5 CLI Tools I Use to Keep Terminal Workflows Less Annoying The terminal is supposed to make work faster, which is funny, because mine regularly turns into a junk drawer with a cursor. Old commands hide in history, aliases multiply quietly, and somehow I still end up searching the web for the same tar , find , grep , or Git command I already solved months ago. This is not a “definitive best CLI tools ever created by humanity” list. Those lists usually become 47 tools you install, admire, and forget. These are five CLI tools I actually reach for when I want terminal work to feel less annoying across zsh , bash , macOS, and Linux. The Small Problem With Terminal Productivity Terminal workflows rarely collapse because of one dramatic failure. They usually decay through tiny repeated annoyances. You forget the exact command. You remember an alias, but not what it does. You know a file exists somewhere, but not where. You open a config file and immediately wish it had syntax highlighting.…