A post that is constantly a work in progress.

• ripgrep - Similar to grep, but a drop in replacement for large file scanning without unicode penalities. It’s also similar to Ag and Ack and optimised for searching code, ignoring .git directories and the like. https://github.com/burntsushi/ripgrep
• tmux - Terminal multiplexer. I wrote a 5 min guide to this. Use it to have resumable sessions after closing ssh sessions and to have split pane windows.
• bat - Replacement for cat but provides syntax highlighting and line numbers. Can work as a drop in replacement for cat as well as it detects redirects and removes the fancy output. https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
• fd - Better than find. Recursively looks for whatever it is you need using regular expressions and like ripgrep ignores .git directories and the like. https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
• fzf - Fuzzy finder. Hard to explain why this is so useful. Suggest checking it out https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
• gron - Makes JSON files grepable by flattening the structure. Very useful when trying to find something in JSON quickly. https://github.com/TomNomNom/gron
• hexyl - Hex view of files with highlighting and the like. Find BOM in files quickly! https://github.com/sharkdp/hexyl
• hyperfine - A command line benchmark tool. Give it two commands hyperfine 'scc' 'tokei' to determine which one is faster. https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine
• z - A shell script that enables quick jumping to your most recently used directories. For example I work with scc a lot and its directory is /c/Users/bboyter/Documents/Go/src/github.com/boyter/scc which is a pain to remember. Having changed to it a few times I can now type z scc and it takes me right there. A massive time saver. https://github.com/rupa/z/
• zoxide - Similar to z above, but I prefer it over z these days https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide
• stu - A small TUI application explorer for AWS S3 or any other S3 compatible storage. Very useful when used with localstack stu --endpoint-url http://localhost:4566 https://github.com/lusingander/stu