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title: #5251's toolbox
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# Welcome to my little toolbox

## Command Line Interface

### File and directory management

* [bat](https://github.com/sharkdp/bat) - cat(1) clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration.
* [exa](https://the.exa.website/) - improved file lister with more features and better defaults.
* [fd](https://github.com/sharkdp/fd) - program to find entries in your filesystem.
* [gdu](https://github.com/dundee/gdu) - pretty fast disk usage analyzer written in Go.
* [plocate](https://plocate.sesse.net/) - a much faster locate.
* [ripgrep](https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep) - line-oriented search tool that recursively searches the current directory for a regex pattern.

### Data and file processing

* [jq](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/) - lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor.
* [sd](https://github.com/chmln/sd) - intuitive find & replace CLI.
* [yq](https://kislyuk.github.io/yq/) - command-line YAML/XML processor.

### Graphics

* [guetzli](https://github.com/google/guetzli/) - JPEG encoder that aims for excellent compression density at high visual quality.
* [svgo](https://github.com/svg/svgo) - tool for optimizing SVG vector graphics files.

### File transfer

* [magic-wormhole](https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) - get things from one computer to another, safely

### Cryptography

* [minisign](https://jedisct1.github.io/minisign/) - dead simple tool to sign files and verify signatures.

### Terminal

* [tmux](https://github.com/tmux/tmux) - open-source terminal multiplexer for Unix-like operating systems.

### Web

* [httpie](https://httpie.io/) - user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era.

### Translation

* [translate-shell](https://www.soimort.org/translate-shell/) - a command-line translator