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Nov 12, 2023

Shells

• murex (⭐1.3k) - A smarter shell and scripting environment with advanced features designed for usability, safety and productivity (eg smarter DevOps tooling)

Command-Line Productivity

• xiki (⭐3.8k) - Makes the shell console more friendly and powerful

Downloading and Serving / Directory Navigation

• yt-dlp (⭐60k) - Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

Multimedia and File Formats / Directory Navigation

• library (⭐122) - Create SQLITE databases for folders of music, video, images, or online media. Play and track media like Plex but a CLI-only interface with many sorting options.

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• Bash Hackers Wiki

Jun 08, 2023

Multimedia and File Formats / Directory Navigation

• jc (⭐6.5k) - Convert command output, file-types, and common strings to JSON or YAML for easier use in scripts.

May 30, 2023

Command-Line Productivity

• broot (⭐9.3k) - A better way to navigate directories

• tere (⭐1.6k) - A faster alternative to cd + ls

Dec 30, 2022

Command-Line Productivity

• arttime (⭐708) - Beauty of text art meets functionality of clock, timer, pomodoro++ time manager

• await (⭐98) - single binary that run list of commands in parallel and waits for their termination

• lf (⭐6.5k) - Terminal file manager written in Go, inspired by ranger

Customization / Directory Navigation

• aphrodite-terminal-theme (⭐103) — Minimalistic Aphrodite theme (prompt) for sexy terminals that works in bash, fish and zsh

For Developers / Directory Navigation

• 1Password SSH Agent - Authenticate Git and SSH workflows with biometric unlock using 1Password

• nve (⭐661) - Run any command on specific Node.js versions.

• trunk - Blazingly fast meta code checker and formatter

• vmn (⭐56) - git-based automatic versioning and state recovery solution agnostic to language or architecture

Multimedia and File Formats / Directory Navigation

• dzr (⭐157) - Cross-platform Deezer.com audio player.

Apr 27, 2022

System Utilities / Directory Navigation

• btop (⭐14k) - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor

• lsd (⭐11k) - LSDeluxe, rewrite of GNU ls with lot of added features like colors, icons, tree-view and more formatting options.

Feb 21, 2022

Command-Line Productivity

• bartib (⭐495) - 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 (⭐152) - Draw low-resolution graphs in terminal

Customization / Directory Navigation

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

System Utilities / Directory Navigation

• tiptop (⭐1.5k) - Graphical command-line system monitor.

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• bashly - Bash command line framework and CLI generator

• bash-modules (⭐118) - functions for developing with unofficial strict mode enabled.

• composure (⭐314) - Compose, document, version and organize your shell functions

• dispatch (⭐90) - A command line argument parser in 50 lines of portable shell script.

• getopts.fish (⭐213) - CLI parser for fish

Aug 31, 2021

For Developers / Directory Navigation

• gita (⭐1.6k) - A command-line tool to manage multiple git repos.

Downloading and Serving / Directory Navigation

• xh (⭐4.2k) - Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests

Applications / Directory Navigation

• ticker (⭐4.7k) — Terminal stock ticker with live updates and position tracking

Jun 10, 2021

Multimedia and File Formats / Directory Navigation

• yq (⭐9.7k) - yq is a portable command-line YAML processor

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• shfmt (⭐6.3k) - A shell parser, formatter, and interpreter with bash support; includes shfmt

Jun 09, 2021

Shells

• ngs (⭐1.2k) - Fully featured scripting language created specifically for Ops. REPL is being developed.

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

Command-Line Productivity

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

• usql (⭐8.3k) - Universal command-line interface for SQL databases.

• xplr (⭐3.6k) - A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer

Customization / Directory Navigation

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

For Developers / Directory Navigation

• just (⭐14k) - Task runner for saving and running project-specific commands.

System Utilities / Directory Navigation

• prettyping (⭐1.2k) - Making the output of ping prettier, more colorful, more compact, and easier to read.

Applications / Directory Navigation

• pcalc (⭐504) - Calculator made for programmers working with multiple number representations, sizes, and overall close to the bits.

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• bashew (⭐220) - bash script creator - from small stand-alone script to complex projects with CI/CD and testing

• getoptions (⭐324) - An elegant option parser for shell scripts (sh, bash and all POSIX shells)

• Shell Field Guide

Mar 31, 2021

Multimedia and File Formats / Directory Navigation

• dasel (⭐4.6k) - Query and update data structures using selectors from the command line. Comparable to jq (⭐27k) / yq (⭐2.3k) but supports JSON, YAML, TOML and XML with zero runtime dependencies.

Applications / Directory Navigation

• editly (⭐4.3k) - Command line video editor

Oct 28, 2020

Shells

• es - The extensible shell, based on Plan 9's rc (⭐226) shell

Applications / Directory Navigation

• dstask (⭐741) - Single binary terminal-based TODO manager with git-based sync + markdown notes per task

Oct 27, 2020

Command-Line Productivity / Directory Navigation

• zpyi (⭐100) - Python in Zsh - Easy python scripting in shell

Oct 26, 2020

Command-Line Productivity

• undollar (⭐148) - undollar bites the dollar sign off the tip of the command you just pasted into your terminal

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• shellspec (⭐932) - A full-featured BDD unit testing framework for dash, bash, ksh, zsh and all POSIX shells

Oct 08, 2020

Customization / Directory Navigation

• powerlevel10k (⭐39k) - Super flexible awesome powerline ZSH theme

System Utilities / Directory Navigation

• ccat (⭐3.1k) - ccat is the colorizing cat. It works similar to cat but displays content with syntax highlighting.

Downloading and Serving / Directory Navigation

• httpie (⭐30k) - HTTPie is a command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement

Applications / Directory Navigation

• kanban.bash (⭐854) - commandline asciii kanban board for minimalist productivity bash hackers (csv-based)

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• powscript (⭐147) - bash transpiler written in bash (coffeescript for bash)

• Bash Official Reference Manual

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

• The Linux Documentation Project: Advanced Bash Scripting Guide

Aug 02, 2020

Command-Line Productivity

• spark.fish (⭐313) - ▁▂▃▅ Sparkline Generator

Command-Line Productivity / Directory Navigation

• zoxide (⭐12k) - A faster way to navigate your filesystem, written in Rust

Jul 01, 2020

Command-Line Productivity / Directory Navigation

• aliasme (⭐109) - alias helper to change directory quickly

• autojump (⭐16k) - A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line

• bashmarks (⭐1.8k) - Directory bookmarks for the shell

• bd (⭐909) - Quickly go back to a parent directory

• commacd (⭐354) - A faster way to move around in Bash

• enhancd (⭐2.4k) - 🚀 A next-generation cd command with an interactive filter

• goto (⭐846) - A shell utility for navigation to aliased directories supporting auto-completion

• jump (⭐1.7k) - Jump helps you navigate your file system faster by learning your habits.

• lazy-cd (⭐20) - Simple bash commands for bookmarked navigation of the file system, complete with bash-completion.

• up (⭐160) - Ascend directories by name or count; for bash, zsh, and fish.

Jun 14, 2020

Command-Line Productivity

• tldr (⭐687) - A fully-functional bash client for tldr, simplified and community-driven man pages

May 14, 2020

Multimedia and File Formats / Directory Navigation

• visidata (⭐6.9k) - A terminal spreadsheet multitool for exploring and arranging data (csv/json/xml/xls/yaml/etc)

Applications / Directory Navigation

• nomino (⭐527) - Batch rename utility using regex, sort and map file options.

• pockyt (⭐491) - Read, Manage, and Automate your Pocket collection.

Apr 09, 2020

Command-Line Productivity

• xxh (⭐4.7k) - Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through the SSH.

System Utilities / Directory Navigation

• maza (⭐1.7k) - Local ad blocker. Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating system.

Apr 07, 2020

Shells

• nushell (⭐27k) - A modern shell written in Rust

Command-Line Productivity

• byobu - Text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• bash-language-server (⭐1.8k) - LSP-based Bash language server

• critic.sh (⭐451) - Dead simple testing framework for Bash with coverage reporting

• esh (⭐195) - A simple templating engine based on shell, implemented in ~290 lines of POSIX shell and awk.

Mar 05, 2020

Shells

• ion (⭐1.4k) - A modern system shell that features a simple, yet powerful, syntax. It is written entirely in Rust.

Feb 24, 2020

Command-Line Productivity

• boom (⭐1.3k) - Store links and snippets in the command line

• cod (⭐493) — A completion daemon for shell that learns when you invoke --help commands

• dnote (⭐2.6k) - A simple command line notebook with multi-device sync and web interface

• foxy (⭐39) - Plain text bookmarks for Firefox and surf browsers.

• resh (⭐918) - Contextual shell history for Zsh and Bash

• snips (⭐74) - Command line tool to manage snippets of code.

For Developers / Directory Navigation

• mkdkr (⭐348) - Makefile + Docker = CI Pipeline

Downloading and Serving / Directory Navigation

• bashhub-server (⭐289) - Private cloud shell history. Open source server for bashhub

Jan 17, 2020

Shells

• zsh - Powerful shell with scripting language

Command-Line Productivity

• eureka (⭐698) - 💡 CLI tool to input and store your ideas without leaving the terminal

• gitmux (⭐475) - Show Git status in Tmux status bar

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

• tmux - Amazing terminal multiplexer

Customization / Directory Navigation

• geometry (⭐892) - A minimal ZSH theme where any function can be added to the left prompt or (async) right prompt on the fly.

• synth-shell (⭐794) - Greeter with a customizable status report and a fancy bash prompt

System Utilities / Directory Navigation

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

Shell Package Management / Directory Navigation

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

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

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

Dec 07, 2019

Downloading and Serving / Directory Navigation

• vesper (⭐201) - 🍸Vesper is a HTTP framework for Bash/Unix Shell

Nov 26, 2019

Shells

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

Command-Line Productivity

• funky (⭐631) - Extends functionality of shell functions making them more powerful and flexible.

• navi (⭐14k) - An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line

Command-Line Productivity / Directory Navigation

• z (⭐16k) - z is the new j, yo

Multimedia and File Formats / Directory Navigation

• fx (⭐18k) - Command-line JSON processing tool by anononymus JavaScript functions

Nov 03, 2019

System Utilities / Directory Navigation

• bmon (⭐1.1k) - Real-time network bandwidth monitor and rate estimator with human-friendly visual output

Oct 23, 2019

Shells

• ksh93 (⭐503) - Korn Shell

• mksh (⭐189) - MirBSD Korn Shell

• oksh (⭐313) - Portable OpenBSD ksh

• pdksh - Public domain Korn shell

• shell++ (⭐139) - Friendly and modern functional and object oriented shell script language

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

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

Command-Line Productivity

• autoenv (⭐5.4k) - Directory-based environments

• browsh (⭐16k) - The modern text-based browser

• googlr (⭐40) - Command line tool that lets you search Google from your terminal.

• mcfly (⭐5.5k) - Fly through your shell history. Great Scot!

• sqlline (⭐593) - Shell for issuing SQL to relational databases via JDBC (multiline, completion, highlighting, dialect support)

• td-cli (⭐177) - A todo command line manager to organize and manage your todos across multiple projects.

Command-Line Productivity / Directory Navigation

• z.lua (⭐2.8k) - A new cd command that helps you navigate faster by learning your habits

For Developers / Directory Navigation

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

• bitwise (⭐584) - Terminal based interactive bit manipulator in curses.

• forgit (⭐4.1k) - Utility tool for git taking advantage of fuzzy finder fzf.

• overcommit (⭐3.8k) - A fully configurable and extendable Git hook manager

• wipe-modules (⭐339) - A little agent that removes the node_modules folder of non-active projects

System Utilities / Directory Navigation

• bat (⭐44k) - A cat clone with wings

• exa (⭐23k) - A modern version of ls.

• nmtui (⭐314) - Text User Interface for controlling NetworkManager

Multimedia and File Formats / Directory Navigation

• jo (⭐4.5k) - A small utility to create JSON objects from command-line arguments.

Applications / Directory Navigation

• jrnl (⭐6.1k) - A simple command line journal application that stores your journal in a plain text file

Shell Package Management / Directory Navigation

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

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• bashful (⭐587) - A collection of libraries to simplify writing Bash scripts

• Bashlets (⭐67) - A modular extensible toolbox for Bash

• Fishtape (⭐328) - TAP producer and test harness for fish

May 19, 2019

Command-Line Productivity

• screen - GNU terminal multiplexer

Jan 28, 2019

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• Learn Enough Command Line to Be Dangerous

Nov 28, 2018

Command-Line Productivity

• ddgr (⭐2.8k) - DuckDuckGo from the terminal

• mackup (⭐14k) - Keep your application settings in sync (OS X/Linux)

• pdd (⭐359) - Tiny date, time diff calculator with timers

Applications / Directory Navigation

• taskbook (⭐8.8k) - Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat

Oct 27, 2018

Shells

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

Command-Line Productivity

• fselect (⭐3.7k) - Find files with SQL-like queries.

• loop (⭐652) - Write and control complex loops with as one-liners

• xsv (⭐9.7k) - a fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust

Downloading and Serving / Directory Navigation

• shell2http (⭐1.2k) - HTTP-server to execute shell commands. Designed for development, prototyping or remote control

Applications / Directory Navigation

• carbon-now-cli (⭐5.6k) - 🎨 Beautiful images of your code — from right inside your terminal.

Games / Directory Navigation

• SHTAP - Reusable text adventure engine for Bash 4

Sep 05, 2018

Shells

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

• shenv (⭐37) - Simple shell version management

Command-Line Productivity

• fd (⭐29k) - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.

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

• shell-history (⭐102) - Visualize your shell usage with Highcharts

• surfraw - browse specific site and search the web from your terminal without browser.

Customization / Directory Navigation

• polyglot (⭐164) - An informative Git prompt that works in bash, zsh, ksh, mksh, pdksh, oksh, dash, yash, busybox sh, and osh

For Developers / Directory Navigation

• add-gitignore (⭐607) - Interactive CLI that generates a .gitignore for your project based on your needs.

• mr - Multiple Repository management tool

System Utilities / Directory Navigation

• rng (⭐30) - Copy range of lines from file or stdin to stdout.

• wifi-wand (⭐61) - a Ruby command line application for managing WiFi on MacOS (install by gem install wifi-wand)

Multimedia and File Formats / Directory Navigation

• korkut (⭐358) - Quick and simple image processing at the command line.

Applications / Directory Navigation

• md2png (⭐27) - Convert markdown to PNG image

• whales (⭐366) - A tool to automatically dockerize your applications

Aug 16, 2018

System Utilities / Directory Navigation

• hblock (⭐1.4k) - Hosts-file based adblocker

Shell Package Management / Directory Navigation

• bashing (⭐72) - Smashing Bash into Pieces

Jul 04, 2018

Command-Line Productivity

• task-manager (⭐17) - Execute all your scripts with just two or three keystrokes.

For Developers / Directory Navigation

• git-quick-stats (⭐5.9k) - Git quick statistics is a simple and efficient way to access various statistics in git repository.

Jun 18, 2018

Applications / Directory Navigation

• awless (⭐4.9k) - A powerful, innovative and small surface CLI to manage AWS.

• ranger (⭐14k) - A console file manager with VI key bindings.

Jun 04, 2018

Applications / Directory Navigation

• cointop (⭐3.8k) - The fastest and most interactive terminal based UI application for tracking cryptocurrencies

Shell Package Management / Directory Navigation

• shallow-backup (⭐1.1k) - Easily create lightweight documentation of installed packages, dotfiles, and more

May 08, 2018

Applications / Directory Navigation

• gcalcli (⭐3.1k) - Google Calendar command line interface

Apr 18, 2018

Command-Line Productivity

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

For Developers / Directory Navigation

• rebound (⭐4k) - Instantly browse Stack Overflow results in your terminal when you get a compiler error

System Utilities / Directory Navigation

• catcli (⭐188) - The command line catalog tool for your offline data

• logdissect (⭐131) - CLI utility and Python API for analyzing log files and other data.

Downloading and Serving / Directory Navigation

• HTTPLab (⭐3.9k) - The interactive web server, let you inspect HTTP requests and forge responses.

Apr 07, 2018

Command-Line Productivity

• q (⭐65) - Vim like macro registers for your Bash and Zsh Shell

For Developers / Directory Navigation

• licins (⭐22) - Insert commented software licenses into source code.

System Utilities / Directory Navigation

• progress (⭐7.9k) - Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, and more...

• stronghold (⭐1k) - Easily configure MacOS security settings from the terminal.

• xiringuito (⭐1.1k) - SSH-based "VPN for poors"

Multimedia and File Formats / Directory Navigation

• adb-export (⭐101) - Export Android content providers to CSV format

Games / Directory Navigation

• piu-piu (⭐712) - Horizontal scroller game in bash with multiplayer mode!

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• phases (⭐13) - Minimally invasive bash preprocessor, select sections of your script to run

Mar 30, 2018

Shell Script Development / See also

• awesome-cli-apps (⭐13k)

Mar 24, 2018

Command-Line Productivity

• CloudClip (⭐73) - Your own clipboard in the cloud, copy and paste text with gist between different systems

Feb 01, 2018

Command-Line Productivity

• how2 (⭐5.7k) - how2 finds the simplest way to do something in a unix shell. It's like man, but you can query it in natural language.

• hss (⭐334) - An interactive parallel ssh client featuring autocomplete and asynchronous execution

For Developers / Directory Navigation

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

Jan 31, 2018

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• bats (⭐4.3k) - Bash Automated Testing System

Oct 30, 2017

Command-Line Productivity

• AdvancedNewFile (⭐239) - Fast creation of files and directories in a recursive way. Inspired by the Vim plugin.

Oct 27, 2017

Multimedia and File Formats / Directory Navigation

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

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• urchin (⭐211) - An idiomatic shell testing framework that uses only shell commands

Oct 16, 2017

Applications / Directory Navigation

• facebook-cli (⭐389) - Facebook command line tool

Aug 31, 2017

Command-Line Productivity

• has (⭐563) - has helps you check presence of various command line tools and their versions on path

Aug 16, 2017

Command-Line Productivity

• lf.sh (⭐41) - Quickly search files with fewer typings and do many more (grepping, copying path to clipboard, etc)

For Developers / Directory Navigation

• doclt (⭐44) - A command line interface to Digital Ocean

Applications / Directory Navigation

• wttr.in (⭐23k) - ⛅ The right way to check the weather (curl wttr.in)

Jul 31, 2017

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• sh-semver (⭐31) - Semver tool for bash - finds versions matching to specified rules

• zunit (⭐184) - A powerful unit testing framework for ZSH

May 26, 2017

Shell Package Management / Directory Navigation

• shundle (⭐82) - Plugin manager for shell scripts

May 10, 2017

For Developers / Directory Navigation

• tag (⭐591) - Instantly jump to your ag matches.

Apr 26, 2017

Shell Package Management / Directory Navigation

• dotdrop (⭐1.7k) - Save your dotfiles once, deploy them everywhere

Apr 21, 2017

For Developers / Directory Navigation

• bcal (⭐602) - Byte CALculator for storage conversions and calculations

Apr 20, 2017

System Utilities / Directory Navigation

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

Applications / Directory Navigation

• choosealicense-cli (⭐67) - Choose an OSS license from the comfort of your terminal

Shell Package Management / Directory Navigation

• vcsh (⭐2.1k) - Config manager based on Git

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• shutit - Automation framework based on bash and pexpect

Apr 17, 2017

Command-Line Productivity

• Buku (⭐5.9k) - Powerful command-line bookmark manager

• googler (⭐6k) - Google Search, Google Site Search, Google News from the terminal

• nnn (⭐17k) - File browser and disk usage analyzer with excellent desktop integration

Multimedia and File Formats / Directory Navigation

• imgp (⭐983) - Blazing fast batch image resizer and rotator

Apr 13, 2017

For Developers / Directory Navigation

• starring (⭐154) - Automatically star the npm-packages that you are using on GitHub.

Apr 11, 2017

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• A guide to learn bash (⭐11k)

Mar 19, 2017

Command-Line Productivity

• fz (⭐484) - Seamless fuzzy tab completion for z

Feb 20, 2017

Games / Directory Navigation

• nudoku (⭐294) - ncurses based sudoku game written in C

• tty-solitaire (⭐258) - Play solitaire in your terminal!

Feb 13, 2017

Customization / Directory Navigation

• bullet-train-oh-my-zsh-theme (⭐2.8k) - 🚄 An oh-my-zsh shell theme based on the Powerline Vim plugin

• mysql-colorize (⭐95) - Colorization for mysql comand-line client

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• crash (⭐58) - Proper error handling, exceptions and try/catch for ZSH

Shell Script Development / See also

• awesome-fish (⭐3.7k)

• awesome-zsh (⭐14k)

Feb 11, 2017

Command-Line Productivity

• rg (⭐41k) - ripgrep is a line oriented search tool that combines the usability of The Silver Searcher with the raw speed of GNU grep

Shell Script Development / See also

• terminals-are-sexy (⭐12k)

Jan 06, 2017

Applications / Directory Navigation

• terjira (⭐845) - Command line power tool for Jira

Jan 04, 2017

System Utilities / Directory Navigation

• ls++ (⭐498) - Colorized ls on steroids

Multimedia and File Formats / Directory Navigation

• xidel (⭐611) - Cli tool to filter, map and create HTML/XML/JSON data with (Turing-complete) XPath and XQuery.

Dec 03, 2016

Customization / Directory Navigation

• base16-builder (⭐421) - Base16-Builder

Dec 01, 2016

Shells

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

• fish - Smart and user-friendly command line shell

Applications / Directory Navigation

• taskwarrior - A command-line TODO list manager

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• bashwithnails (⭐33) - a Bash framework written just for fun with testing, dependency management & packaging

• lumberjack (⭐38) - A logging interface for shell scripts

• revolver (⭐137) - A reusable progress spinner for shell scripts

Oct 27, 2016

Command-Line Productivity

• borg (⭐1.6k) - A terminal based search engine for bash commands

Oct 12, 2016

Command-Line Productivity

• bashhub (⭐1.2k) - ☁️ Bash history in the cloud. Indexed and searchable.

Sep 12, 2016

System Utilities / Directory Navigation

• histstat (⭐92) - History for netstat

Aug 14, 2016

Command-Line Productivity

• SHML (⭐436) - Style framework for the terminal (Shell Markup Language)

• sudocabulary (⭐157) - Learn English Vocabulary from your terminal

Aug 13, 2016

Multimedia and File Formats / Directory Navigation

• nehm (⭐85) - Console tool, which downloads, sets IDv3 tags and adds to your iTunes (if you use it) your SoundCloud likes in convenient way

Jul 28, 2016

Command-Line Productivity

• aliases (⭐499) - Contextual, dynamic, organized aliases for bash

Jul 13, 2016

Applications / Directory Navigation

• vl (⭐24) - URL link checker on text documents

Jul 11, 2016

Multimedia and File Formats / Directory Navigation

• gifgen (⭐525) - Simple high quality GIF encoding

Jun 12, 2016

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• optparse (⭐152) - A BASH wrapper for getopts, for simple command line arguments.

• shellfire (⭐1.2k) - A repository of namespaced, composable shell (bash, sh and dash) function libraries

May 17, 2016

Applications / Directory Navigation

• haxor-news (⭐3.9k) - Browse Hacker News like a haxor

• Reddit Terminal Viewer (⭐4.6k) - Browse Reddit from your terminal

May 13, 2016

Downloading and Serving / Directory Navigation

• aria2 (⭐32k) - aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• Google's Shell Style Guide

May 12, 2016

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• rebash (⭐72) - Scripting library/framework. Features: imports, exceptions, doc-tests ...

Apr 15, 2016

Command-Line Productivity

• sman (⭐286) - 🐛 A command-line snippet manager

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• is.sh (⭐156) - An alternative for builtin test command, it will make your "if" statements pretty

Feb 28, 2016

Command-Line Productivity

• sheet (⭐255) - Text snippets for the command line

Feb 24, 2016

Customization / Directory Navigation

• bash-full-of-colors (⭐175) - Powerful prompt with screen, tmux, git support and many more

Feb 19, 2016

Command-Line Productivity

• k (⭐1.7k) - k is a Zsh script to make directory listings more readable, adding Git status, fileweight colors and rotting dates

Feb 06, 2016

Command-Line Productivity

• k alias (⭐18) - get kool aliases (and more) working with a simple one-liner

Feb 04, 2016

Applications / Directory Navigation

• moviemon (⭐196) - Everything about your movies within the command line.

Jan 28, 2016

Applications / Directory Navigation

• hn-cli (⭐459) - Browse Hacker News from the comfort of your Terminal

Jan 27, 2016

Applications / Directory Navigation

• fanyi (⭐1.3k) - Translate English to Chinese in terminal

Jan 26, 2016

Applications / Directory Navigation

• whereami (⭐159) - Get your geolocation information from the CLI

Jan 25, 2016

Command-Line Productivity

• slugify (⭐293) - Command that converts filenames and directories to a web friendly format

Jan 16, 2016

Command-Line Productivity

• direnv (⭐11k) - An environment switcher for the shell, compare with autoenv

Jan 11, 2016

Multimedia and File Formats / Directory Navigation

• Beets (⭐12k) - Music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger

Jan 07, 2016

For Developers / Directory Navigation

• dokku (⭐25k) - Docker powered mini-Heroku. The smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seen.

Jan 05, 2016

For Developers / Directory Navigation

• hub (⭐23k) - hub helps you win at git.

System Utilities / Directory Navigation

• goaccess (⭐17k) - GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems.

Dec 31, 2015

System Utilities / Directory Navigation

• mtr (⭐2.4k) - The functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool.

Dec 21, 2015

Command-Line Productivity

• boilr (⭐1.7k) - A blazingly fast CLI tool for creating projects from boilerplate templates.

Dec 15, 2015

Command-Line Productivity

• desk (⭐2.5k) - A lightweight workspace manager for the shell

Dec 12, 2015

Command-Line Productivity

• spot (⭐917) - Tiny file search utility

Customization / Directory Navigation

• Gogh - Color Scheme (⭐8.3k) - Color Scheme for Gnome Terminal

For Developers / Directory Navigation

• git-extras (⭐16k) - Git utilities -- repo summary, repl, changelog population, author commit percentages and more

System Utilities / Directory Navigation

• ncdu - NCurses Disk Usage

Shell Package Management / Directory Navigation

• bash-it (⭐14k) - A community Bash framework

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• WikiBooks: Bash Shell Scripting

Nov 25, 2015

Command-Line Productivity

• pathpicker (⭐5k) - 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.

• qfc (⭐566) - File-completion widget for Bash and Zsh

Oct 19, 2015

Applications / Directory Navigation

• iponmap (⭐302) - Draw point on world map using ip address

Oct 18, 2015

Applications / Directory Navigation

• SAWS (⭐5.2k) - A Supercharged AWS CLI

Sep 28, 2015

For Developers / Directory Navigation

• cloc (⭐17k) - Count Lines of Code

Sep 21, 2015

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• bashmanager (⭐88) - mini bash framework for creating command line tools

Sep 01, 2015

Multimedia and File Formats / Directory Navigation

• cmus (⭐5.1k) - Cross-platform cli audio player.

Aug 22, 2015

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• ansi (⭐536) - ANSI escape codes in pure bash - change text color, position the cursor, much more

• mo (⭐522) - Mustache templates in pure bash

Aug 08, 2015

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• assert.sh (⭐477) - Bash unit testing framework

Aug 04, 2015

Applications / Directory Navigation

• isitup (⭐58) - Check whether a website is up or down

• licen (⭐36) - Generate your license. Yet another lice, but implement with Jinja2 and docopt

Jul 31, 2015

Shell Package Management / Directory Navigation

• dotfiler (⭐238) – Shell agnostic git based dotfiles package manager, written in Python.

Jul 26, 2015

System Utilities / Directory Navigation

• glances (⭐24k) - Glances an Eye on your system

Jul 25, 2015

Customization / Directory Navigation

• emojify (⭐1.5k) Emoji on the command line 😱

Jul 23, 2015

For Developers / Directory Navigation

• bocker (⭐11k) - Docker implemented in 100 lines of bash

Jul 09, 2015

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• shunit2 (⭐1.5k) - A unit test framework for Bash scripts with a flavour of JUnit/PyUnit.

Jun 19, 2015

System Utilities / Directory Navigation

• htop (⭐5.8k) - A ncurses based interactive process viewer which aims to be a better top

• powertop (⭐870) - Battery/Power usage and device stats monitoring command-line tool, with tune-up options.

Jun 18, 2015

Command-Line Productivity

• thefuck (⭐80k) - Fix common shell mistakes by using an easy to remember command

Customization / Directory Navigation

• oh-my-git (⭐3.6k) - An opinionated git prompt for bash and zsh

For Developers / Directory Navigation

• git-open (⭐3.2k) - Type git open to open the GitHub page or website for a repository in your browser

Jun 17, 2015

Games / Directory Navigation

• minesweeper (⭐54) - Bash implementation of minesweeper

Jun 16, 2015

Command-Line Productivity

• fzf (⭐55k) - A command-line fuzzy finder

• marker (⭐2k) - Bookmark your shell commands

System Utilities / Directory Navigation

• procdog (⭐75) - Lightweight command-line control of long-lived processes like servers

Jun 11, 2015

For Developers / Directory Navigation

• repren (⭐335) - Command-line search-and-replace and file-renaming swiss army knife

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• The Art of Command Line (⭐140k)

Jun 10, 2015

Command-Line Productivity

• ag (⭐25k) - Super fast string search through a directory hierarchy

• fasd (⭐5.8k) - Command-line productivity booster, offers quick access to files and directories

• hhighlighter (⭐442) - Colorize words in a command output

• hr (⭐1.3k) - <hr /> for your terminal

• hstr (⭐3.7k) - Bash History Suggest Box

• percol (⭐3.2k) - Adds flavor of interactive filtering to the traditional pipe concept of UNIX shell

• spark (⭐6k) - ▁▂▃▅▂▇ in your shell

• sshfs (⭐1.1k) - A tool for mounting remote file systems over SSH

• v (⭐432) - z for vim.

• wemux (⭐3.6k) - Multi-User Tmux Made Easy

Customization / Directory Navigation

• bash-git-prompt (⭐6.5k) - An informative and fancy Bash prompt for Git users

• git-prompt (⭐326) - Bash prompt with Git, SVN and HG modules

• sexy-bash-prompt (⭐1.1k) - Bash prompt with colors, Git statuses, and Git branches

For Developers / Directory Navigation

• git-extra-commands (⭐924) - Many Git extra utilities. Churn, cut-branch, improved-merge and many more.

• git-semver (⭐366) - Git plugin for easing semantic versioning and changelog validation

• git-sh (⭐729) - A customized Bash environment suitable for Git work

• slap (⭐6.1k) - Sublime-like terminal-based text editor that runs on Node.js

• shipit (⭐559) - Minimalistic SSH deployment

System Utilities / Directory Navigation

• lsp (⭐519) - An improved ls, with file descriptions in plain language and intelligent file grouping

• quick-secure (⭐405) - Quickly secure and harden UNIX/Linux systems

Downloading and Serving / Directory Navigation

• balls (⭐845) - Bash on Balls

• bashttpd (⭐1.5k) - A web server written in Bash

• bitpocket (⭐1k) - "DIY Dropbox" or "2-way directory (r)sync with proper deletion"

• Dropbox-Uploader (⭐6.5k) - Dropbox Uploader is a Bash script which can be used to upload, download, list or delete files from Dropbox

• ngincat (⭐170) - Tiny Bash HTTP server using netcat

• resty (⭐2.6k) - Little command line REST client that you can use in pipelines

Multimedia and File Formats / Directory Navigation

• Android-Kitchen (⭐995) - A text-based kitchen for Android ROM customization. Uses shell scripts and works with Cygwin/OS X/Linux

• image-scraper (⭐735) - A cool command line image scraper with a lot of features.

• jq (⭐27k) - Sed for json data. You can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data

• sejda (⭐460) - Command line manipulation of PDF documents (split, merge, rotate, convert to jpg, extract text, etc)

• xmlstarlet - Old but powerful tool for command-line XML formatting, filtering, and manipulation.

Applications / Directory Navigation

• ansiweather (⭐1.8k) - Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols

• bashblog (⭐1.6k) - A Bash script that handles blog posting

• geeknote (⭐2.1k) - Command line evernote client

• ledger (⭐4.9k) - Command line accounting

• pushblast (⭐96) - Get PushBullet notifications when a shell program exits

• pushbullet-bash (⭐228) - Bash interface to the PushBullet API

• wego (⭐7.5k) - Weather app for the terminal

Shell Package Management / Directory Navigation

• basher (⭐1.1k) - A package manager for shell scripts

• fresh (⭐1.2k) - Keep your dotfiles fresh

• homeshick (⭐2k) - Git dotfile synchronizer written in Bash

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• rerun (⭐447) - A modular shell automation framework to organize your keeper scripts

• semver_bash (⭐238) - Semantic Versioning in Bash

• shellcheck (⭐34k) - Static analysis tool for shell scripts

• shpec (⭐374) - A shell testing framework

• sub (⭐1.7k) - A delicious way to organize programs

• ts (⭐57) - A shell test script

May 03, 2015

Customization / Directory Navigation

• gittify (⭐67) - A colorful Bash prompt + customized Git aliases

Oct 06, 2014

Customization / Directory Navigation

• flatui-terminal-theme - Nicer colors for terminal

Sep 29, 2014

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• Use the Unofficial Bash Strict Mode (Unless You Looove Debugging)

Sep 23, 2014

Games / Directory Navigation

• sedtris (⭐499) - Tetris in sed

• sed-scripts (⭐43) - Arkanoid and Sokoban written using sed

Jul 12, 2014

Multimedia and File Formats / Directory Navigation

• PiCAST (⭐1.7k) - PiCAST turns your $35 Raspberry Pi in to a Chromecast like Device

Jul 09, 2014

Customization / Directory Navigation

• bash-powerline (⭐868) - Powerline-style Bash prompt in pure Bash script

Games / Directory Navigation

• bash2048 (⭐882) - Bash implementation of 2048 game

Jul 07, 2014

Customization / Directory Navigation

• bashstrap (⭐1.6k) - A quick way to spruce up OSX terminal

• liquidprompt (⭐4.3k) - A full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh