ncdu and dust vs du: Finding What Filled the Disk
du tells you the truth in a format nobody enjoys reading. ncdu makes it navigable and lets you delete from the results. When to use each, including on a server…
htop and btop vs top: Watching a Machine Work
htop makes top's information legible and lets you act on it. btop goes further. Here is what each one shows, the keys worth learning, and why top is still the…
fd vs find: A Friendlier Way to Locate Files
fd finds files with a fraction of find's typing, but find can do things fd cannot. The syntax translation, the fdfind naming trap, and where the classic still wins.
ripgrep vs grep: Which Should You Actually Use?
ripgrep is faster than grep and skips the files you did not want anyway. Here is what it changes, a syntax translation table, and the cases where grep is still…