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  • tealdeer

    A very fast implementation of tldr in Rust.

  • awesome-zsh-plugins

    A collection of ZSH frameworks, plugins, themes and tutorials.

  • Zsh is a superset of Bash. There's little-to-no learning curve from switching, if you just stick with Bash syntax, and many advantages.

    Here is a good overview on Zsh vs. Bash [0].

    My favorite Zsh feature is the plugin ecosystem [3]. Oh My Zsh [1] and Starship [2] are awesome.

    [0]: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/361870/what-are-th...

    [1]: https://ohmyz.sh/

    [2]: https://starship.rs/

    [3]: https://github.com/unixorn/awesome-zsh-plugins

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  • starship

    ☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!

  • Zsh is a superset of Bash. There's little-to-no learning curve from switching, if you just stick with Bash syntax, and many advantages.

    Here is a good overview on Zsh vs. Bash [0].

    My favorite Zsh feature is the plugin ecosystem [3]. Oh My Zsh [1] and Starship [2] are awesome.

    [0]: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/361870/what-are-th...

    [1]: https://ohmyz.sh/

    [2]: https://starship.rs/

    [3]: https://github.com/unixorn/awesome-zsh-plugins

  • ohmyzsh

    🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,300+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.

  • Zsh is a superset of Bash. There's little-to-no learning curve from switching, if you just stick with Bash syntax, and many advantages.

    Here is a good overview on Zsh vs. Bash [0].

    My favorite Zsh feature is the plugin ecosystem [3]. Oh My Zsh [1] and Starship [2] are awesome.

    [0]: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/361870/what-are-th...

    [1]: https://ohmyz.sh/

    [2]: https://starship.rs/

    [3]: https://github.com/unixorn/awesome-zsh-plugins

  • cheat

    cheat allows you to create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line. It was designed to help remind *nix system administrators of options for commands that they use frequently, but not frequently enough to remember.

  • What are you talking about? It's a Golang program for Linux/Unix

    https://github.com/cheat/cheat/blob/master/cmd/cheat/main.go

  • cheat.sh

    the only cheat sheet you need

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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