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> Learn your basic UNIX/POSIX utilities first, please, before you start preaching because of Rust. :D

Maybe, jus maybe the defaults for UNIX/POSIX was just not good and thats why they Rust based one?

Maybe, just maybe I could fork "mkdir" just for you and make "-p" the default, in C?

Or maybe, just maybe you could make an alias for it, i.e. "alias mkdir="mkdir -p" so then it becomes the default?

sighs.

That is why I’m mostly using default tools. I like the idea of these tools, but autocomplete and fuzzy finding takes in aggregate more time than if I took a step back and actually configure my tools (shell alias and scripts, ssh config, git alias,…).

My current list of tools I install are:

- ripgrep. It’s just fast.

- fzf. For vim. I’ve never have a real use for it on the command.

- lf. Sometimes I want to quickly browse around a directory.

But more often than not, the core utilities work fine.

I use ripgrep and fzf as well. I have never heard of the last one.

But yeah, personally I just configure the default tools and be done with it for almost life. :D

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