Simpler alternatives to commands with complicated options/syntax [closed]

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Published on 2012-11-04T09:36:04Z Indexed on 2012/11/04 11:06 UTC
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A few I've found myself:

HTTPie instead of cURL

http PUT example.org name=John [email protected]

https://github.com/jkbr/httpie

ffind instead of find

ffind --type=f make-?dist\.sh$

https://github.com/sjl/friendly-find Still in prototype phase

dstat instead of netstat/iostat/vmstat/etc

Dstat's output by default is designed for being interpreted by humans in real-time

https ://github.com/dagwieers/dstat

Silver Searcher better than Ack better than Grep

It searches through code about 3x-5x faster than Ack.

https ://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

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