Unix as IDE: Introduction (2012)

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  • unix-as-ide

    The ebook version of Tom Ryder's series on the Unix programming environment

  • fd

    A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'

  • Many (most?) of them have been overhauled with success. For find there is fd[1]. There's batcat, exa (ls), ripgrep, fzf, atuin (history), delta (diff) and many more.

    Most are both backwards compatible and fresh and friendly. Your hardwon muscle memory still of good use. But there's sane flags and defaults too. It's faster, more colorful (if you wish), better integration with another (e.g. exa/eza or aware of git modifications). And, in my case, often features I never knew I needed (atuin sync!, ripgrep using gitignore).

    1 https://github.com/sharkdp/fd

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  • oil

    Oils is our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime. It's also for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell!

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