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A curated list of awesome command-line frameworks, toolkits, guides and gizmos.

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

Shells

Choose your base shell.

• bash – GNU Project’s shell (Bourne Again SHell)
• elvish – Friendly, expressive shell features like anonymous functions and data structures
• es – The extensible shell, based on Plan 9’s rc shell
• fish – Smart and user-friendly command line shell
• ion – A modern system shell that features a simple, yet powerful, syntax. It is written entirely in Rust.
• ksh93 – Korn Shell
• mksh – MirBSD Korn Shell
• nushell – A modern shell written in Rust
• oksh – Portable OpenBSD ksh
• osh – Bash compatible, with new/modern Unix shell language called Oil
• pdksh – Public domain Korn shell
• shell++ – Friendly and modern functional and object oriented shell script language
• shenv – Simple shell version management
• tcsh – C shell with file name completion and command line editing
• xonsh – Python-ish, BASHwards-looking shell language and command prompt
• yash – A POSIX-compliant command line shell with built-in support for completion and prediction based on command history
• 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
• autoenv – Directory-based environments
• bashhub – ☁️ Bash history in the cloud. Indexed and searchable.
• boilr – A blazingly fast CLI tool for creating projects from boilerplate templates.
• boom – Store links and snippets in the command line
• borg – A terminal based search engine for bash commands
• browsh – The modern text-based browser
• Buku – Powerful command-line bookmark manager
• byobu – Text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer
• cod — A completion daemon for shell that learns when you invoke --help commands
• CloudClip – Your own clipboard in the cloud, copy and paste text with gist between different systems
• ddgr – DuckDuckGo from the terminal
• desk – A lightweight workspace manager for the shell
• direnv – An environment switcher for the shell, compare with autoenv
• dnote – A simple command line notebook with multi-device sync and web interface
• eureka – 💡 CLI tool to input and store your ideas without leaving the terminal
• fasd – Command-line productivity booster, offers quick access to files and directories
• fd – A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.
• foxy – Plain text bookmarks for Firefox and surf browsers.
• fselect – Find files with SQL-like queries.
• funky – Extends functionality of shell functions making them more powerful and flexible.
• fz – Seamless fuzzy tab completion for z
• fzf – A command-line fuzzy finder
• gitmux – Show Git status in Tmux status bar
• googler – Google Search, Google Site Search, Google News from the terminal
• googlr – Command line tool that lets you search Google from your terminal.
• 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.
• navi – An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line
• 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
• 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)
• loop – Write and control complex loops with as one-liners
• marker – Bookmark your shell commands
• mackup – Keep your application settings in sync (OS X/Linux)
• mcfly – Fly through your shell history. Great Scot!
• 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.
• pdd – Tiny date, time diff calculator with timers
• 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
• resh – Contextual shell history for Zsh and Bash
• rg – ripgrep is a line oriented search tool that combines the usability of The Silver Searcher with the raw speed of GNU grep
• screen – GNU terminal multiplexer
• 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
• spark.fish – ▁▂▃▅ Sparkline Generator
• sheet – Text snippets for the command line
• spot – Tiny file search utility

• snips – Command line tool to manage snippets of code.

• sqlline – Shell for issuing SQL to relational databases via JDBC (multiline, completion, highlighting, dialect support)
• sshfs – A tool for mounting remote file systems over SSH
• sudocabulary – Learn English Vocabulary from your terminal
• surfraw – browse specific site and search the web from your terminal without browser.
• task-manager – Execute all your scripts with just two or three keystrokes.
• td-cli – A todo command line manager to organize and manage your todos across multiple projects.
• 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
• undollar – undollar bites the dollar sign off the tip of the command you just pasted into your terminal
• v – z for vim.
• wemux – Multi-User Tmux Made Easy
• xiki – Makes the shell console more friendly and powerful
• xsv – a fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust
• xxh – Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through the SSH.

Directory Navigation

• aliasme – alias helper to change directory quickly
• autojump – A cd command that learns – easily navigate directories from the command line
• bashmarks – Directory bookmarks for the shell
• bd – Quickly go back to a parent directory
• commacd – A faster way to move around in Bash
• enhancd – 🚀 A next-generation cd command with an interactive filter
• goto – A shell utility for navigation to aliased directories supporting auto-completion
• jump – Jump helps you navigate your file system faster by learning your habits.
• lazy-cd – Simple bash commands for bookmarked navigation of the file system, complete with bash-completion.
• up – Ascend directories by name or count; for bash, zsh, and fish.
• z – z is the new j, yo
• z.lua – A new cd command that helps you navigate faster by learning your habits
• zoxide – A faster way to navigate your filesystem, written in Rust
• zpyi – Python in Zsh – Easy python scripting in shell

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
• geometry – A minimal ZSH theme where any function can be added to the left prompt or (async) right prompt on the fly.
• 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
• polyglot – An informative Git prompt that works in bash, zsh, ksh, mksh, pdksh, dash, and busybox sh
• powerlevel10k – Super flexible awesome powerline ZSH theme
• sexy-bash-prompt – Bash prompt with colors, Git statuses, and Git branches
• synth-shell – Greeter with a customizable status report and a fancy bash prompt

For Developers

Command-line development, version control, and deployment.

• ack – A grep-like search tool optimized for source code.
• add-gitignore – Interactive CLI that generates a .gitignore for your project based on your needs.
• bcal – Byte CALculator for storage conversions and calculations
• bitwise – Terminal based interactive bit manipulator in curses.
• 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.fish – CLI parser for fish
• forgit – Utility tool for git taking advantage of fuzzy finder fzf.
• 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-quick-stats – Git quick statistics is a simple and efficient way to access various statistics in git repository.
• git-semver – Git plugin for easing semantic versioning and changelog validation
• git-sh – A customized Bash environment suitable for Git work
• hub – hub helps you win at git.
• licins – Insert commented software licenses into source code.
• mkdkr – Makefile + Docker = CI Pipeline
• 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.
• wipe-modules – A little agent that removes the node_modules folder of non-active projects

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
• bat – A cat clone with wings
• bmon – Real-time network bandwidth monitor and rate estimator with human-friendly visual output
• 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.
• exa – A modern version of ls.
• 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.
• hblock – Hosts-file based adblocker
• 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
• maza – Local ad blocker. Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating system.
• mtr – The functionality of the ‘traceroute’ and ‘ping’ programs in a single network diagnostic tool.
• ncdu – NCurses Disk Usage
• nmtui – Text User Interface for controlling NetworkManager
• 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
• rng – Copy range of lines from file or stdin to stdout.
• wifi-wand – a Ruby command line application for managing WiFi on MacOS (install by gem install wifi-wand)
• 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
• bashhub-server – Private cloud shell history. Open source server for bashhub
• 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
• shell2http – HTTP-server to execute shell commands. Designed for development, prototyping or remote control
• vesper – 🍸Vesper is a HTTP framework for Bash/Unix Shell
• 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.
• fx – Command-line JSON processing tool by anononymus JavaScript functions
• 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
• jo – A small utility to create JSON objects from command-line arguments.
• jq – Sed for json data. You can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data
• korkut – Quick and simple image processing at the command line.
• 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)
• visidata – A terminal spreadsheet multitool for exploring and arranging data (csv/json/xml/xls/yaml/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.

Applications

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

• ansiweather – Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols
• awless – A powerful, innovative and small surface CLI to manage AWS.
• bashblog – A Bash script that handles blog posting
• carbon-now-cli – 🎨 Beautiful images of your code — from right inside your terminal.
• choosealicense-cli – Choose an OSS license from the comfort of your terminal
• cointop – The fastest and most interactive terminal based UI application for tracking cryptocurrencies
• dstask – Single binary terminal-based TODO manager with git-based sync + markdown notes per task
• facebook-cli – Facebook command line tool
• fanyi – Translate English to Chinese in terminal
• gcalcli – Google Calendar command line interface
• 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
• kanban.bash – commandline asciii kanban board for minimalist productivity bash hackers (csv-based)
• ledger – Command line accounting
• licen – Generate your license. Yet another lice, but implement with Jinja2 and docopt
• md2png – Convert markdown to PNG image
• moviemon – Everything about your movies within the command line.
• nomino – Batch rename utility using regex, sort and map file options.
• 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
• ranger – A console file manager with VI key bindings.
• Reddit Terminal Viewer – Browse Reddit from your terminal
• SAWS – A Supercharged AWS CLI
• taskbook – Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat
• 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
• whales – A tool to automatically dockerize your applications
• 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
• SHTAP – Reusable text adventure engine for Bash 4
• 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
• bashing – Smashing Bash into Pieces
• 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
• shallow-backup – Easily create lightweight documentation of installed packages, dotfiles, and more
• 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
• critic.sh – Dead simple testing framework for Bash with coverage reporting
• esh – A simple templating engine based on shell, implemented in ~290 lines of POSIX shell and awk.
• 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
• powscript – bash transpiler written in bash (coffeescript for bash)
• 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
• shellspec – A full-featured BDD unit testing framework for dash, bash, ksh, zsh and all POSIX shells
• 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 Official Reference Manual
• 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

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