Terminal Tools That Changed How You Work - Share Your Setup

[GoldbergFan_X]

Not IDE plugins or AI coding assistants. The command line tools that you have accumulated over time that make the terminal a genuinely different environment from what it is out of the box.

Alias setups, shell configurations, specific tools that replaced something you used to do differently, weird utilities that solve a specific problem. The kind of thing you only find out about when someone is watching you work and asks what that thing you just typed was.

What is in your setup that other people should know about?

[BiscuitTin46]

fzf for fuzzy finding. Changed how I navigate both files and command history. The reverse history search alone justified installing it

[Mesh Ross]

ripgrep instead of grep. Faster, respects gitignore by default, better output formatting. The only reason not to switch is muscle memory for the flag names