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Awesome

A curated list of command line apps.

Inspired by the 370086⭐  29732🍴 awesome) list thing.

Table of Contents


Entertainment

  •   3289⭐    221🍴 newsboat) - An extendable RSS feed reader for text terminals.

Music

  •   5803⭐    484🍴 cmus) - Small, fast and powerful console music player.
  •   1430⭐    158🍴 Instant-Music-Downloader) - Instant music downloader.
  •    428⭐     31🍴 itunes-remote) - Control iTunes via CLI.
  • 🌎 pianobar - Pandora client.
  •    150⭐     12🍴 somafm-cli) - Listen to SomaFM in your terminal.
  •   2377⭐    376🍴 mpd) - Music Player Daemon.
  •   2251⭐    224🍴 ncmpcpp) - mpd client.
  • moc - Console audio player for Linux/UNIX.
  •   4462⭐    308🍴 musikcube) - Cross-platform, terminal-based music player, audio engine, metadata indexer, and server.
  •  13553⭐   1882🍴 beets) - Music library manager and tagger.
  •  18255⭐    545🍴 spotify-tui) - Spotify client.
  •    327⭐     36🍴 swaglyrics-for-spotify) - Spotify lyrics.
  •    216⭐     15🍴 dzr) - deezer.com player.
  •    539⭐     26🍴 radio-active) - Internet radio player with 40k+ stations.
  •    117⭐      0🍴 mpvc) - Music player interfacing mpv.

Video

  • 136118⭐  10373🍴 youtube-dl) - Download videos from YouTube.com and many other video sites.
  •  10608⭐   1139🍴 streamlink) - Extract streams from various websites to a video player of your choosing.
  •   8322⭐    645🍴 mps-youtube) - Youtube player.
  • 🌎 mpv - Superior video player.
  •   5002⭐    332🍴 editly) - Declarative video editing.
  • 115727⭐   9143🍴 yt-dlp) - A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes.

Movies

  •    212⭐     17🍴 moviemon) - Everything about your movies.
  •    167⭐     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.
  •   2983⭐    192🍴 Pokete) - Pokemon-like.

Books

  •   1286⭐     50🍴 epr) - epub reader.
  •    320⭐     20🍴 Bible.Js CLI) - Bible.
  •     65⭐      2🍴 SpeedRead) - Spritz-alike speedreader.
  •    725⭐     52🍴 medium-cli) - Read 🌎 medium.com stories.

Chat

  • 🌎 WeeChat - Fast, light and extensible chat client.
  •   2972⭐    370🍴 irssi) - IRC chat client.
  •    533⭐     32🍴 kirc) - Tiny IRC client.

Development

  •    577⭐     19🍴 legit) - Generate Open Source licences as files or file headers.
  •    198⭐      8🍴 mklicense) - Create a custom LICENSE file painlessly with customized info.
  •   4127⭐    387🍴 rebound) - Fetch Stack Overflow results on compiler error.
  •    272⭐     16🍴 foy) - Lightweight general purpose task runner/build tool.
  •  26020⭐    552🍴 just) - Modern make-like command runner.
  •    658⭐     40🍴 bcal) - Byte CALculator for storage conversions and calculations.
  •    679⭐     30🍴 bitwise) - Base conversion and bit manipulation.
  •    376⭐     19🍴 cgasm) - x86 assembly documentation.
  •   7502⭐    174🍴 grex) - Generate regular expressions from user-provided test cases.
  •  11761⭐    811🍴 gdb-dashboard) - Modular visual interface for GDB.
  •    162⭐     15🍴 iola) - Socket client with REST API.
  •    693⭐     14🍴 add-gitignore) - Interactively generate a .gitignore for your project based on your needs.
  •    359⭐     15🍴 is-up-cli) - Check if a domain is up.
  •     37⭐      3🍴 reachable) - Check if a domain is up.
  •   2615⭐    213🍴 loadtest) - Run load tests.
  •    563⭐     53🍴 diff2html-cli) - Create pretty HTML from diffs.

Text Editors

  •   4690⭐   1322🍴 emacs) - An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor — and more.
  •  38390⭐   5703🍴 vim) - Vim - the ubiquitous text editor.
  •  90451⭐   6138🍴 neovim) - Modern vim.
  •  10299⭐    731🍴 kakoune) - Modal editor inspired by vim.
  •  26333⭐   1220🍴 micro) - A simple and intuitive editor.
  •    565⭐     16🍴 o) - Configuration-free text editor and IDE.
  •  38078⭐   2885🍴 helix) - Modal editor inspired by kakoune.

Frontend Development

Mobile Development

  •    114⭐     10🍴 mobicon-cli) - Mobile app icon generator.
  •     71⭐     10🍴 mobisplash-cli) - Mobile app splash screen generator.
  •    584⭐     16🍴 deviceframe) - Put device frames around your mobile/web/progressive app screenshots.

Database

  •  11661⭐    664🍴 mycli) - MySQL client with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
  •  12506⭐    564🍴 pgcli) - Postgres client with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
  •    639⭐    147🍴 sqlline) - Shell for issuing SQL via JDBC.
  •   2650⭐    113🍴 iredis) - Redis client with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
  •   9401⭐    363🍴 usql) - Universal SQL client with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.

Devops

  •    189⭐     11🍴 htconvert) - Convert .htaccess redirects to nginx.conf redirects.
  •   5290⭐    282🍴 SAWS) - Supercharged AWS CLI.
  •   4730⭐    910🍴 s3cmd) - Fully-Featured S3 client.
  •  42310⭐   2646🍴 pm2) - Production Process Manager for Node.js.
  •   1358⭐    135🍴 ops) - Unikernel compilation and orchestration tool.
  •   1217⭐    142🍴 flog) - A fake log generator for log formats such as apache-common, apache error and RFC3164 syslog.
  •  30136⭐   1886🍴 k9s) - Manage Kubernetes Clusters.
  •    803⭐     44🍴 PingMe) - Send messages/alerts to multiple messaging platforms & email.
  •   1166⭐    122🍴 ipfs-deploy) - Deploy static websites to  22889⭐   1489🍴 IPFS).
  •    653⭐     19🍴 Discharge) - Deploy static websites to Amazon S3.
  •    739⭐     95🍴 updatecli) - A declarative dependency management tool.

Docker

  •    337⭐     26🍴 lstags) - Synchronize images across registries.
  •   3920⭐    160🍴 dockly) - Interactively manage containers.
  •  44823⭐   1425🍴 lazydocker) - Simple docker/docker-compose interface.
  •    144⭐      4🍴 docker-pushrm) - Push a readme to container registries.

Release

  •   8493⭐    543🍴 release-it) - Automate releases for Git repositories and/or npm packages. Changelog generation, GitHub/GitLab releases, etc.
  •    886⭐     43🍴 clog) - A conventional changelog for the rest of us.
  •   7633⭐    304🍴 np) - A better npm publish.
  •   3583⭐    115🍴 release) - Generate changelogs with a single command.
  •  22107⭐   1742🍴 semantic-release) - Fully automated version management and package publishing.

Npm

  •    287⭐     17🍴 npm-name-cli) - Check whether a package name is available on npm.
  •     31⭐      4🍴 npm-user-cli) - Get user info of a npm user.
  •    199⭐     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.
  •   9804⭐    340🍴 npm-check-updates) - Find newer versions of package dependencies than what your package.json allows.
  •    103⭐      7🍴 updates) - Flexible npm dependency update tool.
  •    352⭐      5🍴 wipe-modules) - Remove node_modules of inactive projects.

Boilerplate

  •   3890⭐    407🍴 yo) - Scaffolding tool for running Yeoman generators.
  •   1738⭐    119🍴 boilr) - Create projects from boilerplate templates.
  •  23673⭐   2081🍴 cookiecutter) - Create projects from templates.
  •    826⭐    153🍴 mevn-cli) - Light speed setup for MEVN (Mongo Express Vue Node) Apps.
  •    127⭐     15🍴 scaffold-static) - Scaffolding utility for vanilla JS.

HTTP Server

  •   9645⭐    700🍴 serve) - Serve static files (https, CORS, GZIP compression, etc).
  •     67⭐      3🍴 simplehttp) - Easily serve a local directory over HTTP.
  •   1413⭐    139🍴 shell2http) - Shell script based HTTP server.

HTTP Client

  •  35905⭐   3729🍴 HTTPie) - A user-friendly HTTP client.
  •   9038⭐    328🍴 HTTP Prompt) - Interactive HTTP client featuring autocomplete and syntax highlighting.
  •    613⭐     13🍴 ain) - HTTP client with a simple format to organize API endpoints.
  •   3287⭐    104🍴 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.
  •   1808⭐     76🍴 ffscreencast) - A ffmpeg screencast with video overlay and multi monitor support.
  •     43⭐      3🍴 meetup-cli) - Meetup.com client.
  • 🌎 NeoMutt - Email client.
  •    896⭐     37🍴 terjira) - Jira client.
  •     13⭐      1🍴 ipt) - Pivotal Tracker client.
  •   1187⭐     56🍴 uber-cli) - Uber client.
  •   6739⭐    299🍴 Buku) - Browser-independent bookmark manager.
  •   1514⭐    109🍴 papis) - Extensible document and bibliography manager.
  •    276⭐     34🍴 pubs) - Scientific bibliography manager.
  •    180⭐      7🍴 fjira) - Fuzzy finder and TUI application for Jira.

Time Tracking

  •   1491⭐    115🍴 Timetrap) - Simple timetracker.
  •    469⭐     33🍴 moro) - Simple tool for tracking work hours.
  •   1376⭐    104🍴 Timewarrior) - Utility with simple stopwatch, calendar-based backfill and flexible reporting.
  •   2480⭐    248🍴 Watson) - Generate reports for clients and manage your time.
  •    342⭐     55🍴 utt) - Simple time tracking tool.
  •    745⭐     39🍴 Bartib) - Easy to use time tracking tool.
  •   1104⭐     19🍴 arttime) - Featureful timer with native desktop notifications and curated ASCII art.

Note Taking and Lists

  •    254⭐     15🍴 idea) - A lightweight tool for keeping ideas in a safe place quick and easy.
  •      9⭐      0🍴 geeknote) - Evernote client.
  • 🌎 Taskwarrior - Manage your TODO list.
  • 🌎 Terminal velocity - A fast note-taking app.
  •    825⭐     43🍴 eureka) - Input and store your ideas.
  •    405⭐     37🍴 sncli) - Simplenote client.
  •    204⭐      9🍴 td-cli) - A TODO manager to organize and manage your TODO's across multiple projects.
  •   9089⭐    386🍴 taskbook) - Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat.
  •   2877⭐    120🍴 dnote) - A interactive, multi-device notebook.
  •   7373⭐    214🍴 nb) - A note‑taking, bookmarking, archiving, and knowledge base application.
  •    554⭐     22🍴 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.
  •    146⭐     22🍴 moeda) - Foreign exchange rates and currency conversion.
  •    243⭐     18🍴 cash-cli) - Convert Currency Rates.
  •   4210⭐    329🍴 cointop) - Track cryptocurrencies.
  •   5282⭐    283🍴 ticker) - Stock ticker.

Presentations

  •   3072⭐     79🍴 WOPR) - A simple markup language for creating rich terminal reports, presentations and infographics.
  •   2265⭐    181🍴 decktape) - PDF exporter for HTML presentations.
  •   5063⭐    257🍴 mdp) - A markdown presentation tool.
  • 🌎 sent - Simple plaintext presentation tool.
  •  10710⭐    289🍴 slides) - A markdown presentation tool.

Calendars

  • 🌎 calcurse - Calendar and scheduling.
  •   3452⭐    319🍴 gcalcli) - Google calendar client.
  •   2757⭐    214🍴 khal) - CalDAV ready CLI and TUI calendar.
  •   1658⭐    166🍴 vdirsyncer) - CalDAV sync.
  • 🌎 remind - A sophisticated calendar and alarm program.
  •     88⭐      8🍴 birthday) - Know when a friend's birthday is coming.

Utilities

  •  37954⭐   3724🍴 aria2) - HTTP, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink download utility.
  •     48⭐      5🍴 bitly-client) - Bitly client.
  •    171⭐      3🍴 deadlink) - Find dead links in files.
  •    301⭐     18🍴 crawley) - Unix-way web crawler.
  •    391⭐     23🍴 kill-tabs) - Kill all Chrome tabs.
  •   5010⭐    211🍴 alex) - Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing.
  •    144⭐      2🍴 clevercli) - Collection of ChatGPT powered utilities.

macOS

  •    211⭐     12🍴 open-pip-cli) - Watch videos in picture-in-picture player.
  •     95⭐     15🍴 osx-wifi-cli) - Manage wifi connections.
  •     68⭐      5🍴 active-win-cli) - Get the title/id/etc of the active window.
  •   1132⭐    261🍴 stronghold) - Configure security settings from the terminal.
  •    667⭐     31🍴 dark-mode) - Toggle dark mode.

Terminal Sharing Utilities

  •  19073⭐   1399🍴 gotty) - Share your terminal as a web application.
  •  20844⭐   1461🍴 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.
  •   1620⭐     48🍴 warp) - Secure and simple terminal sharing.
  •    415⭐     13🍴 OverTime) - Time-overlap tables for remote teams.

Network Utilities

  •    146⭐     13🍴 get-port-cli) - Get an available port.
  •     25⭐      1🍴 is-reachable-cli) - Check if hostnames are reachable or not.
  •   2076⭐    129🍴 acmetool) - Automatic certificate acquisition for ACME (Let's Encrypt).
  •    803⭐     72🍴 certificate-ripper) - Extract server certificates.
  •    194⭐      3🍴 neoss) - User-friendly and detailed socket statistics.

Theming and Customization

  •    557⭐     24🍴 splash-cli) - Beautiful wallpapers from Unsplash.
  •    171⭐     17🍴 wallpaper-cli) - Get or set the desktop wallpaper.
  •   5658⭐    128🍴 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

  •    723⭐     50🍴 has) - Checks for the presence of various commands and their versions on the path.
  •   8502⭐    127🍴 Ultimate Plumber) - Write Linux pipes with live previews.
  •   6920⭐    161🍴 fkill-cli) - Simple cross-platform process killer.
  • 🌎 task-spooler - Queue jobs for linear execution.
  •    187⭐      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

  •  14712⭐    526🍴 fastfetch) - System information tool.
  •     35⭐      3🍴 battery-level-cli) - Get current battery level.
  •    204⭐      8🍴 brightness-cli) - Change screen brightness (    11⭐      2🍴 windows)).
  •   1655⭐     47🍴 yank) - Yank terminal output to clipboard.
  •     41⭐      2🍴 screensaver) - Start the screensaver.
  •    189⭐     16🍴 google-font-installer) - Download and install Google Web Fonts on your local machine.
  • 🌎 glances - System monitoring tool.
  •   1899⭐     74🍴 tiptop) - System monitor.
  •    191⭐     10🍴 gzip-size-cli) - Get the gzipped size of a file.

Markdown

  •   4339⭐    480🍴 DocToc) - Generates table of contents for markdown files.
  •   6661⭐    430🍴 grip) - Preview markdown files as GitHub would render them.
  •   1836⭐    105🍴 mdv) - Styled terminal markdown viewer.
  •  18143⭐    414🍴 glow) - Styled markdown rendering.
  •    301⭐      8🍴 gtree) - Use markdown to generate directory trees and the directories itself.

Security

  • 🌎 pass - Password manager.
  •   6199⭐    511🍴 gopass) - Fully-featured password manager.
  •   1136⭐     46🍴 xiringuito) - SSH-based VPN.
  •     74⭐      3🍴 hasha-cli) - Get the hash of text or stdin.
  •   1800⭐     48🍴 ots) - Share secrets with others via a one-time URL.

Math

  •    183⭐      8🍴 mdlt) - Do quick math right from the command line.
  •   2117⭐    160🍴 Qalculate) - Calculate non-trivial math expressions. Unit conversions, symbolic calculations and more.

Weather

Browser Replacement

  •   2430⭐    118🍴 s) - Open a web search in your terminal.
  •    367⭐     13🍴 hget) - Render websites in plain text from your terminal.
  •   8242⭐    262🍴 mapscii) - Terminal Map Viewer.
  •     97⭐     11🍴 nasa-cli) - Download NASA Picture of the Day.
  •    164⭐     11🍴 getnews.tech) - Fetch news headlines from various news outlets.
  •    138⭐     12🍴 trino) - Translation of words and phrases.
  •   7197⭐    392🍴 translate-shell) - Google Translate interface.

Internet Speedtest

  •    617⭐    128🍴 speedtest-net) - Test internet connection speed and ping using speedtest.net.
  •   3925⭐    169🍴 speed-test) - speedtest-net wrapper with different UI.
  •  13809⭐   1921🍴 speedtest-cli) - Test internet bandwidth using speedtest.net.
  •  10617⭐    308🍴 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.
  •  10729⭐    866🍴 howdoi) - Instant coding answers.
  •   5760⭐    151🍴 how2) - Node.js implementation of howdoi.
  •  92455⭐   3711🍴 The Fuck) - Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.
  •  56057⭐   4530🍴 tldr) - Simplified and community-driven man pages.
  •    502⭐     25🍴 Wat) - Instant, central, community-built docs.
  •    392⭐     64🍴 teachcode) - Guide for the earliest lessons of coding.
  •  15874⭐    530🍴 navi) - Interactive cheatsheet tool.
  •    801⭐     52🍴 yai) - AI powered terminal assistant.

Data Manipulation

  •   8275⭐    298🍴 visidata) - Spreadsheet multitool for data discovery and arrangement.

Processors

  •  31967⭐   1638🍴 jq) - JSON processor.
  •   2778⭐     85🍴 yq) - YAML processor.
  •   7485⭐    149🍴 dasel) - JSON/YAML/TOML/XML processor (like jq/yq).
  •     86⭐      5🍴 yaml-cli) - Query/update YAML.
  •    576⭐     12🍴 ramda-cli) - Process data with functional pipelines.
  •    967⭐     29🍴 xq) - XML and HTML beautifier and content extractor.

JSON

  •     51⭐      4🍴 jp) - JSON parser.
  •  19582⭐    452🍴 fx) - Command-line JSON viewer.
  •     94⭐      4🍴 vj) - Makes JSON human readable.
  •   1730⭐     80🍴 underscore-cli) - Utility-belt for hacking JSON and Javascript.
  •     68⭐      6🍴 strip-json-comments-cli) - Strip comments from JSON.
  •    216⭐     15🍴 GROQ) – JSON processor with queries and projections.
  •  14107⭐    330🍴 gron) - Make JSON greppable.

YAML

  •   1517⭐     78🍴 dyff) - YAML diff tool.

Columns

  •     67⭐      5🍴 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.
  •   3562⭐    218🍴 stegcloak) - Hide secrets with invisible characters in plain text securely.

Files and Directories

File Managers

  •  16259⭐    904🍴 ranger) - A console file manager with VI key bindings.
  •    219⭐     16🍴 midnight-commander) - A feature rich visual file manager.
  • 🌎 Vifm - VI influenced file manager.
  •  20217⭐    771🍴 nnn) - File browser and disk usage analyzer with excellent desktop integration.
  •   8325⭐    340🍴 lf) - Fast, extensively customizable file manager.
  •   1432⭐     40🍴 clifm) - The command line file manager.
  •   1924⭐    182🍴 far2l) - Orthodox file manager.
  •  25907⭐    556🍴 yazi) - Blazing fast file manager.

Deleting, Copying, and Renaming

  •   1355⭐     37🍴 trash-cli) - Move files and directories to the trash.
  •    134⭐      5🍴 empty-trash-cli) - Empty the trash.
  •    325⭐     21🍴 del-cli) - Delete files and folders.
  •    350⭐     34🍴 cpy-cli) - Copies files.
  •    170⭐     19🍴 rename-cli) - Rename files quickly.
  • 🌎 renameutils - Mass renaming in your editor.
  •   2709⭐     73🍴 diskonaut) - Disk space navigator.

Files

  •    847⭐     51🍴 chokidar-cli) - CLI to watch file system changes.
  •     80⭐      4🍴 file-type-cli) - Detect the file type of a file or stdin.
  •  53068⭐   1308🍴 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.
  •   1247⭐    142🍴 webtorrent-cli) – Streaming torrent client.
  •   5094⭐    114🍴 entr) - Run an arbitrary command when files change.
  •    351⭐     14🍴 organize-cli) - Organize your files automatically.
  • 🌎 organize-rt - organize-cli in Rust with more customization.
  •   1499⭐     75🍴 RecoverPy) - Recover overwritten or deleted files.

File Sync/Sharing

  •  51073⭐   4573🍴 rclone) - Sync files with various cloud providers.
  •   7150⭐    197🍴 ffsend) - Quick file share.
  •    379⭐     12🍴 share-cli) - Share files with your local network.
  •    718⭐    146🍴 google-drive-upload) - Upload/sync with Google Drive.
  •    308⭐     30🍴 gdrive-downloader) - Download files/folders from Google Drive.
  •   1653⭐     46🍴 portal) - Send files between computers.
  •      ?⭐      ?🍴 shbin) - Turn a Github repo into a pastebin.
  •   1759⭐     72🍴 sharing) - Send and receive files on your mobile device.
  •     36⭐      1🍴 ncp) - Transfer files and folders, to and from NFS servers.

Directory Listing

  •    236⭐     16🍴 alder) - Minimal tree with colors.
  •  15904⭐    297🍴 eza) - Improved version of ls.
  •   1027⭐     22🍴 tre) - tree with git awareness, editor aliasing, and more.
  •     48⭐      1🍴 ll) - ls with git status.
  •  14458⭐    455🍴 lsd) - ls with many extra features.

Directory Navigation

  •  16571⭐    709🍴 autojump) - A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line.
  •    198⭐     17🍴 pm) - The easy way to switch to your projects on the shell.
  •  16669⭐   1178🍴 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.
  •    538⭐     27🍴 fz) - Seamless fuzzy tab completion for z.
  •    891⭐     65🍴 goto) - Directory aliases for the shell with autocomplete.
  •   3076⭐    145🍴 z.lua) - cd command that learns your habits.
  •  27212⭐    636🍴 zoxide) - Fast directory jumper in Rust.
  •   1751⭐     39🍴 tere) - A faster alternative to using cd and ls.

Search

  •    332⭐      6🍴 happyfinder) - (another) Fuzzy file finder for the command line.
  •     41⭐      7🍴 find-up-cli) - Find a file by walking up parent directories.
  •  53177⭐   2151🍴 ripgrep) - A line-oriented search tool that recursively searches your current directory for a regex pattern.
  •  71108⭐   2530🍴 fzf) - A general purpose command-line fuzzy finder, can be used with any list: files/directories, command history, processes, hostnames, bookmarks, git commits, etc.
  •   4275⭐     87🍴 fselect) - Find files with SQL-like queries.
  •  38399⭐    896🍴 fd) - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.
  •  11439⭐    242🍴 broot) - Fuzzy finder similar to fzf, but with space usage visualization.
  •    328⭐     17🍴 rare) - Real-time regex aggregation and analysis.
  •   5770⭐    212🍴 skim) - A general fuzzy finder written in rust, similar to fzf.
  •   8988⭐    233🍴 ast-grep) - A tool for code structural search, linting and rewriting.

Version Control

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

Git

  •   1117⭐     60🍴 git commander) - Interactive git tool.
  •   6529⭐    186🍴 git-stats) - A local GitHub-like contributions calendar.
  •    179⭐     12🍴 dev-time) - Get the current local time of a GitHub user.
  •  12758⭐    626🍴 tig) - Text-mode interface for git.
  •   4058⭐     97🍴 grv) - Text-mode interface for git with customisable vi bindings.
  •   7746⭐    315🍴 git-standup) - Recall what you did on the last working day.
  •   3858⭐    203🍴 git-secret) - Store your private data inside a git repository.
  •    267⭐     45🍴 gitlab-cli) - Create GitLab merge requests.
  •  17675⭐   1212🍴 git-extras) - Git utilities.
  •   1741⭐     73🍴 gita) - Manage multiple git repos side by side.
  •  11028⭐   1376🍴 readme-md-generator) - Interactively generate README.md files.
  •    149⭐     12🍴 semantic-git-commit-cli) - Ensure semantic commits messages.
  •     18⭐      3🍴 import-github-labels-cli) - Sync labels between Github repos.
  •      8⭐      0🍴 git-all-branches) - Improved git branch -a.
  •   1315⭐     41🍴 czg) - Interactively generate standardized commit messages.
  •   1281⭐    258🍴 shallow-backup) - Git integrated backup tool.
  •  61150⭐   2095🍴 Lazygit) - Simple TUI for git commands.

GitHub

  •    445⭐     15🍴 CLI GitHub) - Fancy GitHub client.
  •  22913⭐   2193🍴 hub) - Make git easier to use with GitHub.
  •    575⭐     34🍴 git-labelmaker) - Edit GitHub labels.

Emoji

  •   4743⭐    211🍴 gitmoji-cli) - Use emoji in commit messages.
  •    392⭐     50🍴 gitmoji-changelog) - Generate gitmoji changelogs.

Images

  •  21684⭐   1417🍴 SVGO) - Optimize SVG files.
  •   5891⭐    123🍴 carbon-now-cli) - Generate beautiful images of your code.
  •     58⭐      7🍴 imgur-uploader-cli) - Upload images to imgur.
  •   1710⭐     72🍴 pageres-cli) - Capture website screenshots.

Gif Creation

  •    554⭐     31🍴 gifgen) - Simple high quality GIF encoding.
  •   3967⭐    246🍴 gifsicle) - Create, manipulate, and optimize GIF images and animations.
  •   3978⭐    256🍴 ttygif) - Convert terminal recordings to animated gifs.
  •    270⭐     13🍴 ttygif) - ttyrec to gif.
  •   3242⭐     92🍴 ttystudio) - A terminal-to-gif recorder minus the headaches.
  •  15214⭐    949🍴 asciinema) - Terminal session recorder and companion app for asciinema.org.
  •    222⭐      5🍴 givegif) - GIFs on the command line.

Image Conversion

  • 🌎 imagemagick - Gold standard for anything images.
  •   1076⭐     52🍴 imgp) - Blazing fast batch image resizer and rotator.
  •    379⭐     15🍴 korkut) - Quick and simple image processing.

Screensavers

  •   4471⭐    455🍴 cmatrix) - Scrolling 'Matrix'-like screen.
  •   2702⭐     77🍴 pipes.sh) - Random pipes that grow across the screen.
  •     62⭐      1🍴 YuleLog) - Christmas Yule Log fireplace.
  •     57⭐      1🍴 cli-fireplace) - Digital fireplace.

Graphics

  •     96⭐      2🍴 cli-mandelbrot) - Traverse the Mandelbrot fractal.
  •    144⭐      5🍴 sparkly-cli) - Generate sparklines ▁▂▃▅▂▇..
  •   5651⭐    115🍴 pastel) - Generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors.
  •    223⭐      5🍴 lowcharts) - Draw low-resolution graphs.

Just for Fun

  •     92⭐      6🍴 quote-cli) - Get a random quote or the quote of the day in your CLI.
  •    474⭐     61🍴 fortune) - Shows a random fortune.
  •   1243⭐     86🍴 ponysay) - Pony rewrite of cowsay.
  •    206⭐     40🍴 yosay) - Like cowsay, but for yeoman.
  •   6302⭐    222🍴 lolcat) - Outputs text in rainbow colors.
  •    102⭐      6🍴 text-meme) - Generate text memes.
  •     58⭐      5🍴 dankcli) - Add text to meme image templates.
  •     67⭐      3🍴 ricksay) - Quotes from Rick and Morty.

Emoji

  •   2387⭐     62🍴 emoj) - Find relevant emoji from text on the command-line.
  •      ?⭐      ?🍴 emoji-finder) - Quickly find and copy emoji to the clipboard via the command-line.
  •    722⭐     21🍴 oji) - Interactive text emoji maker.

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