

    IDE-style autocomplete for your existing terminal & shell

  • That's https://fig.io/

  • fish-shell

    The user-friendly command line shell.

  • Mine is similar but I use fish and can’t go back. I didn’t really like starship.

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  • erdtree

    A modern, cross-platform, multi-threaded, and general purpose filesystem and disk-usage utility that is aware of .gitignore and hidden file rules.

  • I prefer erd over exa personally.

  • modern-unix

    A collection of modern/faster/saner alternatives to common unix commands.

  • A lot of the tools in the post build on top of standard unix tools and are like for like (better) replacements. Many of them have been pulled from the Modern Unix repo on Github.

  • micro-editor

    A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

  • Micro is the editor you're looking for: https://micro-editor.github.io/

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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