altbox.dev — A catalog of 83 alternative power tools for the Linux/Unix/macOS command line
The standard Unix tools have lasted us for decades. Every programmer should know them, but there are plenty of
tools that add on to the standard tools. For example, grep works fine for finding text, but tools
like ack and ripgrep are designed for today's modern
programmer working with large trees of heterogeneous source code.
Find alternatives to cat, cd, cut, df, diff, du, find, ftp, git, grep, history, info, kill, locate, ls, man, nm, objdump, ping, rm, screen, sed, ssh, tail, top, traceroute, tree, watch and wc.
Articles about alternative tools
- Linux commands: Drop these old utilities for modern alternatives (2022-11-17)
- A list of new(ish) command line tools (2022-04-12)
- An Illustrated Guide to Some Useful Command Line Tools (2019-10-26)
- CLI: improved (2018-08-23)
Feedback
If you've got comments or feedback, email Andy Lester at andy@petdance.com.
Additions and errata
If you have a favorite tool that isn't here, please email Andy or submit an issue on our GitHub page: https://github.com/petdance/altbox