A collection of modern/faster/greater alternatives to common UNIX commands, which is maintained.
Shell
714
56 commits
updated Jul 13, 2025
| Name | Description | Status | Screenshot |
|---|---|---|---|
cheat | Create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line. |    |  |
tldr | A community effort to simplify man pages with practical examples. |    |  |
| Name | Description | Status | Screenshot |
|---|---|---|---|
bottom | Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor. |    |  |
btop | A monitor of resources |    |  |
glances | A top/htop alternative for most operating systems. |    |  |
gtop | System monitoring dashboard for terminal. |    |  |
| Name | Description | Status | Screenshot |
|---|---|---|---|
bat | A cat clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration. |    |  |
broot | A new way to see and navigate directory trees. |    |  |
choose | A human-friendly and fast alternative to cut and (sometimes) awk . |    |  |
coreutils | Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils (by uutils) |    | NA |
duf | A better df alternative. |    |  |
dust | A more intuitive version of du written in rust. |    |  |
eza | A modern, maintained replacement for ls, built on exa. |    |  |
fd | A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find. |    |  |
findutils | Rust implementation of findutils (by uutils) |    | NA |
fzf | A general purpose command-line fuzzy finder. |    |  |
lsd | The next gen file listing command. Backwards compatible with ls. |    |  |
mcfly | Fly through your shell history. Great Scott! . |    |  |
pls | pls is a prettier and powerful ls(1) for the pros. |    |  |
procs | A modern replacement for ps written in Rust. |    |  |
ripgrep | An extremely fast alternative to grep that respects your gitignore. |    |  |
ripgrep-all | rga: ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz, etc. |    |  |
sd | An intuitive find & replace CLI (sed alternative). |    |  |
trashy | a cli system trash manager, alternative to rm and trash-cli |    |  |
zoxide | A smarter cd command inspired by z. |    |
| Name | Description | Status | Screenshot |
|---|---|---|---|
curlie | The power of curl, the ease of use of httpie. |    |  |
doggo | 🐶 Command-line DNS client for humans. dig on steroids. |    |  |
gping | ping, but with a graph. |    |  |
httpie | A modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. |    |  |
mtr | A network diagnostic tool, combining functionality of traceroute and ping |    |  |
rustscan | The Modern Port Scanner. Find ports quickly (3 seconds at its fastest). nmap alternative. |    |  |
xh | A friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests. |    |  |
| Name | Description | Status | Screenshot |
|---|---|---|---|
delta | A viewer for git and diff output. |    |  |
diffutils | Drop-in replacement of diffutils in Rust (by uutils) |    | NA |
lazygit | simple terminal UI for git commands |    |  |
difftastic | a structural diff that understands syntax 🟥🟩 |    |  |
106 followers · starred Dec 2024
122 followers · starred Feb 2024
102 followers · starred Apr 2025
228 followers · starred Jan 2024
A collection of modern/faster/greater alternatives to common UNIX commands, which is maintained.
Shell
714
56 commits
updated Jul 13, 2025
| Name | Description | Status | Screenshot |
|---|---|---|---|
cheat | Create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line. | | |
tldr | A community effort to simplify man pages with practical examples. | | |
| Name | Description | Status | Screenshot |
|---|---|---|---|
bottom | Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor. | | |
btop | A monitor of resources | | |
glances | A top/htop alternative for most operating systems. | | |
gtop | System monitoring dashboard for terminal. | | |
| Name | Description | Status | Screenshot |
|---|---|---|---|
bat | A cat clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration. | | |
broot | A new way to see and navigate directory trees. | | |
choose | A human-friendly and fast alternative to cut and (sometimes) awk . | | |
coreutils | Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils (by uutils) | | NA |
duf | A better df alternative. | | |
dust | A more intuitive version of du written in rust. | | |
eza | A modern, maintained replacement for ls, built on exa. | | |
fd | A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find. | | |
findutils | Rust implementation of findutils (by uutils) | | NA |
fzf | A general purpose command-line fuzzy finder. | | |
lsd | The next gen file listing command. Backwards compatible with ls. | | |
mcfly | Fly through your shell history. Great Scott! . | | |
pls | pls is a prettier and powerful ls(1) for the pros. | | |
procs | A modern replacement for ps written in Rust. | | |
ripgrep | An extremely fast alternative to grep that respects your gitignore. | | |
ripgrep-all | rga: ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz, etc. | | |
sd | An intuitive find & replace CLI (sed alternative). | | |
trashy | a cli system trash manager, alternative to rm and trash-cli | | |
zoxide | A smarter cd command inspired by z. | |
| Name | Description | Status | Screenshot |
|---|---|---|---|
curlie | The power of curl, the ease of use of httpie. | | |
doggo | 🐶 Command-line DNS client for humans. dig on steroids. | | |
gping | ping, but with a graph. | | |
httpie | A modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. | | |
mtr | A network diagnostic tool, combining functionality of traceroute and ping | | |
rustscan | The Modern Port Scanner. Find ports quickly (3 seconds at its fastest). nmap alternative. | | |
xh | A friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests. | | |
| Name | Description | Status | Screenshot |
|---|---|---|---|
delta | A viewer for git and diff output. | | |
diffutils | Drop-in replacement of diffutils in Rust (by uutils) | | NA |
lazygit | simple terminal UI for git commands | | |
difftastic | a structural diff that understands syntax 🟥🟩 | | |
106 followers · starred Dec 2024
122 followers · starred Feb 2024
102 followers · starred Apr 2025
228 followers · starred Jan 2024
