🚀 In this collection, I will be going over some command line tools I use on a daily basis that make my life a lot easier.

[First up is fzf](https://github.com/junegunn/fzf).

> fzf is a general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder.

`fzf` is a fast cli finder tool. The `fzf` command will launch an interactive find session. You can type a path to a file and see a list of possible results.

Piping the output of commands (such as git branch) to `fzf` makes it easy to find the line you are looking for.

Interactively Find Anything By Piping it to fzf in the terminal

`bat` is a `cat` replacement that adds syntax highlighting to file previews.

You can install `bat` with `brew install bat`

Next, you simply call `bat my_file.md` to print out the contents. 

Use Bat to Print a File with Syntax Highlighting in the terminal

`fzf` lets you set a `--preview` command to display file previews when searching for a file with `fzf`. Here we use `bat` to preview files while using `fzf` 

Upgrade Your Terminal and Make It a Joy to Work with

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