ripgrep recursively searches in files for a regex pattern within files. It works very efficiently by skipping directories known to be typically not interesting (e.g. .git). It is benchmarked as the fastest solution available to search in files.

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fd is a simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find, written in Rust.

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exa is a replacement for the ls command, written in Rust, with colors and additional useful ways to present the content of a directory.

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dtrx is an archive extractor that automatically recognize the type of archive and performs the necessary actions to properly uncompress it.

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ncdu is a disk usage analyzer with an NCurses interface. It is designed to find out which directories and files are using more space on a hard disk.

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