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▐ A curated list of command line apps.
Inspired by the awesome (https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome) list thing.
Table of Contents
- Entertainment (#entertainment)
- Music (#music)
- Social Media (#social-media)
- Video (#video)
- Movies (#movies)
- Games (#games)
- Books (#books)
- Development (#development)
- Text Editors (#text-editors)
- Frontend Development (#frontend-development)
- Mobile Development (#mobile-development)
- Database (#database)
- Devops (#devops)
- Docker (#docker)
- Release (#release)
- Npm (#npm)
- Boilerplate (#boilerplate)
- HTTP Server (#http-server)
- HTTP Client (#http-client)
- Productivity (#productivity)
- Time Tracking (#time-tracking)
- Note Taking and Lists (#note-taking-and-lists)
- Finance (#finance)
- Presentations (#presentations)
- Calendars (#calendars)
- Utilities (#utilities)
- macOS (#macos)
- Terminal Sharing Utilities (#terminal-sharing-utilities)
- Network Utilities (#network-utilities)
- Theming and Customization (#theming-and-customization)
- Shell Utilities (#shell-utilities)
- System Interaction Utilities (#system-interaction-utilities)
- Markdown (#markdown)
- Security (#security)
- Math (#math)
- Weather (#weather)
- Browser Replacement (#browser-replacement)
- Internet Speedtest (#internet-speedtest)
- Command Line Learning (#command-line-learning)
- Data Manipulation (#data-manipulation)
- Processors (#processors)
- JSON (#json)
- YAML (#yaml)
- Columns (#columns)
- Text (#text)
- Files and Directories (#files-and-directories)
- File Managers (#file-managers)
- Deleting, Copying, and Renaming (#deleting-copying-and-renaming)
- Files (#files)
- File Sync/Sharing (#file-syncsharing)
- Directory Listing (#directory-listing)
- Directory Navigation (#directory-navigation)
- Search (#search)
- Version Control (#version-control)
- Git (#git)
- GitHub (#github)
- Emoji (#emoji)
- Images (#images)
- Gif Creation (#gif-creation)
- Image Conversion (#image-conversion)
- Screensavers (#screensavers)
- Graphics (#graphics)
- Just for Fun (#just-for-fun)
- Emoji (#emoji-1)
- Other Awesome Lists (#other-awesome-lists)
- License (#license)
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Entertainment
- newsboat (https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat) - An extendable RSS feed reader for text terminals.
Music
- cmus (https://github.com/cmus/cmus) - Small, fast and powerful console music player.
- Instant-Music-Downloader (https://github.com/yask123/Instant-Music-Downloader) - Instant music downloader.
- itunes-remote (https://github.com/mischah/itunes-remote) - Control iTunes via CLI.
- pianobar (https://6xq.net/pianobar/) - Pandora client.
- somafm-cli (https://github.com/rockymadden/somafm-cli) - Listen to SomaFM in your terminal.
- mpd (https://github.com/MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD) - Music Player Daemon.
- ncmpcpp (https://github.com/arybczak/ncmpcpp) - mpd client.
- moc (http://moc.daper.net/) - Console audio player for Linux/UNIX.
- musikcube (https://github.com/clangen/musikcube) - Cross-platform, terminal-based music player, audio engine, metadata indexer, and server.
- beets (https://github.com/beetbox/beets) - Music library manager and tagger.
- spotify-tui (https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui) - Spotify client.
- swaglyrics-for-spotify (https://github.com/SwagLyrics/SwagLyrics-For-Spotify) - Spotify lyrics.
- dzr (https://github.com/yne/dzr) - deezer.com player.
- radio-active (https://github.com/deep5050/radio-active) - Internet radio player with 40k+ stations.
- mpvc (https://github.com/gmt4/mpvc) - Music player interfacing mpv.
Video
- youtube-dl (https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl) - Download videos from YouTube.com and many other video sites.
- streamlink (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink) - Extract streams from various websites to a video player of your choosing.
- mps-youtube (https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube) - Youtube player.
- mpv (https://mpv.io) - Superior video player.
- editly (https://github.com/mifi/editly) - Declarative video editing.
- yt-dlp (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp) - A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes.
Movies
- moviemon (https://github.com/iCHAIT/moviemon) - Everything about your movies.
- movie (https://github.com/mayankchd/movie) - Get movie info or compare movies.
Games
- Dwarf Fortress (http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/) - Roguelike construction and management simulation.
- Cataclysm-DDA (https://cataclysmdda.org) - Turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
- Pokete (https://github.com/lxgr-linux/Pokete) - Pokemon-like.
Books
- epr (https://github.com/wustho/epr) - epub reader.
- Bible.Js CLI (https://github.com/BibleJS/BibleApp) - Bible.
- SpeedRead (https://github.com/sunsations/speed_read) - Spritz-alike speedreader.
- medium-cli (https://github.com/djadmin/medium-cli) - Read medium.com (https://medium.com/) stories.
Chat
- WeeChat (https://weechat.org/) - Fast, light and extensible chat client.
- irssi (https://github.com/irssi/irssi) - IRC chat client.
- kirc (https://github.com/mcpcpc/kirc) - Tiny IRC client.
Development
- legit (https://github.com/captainsafia/legit) - Generate Open Source licences as files or file headers.
- mklicense (https://github.com/cezaraugusto/mklicense) - Create a custom LICENSE file painlessly with customized info.
- rebound (https://github.com/shobrook/rebound) - Fetch Stack Overflow results on compiler error.
- foy (https://github.com/zaaack/foy) - Lightweight general purpose task runner/build tool.
- just (https://github.com/casey/just) - Modern make-like command runner.
- bcal (https://github.com/jarun/bcal) - Byte CALculator for storage conversions and calculations.
- bitwise (https://github.com/mellowcandle/bitwise) - Base conversion and bit manipulation.
- cgasm (https://github.com/bnagy/cgasm) - x86 assembly documentation.
- grex (https://github.com/pemistahl/grex) - Generate regular expressions from user-provided test cases.
- gdb-dashboard (https://github.com/cyrus-and/gdb-dashboard) - Modular visual interface for GDB.
- iola (https://github.com/pvarentsov/iola) - Socket client with REST API.
- add-gitignore (https://github.com/TejasQ/add-gitignore) - Interactively generate a .gitignore for your project based on your needs.
- is-up-cli (https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-up-cli) - Check if a domain is up.
- reachable (https://github.com/italolelis/reachable) - Check if a domain is up.
- loadtest (https://github.com/alexfernandez/loadtest) - Run load tests.
- diff2html-cli (https://github.com/rtfpessoa/diff2html-cli) - Create pretty HTML from diffs.
Text Editors
- emacs (https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs) - An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor — and more.
- vim (https://github.com/vim/vim) - Vim - the ubiquitous text editor.
- neovim (https://github.com/neovim/neovim) - Modern vim.
- kakoune (https://github.com/mawww/kakoune) - Modal editor inspired by vim.
- micro (https://github.com/zyedidia/micro) - A simple and intuitive editor.
- o (https://github.com/xyproto/o) - Configuration-free text editor and IDE.
- helix (https://github.com/helix-editor/helix) - Modal editor inspired by kakoune.
Frontend Development
- caniuse-cmd (https://github.com/sgentle/caniuse-cmd) - Search caniuse.com (https://caniuse.com) about browser support of features.
- strip-css-comments-cli (https://github.com/sindresorhus/strip-css-comments-cli) - Strip comments from CSS.
- viewport-list-cli (https://github.com/kevva/viewport-list-cli) - Return a list of devices and their viewports.
- surge (https://surge.sh) - Publish static websites for free.
Mobile Development
- mobicon-cli (https://github.com/SamVerschueren/mobicon-cli) - Mobile app icon generator.
- mobisplash-cli (https://github.com/SamVerschueren/mobisplash-cli) - Mobile app splash screen generator.
- deviceframe (https://github.com/c0bra/deviceframe) - Put device frames around your mobile/web/progressive app screenshots.
Database
- mycli (https://github.com/dbcli/mycli) - MySQL client with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
- pgcli (https://github.com/dbcli/pgcli) - Postgres client with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
- sqlline (https://github.com/julianhyde/sqlline) - Shell for issuing SQL via JDBC.
- iredis (https://github.com/laixintao/iredis) - Redis client with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
- usql (https://github.com/xo/usql) - Universal SQL client with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
Devops
- htconvert (https://github.com/lukechilds/htconvert) - Convert .htaccess redirects to nginx.conf redirects.
- SAWS (https://github.com/donnemartin/saws) - Supercharged AWS CLI.
- s3cmd (https://github.com/s3tools/s3cmd) - Fully-Featured S3 client.
- pm2 (https://github.com/Unitech/pm2) - Production Process Manager for Node.js.
- ops (https://github.com/nanovms/ops) - Unikernel compilation and orchestration tool.
- flog (https://github.com/mingrammer/flog) - A fake log generator for log formats such as apache-common, apache error and RFC3164 syslog.
- k9s (https://github.com/derailed/k9s) - Manage Kubernetes Clusters.
- PingMe (https://github.com/kha7iq/pingme) - Send messages/alerts to multiple messaging platforms & email.
- ipfs-deploy (https://github.com/agentofuser/ipfs-deploy) - Deploy static websites to IPFS (https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs#overviewhttps://github.com/ipfs/ipfs#overview).
- Discharge (https://github.com/brandonweiss/discharge) - Deploy static websites to Amazon S3.
- updatecli (https://github.com/updatecli/updatecli) - A declarative dependency management tool.
Docker
- lstags (https://github.com/ivanilves/lstags) - Synchronize images across registries.
- dockly (https://github.com/lirantal/dockly) - Interactively manage containers.
- lazydocker (https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker) - Simple docker/docker-compose interface.
- docker-pushrm (https://github.com/christian-korneck/docker-pushrm) - Push a readme to container registries.
Release
- release-it (https://github.com/webpro/release-it) - Automate releases for Git repositories and/or npm packages. Changelog generation, GitHub/GitLab releases, etc.
- clog (https://github.com/clog-tool/clog-cli) - A conventional changelog for the rest of us.
- np (https://github.com/sindresorhus/np) - A better npm publish.
- release (https://github.com/vercel/release) - Generate changelogs with a single command.
- semantic-release (https://github.com/semantic-release/semantic-release) - Fully automated version management and package publishing.
Npm
- npm-name-cli (https://github.com/sindresorhus/npm-name-cli) - Check whether a package name is available on npm.
- npm-user-cli (https://github.com/sindresorhus/npm-user-cli) - Get user info of a npm user.
- npm-home (https://github.com/sindresorhus/npm-home) - Open the npm page of the package in the current directory.
- pkg-dir-cli (https://github.com/sindresorhus/pkg-dir-cli) - Find the root directory of a npm package.
- npm-check-updates (https://github.com/tjunnone/npm-check-updates) - Find newer versions of package dependencies than what your package.json allows.
- updates (https://github.com/silverwind/updates) - Flexible npm dependency update tool.
- wipe-modules (https://github.com/bntzio/wipe-modules) - Remove node_modules of inactive projects.
Boilerplate
- yo (https://github.com/yeoman/yo) - Scaffolding tool for running Yeoman generators.
- boilr (https://github.com/tmrts/boilr) - Create projects from boilerplate templates.
- cookiecutter (https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter) - Create projects from templates.
- mevn-cli (https://github.com/madlabsinc/mevn-cli) - Light speed setup for MEVN (Mongo Express Vue Node) Apps.
- scaffold-static (https://github.com/jamesgeorge007/scaffold-static) - Scaffolding utility for vanilla JS.
HTTP Server
- serve (https://github.com/vercel/serve) - Serve static files (https, CORS, GZIP compression, etc).
- simplehttp (https://github.com/snwfdhmp/simplehttp) - Easily serve a local directory over HTTP.
- shell2http (https://github.com/msoap/shell2http) - Shell script based HTTP server.
HTTP Client
- HTTPie (https://github.com/httpie/httpie) - A user-friendly HTTP client.
- HTTP Prompt (https://github.com/eliangcs/http-prompt) - Interactive HTTP client featuring autocomplete and syntax highlighting.
- ain (https://github.com/jonaslu/ain) - HTTP client with a simple format to organize API endpoints.
- curlie (https://github.com/rs/curlie) - A curl frontend with the ease of use of HTTPie.
Productivity
- doing (https://github.com/ttscoff/doing/) - Keep track of what you’re doing and track what you’ve done.
- ffscreencast (https://github.com/cytopia/ffscreencast) - A ffmpeg screencast with video overlay and multi monitor support.
- meetup-cli (https://github.com/specious/meetup-cli) - Meetup.com client.
- NeoMutt (https://neomutt.org) - Email client.
- terjira (https://github.com/keepcosmos/terjira) - Jira client.
- ipt (https://github.com/drselump14/ipt) - Pivotal Tracker client.
- uber-cli (https://github.com/jaebradley/uber-cli) - Uber client.
- Buku (https://github.com/jarun/Buku) - Browser-independent bookmark manager.
- papis (https://github.com/papis/papis) - Extensible document and bibliography manager.
- pubs (https://github.com/pubs/pubs) - Scientific bibliography manager.
- fjira (https://github.com/mk-5/fjira) - Fuzzy finder and TUI application for Jira.
Time Tracking
- Timetrap (https://github.com/samg/timetrap) - Simple timetracker.
- moro (https://github.com/omidfi/moro) - Simple tool for tracking work hours.
- Timewarrior (https://github.com/GothenburgBitFactory/timewarrior) - Utility with simple stopwatch, calendar-based backfill and flexible reporting.
- Watson (https://github.com/TailorDev/Watson) - Generate reports for clients and manage your time.
- utt (https://github.com/larose/utt) - Simple time tracking tool.
- Bartib (https://github.com/nikolassv/bartib) - Easy to use time tracking tool.
- arttime (https://github.com/reportaman/arttime) - Featureful timer with native desktop notifications and curated ASCII art.
Note Taking and Lists
- idea (https://github.com/IonicaBizau/idea) - A lightweight tool for keeping ideas in a safe place quick and easy.
- geeknote (https://github.com/vitaly-zdanevich/geeknote) - Evernote client.
- Taskwarrior (https://taskwarrior.org/) - Manage your TODO list.
- Terminal velocity (https://vhp.github.io/terminal_velocity/) - A fast note-taking app.
- eureka (https://github.com/simeg/eureka) - Input and store your ideas.
- sncli (https://github.com/insanum/sncli) - Simplenote client.
- td-cli (https://github.com/darrikonn/td-cli) - A TODO manager to organize and manage your TODO's across multiple projects.
- taskbook (https://github.com/klaussinani/taskbook) - Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat.
- dnote (https://github.com/dnote/dnote) - A interactive, multi-device notebook.
- nb (https://github.com/xwmx/nb) - A note‑taking, bookmarking, archiving, and knowledge base application.
- obs (https://github.com/Yakitrak/obsidian-cli) - Interact with your Obsidian vault.
Finance
See plaintextaccounting.org (https://plaintextaccounting.org) for a great overview of relevant tools.
- ledger (https://ledger-cli.org/) - Powerful, double-entry accounting system.
- hledger (https://hledger.org/) - Robust, fast, intuitive plain text accounting tool with CLI, TUI and web interfaces.
- moeda (https://github.com/thompsonemerson/moeda) - Foreign exchange rates and currency conversion.
- cash-cli (https://github.com/xxczaki/cash-cli) - Convert Currency Rates.
- cointop (https://github.com/miguelmota/cointop) - Track cryptocurrencies.
- ticker (https://github.com/achannarasappa/ticker) - Stock ticker.
Presentations
- WOPR (https://github.com/yaronn/wopr) - A simple markup language for creating rich terminal reports, presentations and infographics.
- decktape (https://github.com/astefanutti/decktape) - PDF exporter for HTML presentations.
- mdp (https://github.com/visit1985/mdp) - A markdown presentation tool.
- sent (https://tools.suckless.org/sent/) - Simple plaintext presentation tool.
- slides (https://github.com/maaslalani/slides) - A markdown presentation tool.
Calendars
- calcurse (https://calcurse.org/) - Calendar and scheduling.
- gcalcli (https://github.com/insanum/gcalcli) - Google calendar client.
- khal (https://github.com/pimutils/khal) - CalDAV ready CLI and TUI calendar.
- vdirsyncer (https://github.com/pimutils/vdirsyncer) - CalDAV sync.
- remind (https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/) - A sophisticated calendar and alarm program.
- birthday (https://github.com/IonicaBizau/birthday) - Know when a friend's birthday is coming.
Utilities
- aria2 (https://github.com/tatsuhiro-t/aria2) - HTTP, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink download utility.
- bitly-client (https://github.com/specious/bitly-client) - Bitly client.
- deadlink (https://github.com/nschloe/deadlink) - Find dead links in files.
- crawley (https://github.com/s0rg/crawley) - Unix-way web crawler.
- kill-tabs (https://github.com/sindresorhus/kill-tabs) - Kill all Chrome tabs.
- alex (https://github.com/get-alex/alex) - Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing.
- clevercli (https://github.com/clevercli/clevercli) - Collection of ChatGPT powered utilities.
macOS
- open-pip-cli (https://github.com/albinekb/open-pip-cli) - Watch videos in picture-in-picture player.
- osx-wifi-cli (https://github.com/danyshaanan/osx-wifi-cli) - Manage wifi connections.
- active-win-cli (https://github.com/sindresorhus/active-win-cli) - Get the title/id/etc of the active window.
- stronghold (https://github.com/alichtman/stronghold) - Configure security settings from the terminal.
- dark-mode (https://github.com/sindresorhus/dark-mode) - Toggle dark mode.
Terminal Sharing Utilities
- gotty (https://github.com/yudai/gotty) - Share your terminal as a web application.
- localtunnel (https://github.com/localtunnel/localtunnel) - Expose your localhost to the world for easy testing and sharing.
- mosh (https://mosh.org/) - Remote SSH client that allows roaming with intermittent connectivity.
- ngrok (https://ngrok.com/) - Secure introspectable tunnels to localhost.
- tmate (https://tmate.io/) - Instant terminal (tmux) sharing.
- warp (https://github.com/spolu/warp) - Secure and simple terminal sharing.
- OverTime (https://github.com/diit/overtime-cli) - Time-overlap tables for remote teams.
Network Utilities
- get-port-cli (https://github.com/sindresorhus/get-port-cli) - Get an available port.
- is-reachable-cli (https://github.com/beatfreaker/is-reachable-cli) - Check if hostnames are reachable or not.
- acmetool (https://github.com/hlandau/acmetool) - Automatic certificate acquisition for ACME (Let's Encrypt).
- certificate-ripper (https://github.com/Hakky54/certificate-ripper) - Extract server certificates.
- neoss (https://github.com/PabloLec/neoss) - User-friendly and detailed socket statistics.
Theming and Customization
- splash-cli (https://github.com/splash-cli/splash-cli) - Beautiful wallpapers from Unsplash.
- wallpaper-cli (https://github.com/sindresorhus/wallpaper-cli) - Get or set the desktop wallpaper.
- themer (https://github.com/mjswensen/themer) - Generate personalized themes for your editor, terminal, wallpaper, Slack, and more.
- JackPaper (https://github.com/jackel27/jackpaper) - Set images from Unsplash as wallpaper.
- QuickWall (https://github.com/deepjyoti30/QuickWall) - Directly set wallpapers from Unsplash.
- oh-my-posh (https://ohmyposh.dev) - Prompt theme engine.
Shell Utilities
- has (https://github.com/kdabir/has) - Checks for the presence of various commands and their versions on the path.
- Ultimate Plumber (https://github.com/akavel/up) - Write Linux pipes with live previews.
- fkill-cli (https://github.com/sindresorhus/fkill-cli) - Simple cross-platform process killer.
- task-spooler (https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/task-spooler) - Queue jobs for linear execution.
- undollar (https://github.com/ImFeelingDucky/undollar) - Strip the '$' preceding copy-pasted terminal commands.
- pipe_exec (https://github.com/koraa/pipe_exec) - Run executables from stdin, pipes and ttys without creating a temporary file.
System Interaction Utilities
- fastfetch (https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch) - System information tool.
- battery-level-cli (https://github.com/gillstrom/battery-level-cli) - Get current battery level.
- brightness-cli (https://github.com/kevva/brightness-cli) - Change screen brightness (windows (https://github.com/sondreb/win-brightness)).
- yank (https://github.com/mptre/yank) - Yank terminal output to clipboard.
- screensaver (https://github.com/gillstrom/screensaver) - Start the screensaver.
- google-font-installer (https://github.com/lordgiotto/google-font-installer) - Download and install Google Web Fonts on your local machine.
- glances (https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/) - System monitoring tool.
- tiptop (https://github.com/nschloe/tiptop) - System monitor.
- gzip-size-cli (https://github.com/sindresorhus/gzip-size-cli) - Get the gzipped size of a file.
Markdown
- DocToc (https://github.com/thlorenz/doctoc) - Generates table of contents for markdown files.
- grip (https://github.com/joeyespo/grip) - Preview markdown files as GitHub would render them.
- mdv (https://github.com/axiros/terminal_markdown_viewer) - Styled terminal markdown viewer.
- glow (https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow) - Styled markdown rendering.
- gtree (https://github.com/ddddddO/gtree) - Use markdown to generate directory trees and the directories itself.
Security
- pass (https://www.passwordstore.org) - Password manager.
- gopass (https://github.com/gopasspw/gopass) - Fully-featured password manager.
- xiringuito (https://github.com/ivanilves/xiringuito) - SSH-based VPN.
- hasha-cli (https://github.com/sindresorhus/hasha-cli) - Get the hash of text or stdin.
- ots (https://github.com/sniptt-official/ots) - Share secrets with others via a one-time URL.
Math
- mdlt (https://github.com/metadelta/mdlt) - Do quick math right from the command line.
- Qalculate (https://github.com/Qalculate/libqalculate) - Calculate non-trivial math expressions. Unit conversions, symbolic calculations and more.
Weather
- wttr.in (https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in)
- wego (https://github.com/schachmat/wego)
- weather-cli (https://github.com/riyadhalnur/weather-cli)
Browser Replacement
- s (https://github.com/zquestz/s) - Open a web search in your terminal.
- hget (https://github.com/bevacqua/hget) - Render websites in plain text from your terminal.
- mapscii (https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii) - Terminal Map Viewer.
- nasa-cli (https://github.com/xxczaki/nasa-cli) - Download NASA Picture of the Day.
- getnews.tech (https://github.com/omgimanerd/getnews.tech) - Fetch news headlines from various news outlets.
- trino (https://github.com/eneserdogan/trino) - Translation of words and phrases.
- translate-shell (https://github.com/soimort/translate-shell) - Google Translate interface.
Internet Speedtest
- speedtest-net (https://github.com/ddsol/speedtest.net) - Test internet connection speed and ping using speedtest.net.
- speed-test (https://github.com/sindresorhus/speed-test) - speedtest-net wrapper with different UI.
- speedtest-cli (https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli) - Test internet bandwidth using speedtest.net.
- bandwhich (https://github.com/imsnif/bandwhich) - Track bandwidth utilization by process.
Command Line Learning
- cmdchallenge (https://cmdchallenge.com) - Presents small shell challenge with user submitted solutions.
- explainshell (https://www.explainshell.com/) - Type a snippet to see the help text for each argument.
- howdoi (https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi) - Instant coding answers.
- how2 (https://github.com/santinic/how2) - Node.js implementation of howdoi.
- The Fuck (https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck) - Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.
- tldr (https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr) - Simplified and community-driven man pages.
- Wat (https://github.com/dthree/wat) - Instant, central, community-built docs.
- teachcode (https://github.com/madlabsinc/teachcode) - Guide for the earliest lessons of coding.
- navi (https://github.com/denisidoro/navi) - Interactive cheatsheet tool.
- yai (https://github.com/ekkinox/yai) - AI powered terminal assistant.
Data Manipulation
- visidata (https://github.com/saulpw/visidata) - Spreadsheet multitool for data discovery and arrangement.
Processors
- jq (https://github.com/stedolan/jq) - JSON processor.
- yq (https://github.com/kislyuk/yq) - YAML processor.
- dasel (https://github.com/tomwright/dasel) - JSON/YAML/TOML/XML processor (like jq/yq).
- yaml-cli (https://github.com/pandastrike/yaml-cli) - Query/update YAML.
- ramda-cli (https://github.com/raine/ramda-cli) - Process data with functional pipelines.
- xq (https://github.com/sibprogrammer/xq) - XML and HTML beautifier and content extractor.
JSON
- jp (https://github.com/therealklanni/jp) - JSON parser.
- fx (https://github.com/antonmedv/fx) - Command-line JSON viewer.
- vj (https://github.com/busyloop/vj) - Makes JSON human readable.
- underscore-cli (https://github.com/ddopson/underscore-cli) - Utility-belt for hacking JSON and Javascript.
- strip-json-comments-cli (https://github.com/sindresorhus/strip-json-comments-cli) - Strip comments from JSON.
- GROQ (https://github.com/sanity-io/groq-cli) – JSON processor with queries and projections.
- gron (https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron) - Make JSON greppable.
YAML
- dyff (https://github.com/homeport/dyff) - YAML diff tool.
Columns
- parse-columns-cli (https://github.com/sindresorhus/parse-columns-cli) - Parse text columns to JSON.
- q (http://harelba.github.io/q/) - Execution of SQL-like queries on CSV/TSV/tabular text file.
Text
- figlet (http://www.figlet.org/) - Creates large text out of ASCII characters.
- stegcloak (https://github.com/kurolabs/stegcloak) - Hide secrets with invisible characters in plain text securely.
Files and Directories
File Managers
- ranger (https://github.com/ranger/ranger) - A console file manager with VI key bindings.
- midnight-commander (https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc) - A feature rich visual file manager.
- Vifm (https://vifm.info/) - VI influenced file manager.
- nnn (https://github.com/jarun/nnn) - File browser and disk usage analyzer with excellent desktop integration.
- lf (https://github.com/gokcehan/lf) - Fast, extensively customizable file manager.
- clifm (https://github.com/leo-arch/clifm) - The command line file manager.
- far2l (https://github.com/elfmz/far2l) - Orthodox file manager.
- yazi (https://github.com/sxyazi/yazi) - Blazing fast file manager.
Deleting, Copying, and Renaming
- trash-cli (https://github.com/sindresorhus/trash-cli) - Move files and directories to the trash.
- empty-trash-cli (https://github.com/sindresorhus/empty-trash-cli) - Empty the trash.
- del-cli (https://github.com/sindresorhus/del-cli) - Delete files and folders.
- cpy-cli (https://github.com/sindresorhus/cpy-cli) - Copies files.
- rename-cli (https://github.com/jhotmann/node-rename-cli) - Rename files quickly.
- renameutils (https://www.nongnu.org/renameutils/) - Mass renaming in your editor.
- diskonaut (https://github.com/imsnif/diskonaut) - Disk space navigator.
Files
- chokidar-cli (https://github.com/open-cli-tools/chokidar-cli) - CLI to watch file system changes.
- file-type-cli (https://github.com/sindresorhus/file-type-cli) - Detect the file type of a file or stdin.
- bat (https://github.com/sharkdp/bat) - A cat clone with syntax highlighting.
- NCDu (https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu) - A disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface.
- unix-permissions (https://github.com/ehmicky/unix-permissions) - Swiss Army knife for Unix permissions.
- transmission-cli (https://transmissionbt.com) - Torrent client for your command line.
- webtorrent-cli (https://github.com/feross/webtorrent-cli) – Streaming torrent client.
- entr (https://github.com/eradman/entr) - Run an arbitrary command when files change.
- organize-cli (https://github.com/ManrajGrover/organize-cli) - Organize your files automatically.
- organize-rt (https://gitlab.com/foxido/organize-rt) - organize-cli in Rust with more customization.
- RecoverPy (https://github.com/PabloLec/RecoverPy) - Recover overwritten or deleted files.
File Sync/Sharing
- rclone (https://github.com/ncw/rclone) - Sync files with various cloud providers.
- ffsend (https://github.com/timvisee/ffsend) - Quick file share.
- share-cli (https://github.com/marionebl/share-cli) - Share files with your local network.
- google-drive-upload (https://github.com/labbots/google-drive-upload) - Upload/sync with Google Drive.
- gdrive-downloader (https://github.com/Akianonymus/gdrive-downloader) - Download files/folders from Google Drive.
- portal (https://github.com/ZinoKader/portal) - Send files between computers.
- shbin (https://github.com/Shiphero/shbin/) - Turn a Github repo into a pastebin.
- sharing (https://github.com/parvardegr/sharing) - Send and receive files on your mobile device.
- ncp (https://github.com/kha7iq/ncp) - Transfer files and folders, to and from NFS servers.
Directory Listing
- alder (https://github.com/aweary/alder) - Minimal tree with colors.
- eza (https://github.com/eza-community/eza) - Improved version of ls.
- tre (https://github.com/dduan/tre) - tree with git awareness, editor aliasing, and more.
- ll (https://github.com/antonmedv/ll) - ls with git status.
- lsd (https://github.com/Peltoche/lsd) - ls with many extra features.
Directory Navigation
- autojump (https://github.com/wting/autojump) - A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line.
- pm (https://github.com/Angelmmiguel/pm) - The easy way to switch to your projects on the shell.
- z (https://github.com/rupa/z) - z is the new j, yo.
- PathPicker (https://github.com/facebook/pathpicker/) - After parsing the output from a command, PathPicker presents you with a nice UI to select which files you're interested in.
- fz (https://github.com/changyuheng/fz.sh) - Seamless fuzzy tab completion for z.
- goto (https://github.com/iridakos/goto) - Directory aliases for the shell with autocomplete.
- z.lua (https://github.com/skywind3000/z.lua) - cd command that learns your habits.
- zoxide (https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide) - Fast directory jumper in Rust.
- tere (https://github.com/mgunyho/tere) - A faster alternative to using cd and ls.
Search
- happyfinder (https://github.com/hugows/hf) - (another) Fuzzy file finder for the command line.
- find-up-cli (https://github.com/sindresorhus/find-up-cli) - Find a file by walking up parent directories.
- ripgrep (https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep) - A line-oriented search tool that recursively searches your current directory for a regex pattern.
- fzf (https://github.com/junegunn/fzf) - A general purpose command-line fuzzy finder, can be used with any list: files/directories, command history, processes, hostnames, bookmarks, git commits, etc.
- fselect (https://github.com/jhspetersson/fselect) - Find files with SQL-like queries.
- fd (https://github.com/sharkdp/fd) - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.
- broot (https://github.com/Canop/broot) - Fuzzy finder similar to fzf, but with space usage visualization.
- rare (https://github.com/zix99/rare) - Real-time regex aggregation and analysis.
- skim (https://github.com/lotabout/skim) - A general fuzzy finder written in rust, similar to fzf.
- ast-grep (https://github.com/ast-grep/ast-grep) - A tool for code structural search, linting and rewriting.
Version Control
- SnowFS (https://github.com/snowtrack/snowfs) - A fast, scalable version control system for binaries.
Git
- git commander (https://github.com/golbin/git-commander) - Interactive git tool.
- git-stats (https://github.com/IonicaBizau/git-stats) - A local GitHub-like contributions calendar.
- dev-time (https://github.com/samverschueren/dev-time-cli) - Get the current local time of a GitHub user.
- tig (https://github.com/jonas/tig) - Text-mode interface for git.
- grv (https://github.com/rgburke/grv) - Text-mode interface for git with customisable vi bindings.
- git-standup (https://github.com/kamranahmedse/git-standup) - Recall what you did on the last working day.
- git-secret (https://github.com/sobolevn/git-secret) - Store your private data inside a git repository.
- gitlab-cli (https://github.com/vishwanatharondekar/gitlab-cli) - Create GitLab merge requests.
- git-extras (https://github.com/tj/git-extras) - Git utilities.
- gita (https://github.com/nosarthur/gita) - Manage multiple git repos side by side.
- readme-md-generator (https://github.com/kefranabg/readme-md-generator) - Interactively generate README.md files.
- semantic-git-commit-cli (https://github.com/JPeer264/node-semantic-git-commit-cli) - Ensure semantic commits messages.
- import-github-labels-cli (https://github.com/abhijithvijayan/import-github-labels-cli) - Sync labels between Github repos.
- git-all-branches (https://github.com/zacanger/git-all-branches) - Improved git branch -a.
- czg (https://github.com/Zhengqbbb/cz-git/tree/main/packages/cli) - Interactively generate standardized commit messages.
- shallow-backup (https://github.com/alichtman/shallow-backup) - Git integrated backup tool.
- Lazygit (https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit) - Simple TUI for git commands.
GitHub
- CLI GitHub (https://github.com/IonicaBizau/cli-github) - Fancy GitHub client.
- hub (https://github.com/github/hub) - Make git easier to use with GitHub.
- git-labelmaker (https://github.com/himynameisdave/git-labelmaker) - Edit GitHub labels.
Emoji
- gitmoji-cli (https://github.com/carloscuesta/gitmoji-cli) - Use emoji in commit messages.
- gitmoji-changelog (https://github.com/frinyvonnick/gitmoji-changelog) - Generate gitmoji changelogs.
Images
- SVGO (https://github.com/svg/svgo) - Optimize SVG files.
- carbon-now-cli (https://github.com/mixn/carbon-now-cli) - Generate beautiful images of your code.
- imgur-uploader-cli (https://github.com/kevva/imgur-uploader-cli) - Upload images to imgur.
- pageres-cli (https://github.com/sindresorhus/pageres-cli) - Capture website screenshots.
Gif Creation
- gifgen (https://github.com/lukechilds/gifgen) - Simple high quality GIF encoding.
- gifsicle (https://github.com/kohler/gifsicle) - Create, manipulate, and optimize GIF images and animations.
- ttygif (https://github.com/icholy/ttygif) - Convert terminal recordings to animated gifs.
- ttygif (https://github.com/sugyan/ttygif) - ttyrec to gif.
- ttystudio (https://github.com/chjj/ttystudio) - A terminal-to-gif recorder minus the headaches.
- asciinema (https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema) - Terminal session recorder and companion app for asciinema.org.
- givegif (https://github.com/passy/givegif) - GIFs on the command line.
Image Conversion
- imagemagick (https://imagemagick.org) - Gold standard for anything images.
- imgp (https://github.com/jarun/imgp) - Blazing fast batch image resizer and rotator.
- korkut (https://github.com/oguzhaninan/korkut) - Quick and simple image processing.
Screensavers
- cmatrix (https://github.com/Treri/cmatrix) - Scrolling 'Matrix'-like screen.
- pipes.sh (https://github.com/pipeseroni/pipes.sh) - Random pipes that grow across the screen.
- YuleLog (https://github.com/Duroktar/YuleLog) - Christmas Yule Log fireplace.
- cli-fireplace (https://github.com/dolsup/cli-fireplace) - Digital fireplace.
Graphics
- cli-mandelbrot (https://github.com/danyshaanan/cli-mandelbrot) - Traverse the Mandelbrot fractal.
- sparkly-cli (https://github.com/sindresorhus/sparkly-cli) - Generate sparklines ▁▂▃▅▂▇..
- pastel (https://github.com/sharkdp/pastel) - Generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors.
- lowcharts (https://github.com/juan-leon/lowcharts) - Draw low-resolution graphs.
Just for Fun
- quote-cli (https://github.com/riyadhalnur/quote-cli) - Get a random quote or the quote of the day in your CLI.
- fortune (https://github.com/shlomif/fortune-mod) - Shows a random fortune.
- ponysay (https://github.com/erkin/ponysay) - Pony rewrite of cowsay.
- yosay (https://github.com/yeoman/yosay) - Like cowsay, but for yeoman.
- lolcat (https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat) - Outputs text in rainbow colors.
- text-meme (https://github.com/beatfreaker/text-meme-cli) - Generate text memes.
- dankcli (https://github.com/sggts04/dankcli) - Add text to meme image templates.
- ricksay (https://github.com/roma-guru/ricksay) - Quotes from Rick and Morty.
Emoji
- emoj (https://github.com/sindresorhus/emoj) - Find relevant emoji from text on the command-line.
- emoji-finder (https://github.com/dematerializer/emoji-finder) - Quickly find and copy emoji to the clipboard via the command-line.
- oji (https://github.com/xxczaki/oji) - Interactive text emoji maker.
Other Awesome Lists
- awesome-git-addons (https://github.com/stevemao/awesome-git-addons#readme) - Addons that extend git cli.
- awesome-shell (https://github.com/alebcay/awesome-shell#readme) – Command-line utilities and frameworks.
- terminals-are-sexy (https://github.com/k4m4/terminals-are-sexy#readme) – Terminal frameworks, plugins & resources.
- awesome-zsh-plugins (https://github.com/unixorn/awesome-zsh-plugins#readme) – ZSH frameworks, plugins, tutorials & themes.
- awesome-nodejs clis (https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome-nodejs#command-line-apps) – Node.js modules and resources.
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cliapps Github: https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps