Tag: cli

fish, zsh, and nushell each solve the interactive shell problem differently. Here is which one actually belongs on your machine for daily use in 2026.

GPU-accelerated terminal showdown in 2026: WezTerm, Alacritty, and Kitty compared on raw speed, config ergonomics, multiplexing support, and image rendering.

Atuin replaces your broken $HISTFILE with a SQLite DB, fzf-style search, and optional E2E-encrypted sync across every machine you own.

RTK, snip, and lean-ctx filter your AI coding agent's output before it burns context tokens. I run RTK daily, here's the one I'd actually switch to.

Claude Code puts an agentic AI assistant in your terminal for real homelab work, compose files, bash, Ansible, systemd. The honest take on cost and data.

virt-manager is fine, but real homelab automation lives on the command line. virt-install, virsh, cloud-init, provision VMs in seconds, not click-by-click.

fd has sane defaults, parallel walking, and respects .gitignore. find is gnarly but ships everywhere. Here's when each one wins.

GNU coreutils are 50 years old and it shows. ripgrep, fd, bat, eza, fzf, and zoxide replace grep/find/cat/ls with faster, friendlier Rust-powered tools. Here's what each one wins at, and when the original still holds.

ctop and lazydocker beat docker stats for live container monitoring. Keybinds, install options, multi-host setups, and tracking a memory leak with each.

Forget bash scripts scattered across your repo. make is a simple task runner that's been around for 50 years and works everywhere.

Master bulk file renaming on Linux with rename, vidir, fd, and mmv. The right tool for every scenario from regex rewrites to visual editing.

du and df still work, but Rust-era tools like dust, duf, and fclones make disk triage faster and way less painful in 2026.