Terminal Applications

• Quick Install
  • bat
  • fzf
  • zoxide
  • intelli-shell
  • fd
  • ripgrep
  • eza

Quick Install

sudo apt install bat zoxide fd-find ripgrep

bat

Important: 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

More info at https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

fzf

To get the most up-to-date version on Ubuntu Server 24.04:

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/junegunn/fzf.git ~/.fzf
~/.fzf/install

Add the following line to your shell configuration file.

bash:

eval "$(fzf --bash)"

More info at https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

zoxide

Set up the repo:

curl -fsSL https://apt.cli.rs/pubkey.asc | sudo tee -a /usr/share/keyrings/rust-tools.asc
curl -fsSL https://apt.cli.rs/rust-tools.list | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rust-tools.list
sudo apt update

You might need to run sudo apt install zoxide again.

bash:

Add this to the end of your config file (usually ~/.bashrc):

eval "$(zoxide init bash)"

More info at https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide

intelli-shell

Download repo:

curl -sSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lasantosr/intelli-shell/main/install.sh | bash

Enable hotkeys:

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/intelli-shell/bin
curl -sSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lasantosr/intelli-shell/main/intelli-shell.sh > ~/.local/share/intelli-shell/bin/intelli-shell.sh

More info at https://github.com/lasantosr/intelli-shell

fd

Note that the binary is called fdfind as the binary name fd is already used by another package. It is recommended that after installation, you add a link to fd by executing command..

ln -s $(which fdfind) ~/.local/bin/fd

.. in order to use fd in the same way as in this documentation. Make sure that $HOME/.local/bin is in your $PATH.

You can use fd to generate input for the command-line fuzzy finder fzf:

export FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND='fd --type file' export FZF_CTRL_T_COMMAND="$FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND"

Then, you can type vim <Ctrl-T> on your terminal to open fzf and search through the fd-results.

More info at https://github.com/sharkdp/fd and see the Tips section of the fzf README.

ripgrep

Info at https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep and user guide here: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/GUIDE.md

eza

Eza is available from deb.gierens.de. The GPG public key is in this repo under deb.asc.

First make sure you have the gpg command, and otherwise install it via:

sudo apt update sudo apt install -y gpg

Then install eza via:

sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eza-community/eza/main/deb.asc | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/gierens.gpg echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/gierens.gpg] http://deb.gierens.de stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gierens.list sudo chmod 644 /etc/apt/keyrings/gierens.gpg /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gierens.list sudo apt update sudo apt install -y eza

Add an alias and config to bash:

alias e='eza -lha --icons --git --time-style=long-iso --header --group-directories-first'

Note: In strict apt environments, you may need to add the target: echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=...

More info at https://github.com/eza-community/eza