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A while ago I came across this post: https://towardsdatascience.com/awesome-rust-powered-command-...

I’ve also been using bat and exa which are pretty good replacements for cat and ls, respectively.

https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

https://github.com/ogham/exa




scc is an insanely fast alternative to cloc: https://github.com/boyter/scc

nnn is also my go to file tree navigation / file moving tool these days too: https://github.com/jarun/nnn


For counting coding lines I use tokei and I like it: https://github.com/XAMPPRocky/tokei



No file previews yet? I'd stick with ranger or lf.


It makes you feel less painful reading man pages with bat being the colorized pager.

https://github.com/sharkdp/bat#man


This snipper in my ~/.profile colorizes man pages for like ten years already:

  #   Colorify man (changes default $MANPAGER (less) settings)
  export LESS_TERMCAP_mb='^[[01;31m'
  export LESS_TERMCAP_md='^[[01;31m'
  export LESS_TERMCAP_me='^[[0m'
  export LESS_TERMCAP_se='^[[0m'
  export LESS_TERMCAP_so='^[[01;44;33m'
  export LESS_TERMCAP_ue='^[[0m'
  export LESS_TERMCAP_us='^[[01;32m'




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