What are your favorite non-GUI/DE customizations?

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  • exa

    A modern replacement for ‘ls’.

  • Over time, I have replaced more and more the standard tools with alternative ones. Instead of find, I use fd and fzf, for example. Instead of grep I use ripgrep. Or exa instead of ls. And I use Mercurial instead of Git.

  • fd

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

  • Over time, I have replaced more and more the standard tools with alternative ones. Instead of find, I use fd and fzf, for example. Instead of grep I use ripgrep. Or exa instead of ls. And I use Mercurial instead of Git.

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  • fzf

    :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

  • Over time, I have replaced more and more the standard tools with alternative ones. Instead of find, I use fd and fzf, for example. Instead of grep I use ripgrep. Or exa instead of ls. And I use Mercurial instead of Git.

  • ripgrep

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

  • Over time, I have replaced more and more the standard tools with alternative ones. Instead of find, I use fd and fzf, for example. Instead of grep I use ripgrep. Or exa instead of ls. And I use Mercurial instead of Git.

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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