Alternatives to pet
Save and find reusable command snippets. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
pet
Save and find reusable command snippets.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as pet.
navi
An interactive command-line cheatsheet tool for browsing and running commands with suggested argument values.
navi browses interactive cheatsheets and runs commands with dynamic argument suggestions, supporting shared cheatsheets as well as your own, though its format takes some learning.
cheat
A command-line tool for creating and viewing interactive cheatsheets for commands you use occasionally.
cheat keeps personal and installed cheatsheets as a single Go program for macOS and Linux, showing examples rather than storing parameterised snippets for execution.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Atuin
Search shell history with command context and optional encrypted synchronization.
HSTR
A terminal suggest box for viewing, searching and managing Bash and Zsh command history.
tldr pages
Community-written example pages that replace verbose manual pages.
tealdeer
Read concise, example-based command help in the terminal.
fzf
A fuzzy filter for any list: files, command history, processes, branches, anything you can pipe into it.
Just
A command runner that saves project-specific commands in a justfile, without any of make's build-system baggage.
