A friend got a MacBook recently and was asking for recommendations. I found myself wishing I had a list of all my default-installed command-line tools, so that’s what this is.

Szymon Omieciński

HTMX

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This post details the author's favorite command-line tools that are installed on every machine they use. The tools include tmux, zsh, bat, eza, fzf, git-branch-i, jq, and neovim. The author explains their use cases and highlights the key features that make these tools indispensable. The post also notes the various methods used to install these tools across macOS, Arch Linux, and Windows.

My favourite command-line tools

Great list, I have never installed Bat and Eza, two minutes later…already a fan.

Oh hey, this was me! Thanks for reading :)

Reading this made me interested to write my own tool

Okay actually gonna try bat, tmux and eza, I’ve been already zsh and oh-my-zsh, although tbf the one that I’m gonna use the most is tmux as I actually don’t use the terminal for a lot of stuff other than git and running some nx commands.

So much good stuff in this article, just make sure you don’t stuck in the cool terminal stuff rabbit hole for too long 👍🏻😂