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• Entertainment
  • Social Media
  • Video
• Development
  • Web Development
  • Mobile Development
• Devops
• Database
• Productivity
• Utilities
  • macOS
• Command Line Learning
• Data Manipulation
• Files and Directories
  • File managers
  • Deleting, Copying, and Renaming
  • Files
  • Directory Listing
  • Directory Navigation
• Terminal Utilities
• Version Control
  • Git
  • Changelogs
• Images
  • Gif Creation
  • Image Conversion
• SVG
• Text Manipulation
• Screensavers
• Graphics
• Other
• Other Awesome Lists
• License

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Entertainment

• cmus - Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.
• Instant-Music-Downloader - Instant music downloader.
• itunes-remote - It’s about listening to music without leaving the terminal. macOS only.
• moviemon - Everything about your movies within the command line.
• pianobar - Pandora client.
• quote-cli - Get a random quote or the quote of the day in your CLI.
• movie - Get movie info or compare movies in terminal.
• somafm-cli - Listen to SomaFM in your terminal.
• nehm - Console tool, which downloads, sets IDv3 tags and adds to your iTunes (if you use macOS) your SoundCloud likes in convenient way
• football-cli - Get live scores, fixtures, standings of almost every football competition/league in your terminal.
• pockyt - Read, Manage, and Automate your Pocket collection.
• splash-cli - Beautiful wallpapers from unsplash

Social Media

• facebook-cli - Facebook command line interface
• TTYtter - Twitter client- (original).
• Rainbowstream - A smart and nice Twitter client on terminal written in Python.

Video

• youtube-dl - a small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a few more sites. You can install with brew install youtube-dl.
• open-pip-cli - Watch movies in macOS native picture-in-picture player from your terminal.

Development

• bcal - Byte CALculator for storage conversions and calculations.
• boilr - Dependency free CLI to create projects from boilerplate templates.
• cookiecutter - creates projects from cookiecutters (project templates)
• dockly - Interactive CLI for managing Docker containers.
• themer - Generate personalized themes for your editor, terminal, wallpaper, Slack, and more.
• legit - Choose from many Open Source licences to generate a LICENSE file or add license headers to files.
• rebound - Instantly fetch Stack Overflow results in your terminal when you get a compiler error.

Web Development

• bower-name-cli - Check whether a package name is available on bower.
• caniuse-cmd - Searches caniuse.com about browser support of feature.
• htconvert - Convert .htaccess redirects to nginx.conf redirects.
• is-up-cli - Check whether a website is up or down.
• npm-name-cli - Check whether a package name is available on npm.
• npm-user-cli - Get user info of a npm user.
• pageres-cli - Capture website screenshots.
• strip-css-comments-cli - Strip comments from CSS.
• viewport-list-cli - Return a list of devices and their viewports.
• surge - deploy directory to the web.
• acmetool - An easy-to-use command line tool for automatically acquiring certificates from ACME servers.
• loadtest - Runs a load test on the selected URL. Easy to extend minimally for your own ends.
• wp-cli - Manage WordPress installations, update plugins, set up multisite installs and much more, without using a web browser.
• diff2html-cli - Command-line tool to parse git diffs as JSON and generate pretty HTML.
• npm-home - Open the npm page of the package in the current directory.
• HTTPie - A user-friendly HTTP client.
• serve - Easy to use static file server with features like https, CORS and GZIP compression.

Mobile Development

• mobicon-cli - Mobile app icon generator.
• mobisplash-cli - Mobile app splash screen generator.
• deviceframe - Put device frames around your mobile/web/progressive app screenshots.

Devops

• aws-cli - Universal Command Line Interface for Amazon Web Services.
• azure-cli - Command-line tools for Azure.
• SAWS - Supercharged AWS CLI.
• s3cmd - Fully-Featured S3 client.
• lstags - Synchronize Docker images across different registries.

Database

• cycli - A terminal client for Neo4j with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
• mycli - A Terminal Client for MySQL with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting.
• pgcli - A Terminal Client for Postgre with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting.

Productivity

• AutoScreenshotUploader - Instantly capture and upload screenshot to imgur.
• bitly-client - Make and manage Bitly shortlinks with this command line utility
• doing - A command line tool for keeping track of what you’re doing and tracking what you’ve done.
• ffscreencast - ffmpeg screencast with video overlay and multi monitor support.
• idea - A lightweight CLI tool and module for keeping ideas in a safe place quick and easy.
• imgur-uploader-cli - Upload images to imgur.
• geeknote - Console client for Evernote.
• ledger - Powerful, double-entry accounting system that is accessed from the UNIX command-line.
• meetup-cli - Meetup.com command line interface
• The Mutt E-Mail Client - Email client.
• Taskwarrior - Free and Open Source Software that manages your TODO list from your command line.
• Timetrap - Simple command line timetracker.
• terjira - Command line power tool for Jira
• ipt - Command line interface for pivotal tracker
• g3l - Git is easy, github cli is easy but g3l easiest git cli in the w0rld!
• uber-cli - Uber, at your fingertips.
• moro - Time Tracker with a single command
• Buku - Powerful command-line bookmark manager
• googler - Google Search, Google Site Search, Google News from the terminal
• calcurse - Calcurse, a calendar and scheduling application for the command line.
• cash-cli - Convert 32 currencies from the command line!
• papis - Powerful and extensible document and bibliography manager.

Utilities

• archive-type-cli - Detect the archive type of a Buffer/Uint8Array.
• battery-level - Get current battery level.
• brightness-cli - Change screen brightness- windows version.
• screensaver - Start the screensaver.
• wallpaper-cli - Get or set the desktop wallpaper.
• yank - Yank terminal output to clipboard.
• text-meme - Generate text meme.
• s - Open a web search in your terminal. Supports multiple search providers.
• google-font-installer - Search, download, and install any Google Font on your local machine.
• aria2 - Lightweight multi-protocol and multi-source, cross platform download utility. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.
• mklicense - Create a custom LICENSE file painlessly with customized info. Busy people & beginner's friendly.
• share-cli - Quickly share files from command line with your local network.
• remote-share-cli - Quickly share files from your command line with the world.
• moeda - A foreign exchange rates and currency conversion using cli
• wego - Get the weather right in your browser or your console.
• mapscii - Terminal Map Viewer - the whole world in your console!
• website-popup-cli - Quickly watch a window in a pop up window without closing or opening another full screen window.
• getnews.tech - Fetch news headlines from various news outlets in your terminal.
• has - Checks for the presence of various commands and their versions on the path.
• decktape - PDF exporter for HTML presentations.

macOS

• bundle-id-cli - Get bundle identifier from a bundle name (macOS): Safari → com.apple.Safari.
• bundle-name-cli - Get bundle name from a bundle identifier (macOS): com.apple.Safari → Safari.
• lnfs-cli - Safely force create symlinks.
• osx-version-cli - Get the macOS version of the current system.
• osx-wifi-cli - A cli for managing wifi connections on OSX.
• active-win-cli - Get the title/id/etc of the active window
• stronghold - Easily configure MacOS security settings from the terminal.

Command Line Learning

• cmdchallenge - presents small shell challenge with user submitted solutions.
• explainshell - type a command line snippet to see the help text for each argument.
• howdoi - Instant coding answers via the command line.
• how2 - Finds the simplest way to do something on a unix bash command line (Nodejs implementation of howdoi).
• shortcutfoo - Learn shortcuts for VIM, Emacs, git, bash and more.
• The Fuck - Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.
• tldr - Simplified and community-driven man pages.
• Wat - Instant, central, community-built docs.

Data Manipulation

• jq - Command-line JSON processor http://stedolan.github.io/jq/.
• underscore-cli - Command-line utility-belt for hacking JSON and Javascript.
• ramda-cli - A CLI tool for processing data with functional pipelines.
• yaml-cli - A simple CLI for querying and updating YAML files.
• jp - Simply parse and drill into JSON on the commandline, with jsonpath and stdin stream support (jq compatible, not a replacement).
• fx - Command-line JSON processing tool

Files and Directories

File managers

• ranger - a console file manager with VI key bindings.
• midnight-commander - a feature rich visual file manager
• organize-cli - Organize your files, imagine cleaning up your downloads in an instant.

Deleting, Copying, and Renaming

• trash-cli - Move files and directories to the trash.
• empty-trash-cli - Empty the trash.
• trashss - ( only) Trash screenshots on desktop.
• del-cli - Delete files and folders.
• cpy-cli - Copies files.
• rename-cli - A cross-platform tool for renaming files quickly, especially multiple files at once.

Files

• chokidar-cli - CLI to watch file system changes.
• file-type-cli - Detect the file type of a file or stdin.
• strip-json-comments-cli - Strip comments from JSON. Lets you use comments in your JSON files!
• DocToc - Generates table of contents for markdown files inside local git repository. Links are compatible with anchors generated by github or other sites.

Directory Listing

• alder - A minimal implementation of the UNIX tree command with colors!
• exa - An improved version of ls written in Rust.

Directory Navigation

• autojump - A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line- https://github.com/wting/autojump/wiki.
• fasd - Command-line productivity booster, offers quick access to files and directories, inspired by autojump, z and v.
• pm - The easy way to switch to your projects on the shell.
• z - z is the new j, yo.
• happyfinder - (another) Fuzzy file finder for the command line.
• PathPicker - After parsing the output from a command, PathPicker presents you with a nice UI to select which files you're interested in.
• find-up-cli - Find a file by walking up parent directories.
• fz - Seamless fuzzy tab completion for z
• nnn - File browser and disk usage analyzer with excellent desktop integration

Terminal Utilities

• gotty - Share your terminal as a web application.
• localtunnel - Exposes 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.
• serveo - Expose local servers to the internet using only a SSH client.
• seashells.io - Pipe output from command-line programs to the web in real-time.
• teleconsole - Share your UNIX terminal in seconds.
• tmate.io - Instant terminal (tmux) sharing.
• warp - Secure and simple terminal sharing.
• OverTime - Easy time-overlap tables for remote teams.
• undollar - undollar strips the '$' preceding copy-pasted terminal commands.

Version Control

Git

• CLI GitHub - 📺 A fancy GitHub client for command line.
• Gistup - Create a gist from terminal, then use git to update it.
• git commander - A git tool with a easy terminal interface.
• git-stats - 🍀 A GitHub-like contributions calendar, but locally, with all your git commits.
• hub - A command-line wrapper for git that makes you better at GitHub.
• dev-time - Get the current local time of a GitHub user.
• git-labelmaker - Edit GitHub labels from the command line.
• tig - Text-mode interface for Git.
• grv - Text-mode interface for Git with customisable vi bindings.
• git-standup - Recall what you did on the last working day.
• starring - Automatically star the npm-packages that you are using on GitHub.
• git-secret - Store your private data inside a git repository.
• gitlab-cli - gitlab cli for creating merge request from the command line.
• git-extras - Little git extras like git-ignore, git-setup, git-changelog, git-release, git-effort and more.

Changelogs

• clog - A conventional changelog for the rest of us.

Images

Gif Creation

• gifgen - Simple high quality GIF encoding.
• gifsicle - Create, manipulate, and optimize GIF images and animations.
• ttygif - Convert terminal recordings to animated gifs.
• ttygif - ttyrec to gif.
• ttystudio - A terminal-to-gif recorder minus the headaches.
• asciinema - Terminal session recorder and the best companion of asciinema.org.
• givegif - GIFs on the command line.

Image Conversion

• imgp - Blazing fast batch image resizer and rotator

SVG

• SVGO - SVG Optimizer is a Nodejs-based tool for optimizing SVG vector graphics files.

Text Manipulation

• parse-columns-cli - Parse text columns, like the output of unix commands. Returns JSON that you can manipulate with tools like jq or underscore-cli.

Screensavers

• cmatrix - Show a scrolling 'Matrix' like screen- (original).
• pipes.sh - Shows random pipes that grow across the screen.

Graphics

• cli-mandelbrot - A cli for traversing the Mandelbrot fractal.
• WOPR - A simple markup language for creating rich terminal reports, presentations and infographics.
• sparkly-cli - Generate sparklines ▁▂▃▅▂▇..
• JackPaper - Pull random/queried images from unplash.com and apply to your desktop wallpaper.

Other

• app-path-cli - Get the path to an app (macOS).
• Bible.Js CLI client - 📖 Bible.JS CLI client. Read the Holy Bible via the command line.
• birthday - Know when a friend's birthday is coming.
• cowsay - You can install with homebrew.
• cgasm - A tool that gives x86 assembly documentation. It is pronounced "SeekAzzem".
• detect-indent-cli - Detect the indentation of code.
• emoj - Find relevant emoji from text on the command-line.
• emoji-finder - Quickly find and copy emoji to the clipboard via the command-line
• fortune - Shows a random fortune.
• fullname-cli - Get the fullname of the current user.
• get-port-cli - Get an available port.
• gzip-size-cli - Get the gzipped size of a file or stdin.
• HASHA -cli - Hashing made simple. Get the hash of text or stdin.
• is-reachable-cli - Check if hostnames are reachable or not.
• kill-tabs - Kill all Chrome tabs to improve performance, decrease battery usage, and save memory.
• leven-cli - Measure the difference between two strings using the Levenshtein distance algorithm.
• maybe - See what a program does before deciding whether you really want it to happen.
• mdlt - Do quick math right from the command line.
• medium-cli - Read medium.com stories within your terminal, also gives top stories.
• open-shortcut-cli - Open the URL from a web shortcut file in the browser.
• pkg-dir-cli - Find the root directory of a npm package.
• speedtest-net - Test your internet connection speed and ping using speedtest.net from the CLI. -- speed-test - A wrapper around speeedtest-net with different UI.
• shortcut-url-cli - Get the URL from a web shortcut file.
• SpeedRead - A simple terminal-based open source Spritz-alike.
• to-double-quotes - Convert matching single-quotes to double-quotes: I 'love' unicorns => I "love" unicorns.
• to-single-quotes - Convert matching double-quotes to single-quotes: I "love" unicorns → I 'love' unicorns.
• yosay - Like cowsay, but for yeoman.
• gdb-dashboard - Modular visual interface for GDB in Python.
• weather-cli - Check the weather for your city from your terminal.
• hget - Render websites in plain text from your terminal.
• ponysay - Pony rewrite of cowsay.
• google-wifi-status - A Node.js CLI app that displays status of your Google Wifi / OnHub router.
• calories - Calories and weight tracker.
• trino - Trino CLI allows a quick and easy translation of words and phrases entered in the command line.
• alex - This enhances texts with checking for insensitive, inconsiderate writing by catching many possible offences.
• YuleLog - Terminal based Christmas YuleLog fireplace.
• lolcat - Outputs text in rainbow colors.
• xiringuito - A "poor man's VPN". An SSH-based "VPN" that's easy to install, but with slower performance than a real VPN.
• nasa-cli - Download NASA Picture of the Day from your terminal.

Other Awesome Lists

• awesome-git-addons - A curated list of addons that extends git cli.

License

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Awesome Shell

A curated list of awesome command-line frameworks, toolkits, guides and gizmos. Inspired by awesome-php. This awesome collection is also available on Unix-Shell.ZEEF.com.

• Shells
• Command-Line Productivity
• Customization
• For Developers
• System Utilities
• Downloading and Serving
• Multimedia and File Formats
• Applications
• Games
• Shell Package Management
• Shell Script Development
• Guides
• Awesome Zsh 
• Awesome Fish
• Other Awesome Lists

Shells

Choose your base shell.

• bash - GNU Project's shell (Bourne Again SHell)
• fish - Smart and user-friendly command line shell
• xiki - Makes the shell console more friendly and powerful
• xonsh - Python-ish, BASHwards-looking shell language and command prompt
• zsh - Powerful shell with scripting language

Command-Line Productivity

Search, bookmarks, multiplexing, and other tools that make your terminal experience more productive.

• AdvancedNewFile - Fast creation of files and directories in a recursive way. Inspired by the Vim plugin.
• ag - Super fast string search through a directory hierarchy
• aliases - Contextual, dynamic, organized aliases for bash
• aliasme - alias helper to change directory quickly
• autoenv - Directory-based environments
• autojump - A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line
• bashhub - ☁️ Bash history in the cloud. Indexed and searchable.
• bashmarks - Directory bookmarks for the shell
• bd - Quickly go back to a parent directory
• boilr - A blazingly fast CLI tool for creating projects from boilerplate templates.
• boom - Store links and snippets in the commandline
• borg - A terminal based search engine for bash commands
• Buku - Powerful command-line bookmark manager
• byobu - Text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer
• commacd - A faster way to move around in Bash
• CloudClip - Your own clipboard in the cloud, copy and paste text with gist between different systems
• desk - A lightweight workspace manager for the shell
• direnv - An environment switcher for the shell, compare with autoenv
• enhancd - 🚀 A next-generation cd command with an interactive filter
• fasd - Command-line productivity booster, offers quick access to files and directories
• foxy - Plain text bookmarks for firefox and surf browsers.
• fz - Seamless fuzzy tab completion for z
• fzf - A command-line fuzzy finder
• googler - Google Search, Google Site Search, Google News from the terminal
• goto - A shell utility for navigation to aliased directories supporting auto-completion
• has - has helps you check presence of various command line tools and their versions on path
• how2 - how2 finds the simplest way to do something in a unix shell. It's like man, but you can query it in natural language.
• hhighlighter - Colorize words in a command output
• hr - <hr /> for your terminal
• hss - An interactive parallel ssh client featuring autocomplete and asynchronous execution
• hstr - Bash History Suggest Box
• jump - Jump helps you navigate your file system faster by learning your habits.
• k - k is a Zsh script to make directory listings more readable, adding Git status, fileweight colors and rotting dates
• k alias - get kool aliases (and more) working with a simple one-liner
• lf.sh - Quickly search files with fewer typings and do many more (grepping, copying path to clipboard, etc)
• Lmod - Lua-based Environment Modules that enhances Tcl-based modules while being backward compatible (compare to modules)
• marker - Bookmark your shell commands
• modules - Classical Tcl-based Environment Modules managing the shell environment (compare to Lmod, direnv, and autoenv)
• nnn - File browser and disk usage analyzer with excellent desktop integration
• parallel - Build and execute shell command lines from standard input in parallel
• pathpicker - Accepts inputs like grep, searches, git etc; allows selecting files from the result of the input, which you can then open or provide as argument to a command.
• percol - Adds flavor of interactive filtering to the traditional pipe concept of UNIX shell
• q - Vim like macro registers for your Bash and Zsh Shell
• qfc - File-completion widget for Bash and Zsh
• rg - ripgrep is a line oriented search tool that combines the usability of The Silver Searcher with the raw speed of GNU grep
• shell-history - Visualize your shell usage with Highcharts
• SHML - Style framework for the terminal (Shell Markup Language)
• slugify - Command that converts filenames and directories to a web friendly format
• sman - 🐛 A command-line snippet manager
• spark - ▁▂▃▅▂▇ in your shell
• Shark - ▁▂▃▅ Sparkline Generator
• sheet - Text snippets for the command line
• spot - Tiny file search utility

• snips - Commandline tool to manage snippets of code.

• sshfs - A tool for mounting remote file systems over SSH
• sshrc - Bring your .bashrc, .vimrc, etc. with you when you SSH
• sudocabulary - Learn English Vocabulary from your terminal
• surfraw - browse specific site and search the web from your terminal without browser.
• thefuck - Fix common shell mistakes by using an easy to remember command
• tldr - A fully-functional bash client for tldr, simplified and community-driven man pages
• tmux - Amazing terminal multiplexer
• up - Ascend directories by name or count; for bash, zsh, and fish.
• v - z for vim.
• wemux - Multi-User Tmux Made Easy
• z - z is the new j, yo

Customization

Custom prompts, color themes, etc.

• base16-builder - Base16-Builder
• bash-full-of-colors - Powerful prompt with screen, tmux, git support and many more
• bash-git-prompt - An informative and fancy Bash prompt for Git users
• bash-powerline - Powerline-style Bash prompt in pure Bash script
• bashstrap - A quick way to spruce up OSX terminal
• bullet-train-oh-my-zsh-theme - 🚄 An oh-my-zsh shell theme based on the Powerline Vim plugin
• emojify Emoji on the command line 😱
• flatui-terminal-theme - Nicer colors for terminal
• git-prompt - Bash prompt with Git, SVN and HG modules
• gittify - A colorful Bash prompt + customized Git aliases
• Gogh - Color Scheme - Color Scheme for Gnome Terminal
• liquidprompt - A full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh
• mysql-colorize - Colorization for mysql comand-line client
• oh-my-git - An opinionated git prompt for bash and zsh
• sexy-bash-prompt - Bash prompt with colors, Git statuses, and Git branches

For Developers

Command-line development, version control, and deployment.

• bcal - Byte CALculator for storage conversions and calculations
• bocker - Docker implemented in 100 lines of bash
• cloc - Count Lines of Code
• doclt - A command line interface to Digital Ocean
• dokku - Docker powered mini-Heroku. The smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seen.
• getopts - CLI parser for fish
• git-extra-commands - Many Git extra utilities. Churn, cut-branch, improved-merge and many more.
• git-extras - Git utilities -- repo summary, repl, changelog population, author commit percentages and more
• git-open - Type git open to open the GitHub page or website for a repository in your browser
• git-semver - Git plugin for easing semantic versioning and changelog validation
• git-sh - A customized Bash environment suitable for Git work
• git-up - Automatically rebase incoming changes instead of merging. Be polite!
• hub - hub helps you win at git.
• licins - Insert commented software licenses into source code.
• mr - Multiple Repository management tool
• overcommit - A fully configurable and extendable Git hook manager
• pre-commit - A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks
• rebound - Instantly browse Stack Overflow results in your terminal when you get a compiler error
• repren - Command-line search-and-replace and file-renaming swiss army knife
• slap - Sublime-like terminal-based text editor that runs on Node.js
• shipit - Minimalistic SSH deployment
• starring - Automatically star the npm-packages that you are using on GitHub.
• tag - Instantly jump to your ag matches.

System Utilities

OS-related tools, including system administration, system debugging, and file and process management.

• atop - ASCII full-screen performance monitor that is capable of reporting the activity of all processes
• catcli - The command line catalog tool for your offline data
• ccat - ccat is the colorizing cat. It works similar to cat but displays content with syntax highlighting.
• colorex - Displays files or sdtin with pretty colors for matched patterns.
• progress - Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, and more...
• stronghold - Easily configure MacOS security settings from the terminal.
• glances - Glances an Eye on your system
• goaccess - GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems.
• histstat - History for netstat
• htop - A ncurses based interactive process viewer which aims to be a better top
• lnav - An advanced log file viewer for the small-scale
• logdissect - CLI utility and Python API for analyzing log files and other data.
• ls++ - Colorized ls on steroids
• lsp - An improved ls, with file descriptions in plain language and intelligent file grouping
• mtr - The functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool.
• ncdu - NCurses Disk Usage
• powertop - Battery/Power usage and device stats monitoring command-line tool, with tune-up options.
• procdog - Lightweight command-line control of long-lived processes like servers
• quick-secure - Quickly secure and harden UNIX/Linux systems
• xiringuito - SSH-based "VPN for poors"

Downloading and Serving

Self-hosted, lightweight servers and networking tools written in shell scripts.

• aria2 - aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink
• balls - Bash on Balls
• bashttpd - A web server written in Bash
• bitpocket - "DIY Dropbox" or "2-way directory (r)sync with proper deletion"
• Dropbox-Uploader - Dropbox Uploader is a Bash script which can be used to upload, download, list or delete files from Dropbox
• httpie - HTTPie is a command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement
• HTTPLab - The interactive web server, let you inspect HTTP requests and forge responses.
• ngincat - Tiny Bash HTTP server using netcat
• resty - Little command line REST client that you can use in pipelines
• youtube-dl - Small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

Multimedia and File Formats

Tools for handling video and audio files.

• adb-export - Export Android content providers to CSV format
• Android-Kitchen - A text-based kitchen for Android ROM customization. Uses shell scripts and works with Cygwin/OS X/Linux
• Beets - Music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger
• cmus - Cross-platform cli audio player.
• gifgen - Simple high quality GIF encoding
• image-scraper - A cool command line image scraper with a lot of features.
• imgp - Blazing fast batch image resizer and rotator
• jq - Sed for json data. You can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data
• mpv - Lets you play most audio and video formats (using ASCII characters) in the shell as well as in a GUI.
• nehm - Console tool, which downloads, sets IDv3 tags and adds to your iTunes (if you use it) your SoundCloud likes in convenient way
• PiCAST - PiCAST turns your $35 Raspberry Pi in to a Chromecast like Device
• sejda - Command line manipulation of PDF documents (split, merge, rotate, convert to jpg, extract text, etc)
• xidel - Cli tool to filter, map and create HTML/XML/JSON data with (Turing-complete) XPath and XQuery.
• xmlstarlet - Old but powerful tool for command-line XML formatting, filtering, and manipulation.
• fx - Command-line JSON processing tool by anononymus JavaScript functions

Applications

Command line-based applications or command line access to existing services.

• ansiweather - Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols
• bashblog - A Bash script that handles blog posting
• choosealicense-cli - Choose an OSS license from the comfort of your terminal
• facebook-cli - Facebook command line tool
• fanyi - Translate English to Chinese in terminal
• geeknote - Command line evernote client
• haxor-news - Browse Hacker News like a haxor
• hn-cli - Browse Hacker News from the comfort of your Terminal
• iponmap - Draw point on world map using ip address
• isitup - Check whether a website is up or down
• jrnl - A simple command line journal application that stores your journal in a plain text file
• ledger - Command line accounting
• licen - Generate your license. Yet another lice, but implement with Jinja2 and docopt
• moviemon - Everything about your movies within the command line.
• pockyt - Read, Manage, and Automate your Pocket collection.
• pushblast - Get PushBullet notifications when a shell program exits
• pushbullet-bash - Bash interface to the PushBullet API
• Reddit Terminal Viewer - Browse Reddit from your terminal
• SAWS - A Supercharged AWS CLI
• taskwarrior - A command-line TODO list manager
• terjira - Command line power tool for Jira
• transfer.sh — Quickly upload and share files from your shell
• vl - URL link checker on text documents
• wego - Weather app for the terminal
• whereami - Get your geolocation information from the CLI
• wttr.in - ⛅ The right way to check the weather (curl wttr.in)

Games

All work and no play is a cruddy way to spend your day.

• bash2048 - Bash implementation of 2048 game
• minesweeper - Bash implementation of minesweeper
• nudoku - ncurses based sudoku game written in C
• piu-piu - Horizontal scroller game in bash with multiplayer mode!
• sedtris - Tetris in sed
• sed-scripts - Arkanoid and Sokoban written using sed
• tty-solitaire - Play solitaire in your terminal!

Shell Package Management

Tools for managing multiple shell configurations. For zsh-specific tools, see the Zsh section.

• bash-it - A community Bash framework
• basher - A package manager for shell scripts
• bpkg - JavaScript has npm, Ruby has Gems, Python has pip and now Shell has bpkg
• dotdrop - Save your dotfiles once, deploy them everywhere
• dotfiler – Shell agnostic git based dotfiles package manager, written in Python.
• fresh - Keep your dotfiles fresh
• homeshick - Git dotfile synchronizer written in Bash
• shundle - Plugin manager for shell scripts
• vcsh - Config manager based on Git
• yadm - Git-based dotfiles manager supporting encryption, alternates, and bootstrapping

Shell Script Development

Tools for writing, improving, or organizing Bash or other shell scripts

• ansi - ANSI escape codes in pure bash - change text color, position the cursor, much more
• assert.sh - Bash unit testing framework
• bashful - A collection of libraries to simplify writing Bash scripts
• Bashlets - A modular extensible toolbox for Bash
• bashmanager - mini bash framework for creating command line tools
• bashwithnails - a Bash framework written just for fun with testing, dependency management & packaging
• bash-language-server - LSP-based Bash language server
• bats - Bash Automated Testing System
• crash - Proper error handling, exceptions and try/catch for ZSH
• Fishtape - TAP producer and test harness for fish
• composure - Compose, document, version and organize your shell functions
• dispatch - A command line argument parser in 50 lines of portable shell script.
• is.sh - An alternative for builtin test command, it will make your "if" statements pretty
• lumberjack - A logging interface for shell scripts
• mo - Mustache templates in pure bash
• optparse - A BASH wrapper for getopts, for simple command line arguments.
• rerun - A modular shell automation framework to organize your keeper scripts
• revolver - A reusable progress spinner for shell scripts
• phases - Minimally invasive bash preprocessor, select sections of your script to run
• semver_bash - Semantic Versioning in Bash
• sh-semver - Semver tool for bash - finds versions matching to specified rules
• shellcheck - Static analysis tool for shell scripts
• shellfire - A repository of namespaced, composable shell (bash, sh and dash) function libraries
• shpec - A shell testing framework
• shutit - Automation framework based on bash and pexpect
• sub - A delicious way to organize programs
• ts - A shell test script
• urchin - An idiomatic shell testing framework that uses only shell commands
• shunit2 - A unit test framework for Bash scripts with a flavour of JUnit/PyUnit.
• rebash - Scripting library/framework. Features: imports, exceptions, doc-tests ...
• zunit - A powerful unit testing framework for ZSH

Guides

• Bash Hackers Wiki
• Greg Wooledge's (aka "greycat") wiki. Specifically Bash Guide, Bash FAQ and Bash Pitfalls
• Google's Shell Style Guide
• The Linux Documentation Project: Bash Programming - Intro/How-to
• The Linux Documentation Project: Advanced Bash Scripting Guide
• WikiBooks: Bash Shell Scripting
• Use the Unofficial Bash Strict Mode (Unless You Looove Debugging)
• The Art of Command Line
• Learn Enough Command Line to Be Dangerous
• A guide to learn bash

Other Awesome Lists

Other amazingly awesome lists can be found in awesome-awesome and awesome-awesomeness.

See also

• awesome-cli-apps
• awesome-fish
• awesome-zsh
• terminals-are-sexy

terminal.md

Source - Nikolaskama @ github

Terminals Are Sexy

A curated list of Terminal frameworks, plugins & resources for CLI lovers.

Check out my blog and follow me on Twitter.

Table of Contents

1. Shells
   • Base Shells
   • ZSH
   • Bash
   • Git
   • Fish
2. Terminal Emulation Applications
3. Package Managers
   • Universal
   • macOS
   • Linux
   • Windows
4. Text Editors
5. Tools and Plugins
6. Communication
7. Other
   • Community
   • Other Sexy Lists
     • Awesome
     • Misc
   • Contributing

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Shells

Sexy frameworks, plugins and resources for your sexy shell.

Base Shells

• bash - GNU Project's shell (Bourne Again SHell).
• zsh - Powerful shell with scripting language.
• fish - Smart and user-friendly command line shell.
• xonsh - Python-ish, BASHwards-looking shell language and command prompt.
• PowerShell - Automation and configuration tool/framework that is optimized for dealing with structured data.
• Ammonite-Shell - An object shell with a Scala-like scripting language.

ZSH

• oh-my-zsh - Delightful community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration.
• prezto - Configuration framework for Zsh.
• zsh-syntax-highlighting - Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh.
• antigen - Plugin manager for zsh, inspired by oh-my-zsh and vundle.
• slimzsh - Small, usable configuration for ZSH.
• antibody - Faster and simpler antigen written in Golang.
• pure - Pretty, minimal and fast ZSH prompt.
• powerlevel9k - Super flexible awesome powerline ZSH theme.
• liquidprompt - Full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh.
• dotzsh - Community driven framework for zsh.
• zgen - Lightweight and simple plugin manager for ZSH.
• zplug - Next-generation plugin manager for zsh.
• zunit - Powerful unit testing framework for ZSH.
• zshdb - ZSH debugger.
• zsh-quickstart-kit - Simple zsh quickstart for using zsh and zgen.
• zsh-autosuggestions - Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh.
• alf - Out of this world super fast and configurable framework for zsh.
• ant-zsh - Tiny and lightweight ZSH configuration environment for special customization needs.
• pumice - Lightweight plugin manager for zsh.
• zeesh - Cross-platform Zsh framework.
• zilsh - Zsh config system that aims to appeal more to power-users and follow the simplistic approach of vim-pathogen.
• zim - Zsh configuration framework with blazing speed and modular extensions.
• zoppo - Crippled configuration framework for Zsh.
• zpm - Plugin manager for zsh similar to vim-plug.
• ztanesh - Aims to improve your UNIX command line experience and productivity with the the configuration provided by the ztanesh project.
• zulu - Total environment manager for ZSH 5+.
• zsh-pony - Covers customizing ZSH without a framework.

Bash

• bash-sensible - Attempt at saner Bash defaults.
• bash-powerline - Powerline-style Bash prompt in pure Bash script.
• bashtrap - Quick way to spruce up OSX terminal.
• liquidprompt - Full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh.
• hstr - Bash History Suggest Box.
• aliases - Contextual, dynamic, organized aliases for the bash shell.
• bash-it - Collection of community Bash commands and scripts.

Git

• git-prompt - Bash prompt with Git, SVN and HG modules.
• gittify - Colorful Bash prompt + customized Git aliases.
• oh-my-git - Opinionated git prompt for bash and zsh.
• bash-git-prompt - Informative and fancy Bash prompt for Git users.
• sexy-bash-prompt - Bash prompt with colors, Git statuses, and Git branches.
• git-sh - Customized Bash environment suitable for Git work.
• git-radar - Heads up display for git
• git-extra-commands - Collection of useful extra commands for git

Fish

• Fisherman - Concurrent plugin manager for fish.
• oh-my-fish - The Fishshell Framework.

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Terminal Emulation Applications

Sexy 3rd party terminal emulation applications.

• iTerm2 - Terminal emulator for macOS that does amazing things.
• ConEmu - Customizable Windows terminal with tabs, splits, quake-style and more.
• PuTTY - SSH and telnet client, developed originally by Simon Tatham for the Windows platform.
• KiTTY - Fork from version 0.67 of PuTTY, the best telnet / SSH client in the world.
• Terminator - The robot future of terminals.
• Konsole - Terminal emulator for the K Desktop Environment.
• MacTerm - Powerful replacement for macOS Terminal.
• xterm - Terminal emulator for the X Window System.
• Hyper - Terminal built on web technologies.
• ZOC - SSH/Telnet Client and Terminal Emulator for macOS and Windows.
• Upterm - Terminal emulator for the 21st century.
• TotalTerminal - System-wide terminal available on a hot-key.
• Go2Shell - Opens a terminal window to the current directory in Finder.
• Cathode - Vintage terminal for macOS.
• Alacritty - Cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator.
• Termite - Keyboard-centric terminal, aimed at use within a tiling window manager.
• Cmder - Lovely console emulator package for Windows.
• ConsoleZ - Windows console window enhancement. It is a fork of Console project.
• Mosh - Remote terminal application that allows roaming and supports intermittent connectivity.
• Tilix - Advanced GTK3 tiling terminal emulator that follows the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines.
• Tilda - A Gtk based drop down terminal for Linux and Unix

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Package Managers

Sexy package managers for your macOS, Linux & Windows CLIs.

Universal

• guix - Functional package manager for installed software packages and versions.
• nix - Powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible.
• pip - Package management system used to install and manage software packages written in Python.
• npmjs - Package manager for JavaScript.
• duo - Next-generation package manager for the front-end.
• basher - Package manager for shell scripts.
• bpkg - JavaScript has npm, Ruby has Gems, Python has pip and now Shell has bpkg.
• rubygems - The Ruby community’s gem hosting service.
• composer - Composer is a package manager for PHP.
• yarn - New package and dependency manager for javascript.

macOS

• homebrew - Missing package manager for macOS.
• fink - Wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and macOS.
• macports - Package managemer that simplifies the installation of software on the macOS and Darwin operating systems.

Linux

• linuxbrew - The Homebrew package manager for Linux.
• pkgin - Aimed at being an apt / yum like tool for managing pkgsrc binary packages.

Windows

• oneget - PackageManagement (aka OneGet) is a package manager for Windows.
• chocolatey - Package manager for Windows.
• cygwin - Linux-like environment for Windows making it possible to port software running on POSIX systems to Windows.
• ninite - Install and Update All Your Programs at Once.
• ruckzuck - Software Package Manager for Windows, a quick way to install and update Software.
• wpkg - Automated software deployment, upgrade and removal program for Windows.
• scoop - Package manager for Windows.
• babun - Preconfigured cygwin with an advance package manager - pact.

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Text Editors

Sexy text editors for your Command Line Interface.

• vim - Extensively configurable, cross-platform and highly efficient text editor.
  • SpaceVim - Community-driven vim distribution.
  • neovim - Literally the future of vim.
• emacs - Cross-platform text-editor that has both command-line and graphical user interface.
  • spacemacs - Community-driven emacs distribution.
• nano - Text editor for Unix-like computing systems or operating environments using a command line interface.
• micro - Modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor.
• jed - Freely available text editor for Unix, VMS, MSDOS, OS/2, BeOS, QNX, and win9X/NT platforms.
• kakoune - Modal editor with multiple selections and orthogonal design.
• vis - Highly efficient text editor.
• slap - Sublime-like terminal-based text editor.

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Tools and Plugins

Sexy Applications for your Command Line Interface.

• haxor-news - Browse Hacker News like a haxor.
• reddit terminal viewer - Browse Reddit from your terminal.
• taskwarrior - Command-line TODO list manager.
• transfer.sh - Quickly upload and share files from your shell.
• whereami - Get your geolocation information from the CLI.
• howdoi - Instant code answers and examples from the command line
• htop - Cool looking and interactive process viewer 'replacement' for the top command.
• glances - A top/htop alternative.
• lolcat - Rainbows and unicorns!
• ack - Tool like grep, optimized for programmers.
• the_silver_searcher - Code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster.
• lunchy - Friendly wrapper for launchctl.
• tldr - Simplified and community-driven man pages.
• tmux - Terminal multiplexer.
• ranger - Console file manager with vi key bindings.
• googler - Search Google from your terminal.
• jq.node - Command-line JSON/string processor, JavaScript and Lodash in your shell.
• screenfetch - Fetches system/theme information in terminal for Linux desktop screenshots.
• neofetch - Fetches system/theme information in terminal for Linux desktop screenshots. Alternative to screenfetch.
• jrnl - Simple command line journal application that stores your journal in a plain text file.
• tig - Text mode interface for git.
• vifm - Console file manager with vi key bindings and some ideas from mutt.
• byobu - Byobu is an open source text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer.
• autojump - cd command that learns
• fzf - Command-line fuzzy finder.
• wttr.in - The right way to check the weather.
• getnews.tech - Checking the latest news headlines from various news outlets on the web.
• hub - Command-line wrapper for git that makes working with GitHub easy.
• exa - Replacement for 'ls' written in Rust.
• homebrew-cask - CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries.
• mps-youtube - Terminal based YouTube player and downloader
• colorls - Beautify the terminal's ls command, with color and font-awesome icons.
• buku - command-line bookmark manager.
• youtube-dl - download videos from YouTube
• wal - generate and change colorschemes on the fly.
• streamlink - CLI for extracting streams from various websites to a video player of your choosing.
• dockly - Docker console UI and Dashboard for quickly managing and inspecting Containers and Services.
• lf - Terminal file manager.
• lexis - word counting made easy. Retrieve the number of words in a string or stdin.
• asciinema - Terminal session recorder.

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Communication

Sexy Tools for communicating through the Command Line Interface.

• irssi - Self proclaimed client of the future and my favorite IRC client.
• bitchx - Feature-rich and highly configurable, terminal based IRC client based on ircII.
• centerim - Terminal based, multi-protocol Instant Messaging client with support for IRC.
• weechat - Fast, light and extensible chat client.
• epic - IRC client that has been under active development for 20+ years in 5 generations.
• Slackadaisical - Simple Slack client for the CLI.
• go-jira - Simple jira command line client in Go.

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Other

Community

Join the CLI lover community.

• /r/commandline - This is for anything regarding the command line, in any operating system.
• /r/osxterminal - Tips for using terminal.app in macOS.
• /r/zsh/ - Everything on zsh.
• /r/unixporn/ - Everything on unix.
• #bash - Bash IRC channel on freenode.
• Stack Overflow - Terminal tagged questions.

Other Sexy Lists

Here are some more sexy lists.

Awesome

• awesome-devenv - Curated list of delightful Bash scripts and resources.
• awesome-sysadmin - Curated list of amazingly awesome open source sysadmin resources.
• awesome-zsh-plugins - Collection of ZSH frameworks, plugins & themes inspired by the various awesome list collections out there.
• awesome-emacs - A community driven list of useful Emacs packages, libraries and others.

Misc

• the-art-of-command-line - Master the command line, in one page.
• bash-guide - Guide to learn bash.

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Contributing

Your contributions are always welcome! Please take a look at our contribution guidelines and code of conduct first.

Pull requests might be kept open if it hasn't been decided whether additions are sexy enough.

Holy moly! Nicely done. I immediately sent link to many colleagues. It's overwhelming and will take weeks to peruse, but I accept the challenge. Thanks for putting this together!!