Interesting command line tools: CLI: improved
bat instead of cat
prettyping instead of ping
fzf instead of ctrl-r
htop instead of top
diff-so-fancy instead of diff
fd instead of find
ncdu or nnn instead of du
tldr instead of man
ack or ag instead of grep (also this, and take a look at ripgrep)jq for JSON processingponysaycsvkitnotientrRelated: this book was good:
See also: Interesting Command Line Tools
Here are some more: Without a GUI–How to Live Entirely in a Terminal
Programs mentioned:
Music Player Daemon is light weight and stable. MPD is the server and it requires a client. You can use the command line, console, web, or GUI as the client.
Nice, I guess mplayer should be mentioned here too. I play directories of music like this:
$ mplayer lutes/*
I just tried fzf (mentioned in the top post) and it’s great. 
It completes with fuzzy search.
Examples:
$ vim <ctrl-t>
$ kill -9 <tab>
It also takes over ctrl-r.
There is a demo here:
I also just tried bat and it’s good.
Edit: I copied the fzf config that was in the video. I added the --exclude build --exclude dist part and changed pbcopy to xclip -selection clipboard, because I’m using Linux and not Mac.
FD_OPTIONS="--follow --exclude .git --exclude node_modules --exclude build --exclude dist"
export FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS="--no-mouse --height 50% -1 --reverse --multi --inline-info --preview='[[ \$(file --mime {}) =~ binary ]] && echo {} is a binary file || (bat --style=numbers --color=always {} || cat {}) 2> /dev/null | head -300' --preview-window='right:hidden:wrap' --bind='f3:execute(bat --style=numbers {} || less -f {}),f2:toggle-preview,ctrl-d:half-page-down,ctrl-u:half-page-up,ctrl-a:select-all+accept,ctrl-y:execute-silent(echo {+} | xclip -selection clipboard)'"
# Use git-ls-files inside git repo, otherwise fd
export FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND="git ls-files --cached --others --exclude-standard | fd --type f --type 1 $FD_OPTIONS"
export FZF_CTRL_T_COMMAND="fd $FD_OPTIONS"
export FZF_ALT_C_COMMAND="fd --type d $FD_OPTIONS"
export BAT_PAGER="less -R"
Here’s another article on the topic:
https://www.wezm.net/technical/2019/10/useful-command-line-tools/
I installed MPD but haven’t been able to play anything yet. I followed the pages below for the ncmpcpp client, but it isn’t finding my ~/Music directory. I’ll try again later. 
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ncmpcpp
I posted the link to the cmus tutorial below in chat, but also wanted to save it here:
Edit: here’s another tutorial:
I tried building it from source, but it fails on one of the commands.
$ meson . output/release --buildtype=debugoptimized -Db_ndebug=true
[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/path/to/MPD/src/output/release'
I’m not sure if output/release is supposed to be a directory or file, but it doesn’t exist.
https://www.musicpd.org/doc/html/user.html
I must be doing something wrong. 
I saw a link to this list yesterday and it looks like it contains some interesting tools.
Here are more that were mentioned in chat:
For diff output.
For navigating the filesystem.
Replaces ls.
A nice terminal prompt.
There are some nice tools in this list. 
It looks like ytop is not longer maintained, but the ytop Github repo suggests trying bottom instead.
Edit: it’s good. 
More ideas: