Alternatives to bash-preexec
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. bash-preexec itself: install bash-preexec.
bash-git-prompt
An informative and fancy bash prompt for Git users
MarkEdit
Just like TextEdit on Mac but dedicated to Markdown
nvm
Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions
mkcert
A simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates with any names you'd like
zsh-autosuggestions
Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh
loki
Like Prometheus, but for logs
fastfetch
A maintained, feature-rich and performance oriented, neofetch like system information tool
zsh-syntax-highlighting
Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh
Postgres
Mirror of the official PostgreSQL GIT repository. Note that this is just a *mirror* - we don't work with pull requests on github. To contribute, pleas
hadolint
Dockerfile linter, validate inline bash, written in Haskell
miller
Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON
shfmt
A shell parser, formatter, and interpreter with bash and zsh support; includes shfmt
miniserve
🌟 For when you really just want to serve some files over HTTP right now!
sccache
Sccache is a ccache-like tool. It is used as a compiler wrapper and avoids compilation when possible. Sccache has the capability to utilize caching in
vis
A vi-like editor based on Plan 9's structural regular expressions
zenith
Zenith - sort of like top or htop but with zoom-able charts, CPU, GPU, network, and disk usage
roswell
intended to be a launcher for a major lisp environment that just works
mdq
like jq but for Markdown: find specific elements in a md doc
httm
Interactive, file-level Time Machine-like tool for ZFS/btrfs/nilfs2 (and even Time Machine and Restic backups!)
md4c
C Markdown parser. Fast. SAX-like interface. Compliant to CommonMark specification
moor
Moor is a pager. It's designed to just do the right thing without any configuration
pystring
C++ functions matching the interface and behavior of python string methods with std::string
scrcpy
Display and control your Android device
go
The Go programming language
How we picked these
We match on what the tool does and how it installs, then order by how widely each project is used. We're not saying these are better or worse than bash-preexec — that depends on what you're building. We're saying they're the projects people reach for in the same situations, and each one has an install command we checked against its documentation.
bash-preexec is developed by its own authors and this page is an independent reference; we are not affiliated with or sponsored by any project listed, and nothing here is a paid placement.