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ripgrep
ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore
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httpie
🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more. (by httpie)
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regex
An implementation of regular expressions for Rust. This implementation uses finite automata and guarantees linear time matching on all inputs.
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erdtree
A modern, cross-platform, multi-threaded, and general purpose filesystem and disk-usage utility that is aware of .gitignore and hidden file rules.
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scc
Sloc, Cloc and Code: scc is a very fast accurate code counter with complexity calculations and COCOMO estimates written in pure Go
NOTE:
The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better modern-unix alternative or higher similarity.
modern-unix discussion
modern-unix reviews and mentions
Posts with mentions or reviews of modern-unix.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2026-05-03.
- Why TUIs Are Back
- Modern Unix Tools: A Collection of Modern Alternatives to Common Commands
- A collection of modern/faster/saner alternatives to common Unix commands
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A new shell for using modern Unix commands
For this modern shell alternative, you can check out this GitHub repository that features a collection of modern/faster/saner alternatives to common Unix commands.
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Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls
This link also has a large list of additional tools I hadn't heard of but look interesting.
https://github.com/ibraheemdev/modern-unix
- Will modern alternatives of Unix CLIs be succeeded? grep ripgrep, find fd, etc.
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Ask HN: Which tools are worth the time?
- Learning "modern" tools like ripgrep and fzf (There's a list here: https://github.com/ibraheemdev/modern-unix)
- Modern-Unix: collection of modern/faster/saner options to common Unix commands
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Koji projekat na Githubu vas je odusevio u zadnje vreme?
Nedavno mi je dobro dosla ova kolekcija toolova za unix https://github.com/ibraheemdev/modern-unix
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My 2023 Terminal, Shell and Command-Line Toolbox
A lot of the tools in the post build on top of standard unix tools and are like for like (better) replacements. Many of them have been pulled from the Modern Unix repo on Github.
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