5 Modern CLI tools that help boost your productivity

1. bat

   1 207 52,228 9.3 Rust

   A cat(1) clone with wings.

   

   bat is a popular alternative for the cat command, just with a ton of more features. So, what are they?

2. CodeRabbit

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   CodeRabbit: AI Code Reviews for Developers. Revolutionize your code reviews with AI. CodeRabbit offers PR summaries, code walkthroughs, 1-click suggestions, and AST-based analysis. Boost productivity and code quality across all major languages with each PR.

   

3. zoxide

   2 104 25,966 8.1 Rust

   A smarter cd command. Supports all major shells.

   

   zoxide behaves like cd at first glance but it has 1 feature which makes it a game-changer. How cool would it be if you did not have to specify the path to a directory every time you wanted to change into it? Zoxide stores paths in a db, and the next time you use it, you can just specify the directory name instead of the full path. Here it is in action (z is the default alias for zoxide) -

4. fzf

   3 426 69,469 9.7 Go

   :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

   

   You can also use the zi command to interactively select previous paths using fzf -

5. exa

   4 131 23,897 3.0 Rust

   A modern replacement for ‘ls’.

   

   exa is a modern replacement for the ls command but with more features. First of all, it supports colors and icons (I have aliased ls to exa --icons --color=always) -

6. fd

   5 190 37,552 8.6 Rust

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

   

   fd is an alternative to the find command packed with features and is also extremely fast.

7. ripgrep

   6 364 51,741 7.6 Rust

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

   

   rigrep is an alternative to the grep command and the main highlight is its speed. It also automatically ignores files specified in ignore files like .gitignore and .ignore.

8. tealdeer

   7 48 4,938 8.0 Rust

   A very fast implementation of tldr in Rust.

   

   tealdeer is an alternative to the tldr tool. Both accomplish the same task, that is, showing community-driven help/man pages which are easier to read and understand than the traditional, detailed ones. Here is an example for exa -

9. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

   

10. tldr

    8 275 54,802 10.0 Markdown

    📚 Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands

    

    tealdeer is an alternative to the tldr tool. Both accomplish the same task, that is, showing community-driven help/man pages which are easier to read and understand than the traditional, detailed ones. Here is an example for exa -

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