Awesome Terminals – Massive Collection of Resources

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

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

Shells

Sexy frameworks, plugins and resources for your sexy shell.

Base Shells

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

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.
• antibody – Faster and simpler antigen written in Golang.
• antigen – Plugin manager for zsh, inspired by oh-my-zsh and vundle.
• dotzsh – Community driven framework for zsh.
• liquidprompt – Full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh.
• oh-my-zsh – Delightful community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration.
• powerlevel9k – Super flexible awesome powerline ZSH theme.
• prezto – Configuration framework for Zsh.
• pumice – Lightweight plugin manager for zsh.
• pure – Pretty, minimal and fast ZSH prompt.
• slimzsh – Small, usable configuration for ZSH.
• zeesh – Cross-platform Zsh framework.
• zgen – Lightweight and simple plugin manager for ZSH.
• 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.
• zinit – Flexible Zsh plugin manager with clean fpath, reports, completion management, turbo mode, services.
• zoppo – Crippled configuration framework for Zsh.
• zplug – Next-generation plugin manager for zsh.
• zpm – Plugin manager for zsh similar to vim-plug.
• zsh-autosuggestions – Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh.
• zsh-pony – Covers customizing ZSH without a framework.
• zsh-quickstart-kit – Simple zsh quickstart for using zsh and zgen.
• zsh-syntax-highlighting – Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh.
• zshdb – ZSH debugger.
• 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+.
• zunit – Powerful unit testing framework for ZSH.

Bash

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

Git

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

Fish

• Fisher – Package manager for the fish shell.
• oh-my-fish – The Fishshell Framework.

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Terminal Emulation Applications

Sexy 3rd party terminal emulation applications.

• Alacritty – Cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator.
• Cmder – Lovely console emulator package for Windows.
• ConEmu – Customizable Windows terminal with tabs, splits, quake-style and more.
• ConsoleZ – Windows console window enhancement. It is a fork of Console project.
• FluentTerminal – A Terminal Emulator based on UWP and web technologies.
• GNOME Terminal – Terminal emulator for GNOME.
• GNU Screen – Full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes.
• Go2Shell – Opens a terminal window to the current directory in Finder.
• Hyper – Terminal built on web technologies.
• iTerm2 – Terminal emulator for macOS that does amazing things.
• KiTTY – Fork from version 0.70 of PuTTY, the best telnet / SSH client in the world.
• Konsole – Terminal emulator for the K Desktop Environment.
• MacTerm – Powerful replacement for macOS Terminal.
• Mosh – Remote terminal application that allows roaming and supports intermittent connectivity.
• PuTTY – SSH and telnet client, developed originally by Simon Tatham for the Windows platform.
• Terminator – Multiple GNOME terminals in one window.
• Terminology – The best terminal emulator based on the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries.
• Terminus – Cross-platform terminal for a more modern age, based on web technologies.
• Termite – Keyboard-centric terminal, aimed at use within a tiling window manager.
• Tilda – Gtk based drop down terminal for Linux and Unix.
• Tilix – Advanced GTK3 tiling terminal emulator that follows the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines.
• Xfce Terminal – Modern terminal emulator primarily for the Xfce desktop environment.
• xterm – Terminal emulator for the X Window System.
• ZOC – SSH/Telnet Client and Terminal Emulator for macOS and Windows.

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Package Managers

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

Universal

• asdf – Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more
• basher – Package manager for shell scripts.
• bpkg – JavaScript has npm, Ruby has Gems, Python has pip and now Shell has bpkg.
• composer – Composer is a package manager for PHP.
• 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.
• npmjs – Package manager for JavaScript.
• pip – Package management system used to install and manage software packages written in Python.
• rubygems – The Ruby community’s gem hosting service.
• yarn – New package and dependency manager for javascript.

macOS

• fink – Wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and macOS.
• homebrew – Missing package manager for macOS.
• macports – Package manager that simplifies the installation of software on the macOS and Darwin operating systems.
• mas – Mac App Store command line interface.

Linux

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

ChromeOS

• chromebrew – Package manager for Chrome OS.

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.
• oneget – PackageManagement (aka OneGet) is a package manager for Windows.
• ruckzuck – Software Package Manager for Windows, a quick way to install and update Software.
• scoop – Package manager for Windows.
• wpkg – Automated software deployment, upgrade and removal program for Windows.

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Text Editors

Sexy text editors for your Command Line Interface.

• emacs – Cross-platform text-editor that has both command-line and graphical user interface.
  • spacemacs – Community-driven emacs distribution.
• 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.
• micro – Modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor.
• nano – Text editor for Unix-like computing systems or operating environments using a command line interface.
• slap – Sublime-like terminal-based text editor.
• vim – Extensively configurable, cross-platform and highly efficient text editor.
  • SpaceVim – Community-driven vim distribution.
  • neovim – Literally the future of vim.
• vis – Highly efficient text editor.

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Tools and Plugins

Sexy Applications for your Command Line Interface.

• ack3 – Greplike tool, optimized for programmers.
• add-gitignore – An interactive CLI that generates a .gitignore for your project based on your needs.
• asciinema – Terminal session recorder.
• autojump – cd command that learns
• bcal – Storage conversion and expression calculator.
• buku – command-line bookmark manager.
• byobu – Byobu is an open source text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer.
• cointop – The fastest and most interactive terminal based UI application for tracking cryptocurrencies.
• colorls – Beautify the terminal’s ls command, with color and font-awesome icons.
• ddgr – DuckDuckGo from the terminal.
• df-show – Interactive directory and file browser with a similar feel to the ls command.
• dockly – Docker console UI and Dashboard for quickly managing and inspecting Containers and Services.
• dry – Docker manager for the terminal.
• exa – Replacement for ‘ls’ written in Rust.
• fselect – ‘find’ replacement with SQL-like syntax.
• fx – Command-line JSON viewer.
• fzf – Command-line fuzzy finder.
• gcalcli – Google Calendar command line interface.
• getnews.tech – Checking the latest news headlines from various news outlets on the web.
• glances – top/htop alternative.
• googler – Search Google from your terminal.
• haxor-news – Browse Hacker News like a haxor.
• homebrew-cask – CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries.
• howdoi – Instant code answers and examples from the command line
• htop – Cool looking and interactive process viewer ‘replacement’ for the top command.
• hub – Command-line wrapper for git that makes working with GitHub easy.
• imgp – Multi-core batch image resizer and rotator.
• jaymock-cli – Mock an API and generate fake JSON test data, right from the terminal.
• jq.node – Command-line JSON/string processor, JavaScript and Lodash in your shell.
• jrnl – Simple command line journal application that stores your journal in a plain text file.
• k – Directory listings for zsh with git features.
• kubebox – Terminal console for Kubernetes.
• lexis – word counting made easy. Retrieve the number of words in a string or stdin.
• lf – Terminal file manager.
• lolcat – Rainbows and unicorns!
• lunchy – Friendly wrapper for launchctl.
• mps-youtube – Terminal based YouTube player and downloader
• navi – An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line.
• neofetch – Fetches system/theme information in terminal for Linux desktop screenshots. Alternative to screenfetch.
• nnn – Tiny, lightning fast, feature-packed file manager.
• ranger – Console file manager with vi key bindings.
• rebound – Command-line debugger that instantly fetches Stack Overflow results when you get a compiler error.
• reddit terminal viewer – Browse Reddit from your terminal.
• ripgrep – Code-searching tool like ack and the_silver_searcher, but faster.
• screenfetch – Fetches system/theme information in terminal for Linux desktop screenshots.
• shell2http – HTTP-server to execute shell commands. Designed for development, prototyping or remote control.
• streamlink – CLI for extracting streams from various websites to a video player of your choosing.
• taskell – Command-line Trello-like kanban-board/TODO lists.
• taskwarrior – Command-line TODO list manager.
• the_silver_searcher – Code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster.
• tig – Text mode interface for git.
• tiv – Text mode terminal image viewer.
• tldr – Simplified and community-driven man pages.
• tmux – Terminal multiplexer.
• tmuxinator – Manage complex tmux sessions easily.
• transfer.sh – Quickly upload and share files from your shell.
• tre – Improved tree command that knows git, creates shell alias for quick opening, and more!
• vifm – Console file manager with vi key bindings and some ideas from mutt.
• wal – generate and change colorschemes on the fly.
• whereami – Get your geolocation information from the CLI.
• wttr.in – The right way to check the weather.
• yadm – Seamless git-based management of your dotfiles.
• youtube-dl – download videos from YouTube
• z – Tool to jump to folders based on history matching a given regex
• z.lua – New cd command that helps you navigate faster by learning your habits.
• zoxide – cd anywhere without typing in long paths.

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Communication

Sexy Tools for communicating through the Command Line Interface.

• 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.
• epic – IRC client that has been under active development for 20+ years in 5 generations.
• go-jira – Simple jira command line client in Go.
• irssi – Self proclaimed client of the future and my favorite IRC client.
• slack-term – Slack client for your terminal.
• Slackadaisical – Simple Slack client for the CLI.
• weechat – Fast, light and extensible chat client.

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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-emacs – Community driven list of useful Emacs packages, libraries and others.
• 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.

Misc

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

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