Files & Search

Modern replacements for grep, find, cat, and ls, plus JSON wrangling — finding and reading files several times faster.

ripgrep

Much faster than grep, and it respects .gitignore without being asked.

Find files by name without remembering find's syntax.

bat

A cat replacement with syntax highlighting, line numbers, and Git change markers.

eza

An ls replacement with colour, icons, tree view, and Git status.

Pull values out of API responses and config files, and reshape them.