Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls

1. eza

   1 15 15,458 9.5 Rust

   A modern alternative to ls

   

   - Eza --hyperlink doesn't have "auto" mode so if I alias ls to it, ls | sed hacks will likely behave unexpectedly if I enable it: https://github.com/eza-community/eza/issues/703 and this also seems like an instance of it: https://github.com/eza-community/eza/issues/693

2. InfluxDB

   www.influxdata.com featured

   InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

   

3. no_color

   2 31 278 6.4 HTML

   Website data for no-color.org

   

   I'm totally the other way around, I rely on colorized output heavily.

   But! There's supposed to be a solution to this, set $NO_COLOR to some value. https://no-color.org

   Totally reasonable to file a bug report against tools which don't check and respect that env variable.

4. lsd

   3 65 14,340 5.9 Rust

   The next gen ls command

   

   Seems quite similar to https://github.com/lsd-rs/lsd . How do they compare?

   I know though lsd has one annoying bug when using it for grepping: https://github.com/lsd-rs/lsd/issues/1052

5. solarized

   4 40 15,906 0.0 Vim Script

   precision color scheme for multiple applications (terminal, vim, etc.) with both dark/light modes

   

   Solarized is easy on the eyes and the colours are chosen for readability.

   https://ethanschoonover.com/solarized/

   The list on the site lacks some entries. Konsole has it built in and i bet Gnome Terminal too.

6. base16-vim

   5 16 156 0.0 Vim Script

   Base16 for Vim

   

   If tooling would simply use the Base16 Framework[0] instead of arbitrary colors from “256 color” or “RGB” color modes, this would be much less of a problem.

   [0] https://github.com/chriskempson/base16

7. exa

   6 131 23,933 3.0 Rust

   A modern replacement for ‘ls’.

   

   I think they are not referring to ls, but to exa [0], which is not maintained anymore.

   [0]https://github.com/ogham/exa

8. base16

   7 26 774 0.0

   Not a theme, but a framework

   

   - Let the user set their shell colors however they want (presumably using [2]), and use the ANSI shell colors (and a few more) according to the base16 style guide [1]. Some translation between shell colors and base16 colors will be necessary, e.g. base16 says that a language keyword should use the color base0E, which in [2] corresponds to ANSI shell color 13.

   My impression is that the base16 specification is not sufficiently general for most tools to implement it in a totally unbambiguous way, but if users can set their own colorschemes with a config file, it's not hard for a user to come up with a base16-approximating colorscheme template file, from which other users can generate a config file that sets a specific base16 colorscheme.

   [1]: https://github.com/chriskempson/base16/blob/main/styling.md

9. SaaSHub

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   SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

   

10. base16-shell

    8 16 247 0.0 Shell

    Base16 for Shells

    

11. modern-unix

    9 58 31,961 4.1

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

    

    This link also has a large list of additional tools I hadn't heard of but look interesting.

    https://github.com/ibraheemdev/modern-unix

12. coreutils

    10 125 20,300 10.0 Rust

    Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils

    

    Related: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils "Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils"

13. zjstatus

    11 3 633 9.1 Rust

    A configurable statusbar plugin for zellij

    

    If you don't like the default tab bar, you can use the zjstatus plugin (https://github.com/dj95/zjstatus) to replace it with a customizable one that can show the tab index.

14. maintained-modern-unix

    12 1 514 6.9 Shell

    A collection of modern/faster/great alternatives to common unix commands, which is maintained.

    

    this one is maintained

    https://github.com/johnalanwoods/maintained-modern-unix

15. fd

    13 191 38,001 8.7 Rust

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

    

    NOTE OF WARNING:

    BY DEFAULT these ignores anything included in your `.gitignore` folder. So if you think it is a straight find replacement, you'll likely be surprised. fd discussion here[0]

    Just make sure that when recommending people these tools that this is clear because if they don't read the docs (lol who does) they'll miss this part.

    This is a pet peeve of mine. I wish the people that make these replacement coreutils (and others) would leave the defaults as very similar to the original tool. I do really like the new functionalities but if you market it as "an alternative" ("It is a simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find") then they should respect the defaults of the original because it reduces new user surprise. I mean aliases exist... So it is better to have in your ~/.${SHELL##*/}rc file to have `alias fd='fd --ignore'` than `alias fd='fd --no-ignore'`.

    Side note/pro tip: use `\command` if you want to use an unaliased version. An example of this is that I have `alias grep='grep --color=always --no-messages --binary-files=without-match` but this can sometimes be problematic because the color option can change the character representation so if you pipe this into `curl` you will get errors. This is not the case in all piping, but it is a shocking and confusing experience when you first encounter it. You can validate this by `echo "Hello world" | \grep --color=always "Hello" | hexdump` and then `!!:s^always^never`

    [0] https://github.com/sharkdp/fd/issues/612

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