Things move on. What better commands have you found than the ones that you learned at first?

• coreutils

  119 16,840 10.0 Rust

  Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils

  

Rust is becoming popular and alternatives like rg seems to have contributed to the trend. There's also a huge undertaking to write GNU coreutils in Rust: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils

• ripgrep

  348 44,901 9.3 Rust

  ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore

https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep it's like grep, but made in rust.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• ripgrep-all

  43 6,164 8.0 Rust

  rga: ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz, etc.

I'd also suggest to look into https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all since you mention searching gzip files.

• exa

  129 23,271 3.2 Rust

  A modern replacement for ‘ls’.

As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, it’s fast. It has a good output coloring scheme by default. You can make it behave like tree if you want. Got support. Human readable file sizes by default. For the rest of the laundry list I’d suggest checking the project website!

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