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A curated list of command line apps.

Inspired by the 352552⭐  28758🍴 awesome) list thing.

Table of Contents


Entertainment

  •   3161⭐    218🍴 newsboat) - An extendable RSS feed reader for text terminals.

Music

  •   5721⭐    479🍴 cmus) - Small, fast and powerful console music player.
  •   1424⭐    159🍴 Instant-Music-Downloader) - Instant music downloader.
  •    428⭐     31🍴 itunes-remote) - Control iTunes via CLI.
  • 🌎 pianobar - Pandora client.
  •    149⭐     13🍴 somafm-cli) - Listen to SomaFM in your terminal.
  •   2291⭐    364🍴 mpd) - Music Player Daemon.
  •   2201⭐    222🍴 ncmpcpp) - mpd client.
  • moc - Console audio player for Linux/UNIX.
  •   4372⭐    300🍴 musikcube) - Cross-platform, terminal-based music player, audio engine, metadata indexer, and server.
  •  13319⭐   1856🍴 beets) - Music library manager and tagger.
  •  17960⭐    531🍴 spotify-tui) - Spotify client.
  •    327⭐     35🍴 swaglyrics-for-spotify) - Spotify lyrics.
  •    212⭐     14🍴 dzr) - deezer.com player.
  •    523⭐     25🍴 radio-active) - Internet radio player with 40k+ stations.
  •    108⭐      0🍴 mpvc) - Music player interfacing mpv.

Video

  • 134773⭐  10253🍴 youtube-dl) - Download videos from YouTube.com and many other video sites.
  •  10389⭐   1126🍴 streamlink) - Extract streams from various websites to a video player of your choosing.
  •   8240⭐    641🍴 mps-youtube) - Youtube player.
  • 🌎 mpv - Superior video player.
  •   4897⭐    321🍴 editly) - Declarative video editing.
  • 104854⭐   8234🍴 yt-dlp) - A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes.

Movies

  •    212⭐     17🍴 moviemon) - Everything about your movies.
  •    168⭐     10🍴 movie) - Get movie info or compare movies.

Games

  • Dwarf Fortress - Roguelike construction and management simulation.
  • 🌎 Cataclysm-DDA - Turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
  •   2939⭐    182🍴 Pokete) - Pokemon-like.

Books

  •   1256⭐     51🍴 epr) - epub reader.
  •    312⭐     21🍴 Bible.Js CLI) - Bible.
  •     63⭐      2🍴 SpeedRead) - Spritz-alike speedreader.
  •    719⭐     52🍴 medium-cli) - Read 🌎 medium.com stories.

Chat

  • 🌎 WeeChat - Fast, light and extensible chat client.
  •   2947⭐    359🍴 irssi) - IRC chat client.
  •    531⭐     32🍴 kirc) - Tiny IRC client.

Development

  •    572⭐     19🍴 legit) - Generate Open Source licences as files or file headers.
  •    198⭐      8🍴 mklicense) - Create a custom LICENSE file painlessly with customized info.
  •   4126⭐    388🍴 rebound) - Fetch Stack Overflow results on compiler error.
  •    269⭐     16🍴 foy) - Lightweight general purpose task runner/build tool.
  •  24429⭐    527🍴 just) - Modern make-like command runner.
  •    650⭐     40🍴 bcal) - Byte CALculator for storage conversions and calculations.
  •    665⭐     28🍴 bitwise) - Base conversion and bit manipulation.
  •    374⭐     19🍴 cgasm) - x86 assembly documentation.
  •   7427⭐    173🍴 grex) - Generate regular expressions from user-provided test cases.
  •  11555⭐    797🍴 gdb-dashboard) - Modular visual interface for GDB.
  •    155⭐     15🍴 iola) - Socket client with REST API.
  •    681⭐     14🍴 add-gitignore) - Interactively generate a .gitignore for your project based on your needs.
  •    360⭐     15🍴 is-up-cli) - Check if a domain is up.
  •     34⭐      3🍴 reachable) - Check if a domain is up.
  •   2598⭐    213🍴 loadtest) - Run load tests.
  •    555⭐     52🍴 diff2html-cli) - Create pretty HTML from diffs.

Text Editors

  •   4592⭐   1309🍴 emacs) - An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor β€” and more.
  •  37760⭐   5607🍴 vim) - Vim - the ubiquitous text editor.
  •  87484⭐   5946🍴 neovim) - Modern vim.
  •  10196⭐    730🍴 kakoune) - Modal editor inspired by vim.
  •  25796⭐   1197🍴 micro) - A simple and intuitive editor.
  •    532⭐     15🍴 o) - Configuration-free text editor and IDE.
  •  36523⭐   2721🍴 helix) - Modal editor inspired by kakoune.

Frontend Development

  •   1626⭐     53🍴 caniuse-cmd) - Search 🌎 caniuse.com about browser support of features.
  •     40⭐      3🍴 strip-css-comments-cli) - Strip comments from CSS.
  •     62⭐      3🍴 viewport-list-cli) - Return a list of devices and their viewports.
  • 🌎 surge - Publish static websites for free.

Mobile Development

  •    112⭐     11🍴 mobicon-cli) - Mobile app icon generator.
  •     71⭐     10🍴 mobisplash-cli) - Mobile app splash screen generator.
  •    581⭐     16🍴 deviceframe) - Put device frames around your mobile/web/progressive app screenshots.

Database

  •  11587⭐    666🍴 mycli) - MySQL client with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
  •  12330⭐    557🍴 pgcli) - Postgres client with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
  •    633⭐    148🍴 sqlline) - Shell for issuing SQL via JDBC.
  •   2612⭐    114🍴 iredis) - Redis client with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
  •   9285⭐    362🍴 usql) - Universal SQL client with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.

Devops

  •    189⭐     11🍴 htconvert) - Convert .htaccess redirects to nginx.conf redirects.
  •   5267⭐    283🍴 SAWS) - Supercharged AWS CLI.
  •   4679⭐    908🍴 s3cmd) - Fully-Featured S3 client.
  •  42015⭐   2633🍴 pm2) - Production Process Manager for Node.js.
  •   1338⭐    134🍴 ops) - Unikernel compilation and orchestration tool.
  •   1175⭐    140🍴 flog) - A fake log generator for log formats such as apache-common, apache error and RFC3164 syslog.
  •  29065⭐   1830🍴 k9s) - Manage Kubernetes Clusters.
  •    788⭐     44🍴 PingMe) - Send messages/alerts to multiple messaging platforms & email.
  •   1165⭐    124🍴 ipfs-deploy) - Deploy static websites to  22823⭐   1480🍴 IPFS).
  •    650⭐     19🍴 Discharge) - Deploy static websites to Amazon S3.
  •    652⭐     79🍴 updatecli) - A declarative dependency management tool.

Docker

  •    337⭐     26🍴 lstags) - Synchronize images across registries.
  •   3883⭐    158🍴 dockly) - Interactively manage containers.
  •  43064⭐   1362🍴 lazydocker) - Simple docker/docker-compose interface.
  •    141⭐      4🍴 docker-pushrm) - Push a readme to container registries.

Release

  •   8302⭐    543🍴 release-it) - Automate releases for Git repositories and/or npm packages. Changelog generation, GitHub/GitLab releases, etc.
  •    875⭐     43🍴 clog) - A conventional changelog for the rest of us.
  •   7620⭐    301🍴 np) - A better npm publish.
  •   3576⭐    114🍴 release) - Generate changelogs with a single command.
  •  21623⭐   1711🍴 semantic-release) - Fully automated version management and package publishing.

Npm

  •    287⭐     26🍴 npm-name-cli) - Check whether a package name is available on npm.
  •     31⭐      4🍴 npm-user-cli) - Get user info of a npm user.
  •    198⭐     10🍴 npm-home) - Open the npm page of the package in the current directory.
  •     25⭐      4🍴 pkg-dir-cli) - Find the root directory of a npm package.
  •   9681⭐    334🍴 npm-check-updates) - Find newer versions of package dependencies than what your package.json allows.
  •    103⭐      8🍴 updates) - Flexible npm dependency update tool.
  •    353⭐      6🍴 wipe-modules) - Remove node_modules of inactive projects.

Boilerplate

  •   3884⭐    405🍴 yo) - Scaffolding tool for running Yeoman generators.
  •   1733⭐    119🍴 boilr) - Create projects from boilerplate templates.
  •  23246⭐   2055🍴 cookiecutter) - Create projects from templates.
  •    827⭐    153🍴 mevn-cli) - Light speed setup for MEVN (Mongo Express Vue Node) Apps.
  •    127⭐     17🍴 scaffold-static) - Scaffolding utility for vanilla JS.

HTTP Server

  •   9556⭐    695🍴 serve) - Serve static files (https, CORS, GZIP compression, etc).
  •     66⭐      3🍴 simplehttp) - Easily serve a local directory over HTTP.
  •   1393⭐    138🍴 shell2http) - Shell script based HTTP server.

HTTP Client

  •  35095⭐   3697🍴 HTTPie) - A user-friendly HTTP client.
  •   9011⭐    329🍴 HTTP Prompt) - Interactive HTTP client featuring autocomplete and syntax highlighting.
  •    609⭐     13🍴 ain) - HTTP client with a simple format to organize API endpoints.
  •   3119⭐    100🍴 curlie) - A curl frontend with the ease of use of HTTPie.

Productivity

  •      ?⭐      ?🍴 doing) - Keep track of what you’re doing and track what you’ve done.
  •   1793⭐     77🍴 ffscreencast) - A ffmpeg screencast with video overlay and multi monitor support.
  •     43⭐      3🍴 meetup-cli) - Meetup.com client.
  • 🌎 NeoMutt - Email client.
  •    892⭐     37🍴 terjira) - Jira client.
  •     12⭐      1🍴 ipt) - Pivotal Tracker client.
  •   1187⭐     56🍴 uber-cli) - Uber client.
  •   6659⭐    296🍴 Buku) - Browser-independent bookmark manager.
  •   1474⭐    104🍴 papis) - Extensible document and bibliography manager.
  •    271⭐     33🍴 pubs) - Scientific bibliography manager.
  •    171⭐      6🍴 fjira) - Fuzzy finder and TUI application for Jira.

Time Tracking

  •   1488⭐    117🍴 Timetrap) - Simple timetracker.
  •    469⭐     34🍴 moro) - Simple tool for tracking work hours.
  •   1338⭐     97🍴 Timewarrior) - Utility with simple stopwatch, calendar-based backfill and flexible reporting.
  •   2473⭐    243🍴 Watson) - Generate reports for clients and manage your time.
  •    335⭐     55🍴 utt) - Simple time tracking tool.
  •    717⭐     37🍴 Bartib) - Easy to use time tracking tool.
  •   1049⭐     15🍴 arttime) - Featureful timer with native desktop notifications and curated ASCII art.

Note Taking and Lists

  •    249⭐     16🍴 idea) - A lightweight tool for keeping ideas in a safe place quick and easy.
  •      7⭐      0🍴 geeknote) - Evernote client.
  • 🌎 Taskwarrior - Manage your TODO list.
  • 🌎 Terminal velocity - A fast note-taking app.
  •    804⭐     42🍴 eureka) - Input and store your ideas.
  •    404⭐     37🍴 sncli) - Simplenote client.
  •    199⭐      9🍴 td-cli) - A TODO manager to organize and manage your TODO's across multiple projects.
  •   9035⭐    384🍴 taskbook) - Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat.
  •   2846⭐    121🍴 dnote) - A interactive, multi-device notebook.
  •   6959⭐    193🍴 nb) - A note‑taking, bookmarking, archiving, and knowledge base application.
  •    487⭐     20🍴 obs) - Interact with your Obsidian vault.

Finance

See 🌎 plaintextaccounting.org for a great overview of relevant tools.

  • 🌎 ledger - Powerful, double-entry accounting system.
  • 🌎 hledger - Robust, fast, intuitive plain text accounting tool with CLI, TUI and web interfaces.
  •    143⭐     22🍴 moeda) - Foreign exchange rates and currency conversion.
  •    240⭐     17🍴 cash-cli) - Convert Currency Rates.
  •   4146⭐    327🍴 cointop) - Track cryptocurrencies.
  •   5129⭐    281🍴 ticker) - Stock ticker.

Presentations

  •   3058⭐     78🍴 WOPR) - A simple markup language for creating rich terminal reports, presentations and infographics.
  •   2238⭐    179🍴 decktape) - PDF exporter for HTML presentations.
  •   5041⭐    257🍴 mdp) - A markdown presentation tool.
  • 🌎 sent - Simple plaintext presentation tool.
  •  10479⭐    284🍴 slides) - A markdown presentation tool.

Calendars

  • 🌎 calcurse - Calendar and scheduling.
  •   3385⭐    319🍴 gcalcli) - Google calendar client.
  •   2710⭐    210🍴 khal) - CalDAV ready CLI and TUI calendar.
  •   1628⭐    165🍴 vdirsyncer) - CalDAV sync.
  • 🌎 remind - A sophisticated calendar and alarm program.
  •     84⭐      8🍴 birthday) - Know when a friend's birthday is coming.

Utilities

  •  37091⭐   3674🍴 aria2) - HTTP, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink download utility.
  •     48⭐      5🍴 bitly-client) - Bitly client.
  •    166⭐      3🍴 deadlink) - Find dead links in files.
  •    288⭐     16🍴 crawley) - Unix-way web crawler.
  •    388⭐     23🍴 kill-tabs) - Kill all Chrome tabs.
  •   4864⭐    209🍴 alex) - Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing.
  •    133⭐      2🍴 clevercli) - Collection of ChatGPT powered utilities.

macOS

  •    208⭐     12🍴 open-pip-cli) - Watch videos in picture-in-picture player.
  •     92⭐     15🍴 osx-wifi-cli) - Manage wifi connections.
  •     67⭐      5🍴 active-win-cli) - Get the title/id/etc of the active window.
  •   1121⭐    262🍴 stronghold) - Configure security settings from the terminal.
  •    665⭐     30🍴 dark-mode) - Toggle dark mode.

Terminal Sharing Utilities

  •  18962⭐   1399🍴 gotty) - Share your terminal as a web application.
  •  20375⭐   1404🍴 localtunnel) - Expose your localhost to the world for easy testing and sharing.
  • 🌎 mosh - Remote SSH client that allows roaming with intermittent connectivity.
  • 🌎 ngrok - Secure introspectable tunnels to localhost.
  • 🌎 tmate - Instant terminal (tmux) sharing.
  •   1621⭐     48🍴 warp) - Secure and simple terminal sharing.
  •    416⭐     13🍴 OverTime) - Time-overlap tables for remote teams.

Network Utilities

  •    144⭐     13🍴 get-port-cli) - Get an available port.
  •     25⭐      1🍴 is-reachable-cli) - Check if hostnames are reachable or not.
  •   2065⭐    132🍴 acmetool) - Automatic certificate acquisition for ACME (Let's Encrypt).
  •    786⭐     72🍴 certificate-ripper) - Extract server certificates.
  •    187⭐      3🍴 neoss) - User-friendly and detailed socket statistics.

Theming and Customization

  •    550⭐     24🍴 splash-cli) - Beautiful wallpapers from Unsplash.
  •    171⭐     17🍴 wallpaper-cli) - Get or set the desktop wallpaper.
  •   5588⭐    120🍴 themer) - Generate personalized themes for your editor, terminal, wallpaper, Slack, and more.
  •     11⭐      2🍴 JackPaper) - Set images from Unsplash as wallpaper.
  •    191⭐      8🍴 QuickWall) - Directly set wallpapers from Unsplash.
  • 🌎 oh-my-posh - Prompt theme engine.

Shell Utilities

  •    708⭐     49🍴 has) - Checks for the presence of various commands and their versions on the path.
  •   8451⭐    129🍴 Ultimate Plumber) - Write Linux pipes with live previews.
  •   6910⭐    159🍴 fkill-cli) - Simple cross-platform process killer.
  • 🌎 task-spooler - Queue jobs for linear execution.
  •    184⭐      5🍴 undollar) - Strip the '$' preceding copy-pasted terminal commands.
  •     73⭐      6🍴 pipe_exec) - Run executables from stdin, pipes and ttys without creating a temporary file.

System Interaction Utilities

  •  12992⭐    487🍴 fastfetch) - System information tool.
  •     34⭐      3🍴 battery-level-cli) - Get current battery level.
  •    203⭐      8🍴 brightness-cli) - Change screen brightness (    11⭐      2🍴 windows)).
  •   1643⭐     47🍴 yank) - Yank terminal output to clipboard.
  •     40⭐      2🍴 screensaver) - Start the screensaver.
  •    188⭐     16🍴 google-font-installer) - Download and install Google Web Fonts on your local machine.
  • 🌎 glances - System monitoring tool.
  •   1836⭐     71🍴 tiptop) - System monitor.
  •    190⭐     10🍴 gzip-size-cli) - Get the gzipped size of a file.

Markdown

  •   4303⭐    478🍴 DocToc) - Generates table of contents for markdown files.
  •   6619⭐    430🍴 grip) - Preview markdown files as GitHub would render them.
  •   1822⭐    105🍴 mdv) - Styled terminal markdown viewer.
  •  17362⭐    390🍴 glow) - Styled markdown rendering.
  •    284⭐      8🍴 gtree) - Use markdown to generate directory trees and the directories itself.

Security

  • 🌎 pass - Password manager.
  •   6078⭐    506🍴 gopass) - Fully-featured password manager.
  •   1127⭐     45🍴 xiringuito) - SSH-based VPN.
  •     74⭐      3🍴 hasha-cli) - Get the hash of text or stdin.
  •   1788⭐     47🍴 ots) - Share secrets with others via a one-time URL.

Math

  •    182⭐      8🍴 mdlt) - Do quick math right from the command line.
  •   2024⭐    156🍴 Qalculate) - Calculate non-trivial math expressions. Unit conversions, symbolic calculations and more.

Weather

  •  25601⭐   1126🍴 wttr.in)
  •   8042⭐    493🍴 wego)
  •     96⭐      7🍴 weather-cli)

Browser Replacement

  •   2399⭐    117🍴 s) - Open a web search in your terminal.
  •    364⭐     13🍴 hget) - Render websites in plain text from your terminal.
  •   8140⭐    260🍴 mapscii) - Terminal Map Viewer.
  •     92⭐     13🍴 nasa-cli) - Download NASA Picture of the Day.
  •    162⭐     11🍴 getnews.tech) - Fetch news headlines from various news outlets.
  •    137⭐     12🍴 trino) - Translation of words and phrases.
  •   7131⭐    391🍴 translate-shell) - Google Translate interface.

Internet Speedtest

  •    617⭐    125🍴 speedtest-net) - Test internet connection speed and ping using speedtest.net.
  •   3920⭐    167🍴 speed-test) - speedtest-net wrapper with different UI.
  •  13721⭐   1920🍴 speedtest-cli) - Test internet bandwidth using speedtest.net.
  •  10403⭐    301🍴 bandwhich) - Track bandwidth utilization by process.

Command Line Learning

  • 🌎 cmdchallenge - Presents small shell challenge with user submitted solutions.
  • 🌎 explainshell - Type a snippet to see the help text for each argument.
  •  10691⭐    869🍴 howdoi) - Instant coding answers.
  •   5741⭐    151🍴 how2) - Node.js implementation of howdoi.
  •  91038⭐   3658🍴 The Fuck) - Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.
  •  54332⭐   4396🍴 tldr) - Simplified and community-driven man pages.
  •    500⭐     25🍴 Wat) - Instant, central, community-built docs.
  •    393⭐     64🍴 teachcode) - Guide for the earliest lessons of coding.
  •  15596⭐    522🍴 navi) - Interactive cheatsheet tool.
  •    760⭐     42🍴 yai) - AI powered terminal assistant.

Data Manipulation

  •   8119⭐    290🍴 visidata) - Spreadsheet multitool for data discovery and arrangement.

Processors

  •  31418⭐   1614🍴 jq) - JSON processor.
  •   2722⭐     84🍴 yq) - YAML processor.
  •   7383⭐    144🍴 dasel) - JSON/YAML/TOML/XML processor (like jq/yq).
  •     87⭐      5🍴 yaml-cli) - Query/update YAML.
  •    576⭐     12🍴 ramda-cli) - Process data with functional pipelines.
  •    925⭐     27🍴 xq) - XML and HTML beautifier and content extractor.

JSON

  •     52⭐      5🍴 jp) - JSON parser.
  •  19305⭐    442🍴 fx) - Command-line JSON viewer.
  •     93⭐      4🍴 vj) - Makes JSON human readable.
  •   1730⭐     82🍴 underscore-cli) - Utility-belt for hacking JSON and Javascript.
  •     67⭐      6🍴 strip-json-comments-cli) - Strip comments from JSON.
  •    213⭐     15🍴 GROQ) – JSON processor with queries and projections.
  •  14033⭐    330🍴 gron) - Make JSON greppable.

YAML

  •   1442⭐     71🍴 dyff) - YAML diff tool.

Columns

  •     67⭐      6🍴 parse-columns-cli) - Parse text columns to JSON.
  • q - Execution of SQL-like queries on CSV/TSV/tabular text file.

Text

  • figlet - Creates large text out of ASCII characters.
  •   3479⭐    214🍴 stegcloak) - Hide secrets with invisible characters in plain text securely.

Files and Directories

File Managers

  •  16009⭐    897🍴 ranger) - A console file manager with VI key bindings.
  •     44⭐      4🍴 midnight-commander) - A feature rich visual file manager.
  • 🌎 Vifm - VI influenced file manager.
  •  19868⭐    765🍴 nnn) - File browser and disk usage analyzer with excellent desktop integration.
  •   8042⭐    332🍴 lf) - Fast, extensively customizable file manager.
  •   1402⭐     39🍴 clifm) - The command line file manager.
  •   1865⭐    178🍴 far2l) - Orthodox file manager.
  •  23271⭐    509🍴 yazi) - Blazing fast file manager.

Deleting, Copying, and Renaming

  •   1345⭐     37🍴 trash-cli) - Move files and directories to the trash.
  •    134⭐      5🍴 empty-trash-cli) - Empty the trash.
  •    319⭐     20🍴 del-cli) - Delete files and folders.
  •    351⭐     34🍴 cpy-cli) - Copies files.
  •    168⭐     19🍴 rename-cli) - Rename files quickly.
  • 🌎 renameutils - Mass renaming in your editor.
  •   2625⭐     70🍴 diskonaut) - Disk space navigator.

Files

  •    840⭐     51🍴 chokidar-cli) - CLI to watch file system changes.
  •     77⭐      4🍴 file-type-cli) - Detect the file type of a file or stdin.
  •  51811⭐   1284🍴 bat) - A cat clone with syntax highlighting.
  • 🌎 NCDu - A disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface.
  •    140⭐      5🍴 unix-permissions) - Swiss Army knife for Unix permissions.
  • 🌎 transmission-cli - Torrent client for your command line.
  •   1218⭐    140🍴 webtorrent-cli) – Streaming torrent client.
  •   4910⭐    111🍴 entr) - Run an arbitrary command when files change.
  •    345⭐     14🍴 organize-cli) - Organize your files automatically.
  • 🌎 organize-rt - organize-cli in Rust with more customization.
  •   1451⭐     75🍴 RecoverPy) - Recover overwritten or deleted files.

File Sync/Sharing

  •  49443⭐   4408🍴 rclone) - Sync files with various cloud providers.
  •   7085⭐    193🍴 ffsend) - Quick file share.
  •    373⭐     12🍴 share-cli) - Share files with your local network.
  •    713⭐    146🍴 google-drive-upload) - Upload/sync with Google Drive.
  •    309⭐     28🍴 gdrive-downloader) - Download files/folders from Google Drive.
  •   1611⭐     45🍴 portal) - Send files between computers.
  •      ?⭐      ?🍴 shbin) - Turn a Github repo into a pastebin.
  •   1760⭐     72🍴 sharing) - Send and receive files on your mobile device.
  •     36⭐      1🍴 ncp) - Transfer files and folders, to and from NFS servers.

Directory Listing

  •    233⭐     16🍴 alder) - Minimal tree with colors.
  •  14590⭐    270🍴 eza) - Improved version of ls.
  •    968⭐     21🍴 tre) - tree with git awareness, editor aliasing, and more.
  •     48⭐      1🍴 ll) - ls with git status.
  •  14141⭐    444🍴 lsd) - ls with many extra features.

Directory Navigation

  •  16466⭐    710🍴 autojump) - A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line.
  •    197⭐     17🍴 pm) - The easy way to switch to your projects on the shell.
  •  16573⭐   1172🍴 z) - z is the new j, yo.
  •      ?⭐      ?🍴 PathPicker) - After parsing the output from a command, PathPicker presents you with a nice UI to select which files you're interested in.
  •    535⭐     27🍴 fz) - Seamless fuzzy tab completion for z.
  •    887⭐     65🍴 goto) - Directory aliases for the shell with autocomplete.
  •   3054⭐    143🍴 z.lua) - cd command that learns your habits.
  •  25486⭐    605🍴 zoxide) - Fast directory jumper in Rust.
  •   1736⭐     39🍴 tere) - A faster alternative to using cd and ls.

Search

  •    331⭐      6🍴 happyfinder) - (another) Fuzzy file finder for the command line.
  •     41⭐      7🍴 find-up-cli) - Find a file by walking up parent directories.
  •  51215⭐   2090🍴 ripgrep) - A line-oriented search tool that recursively searches your current directory for a regex pattern.
  •  68773⭐   2478🍴 fzf) - A general purpose command-line fuzzy finder, can be used with any list: files/directories, command history, processes, hostnames, bookmarks, git commits, etc.
  •   4152⭐     88🍴 fselect) - Find files with SQL-like queries.
  •  36849⭐    857🍴 fd) - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.
  •  11165⭐    237🍴 broot) - Fuzzy finder similar to fzf, but with space usage visualization.
  •    293⭐     17🍴 rare) - Real-time regex aggregation and analysis.
  •   5475⭐    200🍴 skim) - A general fuzzy finder written in rust, similar to fzf.
  •   8343⭐    206🍴 ast-grep) - A tool for code structural search, linting and rewriting.

Version Control

  •      ?⭐      ?🍴 SnowFS) - A fast, scalable version control system for binaries.

Git

  •   1114⭐     60🍴 git commander) - Interactive git tool.
  •   6492⭐    185🍴 git-stats) - A local GitHub-like contributions calendar.
  •    179⭐     12🍴 dev-time) - Get the current local time of a GitHub user.
  •  12648⭐    627🍴 tig) - Text-mode interface for git.
  •   4050⭐     98🍴 grv) - Text-mode interface for git with customisable vi bindings.
  •   7694⭐    311🍴 git-standup) - Recall what you did on the last working day.
  •   3820⭐    201🍴 git-secret) - Store your private data inside a git repository.
  •    266⭐     46🍴 gitlab-cli) - Create GitLab merge requests.
  •  17546⭐   1210🍴 git-extras) - Git utilities.
  •   1706⭐     72🍴 gita) - Manage multiple git repos side by side.
  •  10998⭐   1375🍴 readme-md-generator) - Interactively generate README.md files.
  •    147⭐     11🍴 semantic-git-commit-cli) - Ensure semantic commits messages.
  •     17⭐      2🍴 import-github-labels-cli) - Sync labels between Github repos.
  •      7⭐      0🍴 git-all-branches) - Improved git branch -a.
  •   1241⭐     41🍴 czg) - Interactively generate standardized commit messages.
  •   1269⭐    253🍴 shallow-backup) - Git integrated backup tool.
  •  57928⭐   1989🍴 Lazygit) - Simple TUI for git commands.

GitHub

  •    442⭐     15🍴 CLI GitHub) - Fancy GitHub client.
  •  22909⭐   2198🍴 hub) - Make git easier to use with GitHub.
  •    574⭐     34🍴 git-labelmaker) - Edit GitHub labels.

Emoji

  •   4703⭐    207🍴 gitmoji-cli) - Use emoji in commit messages.
  •    389⭐     49🍴 gitmoji-changelog) - Generate gitmoji changelogs.

Images

  •  21423⭐   1407🍴 SVGO) - Optimize SVG files.
  •   5855⭐    122🍴 carbon-now-cli) - Generate beautiful images of your code.
  •     57⭐      7🍴 imgur-uploader-cli) - Upload images to imgur.
  •   1700⭐     72🍴 pageres-cli) - Capture website screenshots.

Gif Creation

  •    556⭐     31🍴 gifgen) - Simple high quality GIF encoding.
  •   3890⭐    244🍴 gifsicle) - Create, manipulate, and optimize GIF images and animations.
  •   3971⭐    257🍴 ttygif) - Convert terminal recordings to animated gifs.
  •    270⭐     13🍴 ttygif) - ttyrec to gif.
  •   3241⭐     93🍴 ttystudio) - A terminal-to-gif recorder minus the headaches.
  •  14819⭐    933🍴 asciinema) - Terminal session recorder and companion app for asciinema.org.
  •    221⭐      5🍴 givegif) - GIFs on the command line.

Image Conversion

  • 🌎 imagemagick - Gold standard for anything images.
  •   1063⭐     52🍴 imgp) - Blazing fast batch image resizer and rotator.
  •    378⭐     15🍴 korkut) - Quick and simple image processing.

Screensavers

  •   4311⭐    441🍴 cmatrix) - Scrolling 'Matrix'-like screen.
  •   2626⭐     76🍴 pipes.sh) - Random pipes that grow across the screen.
  •     62⭐      1🍴 YuleLog) - Christmas Yule Log fireplace.
  •     56⭐      1🍴 cli-fireplace) - Digital fireplace.

Graphics

  •     93⭐      2🍴 cli-mandelbrot) - Traverse the Mandelbrot fractal.
  •    142⭐      5🍴 sparkly-cli) - Generate sparklines ▁▂▃▅▂▇..
  •   5286⭐    105🍴 pastel) - Generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors.
  •    216⭐      5🍴 lowcharts) - Draw low-resolution graphs.

Just for Fun

  •     91⭐      6🍴 quote-cli) - Get a random quote or the quote of the day in your CLI.
  •    457⭐     62🍴 fortune) - Shows a random fortune.
  •   1234⭐     84🍴 ponysay) - Pony rewrite of cowsay.
  •    206⭐     40🍴 yosay) - Like cowsay, but for yeoman.
  •   6216⭐    219🍴 lolcat) - Outputs text in rainbow colors.
  •    100⭐      6🍴 text-meme) - Generate text memes.
  •     57⭐      6🍴 dankcli) - Add text to meme image templates.
  •     65⭐      3🍴 ricksay) - Quotes from Rick and Morty.

Emoji

  •   2378⭐     59🍴 emoj) - Find relevant emoji from text on the command-line.
  •      ?⭐      ?🍴 emoji-finder) - Quickly find and copy emoji to the clipboard via the command-line.
  •    720⭐     21🍴 oji) - Interactive text emoji maker.

Other Awesome Lists

  •   2006⭐    113🍴 awesome-git-addons) - Addons that extend git cli.
  •  33951⭐   2399🍴 awesome-shell) – Command-line utilities and frameworks.
  •  12445⭐    608🍴 terminals-are-sexy) – Terminal frameworks, plugins & resources.
  •  16064⭐    556🍴 awesome-zsh-plugins) – ZSH frameworks, plugins, tutorials & themes.
  •  60019⭐   5905🍴 awesome-nodejs clis) – Node.js modules and resources.

License

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Source

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