For the ones I've used, because they're faster and/or much more ergonomic. ripgrep and fd are both much faster and nicer to use than their traditional counterp

For the ones I've used, because they're faster and/or much more ergonomic. ripgrep and fd are both much faster and nicer to use than their traditional counterparts. bat has support for syntax highlighting in many languages, and automatically pages long output. It's really nice. I prefer the output of exa to ls. Those are the ones I've tried, and I use them all regularly. Writing a portable script, sure I'd still reach for grep. But for tools on the commandline, these are a big improvement.