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A curated list of awesome command-line frameworks, toolkits, guides and gizmos. Inspired by awesome-php. This awesome collection is also available on .
Choose your base shell.
Search, bookmarks, multiplexing, and other tools that make your terminal experience more productive.
Custom prompts, color themes, etc.
Command-line development, version control, and deployment.
OS-related tools, including system administration, system debugging, and file and process management.
Self-hosted, lightweight servers and networking tools written in shell scripts.
Tools for handling video and audio files.
Command line-based applications or command line access to existing services.
All work and no play is a cruddy way to spend your day.
Tools for managing multiple shell configurations. For zsh-specific tools, see the Zsh section.
Tools for writing, improving, or organizing Bash or other shell scripts
- GNU Project's shell (Bourne Again SHell)
- Friendly, expressive shell features like anonymous functions and data structures
- The extensible shell, based on Plan 9's shell
- Smart and user-friendly command line shell
- A modern system shell that features a simple, yet powerful, syntax. It is written entirely in Rust.
- Korn Shell
- MirBSD Korn Shell
- A smarter shell and scripting environment with advanced features designed for usability, safety and productivity (eg smarter DevOps tooling)
- Fully featured scripting language created specifically for Ops. REPL is being developed.
- A modern shell written in Rust
- Portable OpenBSD ksh
- Bash compatible, with new/modern Unix shell language called Oil
- Public domain Korn shell
a cross-platform task automation and configuration management framework, consisting of a command-line shell and scripting language
- Friendly and modern functional and object oriented shell script language
- Simple shell version management
- C shell with file name completion and command line editing
- Python-ish, BASHwards-looking shell language and command prompt
- A POSIX-compliant command line shell with built-in support for completion and prediction based on command history
- Powerful shell with scripting language
- Fast creation of files and directories in a recursive way. Inspired by the Vim plugin.
- Super fast string search through a directory hierarchy
- Contextual, dynamic, organized aliases for bash
- Beauty of text art meets functionality of clock, timer, pomodoro++ time manager
- Directory-based environments.
- single binary that run list of commands in parallel and waits for their termination
- A simple timetracker for the command line. It saves a log of all tracked activities as a plaintext file and allows you to create flexible reports.
- Bash history in the cloud. Indexed and searchable.
- A blazingly fast CLI tool for creating projects from boilerplate templates.
- Store links and snippets in the command line
- A terminal based search engine for bash commands
- A better way to navigate directories
- The modern text-based browser
- Powerful command-line bookmark manager
- Text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer
— A completion daemon for shell that learns when you invoke --help commands
- Your own clipboard in the cloud, copy and paste text with gist between different systems
- DuckDuckGo from the terminal
- A lightweight workspace manager for the shell
- An environment switcher for the shell, compare with autoenv
- A simple command line notebook with multi-device sync and web interface
- CLI tool to input and store your ideas without leaving the terminal
- Command-line productivity booster, offers quick access to files and directories
- A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.
- Plain text bookmarks for Firefox and surf browsers.
- Find files with SQL-like queries.
- Extends functionality of shell functions making them more powerful and flexible.
- Seamless fuzzy tab completion for z
- A command-line fuzzy finder
- Show Git status in Tmux status bar
- Google Search, Google Site Search, Google News from the terminal
- Command line tool that lets you search Google from your terminal.
- has helps you check presence of various command line tools and their versions on path
- how2 finds the simplest way to do something in a unix shell. It's like man, but you can query it in natural language.
- An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line
- Colorize words in a command output
- <hr /> for your terminal
- An interactive parallel ssh client featuring autocomplete and asynchronous execution
- Bash History Suggest Box
- k is a Zsh script to make directory listings more readable, adding Git status, fileweight colors and rotting dates
- get kool aliases (and more) working with a simple one-liner
- Terminal file manager written in Go, inspired by ranger
- Quickly search files with fewer typings and do many more (grepping, copying path to clipboard, etc)
- Draw low-resolution graphs in terminal
- Lua-based Environment Modules that enhances Tcl-based modules while being backward compatible (compare to modules)
- Write and control complex loops with as one-liners
- Bookmark your shell commands
- Keep your application settings in sync (OS X/Linux)
- Fly through your shell history. Great Scot!
- Classical Tcl-based Environment Modules managing the shell environment (compare to Lmod, direnv, and autoenv)
- File browser and disk usage analyzer with excellent desktop integration
- Do you work on many different projects? And in each project, are there commands you use that are specific to that project? You need a .ok file.
- Build and execute shell command lines from standard input in parallel
- Manage passwords from the command line with GPG encryption and optional git integration.
- 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.
- Tiny date, time diff calculator with timers
- Adds flavor of interactive filtering to the traditional pipe concept of UNIX shell
- Vim like macro registers for your Bash and Zsh Shell
- File-completion widget for Bash and Zsh
- Contextual shell history for Zsh and Bash
- ripgrep is a line oriented search tool that combines the usability of The Silver Searcher with the raw speed of GNU grep
- GNU terminal multiplexer
- Visualize your shell usage with Highcharts
- Style framework for the terminal (Shell Markup Language)
- Command that converts filenames and directories to a web friendly format
- A command-line snippet manager
- ▁▂▃▅▂▇ in your shell
- ▁▂▃▅ Sparkline Generator
- Text snippets for the command line
- Tiny file search utility
- Command line tool to manage snippets of code.
- Shell for issuing SQL to relational databases via JDBC (multiline, completion, highlighting, dialect support)
- A tool for mounting remote file systems over SSH
- Learn English Vocabulary from your terminal
- browse specific site and search the web from your terminal without browser.
- Execute all your scripts with just two or three keystrokes.
- A todo command line manager to organize and manage your todos across multiple projects.
- A faster alternative to cd + ls
- Fix common shell mistakes by using an easy to remember command
- A fully-functional bash client for tldr, simplified and community-driven man pages
- Amazing terminal multiplexer
- undollar bites the dollar sign off the tip of the command you just pasted into your terminal
- Universal command-line interface for SQL databases.
- z for vim.
- Multi-User Tmux Made Easy
- Makes the shell console more friendly and powerful
- A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer
- a fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust
- Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through the SSH.
- alias helper to change directory quickly
- A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line
- Directory bookmarks for the shell
- Quickly go back to a parent directory
- A faster way to move around in Bash
- A next-generation cd command with an interactive filter
- A shell utility for navigation to aliased directories supporting auto-completion
- Jump helps you navigate your file system faster by learning your habits.
- Simple bash commands for bookmarked navigation of the file system, complete with bash-completion.
- Ascend directories by name or count; for bash, zsh, and fish.
- z is the new j, yo
- A new cd command that helps you navigate faster by learning your habits
- A faster way to navigate your filesystem, written in Rust
- Python in Zsh - Easy python scripting in shell
— Minimalistic Aphrodite theme (prompt) for sexy terminals that works in bash, fish and zsh
- Base16-Builder
- Powerful prompt with screen, tmux, git support and many more
- An informative and fancy Bash prompt for Git users
- Powerline-style Bash prompt in pure Bash script
- A quick way to spruce up OSX terminal
- An oh-my-zsh shell theme based on the Powerline Vim plugin
Emoji on the command line
- Nicer colors for terminal
- A minimal ZSH theme where any function can be added to the left prompt or (async) right prompt on the fly.
- Bash prompt with Git, SVN and HG modules
- A colorful Bash prompt + customized Git aliases
- Color Scheme for Gnome Terminal
- A full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh
- Colorization for mysql comand-line client
- An opinionated git prompt for bash and zsh
- Prompt theme engine for any shell and platform written in go.
- An informative Git prompt that works in bash, zsh, ksh, mksh, pdksh, oksh, dash, yash, busybox sh, and osh
- Super flexible awesome powerline ZSH theme
- Bash prompt with colors, Git statuses, and Git branches
- Fast, customisable, cross-shell prompt written in rust
- Greeter with a customizable status report and a fancy bash prompt
- Authenticate Git and SSH workflows with biometric unlock using 1Password
- A grep-like search tool optimized for source code.
- Interactive CLI that generates a .gitignore for your project based on your needs.
- Byte CALculator for storage conversions and calculations
- Terminal based interactive bit manipulator in curses.
- Docker implemented in 100 lines of bash
- Count Lines of Code
- A command line interface to Digital Ocean
- Docker powered mini-Heroku. The smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seen.
- Utility tool for git taking advantage of fuzzy finder fzf.
- Many Git extra utilities. Churn, cut-branch, improved-merge and many more.
- Git utilities -- repo summary, repl, changelog population, author commit percentages and more
- Type git open to open the GitHub page or website for a repository in your browser
- Git quick statistics is a simple and efficient way to access various statistics in git repository.
- Git plugin for easing semantic versioning and changelog validation
- A customized Bash environment suitable for Git work
- A command-line tool to manage multiple git repos.
- hub helps you win at git.
- Task runner for saving and running project-specific commands.
- Insert commented software licenses into source code.
- Makefile + Docker = CI Pipeline
- Multiple Repository management tool
- Run any command on specific Node.js versions.
- A fully configurable and extendable Git hook manager
- A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks
- Instantly browse Stack Overflow results in your terminal when you get a compiler error
- Command-line search-and-replace and file-renaming swiss army knife
- Sublime-like terminal-based text editor that runs on Node.js
- Minimalistic SSH deployment
- Automatically star the npm-packages that you are using on GitHub.
- Instantly jump to your ag matches.
- Blazingly fast meta code checker and formatter
- git-based automatic versioning and state recovery solution agnostic to language or architecture
- A little agent that removes the node_modules folder of non-active projects
- ASCII full-screen performance monitor that is capable of reporting the activity of all processes
- A cat clone with wings
- Real-time network bandwidth monitor and rate estimator with human-friendly visual output
- Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor
- The command line catalog tool for your offline data
- ccat is the colorizing cat. It works similar to cat but displays content with syntax highlighting.
- A modern version of ls.
- Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, and more...
- Easily configure MacOS security settings from the terminal.
- Glances an Eye on your system
- GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems.
- Hosts-file based adblocker
- History for netstat
- A ncurses based interactive process viewer which aims to be a better top
- An advanced log file viewer for the small-scale
- CLI utility and Python API for analyzing log files and other data.
- Colorized ls on steroids
- LSDeluxe, rewrite of GNU ls with lot of added features like colors, icons, tree-view and more formatting options.
- An improved ls, with file descriptions in plain language and intelligent file grouping
- Local ad blocker. Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating system.
- The functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool.
- NCurses Disk Usage
- Text User Interface for controlling NetworkManager
- Battery/Power usage and device stats monitoring command-line tool, with tune-up options.
- Making the output of ping prettier, more colorful, more compact, and easier to read.
- Lightweight command-line control of long-lived processes like servers
- Quickly secure and harden UNIX/Linux systems
- Copy range of lines from file or stdin to stdout.
- Graphical command-line system monitor.
- a Ruby command line application for managing WiFi on MacOS (install by gem install wifi-wand)
- SSH-based "VPN for poors"
- aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink
- Bash on Balls
- A web server written in Bash
- Private cloud shell history. Open source server for bashhub
- "DIY Dropbox" or "2-way directory (r)sync with proper deletion"
- Dropbox Uploader is a Bash script which can be used to upload, download, list or delete files from Dropbox
- HTTPie is a command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement
- The interactive web server, let you inspect HTTP requests and forge responses.
- If you can script it, you can HTTP it.
- Tiny Bash HTTP server using netcat
- Little command line REST client that you can use in pipelines
- HTTP-server to execute shell commands. Designed for development, prototyping or remote control
- File sharing from commandline.
- 🍸Vesper is a HTTP framework for Bash/Unix Shell
- Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests
- Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites
- Export Android content providers to CSV format
- A text-based kitchen for Android ROM customization. Uses shell scripts and works with Cygwin/OS X/Linux
- Music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger
- Cross-platform cli audio player.
- Query and update data structures using selectors from the command line. Comparable to / but supports JSON, YAML, TOML and XML with zero runtime dependencies.
- Cross-platform Deezer.com audio player.
- Command-line JSON processing tool by anononymus JavaScript functions
- Simple high quality GIF encoding
- A cool command line image scraper with a lot of features.
- Blazing fast batch image resizer and rotator
- Convert command output, file-types, and common strings to JSON or YAML for easier use in scripts.
- A small utility to create JSON objects from command-line arguments.
- Sed for json data. You can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data
- Quick and simple image processing at the command line.
- Create SQLITE databases for folders of music, video, images, or online media. Play and track media like Plex but a CLI-only interface with many sorting options.
- Lets you play most audio and video formats (using ASCII characters) in the shell as well as in a GUI.
- Console tool, which downloads, sets IDv3 tags and adds to your iTunes (if you use it) your SoundCloud likes in convenient way
- PiCAST turns your $35 Raspberry Pi in to a Chromecast like Device
- Command line manipulation of PDF documents (split, merge, rotate, convert to jpg, extract text, etc)
- A terminal spreadsheet multitool for exploring and arranging data (csv/json/xml/xls/yaml/etc)
- Cli tool to filter, map and create HTML/XML/JSON data with (Turing-complete) XPath and XQuery.
- Old but powerful tool for command-line XML formatting, filtering, and manipulation.
- yq is a portable command-line YAML processor
- Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols
- A powerful, innovative and small surface CLI to manage AWS.
- A Bash script that handles blog posting
- 🎨 Beautiful images of your code — from right inside your terminal.
- Choose an OSS license from the comfort of your terminal
- The fastest and most interactive terminal based UI application for tracking cryptocurrencies
- Single binary terminal-based TODO manager with git-based sync + markdown notes per task
- Command line video editor
- Facebook command line tool
- Translate English to Chinese in terminal
- Google Calendar command line interface
- Command line evernote client
- Browse Hacker News like a haxor
- Browse Hacker News from the comfort of your Terminal
- Draw point on world map using ip address
- Check whether a website is up or down
- A simple command line journal application that stores your journal in a plain text file
- commandline asciii kanban board for minimalist productivity bash hackers (csv-based)
- Command line accounting
- Generate your license. Yet another lice, but implement with Jinja2 and docopt
- Convert markdown to PNG image
- Everything about your movies within the command line.
- Batch rename utility using regex, sort and map file options.
- Calculator made for programmers working with multiple number representations, sizes, and overall close to the bits.
- Read, Manage, and Automate your collection.
- Get PushBullet notifications when a shell program exits
- Bash interface to the PushBullet API
- A console file manager with VI key bindings.
- Browse Reddit from your terminal
- A Supercharged AWS CLI
- Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat
- A command-line TODO list manager
- Command line power tool for Jira
— Terminal stock ticker with live updates and position tracking
- URL link checker on text documents
- Weather app for the terminal
- A tool to automatically dockerize your applications
- Get your geolocation information from the CLI
- The right way to check the weather (curl wttr.in)
- Bash implementation of 2048 game
- Bash implementation of minesweeper
- ncurses based sudoku game written in C
- Horizontal scroller game in bash with multiplayer mode!
- Tetris in sed
- Arkanoid and Sokoban written using sed
- Reusable text adventure engine for Bash 4
- Play solitaire in your terminal!
- A community Bash framework
- A package manager for shell scripts
- Smashing Bash into Pieces
- JavaScript has npm, Ruby has Gems, Python has pip and now Shell has bpkg
- Save your dotfiles once, deploy them everywhere
– Shell agnostic git based dotfiles package manager, written in Python.
- Keep your dotfiles fresh
- Git dotfile synchronizer written in Bash
- Easily create lightweight documentation of installed packages, dotfiles, and more
- Plugin manager for shell scripts
- Config manager based on Git
- Git-based dotfiles manager supporting encryption, alternates, and bootstrapping
- ANSI escape codes in pure bash - change text color, position the cursor, much more
- Bash unit testing framework
- bash script creator - from small stand-alone script to complex projects with CI/CD and testing
- A collection of libraries to simplify writing Bash scripts
- A modular extensible toolbox for Bash
- Bash command line framework and CLI generator
- mini bash framework for creating command line tools
- a Bash framework written just for fun with testing, dependency management & packaging
- -based Bash language server
- functions for developing with enabled.
- Bash Automated Testing System
- Compose, document, version and organize your shell functions
- Proper error handling, exceptions and try/catch for ZSH
- Dead simple testing framework for Bash with coverage reporting
- A command line argument parser in 50 lines of portable shell script.
- A simple templating engine based on shell, implemented in ~290 lines of POSIX shell and awk.
- TAP producer and test harness for fish
- An elegant option parser for shell scripts (sh, bash and all POSIX shells)
- CLI parser for fish
- An alternative for builtin test command, it will make your "if" statements pretty
- A logging interface for shell scripts
- Mustache templates in pure bash
- A BASH wrapper for getopts, for simple command line arguments.
- A modular shell automation framework to organize your keeper scripts
- A reusable progress spinner for shell scripts
- Minimally invasive bash preprocessor, select sections of your script to run
- bash transpiler written in bash (coffeescript for bash)
- Semantic Versioning in Bash
- Semver tool for bash - finds versions matching to specified rules
- Static analysis tool for shell scripts
- A repository of namespaced, composable shell (bash, sh and dash) function libraries
- A full-featured BDD unit testing framework for dash, bash, ksh, zsh and all POSIX shells
- A shell parser, formatter, and interpreter with bash support; includes shfmt
- A shell testing framework
- Automation framework based on bash and pexpect
- A delicious way to organize programs
- A shell test script
- An idiomatic shell testing framework that uses only shell commands
- A unit test framework for Bash scripts with a flavour of JUnit/PyUnit.
- Scripting library/framework. Features: imports, exceptions, doc-tests ...
- A powerful unit testing framework for ZSH
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