Interesting Snippets from 2019-11-21

• exa · a modern replacement for ls

  exa is an improved file lister with more features and better defaults. It uses colours to distinguish file types and metadata. It knows about symlinks, extended attributes, and Git. And it’s small, fast, and just one single binary.

• GitHub - sharkdp/hyperfine: A command-line benchmarking tool

  To run a benchmark, you can simply call hyperfine .... The argument(s) can be any shell command.

• GitHub - antifuchs/chars: cha(rs) is a commandline tool to display information about unicode characters

  Use this tool to display names and codes for various ASCII (and unicode) characters / code points! It's strongly inspired by ascii(1), but supports unicode characters; it's also inspired by unicode.py, but it attempts to support whitespace/control characters better.

• Introduction · Tig - Text-mode interface for Git

  Tig is an ncurses-based text-mode interface for git. It functions mainly as a Git repository browser, but can also assist in staging changes for commit at chunk level and act as a pager for output from various Git commands.

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