Nifty Shell Tools

Pocket tools to keep in your pocket.

File Searching Tools

• find to find files and directories, and perform actions on them
• fd, an alternative to find that provides abstractions

Path and Command Lookup

• which to know which path is in use

Text Searching

• grep to match patterns in input text
• ripgrep, an alternative to grep that filters generally unwanted files by default

Documentation Tools

• man to view the manual of a tool
• tldr, an alternative to man that provides concise and practical summaries

File Operations

• chmod to change file permissions
• touch to create files, and change certain file metadata
• cat to view file contents, and concatenate files

Shell History

• history to view your shell history; alternatively, most shells will allow the same functionality with ctrl + R

Directory Visualization

• tree to visualize directories as a tree
• broot to visualize and navigate directories in a tree-like structure

File Managers

• nnn and ranger as file managers

Shell Enhancements

• fzf, an add-on to search based actions that introduces fuzzy matching
• zsh-autosuggestions, an add-on to zsh that introduces autosuggestions