alebcay/awesome-shell

Development Environment 2 months ago 23.8k

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

Apr 27th

System Utilities

lsd stars7.8k - LSDeluxe, rewrite of GNU ls with lot of added features like colors, icons, tree-view and more formatting options.

btop stars7.6k - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor

Feb 21st

Customization

oh-my-posh - Prompt theme engine for any shell and platform written in go.

System Utilities

tiptop stars1.1k - Graphical command-line system monitor.

Command-Line Productivity

bartib stars271 - 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.

lowcharts stars92 - Draw low-resolution graphs in terminal

Shell Script Development

composure stars303 - Compose, document, version and organize your shell functions

dispatch - A command line argument parser in 50 lines of portable shell script.

getopts.fish stars189 - CLI parser for fish

bashly - Bash command line framework and CLI generator

bash-modules stars90 - functions for developing with unofficial strict mode enabled.

Aug 31st, 2021

Applications

ticker stars4.3k — Terminal stock ticker with live updates and position tracking

For Developers

gita stars1.2k - A command-line tool to manage multiple git repos.

Downloading and Serving

xh stars3k - Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests

Jun 10th, 2021

Multimedia and File Formats

yq stars5.9k - yq is a portable command-line YAML processor

Shell Script Development

shfmt stars4.9k - A shell parser, formatter, and interpreter with bash support; includes shfmt

Jun 9th, 2021

Customization

starship - Fast, customisable, cross-shell prompt written in rust

Command-Line Productivity

pass - Manage passwords from the command line with GPG encryption and optional git integration.

Shells

powershell a cross-platform task automation and configuration management framework, consisting of a command-line shell and scripting language

ngs stars1.1k - Fully featured scripting language created specifically for Ops. REPL is being developed.

System Utilities

prettyping stars1k - Making the output of ping prettier, more colorful, more compact, and easier to read.

Guides

Shell Field Guide

For Developers

just stars5.9k - Task runner for saving and running project-specific commands.

Shell Script Development

getoptions stars211 - An elegant option parser for shell scripts (sh, bash and all POSIX shells)

bashew stars139 - bash script creator - from small stand-alone script to complex projects with CI/CD and testing

Applications

pcalc stars164 - Calculator made for programmers working with multiple number representations, sizes, and overall close to the bits.

Mar 31st, 2021

Multimedia and File Formats

dasel stars3.3k - Query and update data structures using selectors from the command line. Comparable to jq stars22.3k / yq stars1.9k but supports JSON, YAML, TOML and XML with zero runtime dependencies.

Applications

editly stars3.4k - Command line video editor

Oct 28th, 2020

Applications

dstask stars627 - Single binary terminal-based TODO manager with git-based sync + markdown notes per task

Shells

es - The extensible shell, based on Plan 9's rc stars195 shell

Oct 27th, 2020

Command-Line Productivity

Directory Navigation

zpyi stars93 - Python in Zsh - Easy python scripting in shell

Oct 26th, 2020

Shell Script Development

shellspec stars692 - A full-featured BDD unit testing framework for dash, bash, ksh, zsh and all POSIX shells

Downloading and Serving

youtube-dl - Small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

Oct 8th, 2020

Customization

powerlevel10k stars29.1k - Super flexible awesome powerline ZSH theme

System Utilities

ccat stars3k - ccat is the colorizing cat. It works similar to cat but displays content with syntax highlighting.

Downloading and Serving

httpie stars22.2k - HTTPie is a command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement

Applications

kanban.bash stars378 - commandline asciii kanban board for minimalist productivity bash hackers (csv-based)

Shell Script Development

powscript stars117 - bash transpiler written in bash (coffeescript for bash)

Guides

Bash Official Reference Manual

The Linux Documentation Project: Bash Programming - Intro/How-to

The Linux Documentation Project: Advanced Bash Scripting Guide

Aug 2nd, 2020

Command-Line Productivity

spark.fish stars276 - ▁▂▃▅ Sparkline Generator

Command-Line Productivity

Directory Navigation

zoxide stars6.7k - A faster way to navigate your filesystem, written in Rust

Jul 1st, 2020

Command-Line Productivity

Directory Navigation

aliasme stars101 - alias helper to change directory quickly

autojump stars13.9k - A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line

bashmarks stars1.7k - Directory bookmarks for the shell

bd stars869 - Quickly go back to a parent directory

commacd stars329 - A faster way to move around in Bash

enhancd stars2.1k - 🚀 A next-generation cd command with an interactive filter

goto stars804 - A shell utility for navigation to aliased directories supporting auto-completion

jump stars1.4k - Jump helps you navigate your file system faster by learning your habits.

lazy-cd stars20 - Simple bash commands for bookmarked navigation of the file system, complete with bash-completion.

up stars141 - Ascend directories by name or count; for bash, zsh, and fish.

May 14th, 2020

Multimedia and File Formats

visidata stars5.6k - A terminal spreadsheet multitool for exploring and arranging data (csv/json/xml/xls/yaml/etc)

Applications

pockyt stars464 - Read, Manage, and Automate your Pocket collection.

nomino stars396 - Batch rename utility using regex, sort and map file options.

Apr 9th, 2020

System Utilities

maza stars1.6k - Local ad blocker. Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating system.

Apr 7th, 2020

Shell Script Development

esh stars153 - A simple templating engine based on shell, implemented in ~290 lines of POSIX shell and awk.

critic.sh stars446 - Dead simple testing framework for Bash with coverage reporting

bash-language-server stars1.3k - LSP-based Bash language server

Shells

nushell stars19.7k - A modern shell written in Rust

Command-Line Productivity

byobu - Text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer

Mar 5th, 2020

Shells

ion stars1.3k - A modern system shell that features a simple, yet powerful, syntax. It is written entirely in Rust.

Feb 24th, 2020

For Developers

mkdkr stars290 - Makefile + Docker = CI Pipeline

Downloading and Serving

bashhub-server stars233 - Private cloud shell history. Open source server for bashhub

Command-Line Productivity

cod stars408 — A completion daemon for shell that learns when you invoke --help commands

resh stars700 - Contextual shell history for Zsh and Bash

boom stars1.2k - Store links and snippets in the command line

dnote stars2.3k - A simple command line notebook with multi-device sync and web interface

foxy stars38 - Plain text bookmarks for Firefox and surf browsers.

Jan 17th, 2020

Command-Line Productivity

eureka stars512 - 💡 CLI tool to input and store your ideas without leaving the terminal

gitmux stars305 - Show Git status in Tmux status bar

parallel - Build and execute shell command lines from standard input in parallel

Customization

geometry stars838 - A minimal ZSH theme where any function can be added to the left prompt or (async) right prompt on the fly.

synth-shell stars478 - Greeter with a customizable status report and a fancy bash prompt

Shells

zsh - Powerful shell with scripting language

System Utilities

lnav - An advanced log file viewer for the small-scale

Shell Package Management

bpkg - JavaScript has npm, Ruby has Gems, Python has pip and now Shell has bpkg

Guides

Greg Wooledge's (aka "greycat") wiki. Specifically Bash Guide, Bash FAQ and Bash Pitfalls

Dec 7th, 2019

Downloading and Serving

vesper stars189 - 🍸Vesper is a HTTP framework for Bash/Unix Shell

Nov 26th, 2019

Command-Line Productivity

funky stars593 - Extends functionality of shell functions making them more powerful and flexible.

navi stars11.2k - An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line

Shells

yash - A POSIX-compliant command line shell with built-in support for completion and prediction based on command history

Multimedia and File Formats

fx stars14.7k - Command-line JSON processing tool by anononymus JavaScript functions

Command-Line Productivity

Directory Navigation

z stars14.4k - z is the new j, yo

Nov 3rd, 2019

System Utilities

bmon stars916 - Real-time network bandwidth monitor and rate estimator with human-friendly visual output

Oct 23rd, 2019

Command-Line Productivity

Directory Navigation

z.lua stars2.3k - A new cd command that helps you navigate faster by learning your habits

Shell Script Development

Bashlets stars66 - A modular extensible toolbox for Bash

bashful stars558 - A collection of libraries to simplify writing Bash scripts

Fishtape stars301 - TAP producer and test harness for fish

For Developers

forgit stars3.3k - Utility tool for git taking advantage of fuzzy finder fzf.

wipe-modules stars319 - A little agent that removes the node_modules folder of non-active projects

ack - A grep-like search tool optimized for source code.

bitwise stars457 - Terminal based interactive bit manipulator in curses.

overcommit stars3.6k - A fully configurable and extendable Git hook manager

System Utilities

nmtui stars243 - Text User Interface for controlling NetworkManager

bat stars35.3k - A cat clone with wings

exa stars18.2k - A modern version of ls.

Command-Line Productivity

mcfly stars4.2k - Fly through your shell history. Great Scot!

browsh stars14.8k - The modern text-based browser

autoenv stars5k - Directory-based environments

googlr stars33 - Command line tool that lets you search Google from your terminal.

Multimedia and File Formats

jo stars4.2k - A small utility to create JSON objects from command-line arguments.

Shells

ksh93 stars439 - Korn Shell

mksh stars165 - MirBSD Korn Shell

oksh stars218 - Portable OpenBSD ksh

pdksh - Public domain Korn shell

tcsh - C shell with file name completion and command line editing

shell++stars104 - Friendly and modern functional and object oriented shell script language

xonsh - Python-ish, BASHwards-looking shell language and command prompt

Applications

jrnl stars5.4k - A simple command line journal application that stores your journal in a plain text file

Shell Package Management

yadm - Git-based dotfiles manager supporting encryption, alternates, and bootstrapping

May 19th, 2019

Command-Line Productivity

screen - GNU terminal multiplexer

Jan 28th, 2019

Guides

Bash Hackers Wiki

Learn Enough Command Line to Be Dangerous

Nov 28th, 2018

Command-Line Productivity

mackup stars12.1k - Keep your application settings in sync (OS X/Linux)

ddgr stars2.4k - DuckDuckGo from the terminal

pdd stars262 - Tiny date, time diff calculator with timers

Applications

taskbook stars8.5k - Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat

Oct 27th, 2018

Downloading and Serving

shell2http stars936 - HTTP-server to execute shell commands. Designed for development, prototyping or remote control

Command-Line Productivity

fselect stars3.3k - Find files with SQL-like queries.

loop stars583 - Write and control complex loops with as one-liners

Shells

osh - Bash compatible, with new/modern Unix shell language called Oil

Games

SHTAP - Reusable text adventure engine for Bash 4

Applications

carbon-now-cli stars5.3k - 🎨 Beautiful images of your code — from right inside your terminal.

Sep 5th, 2018

Multimedia and File Formats

korkut stars345 - Quick and simple image processing at the command line.

Applications

md2png stars24 - Convert markdown to PNG image

whales stars338 - A tool to automatically dockerize your applications

System Utilities

rng stars24 - Copy range of lines from file or stdin to stdout.

wifi-wand stars59 - a Ruby command line application for managing WiFi on MacOS (install by gem install wifi-wand)

Command-Line Productivity

fd stars23.5k - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.

shell-history stars96 - Visualize your shell usage with Highcharts

Lmod - Lua-based Environment Modules that enhances Tcl-based modules while being backward compatible (compare to modules)

Shells

shenv stars30 - Simple shell version management

elvish - Friendly, expressive shell features like anonymous functions and data structures

Customization

polyglot stars139 - An informative Git prompt that works in bash, zsh, ksh, mksh, pdksh, dash, and busybox sh

For Developers

add-gitignore stars537 - Interactive CLI that generates a .gitignore for your project based on your needs.

mr - Multiple Repository management tool

Aug 16th, 2018

Shell Package Management

bashing stars66 - Smashing Bash into Pieces

System Utilities

hblock stars1k - Hosts-file based adblocker

Jul 4th, 2018

For Developers

git-quick-stats stars5.4k - Git quick statistics is a simple and efficient way to access various statistics in git repository.

Jun 18th, 2018

Applications

awless stars4.8k - A powerful, innovative and small surface CLI to manage AWS.

ranger stars11.7k - A console file manager with VI key bindings.

Jun 4th, 2018

Applications

cointop stars3.3k - The fastest and most interactive terminal based UI application for tracking cryptocurrencies

Shell Package Management

shallow-backup stars915 - Easily create lightweight documentation of installed packages, dotfiles, and more

May 8th, 2018

Applications

gcalcli stars2.8k - Google Calendar command line interface

Apr 18th, 2018

Downloading and Serving

HTTPLab stars3.8k - The interactive web server, let you inspect HTTP requests and forge responses.

For Developers

rebound stars3.9k - Instantly browse Stack Overflow results in your terminal when you get a compiler error

Command-Line Productivity

modules - Classical Tcl-based Environment Modules managing the shell environment (compare to Lmod, direnv, and autoenv)

System Utilities

catcli stars121 - The command line catalog tool for your offline data

logdissect stars117 - CLI utility and Python API for analyzing log files and other data.

Apr 7th, 2018

Multimedia and File Formats

adb-export stars90 - Export Android content providers to CSV format

Games

piu-piu stars677 - Horizontal scroller game in bash with multiplayer mode!

System Utilities

progress stars5.7k - Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, and more...

stronghold stars936 - Easily configure MacOS security settings from the terminal.

xiringuito stars1k - SSH-based "VPN for poors"

For Developers

licins stars19 - Insert commented software licenses into source code.

Command-Line Productivity

q stars55 - Vim like macro registers for your Bash and Zsh Shell

Shell Script Development

phases stars11 - Minimally invasive bash preprocessor, select sections of your script to run

Mar 30th, 2018

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Mar 24th, 2018

Command-Line Productivity

CloudClip stars65 - Your own clipboard in the cloud, copy and paste text with gist between different systems

Feb 1st, 2018

Command-Line Productivity

hss stars300 - An interactive parallel ssh client featuring autocomplete and asynchronous execution

how2 stars5.5k - how2 finds the simplest way to do something in a unix shell. It's like man, but you can query it in natural language.

For Developers

pre-commit - A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks

Jan 31st, 2018

Shell Script Development

bats stars3.2k - Bash Automated Testing System

Oct 30th, 2017

Command-Line Productivity

AdvancedNewFile stars183 - Fast creation of files and directories in a recursive way. Inspired by the Vim plugin.

Oct 27th, 2017

Multimedia and File Formats

mpv - Lets you play most audio and video formats (using ASCII characters) in the shell as well as in a GUI.

Shell Script Development

urchin stars206 - An idiomatic shell testing framework that uses only shell commands

Oct 16th, 2017

Applications

facebook-cli stars368 - Facebook command line tool

Aug 31st, 2017

Command-Line Productivity

has stars428 - has helps you check presence of various command line tools and their versions on path

Aug 16th, 2017

Applications

wttr.in stars18.7k - ⛅ The right way to check the weather (curl wttr.in)

Command-Line Productivity

lf.sh stars35 - Quickly search files with fewer typings and do many more (grepping, copying path to clipboard, etc)

For Developers

doclt stars43 - A command line interface to Digital Ocean

Jul 31st, 2017

Shell Script Development

sh-semver stars29 - Semver tool for bash - finds versions matching to specified rules

zunit stars169 - A powerful unit testing framework for ZSH

May 26th, 2017

Shell Package Management

shundle stars78 - Plugin manager for shell scripts

May 10th, 2017

For Developers

tag stars582 - Instantly jump to your ag matches.

Apr 26th, 2017

Shell Package Management

dotdrop stars1.3k - Save your dotfiles once, deploy them everywhere

Apr 21st, 2017

For Developers

bcal stars548 - Byte CALculator for storage conversions and calculations

Apr 20th, 2017

Shell Script Development

shutit - Automation framework based on bash and pexpect

Applications

choosealicense-cli stars64 - Choose an OSS license from the comfort of your terminal

System Utilities

atop - ASCII full-screen performance monitor that is capable of reporting the activity of all processes

Shell Package Management

vcsh stars2k - Config manager based on Git

Apr 17th, 2017

Command-Line Productivity

Buku stars5.1k - Powerful command-line bookmark manager

googler stars5.8k - Google Search, Google Site Search, Google News from the terminal

nnn stars14.3k - File browser and disk usage analyzer with excellent desktop integration

Multimedia and File Formats

imgp stars884 - Blazing fast batch image resizer and rotator

Apr 13th, 2017

For Developers

starring stars155 - Automatically star the npm-packages that you are using on GitHub.

Apr 11th, 2017

Guides

A guide to learn bash stars10.8k

Mar 19th, 2017

Command-Line Productivity

fz - Seamless fuzzy tab completion for z

Feb 20th, 2017

Games

nudoku stars239 - ncurses based sudoku game written in C

tty-solitaire stars222 - Play solitaire in your terminal!

Feb 13th, 2017

Customization

bullet-train-oh-my-zsh-theme stars2.7k - 🚄 An oh-my-zsh shell theme based on the Powerline Vim plugin

mysql-colorize stars88 - Colorization for mysql comand-line client

Other Awesome Lists

Shell Script Development

crash stars51 - Proper error handling, exceptions and try/catch for ZSH

Feb 11th, 2017

Other Awesome Lists

Command-Line Productivity

rg stars31.6k - ripgrep is a line oriented search tool that combines the usability of The Silver Searcher with the raw speed of GNU grep

Jan 6th, 2017

Applications

terjira stars791 - Command line power tool for Jira

Jan 4th, 2017

System Utilities

ls++stars480 - Colorized ls on steroids

Multimedia and File Formats

xidel stars476 - Cli tool to filter, map and create HTML/XML/JSON data with (Turing-complete) XPath and XQuery.

Dec 3rd, 2016

Customization

base16-builder stars392 - Base16-Builder

Dec 1st, 2016

Shells

bash - GNU Project's shell (Bourne Again SHell)

fish - Smart and user-friendly command line shell

Shell Script Development

lumberjack stars35 - A logging interface for shell scripts

revolver stars126 - A reusable progress spinner for shell scripts

bashwithnails stars26 - a Bash framework written just for fun with testing, dependency management & packaging

Applications

taskwarrior - A command-line TODO list manager

Oct 27th, 2016

Command-Line Productivity

borg stars1.5k - A terminal based search engine for bash commands

Oct 12th, 2016

Command-Line Productivity

bashhub stars988 - ☁️ Bash history in the cloud. Indexed and searchable.

Sep 12th, 2016

System Utilities

histstat stars85 - History for netstat

Aug 14th, 2016

Command-Line Productivity

SHML stars418 - Style framework for the terminal (Shell Markup Language)

Aug 13th, 2016

Multimedia and File Formats

nehm stars84 - Console tool, which downloads, sets IDv3 tags and adds to your iTunes (if you use it) your SoundCloud likes in convenient way

Jul 28th, 2016

Command-Line Productivity

aliases stars424 - Contextual, dynamic, organized aliases for bash

Jul 13th, 2016

Applications

vl stars13 - URL link checker on text documents

Jul 11th, 2016

Multimedia and File Formats

gifgen stars441 - Simple high quality GIF encoding

Jun 12th, 2016

Shell Script Development

optparse stars139 - A BASH wrapper for getopts, for simple command line arguments.

shellfire stars1.2k - A repository of namespaced, composable shell (bash, sh and dash) function libraries

May 17th, 2016

Applications

haxor-news stars3.7k - Browse Hacker News like a haxor

Reddit Terminal Viewer stars4.6k - Browse Reddit from your terminal

May 13th, 2016

Downloading and Serving

aria2 stars26.7k - aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink

Guides

Google's Shell Style Guide

May 12th, 2016

Shell Script Development

rebash stars62 - Scripting library/framework. Features: imports, exceptions, doc-tests ...

Apr 15th, 2016

Shell Script Development

is.sh stars144 - An alternative for builtin test command, it will make your "if" statements pretty

Command-Line Productivity

sman stars268 - 🐛 A command-line snippet manager

Feb 28th, 2016

Command-Line Productivity

sheet stars245 - Text snippets for the command line

Feb 24th, 2016

Customization

bash-full-of-colors stars150 - Powerful prompt with screen, tmux, git support and many more

Feb 19th, 2016

Command-Line Productivity

k stars1.6k - k is a Zsh script to make directory listings more readable, adding Git status, fileweight colors and rotting dates

Feb 6th, 2016

Command-Line Productivity

k alias stars16 - get kool aliases (and more) working with a simple one-liner

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