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Ask HN: What modern tools should be standard part of a modern unixy distro?Why?

• warrenm 4y ago
  I've been consistently surprised basic utilities (netstat, iostat, screen (or tmux), etc etc) are NOT by-default installed on servers with a 'vanilla' instal (ie not requiring an extra kickstart or autoyast)
  • tssva 4y ago
    On linux netstat is considered legacy and has been superseded by ss which is installed by default as part of the iproute2 package.
• mtmail 4y ago
  https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc which can parse output of various command-line tools into JSON. And jq (https://stedolan.github.io/jq/ https://stedolan.github.io/jq/) of course.
• cristiioan 4y ago
  There are many tools like lsd, bat, fd and a few more.
• yarapavan 4y ago
  jq/fq - for working with json/binary formats csvkit/miller - for working with csv, tsvs rg/fzf - for search and fuzzy finding
  • mattewong 4y ago
    csvkit and miller are both extraordinarily slow try xsv (https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv) or zsv (https://github.com/liquidaty/zsv https://github.com/liquidaty/zsv) instead (the latter of which I'm an author of)