I really enjoy using most programs in that list, but using the words "modern" or "replacements" to describe them is inaccurate. Most of the programs in that list are indeed more pleasant to interact with, but they simply don't have the same purpose as the programs they're compared against.

For example, bat is a program designed for human interaction, but its output isn't meant to be piped into anything as opposed to cat. Similarly, exa and lsd are fine for human interaction but their outputs aren't meant to be parsed, and same goes on for most of the programs present in that list.

Hence the proposition to replace "modern" with "human-friendly", and presenting them as alternatives rather than replacements.

lolcrab - Like lolcat but with noise and more colorful. Written in Rust.

Modern ✔
Faster ✔
Saner 🤔

There is a similar list from last summer, which lacks some of the tools presented here, but also has some more. Maybe worth having a look at and integrating here?

https://zaiste.net/posts/shell-commands-rust/

Instead of just dropping in all tools in a (seemingly) random order, the entries should be sorted by A) a category and maybe also B) alphabetically (per-category). This could be further improved by adding a table of contents at the top.

Some categories could be:

• System monitors/info viewers
• TermGUIs
• replacements (for existing tools, eg. exa for ls or ripgrep for grep)

This one

recycle for linux

https://github.com/twfb/recycle

Report the historical and statistical real time of the system, keeping it between restarts. Like uptime command but with more interesting output.
https://github.com/rfrail3/tuptime/

at alternative and more.

Pueue is a command-line task management tool for sequential and parallel execution of long-running tasks.
https://github.com/Nukesor/pueue

It would be great to include a Brewfile for macOS users. I prepared one here https://gist.github.com/upgundecha/6213af2e01efbbeecc15d2667ab15433

Hello.

Thanks for the list. Maybe you'll find this as a good addition to it: https://await-cli.app/

https://github.com/Svetlitski/fcp
800+ times faster than cp for SSDs

It seems to be more user-friendly.

Resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes.
C++ version and continuation of bashtop and bpytop.
https://github.com/aristocratos/btop

q is a command line tool that allows direct execution of SQL-like queries on CSVs/TSVs (and any other tabular text files).

https://github.com/harelba/q

https://github.com/rupa/z

I use z daily in conjunction with fzf and it's a magical combo.

minisign and age are modern, secure replacements for GPG. minisign can be used for signing and verifying files, while age can be used for encrypting files.

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

www.starship.rs

I personally prefer jump to zoxide

https://github.com/gsamokovarov/jump

https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv

up is the Ultimate Plumber, a tool for writing Linux pipes in a terminal-based UI interactively, with instant live preview of command results

https://github.com/akavel/up

A tool for pasing logs with an approachable README
https://github.com/rcoh/angle-grinder

A code snippets manager for your terminal written in rust.

https://github.com/out-of-cheese-error/the-way

Hexyl is a great replacement for xxd to view the bytes of a file. It improves xxd by having color output for specific byte ranges. Here is an example from the Readme.

https://github.com/google/zx - shell scripting in node.js

Structural search and replace for ~every language
~ https://comby.dev
~ https://github.com/comby-tools/comby

Consider including asciinema, which is a modern take on recording terminal sessions, replaying them, or even sharing them, rather than fighting with tmux or copy-paste long termina outputs.

https://asciinema.org/

Disclaimer: I've zero experience in preparing packages for any of the popular package managers for Linux.

How difficult would it be to make avail either a sort of collection package that points to these packages (e.g. as dependencies) for, say, Ubuntu?

Maintaining that sounds like a pain (but, see disclaimer). So how about a script (for each package manager, as appropriate/needed) that installs/updates each of these according to some optional CLI/file config?

Would be an interesting addition. Just putting it out there, even if this repo is likely not the place for it.

https://github.com/Genivia/ugrep

pjy is a similar tool to jq but uses a less abstruse syntax, as it proposes a familiar-to-many-people python syntax (with optional syntactic sugar), making it much simpler to learn and use. Disclaimer: I'm the pjy author.

Gron is a nice json tree to a line per leaf element transformer and back again. It pairs nicely with jq

▶ gron "https://api.github.com/repos/tomnomnom/gron/commits?per_page=1" | fgrep "commit.author" | gron --ungron
[
  {
    "commit": {
      "author": {
        "date": "2016-07-02T10:51:21Z",
        "email": "[email protected]",
        "name": "Tom Hudson"
      }
    }
  }
]

40%+ more CPU usage

and 30% slower

dertuxmalwieder/remv is an alternative to mv that does recursive renaming with regular expressions (remv = regex move) and a preview mode.

Another alternative to du is ncdu. I use this all the time to analyze my disk usage. Give it a whirl and see if you think it makes sense to add it to this list.

https://github.com/antonmedv/llama

yq is a really good alternative in place sed for YAML.

viddy is another modern watch command.
It supports color output, vim-like keymap, diff highlight, search text, time-machine mode, etc.

You don't need to advertise ag; rg is better. If not remove them at least combine the entries.

https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/
https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/f9gqe4/rigrep_or_ag/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12567328
https://beyondgrep.com/feature-comparison/

You can add to repo console redactor micro. It's updated version nano
Repo: https://github.com/zyedidia/micro.git

The best top/htop upgrade imho: https://github.com/aristocratos/bpytop.

https://zaiste.net/posts/shell-commands-rust

• https://github.com/polyverse/rmesg — dmesg in rust
• https://github.com/dbrgn/tealdeer — tldr in rust
• https://github.com/pemistahl/grex — „A command-line tool and library for generating regular expressions from user-provided test cases.“
• https://github.com/imsnif/bandwhich — top for bw

Thoughts?

Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON

https://github.com/johnkerl/miller
https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest

Lnav is a log navigator for the low scale. With a lot of features to ease log files exploration from the terminal (syntax highlights, markers, time view, SQL queries, etc)

Super watch!

lipl is a command line tool that is similar to watch but has extended functions for commands outputing a number.
https://github.com/yxdunc/lipl

I saw this the other day and stumbled on this website, it's not written in rust (as I saw most of the tools are) but this tool looks really promising

https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

I would like to propose including:

• mtr (my trace route) available in most distros is a nice traceroute alternative
• nmon is for system monitoring (disk io/net io/cpu/load)

Thanks, anyway, for the collection :)

helix editor is a modern replacement for vim.
Here is a link: https://helix-editor.com/

A terminal interface for Stack Overflow
https://github.com/samtay/so

https://github.com/multiprocessio/dsq

https://github.com/jhspetersson/fselect

It would be useful for ubuntu users to be able to just type in
sudo apt install modern-unix
and have all of the tools installed