Default Terminal Commands to Replace in mac

Built-in	Replace / add	Why it’s worth it
ls	eza	Better file listing
cat	bat	Better file preview with syntax highlighting
grep	ripgrep / rg	Much faster text search
find	fd	Simpler file search
cd	zoxide	Smarter directory jumping
top	btop	Better process/system monitor
history	atuin	Better searchable shell history ❌
rm	trash	Safer delete to macOS Trash
man	tldr	Quick command examples
git diff	delta	Better Git diffs

Table Dervied from ChatGPT. I only install those that I like.

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If I’m going to live in the terminal (which I am), I like to have the best tools.

• zoxide - A smarter cd command
• exa terminal
• bat A cat(1) clone with wings.
• ripgrep - recursive regex search

I’m not in the mood of setting these up. So I do them all in once.

ChatGPT.

Here are clean configs for exactly these tools:

brew install eza bat ripgrep fd zoxide btop trash tldr git-delta

Add this to ~/.zshrc

cat >> ~/.zshrc <<'EOF'
 
# ------------------------------------------------------------
# Modern CLI replacements
# ------------------------------------------------------------
 
# eza: better ls
alias ls='eza --group-directories-first'
alias ll='eza -lh --git --group-directories-first'
alias la='eza -lah --git --group-directories-first'
alias lt='eza --tree --level=2 --group-directories-first'
 
# bat: better cat
alias cat='bat'
alias less='bat --paging=always'
 
# ripgrep: better grep
alias grep='rg'
 
# fd: better find
alias find='fd'
 
# zoxide: smarter cd
eval "$(zoxide init zsh --cmd cd)"
 
# btop: better top
alias top='btop'
 
# trash: safer rm
alias rm='trash'
alias del='trash'
 
# tldr: simpler man pages
alias man='tldr'
 
EOF

Then reload:

source ~/.zshrc

Configure git-delta

git config --global core.pager delta
git config --global interactive.diffFilter "delta --color-only"
git config --global delta.navigate true
git config --global delta.side-by-side true
git config --global delta.line-numbers true
git config --global merge.conflictstyle zdiff3

Configure Fzf

# Set up fzf key bindings and fuzzy completion
source <(fzf --zsh)

Optional: configure bat theme

mkdir -p ~/.config/bat
 
cat > ~/.config/bat/config <<'EOF'
--theme="TwoDark"
--style="numbers,changes,header"
--paging=auto
EOF

Verify everything

command -v eza
command -v bat
command -v rg
command -v fd
command -v zoxide
command -v btop
command -v atuin
command -v trash
command -v tldr
command -v delta

Test replacements

ls
ll
cat ~/.zshrc
grep alias ~/.zshrc
find zshrc ~
cd Documents
top
man ls
atuin search

Use the original macOS commands with command:

command ls
command cat ~/.zshrc
command grep alias ~/.zshrc
command find ~ -name ".zshrc"
command rm file.txt
command man ls

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