terminal-life:~$

Your terminal is better than you think.

A working library of command-line tools, one-liners, and configs for people who live in a shell. Every entry tested, every command copy-pasteable.

There are thousands of command-line tools out there, and most lists you’ll find are stale link dumps — forty names, zero explanations, no idea what any of them actually do. This is the opposite. Every page here is a short tutorial: what the tool does, why it beats the thing you’re doing now, an install one-liner, and real commands you can run the moment you finish reading. No signup, no newsletter wall, no “10x your workflow” nonsense.

The library covers the whole spread: famous-but-underused tools like ripgrep and fzf, obscure-but-awesome stuff you’ve never heard of, one-liners for curl, awk, find, and jq, config tricks for tmux, ssh, and herdr, and the occasional shell trick that’s older than your career but still earns its keep. New entries land constantly — the mission is simple: find things that are genuinely useful in a terminal, document them honestly, including their limits, and keep the whole thing free and readable.

//fresh from the library

~/tools/fzf

fzfNEW

A fuzzy finder for everything: pipe any list into it, pick a line, act on it. Ctrl-R will never be the same.

~/tools/ripgrep

ripgrepNEW

grep that respects your .gitignore and finishes before you lift your finger off Enter. rg is what grep dreams of being.

~/tools/atuin

atuinNEW

Replaces your shell history with a searchable, filterable database. SQLite under the hood, sync optional.

~/tools

+ seven more in the libraryBROWSE

jq, tldr, duf, btop, xh, lazygit, and tmux copy mode — on the board, documented next.