Five Useful Commands Line Tools

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Here are some useful command-line tools that I use frequently to increase my productivity.

  • tldr is a more concise version of a man page.

  • bat is a cat command with highlighting, paging, line numbers, and git integration.

  • htop is a top command that acts as an activity monitor in your Terminal but with highlighting, keyboard bindings and different views.

  • t is a twitter client in your Terminal.

  • z is a cd command that jumps to a directory by tracking your most used directories.