Miscellaneous Notes

I revisited my command-line environment after a while, so here's a record for future reference

目次

• What I Installed
  • Windows Terminal
  • fd
  • BAT
  • hexyl
  • Dust
  • procs
  • starship
  • gitoxide

It's difficult to move away from tools you're already familiar with, but it's also important to try tools with subtle improvements. Although it might seem a bit late to the game, I installed the following. Rust is amazing.

What I Installed

Windows Terminal

The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place! Windows Terminal is a modern terminal application for users of command-line tools and shells like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and WSL. Its main features include multiple tabs, panes, Unicode and UTF-8 character support, a GPU accelerated text rendering engine, and custom themes, styles, and configurations. This is an open source project and we welcome community participation. To get involved, visit https://github.com/microsoft/terminal

fd

An alternative to the find file search command

fd is a simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find. While it does not seek to mirror all of find's powerful functionality, it provides sensible (opinionated) defaults for 80% of the use cases.

BAT

An amazing version of the file content display command (cat) (though it does more than just that)

A cat(1) clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration.

hexyl

A binary viewer. Not sure how often I'll use it, but...

hexyl is a simple hex viewer for the terminal. It uses a colored output to distinguish different categories of bytes (NULL bytes, printable ASCII characters, ASCII whitespace characters, other ASCII characters and non-ASCII).

Dust

An amazing version of the disk usage display command (du). Easily get the information you want to know

A more intuitive version of du in rust

procs

An alternative to ps

A modern replacement for ps written in Rust

Features

• Output by the colored and human-readable format
• Keyword search over multi-column
• Some additional information which are not supported by ps
  • TCP/UDP port
  • Read/Write throughput
  • Docker container name
  • More memory information
• Pager support
• Watch mode like top
• Tree view

starship

Prompt customization

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

gitoxide

CLI git client

gix is a command-line interface (CLI) to access git repositories. It's written to optimize the user-experience, and perform as good or better than the canonical implementation. Furthermore it provides an easy and safe to use API in the form of various small crates for implementing your own tools in a breeze. Please see 'Development Status' for a listing of all crates and their capabilities.