September 13, 2025

New cli tools to try: fzf, duf, ripgrep, fd, bat, fish, tldr (Sept. 2025)

I found a blog post listing commands the author (AJ) uses daily.[1]

Some of the commands I feel I could use.

I selected a few to try:

• fzf
• duf as a substitute for df
• ripgrep as a substitute for grep
• fd which as a substitute for find
• batcat as a substitute for cat

I also wanted to try starship and tealdeer but these are not in Trisquel’s repository so instead I opted for:

• fish instead of starship
• and (the original) tldr instead of its rewrite in Rust tealdeer

To install them all:

sudo apt install fzf duf ripgrep fd-find bat fish tldr

Troubleshooting bat

After the install, bash did not find the command bat.

On the repository of bat, I found this

If you install bat this way, please note that the executable may be installed as batcat instead of bat (due to a name clash with another package). You can set up a bat -> batcat symlink or alias to prevent any issues that may come up because of this and to be consistent with other distributions:

mkdir -p ~/.local/bin
ln -s /usr/bin/batcat ~/.local/bin/bat

I opted for the alias because ~/.local/bin isn’t in $PATH, if I understood correctly.

So to create the alias, I added alias bat=‘batcat’ in ~/.bash_aliases (run $ bash for the new alias to apply).

Alternative to Tealdeer

tealdeer is not in Trisquel’s repository but the package its a rewrite of tldr is.

To install tldr:

sudo apt install tldr

However, if you try:

tldr tar

Your terminal might print:

No tldr entry for tar

I had to run:

tldr --update

for tldr’s pages to be downloaded.

Troubleshooting fd

The actually path to the command is fdfind is /usr/bin/fdfind.

I added alias fd=‘fdfind’ to ~/.bash_aliases.

Taking notes in the cli

AJ mentions did to take notes, however, I did not want to install a programme to take notes. I want to try keep thing simpler for now. So far I’ve been using vi and saving notes in ~/notes but it’s not so smooth.

I found someone suggesting cat > notes, then CTRL+D. I’ll try that for now. In the future, I might try to use a script that aliases cat > notes and create a note with a timestamp in a dedicated folder when I press CTRL+D.

[1] https://alexisjanvier.net/blog/mes-commandes-du-quotidien/

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