modern-unix

modern-unix collects modern, faster, and saner alternatives to common unix commands. At 33,000 stars, it is mostly a long list with a short pitch for each tool.

The README does not try to sell a framework. It is a collection of modern, faster, and saner alternatives to common unix commands, and each entry is a couple of sentences about what it replaces and why. The samples captured here cover three everyday jobs: find and replace, system monitoring, and HTTP requests. That makes it a directory more than a product, and the star count suggests plenty of people arrive to browse.

sd is positioned as an intuitive find and replace CLI and a sed alternative. The examples lean on the literal flag for strings full of special characters, and a simple case shows removing trailing whitespace from a line. The point is doing the edit directly in the stream, no temp file in the way.

glances is described as an eye on your system and a top or htop alternative. The supported platforms are spelled out: GNU/Linux, BSD, macOS, and Windows. It is the same job as the classic process viewers, just portable across more operating systems.

xh is a friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests. The README says it reimplements as much as possible of HTTPie's design with a focus on improved performance. For anyone who already knows HTTPie, xh is framed as the same muscle memory with different speed expectations.

Each entry in the list names a classic tool and the alternative that replaces it, from sed to sd, from top to glances, from HTTPie to xh. There is no installer here, just the map.

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