Mac Config Files

Config files for the shell and terminal apps

Terminal Emulators

• iTerm2
• Warp
• kitty
• Ghostty
• WezTerm

Shell

• zsh
• oh my zsh (zsh configuration manager)
• starship (customizable shell prompt)

Command Line Tools

File Manager

• ranger (console file manager)
• Yazi
• superfile

Basic Commands

• eza (modern ls command)
• lsd(next gen ls command)
• zoxide (smarter cd command)
• bat (cat with syntax highlighting and Git integration)
• bat-extras (integrate bat with various command line tools)
• fuck (corrects typing errors)
• broot (modern tree command)

Searching

• atuin (magical shell history)
• fd (fast and user-friendly find)
• fzf (fuzzy finder; used by zoxide)

Text Processing

• ripgrep (regex searcher)
• delta (modern diff command)
• diffnav (git diff pager based on delta)
• sd (modern sed)
• jq (modern json processor)
• choose (modern alternative to cut)
• miller (awk, sed, cut, join, sort for CSV, JSON etc.)

Version Control

• lazygit (git TUI)

Task Runner

• just
• watchexec

Getting Help

• tldr (improved man pages)
• cheat (interactive cheatsheets)
• navi (interactive cheatsheets)

Benchmarking

• hyperfine (command-line benchmarking tool)

System Monitoring

• dust (more intuitive du)
• duf (modern df)
• bottom (modern system monitor)
• glances (system monitoring tool)
• procs (modern ps)

Networking

• gping (ping with a graph)
• doggo (modern command-line DNS client)

Command-Line Toolkit

• x-cmd

Text Editor

• vim
• neovim
• zed

Package Manager

• MacPorts
• Homebrew
• Mamba
• pixi (dev package manager, multi-language support)

References

• Modern Unix Tools