This is an outdated guide. Most of the tools here are genuinely poor replacements for their GUI counterparts. However, there are many alternatives superior to t

This is an outdated guide. Most of the tools here are genuinely poor replacements for their GUI counterparts. However, there are many alternatives superior to their GUI versions. If you want something better than Activity Monitor– tells you what (which process?) is lagging your computer, and how (RAM, CPU, or swap?)– with an overall slicker interface, try: glances If you want something better than weather.com– no ads, fast loading– try: curl wttr.in Better than spotlight– full-text search over 128GB drive in less than 30s– try: rg "query" Force quit a program, try: pkill -9 ProgramName Suspend a program and un-suspend it later, try: pkill -STOP ProgramName pkill -CONT ProgramName View content of a file with syntax highlighting, try: bat file.py Open a file and copy it to your clipboard, try: cat image.png | pbcopy Go to a recently visited folder with autocomplete that works reliably, try: z foldername Convert units– faster than typing into Google, try: units Find a file by name faster than Spotlight: locate "pear" # finds ~/pear/readme.txt, ~/pearidea.txt To move and copy individual files around, activate the GUI: open . These are just a few examples of CLI tools being superior.