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[–] 01011@monero.town 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Who doesn't already use rsync?

Anyway I'll give zoxide and eza a shot.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago

The problem is the standard apps are just that - standard. I can hop onto any Redhat, Debian or Solaris 10 box at work and use ls, cat etc.

If I went all-in on some bespoke alternatives on my special snowflake machine, I'd constantly be going nuts entering incorrect commands on remote machines and losing efficiency. Then, I'd go back to just using the standard commands everywhere.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

I had a feeling this would be controversial 😅

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Why is fzf, the best utility, relegated to the end? And why is ripgrep - a huge improvement over grep, especially if you want to search only on committed files in a git directory - not even mentioned? This list is outrageous. Even more so because I can't pretend to have known about all of these before, and annoyingly now have to face the fact that some of these actually look pretty handy.