Let's make a list of our favorite CLI utilities.

My answers (mostly running in powershell - not that it makes much of a difference!)

Rust-based utilities I couldn't live without:

• fd (fd-find) for finding my files
• rg (ripgrep) for string searches
• sd (sed) for search and replace
• dust (dust) for information about my directories
• lsd (aliased to ls or l) for replacing Dir
• bat (better cat) - for when the help pages are too long

Other stuff I love:

• htop - I just learned you can run this in WSL to see all your system cores. It's pretty!
• nvim - obviously. The best vim. Even works in VSCode

I really like jless. You can pipe the JSON output of a cURL command into it and it displays it in a really nice, easy to read way with collapsible arrays and objects.

pv, which is like cat, simply copying files or stdin to stdout, but prints statistics to the terminal.

A related tip: dd isn't special in the way most people use it. This works too, if you're root: pv my-fav-distro.iso > /dev/sdc