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Feb 19 - Feb 25, 2024

Command-Line Productivity

• autoenv (⭐5.5k) - Directory-based environments.

Downloading and Serving / Directory Navigation

• tshare (⭐93) - File sharing from commandline.

Feb 12 - Feb 18, 2024

Shells

• yash (⭐265) - A POSIX-compliant command line shell with built-in support for completion and prediction based on command history

Command-Line Productivity

• ok-sh (⭐79) - Do you work on many different projects? And in each project, are there commands you use that are specific to that project? You need a .ok file.

Downloading and Serving / Directory Navigation

• Kapow! (⭐585) - If you can script it, you can HTTP it.

Shell Script Development / See also

• awesome-bash (⭐7k)

Nov 06 - 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 (⭐66k) - Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

Multimedia and File Formats / Directory Navigation

• library (⭐145) - 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 05 - Jun 11, 2023

Multimedia and File Formats / Directory Navigation

• jc (⭐7.4k) - Convert command output, file-types, and common strings to JSON or YAML for easier use in scripts.

May 29 - Jun 04, 2023

Command-Line Productivity

• broot (⭐9.8k) - A better way to navigate directories

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

Dec 26 - Jan 01, 2022

Command-Line Productivity

• arttime (⭐757) - Beauty of text art meets functionality of clock, timer, pomodoro++ time manager

• await (⭐108) - single binary that run list of commands in parallel and waits for their termination

• lf (⭐6.9k) - Terminal file manager written in Go, inspired by ranger

Customization / Directory Navigation

• aphrodite-terminal-theme (⭐113) — 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 (⭐688) - Run any command on specific Node.js versions.

• trunk - Blazingly fast meta code checker and formatter

• vmn (⭐58) - git-based automatic versioning and state recovery solution agnostic to language or architecture

Multimedia and File Formats / Directory Navigation

• dzr (⭐161) - Cross-platform Deezer.com audio player.

Apr 25 - May 01, 2022

System Utilities / Directory Navigation

• btop (⭐15k) - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor

• lsd (⭐12k) - LSDeluxe, rewrite of GNU ls with lot of added features like colors, icons, tree-view and more formatting options.

Feb 21 - Feb 27, 2022

Command-Line Productivity

• bartib (⭐542) - 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 (⭐165) - 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 (⭐1.6k) - 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 (⭐318) - Compose, document, version and organize your shell functions

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

• getopts.fish (⭐215) - CLI parser for fish

Aug 30 - Sep 05, 2021

For Developers / Directory Navigation

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

Downloading and Serving / Directory Navigation

• xh (⭐4.5k) - Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests

Applications / Directory Navigation

• ticker (⭐4.8k) — Terminal stock ticker with live updates and position tracking

Jun 07 - Jun 13, 2021

Shells

• ngs (⭐1.3k) - 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 (⭐8.4k) - Universal command-line interface for SQL databases.

• xplr (⭐3.8k) - A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer

Customization / Directory Navigation

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

For Developers / Directory Navigation

• just (⭐16k) - 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.

Multimedia and File Formats / Directory Navigation

• yq (⭐10k) - yq is a portable command-line YAML processor

Applications / Directory Navigation

• pcalc (⭐520) - Calculator made for programmers working with multiple number representations, sizes, and overall close to the bits.

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• bashew (⭐234) - bash script creator - from small stand-alone script to complex projects with CI/CD and testing

• getoptions (⭐352) - An elegant option parser for shell scripts (sh, bash and all POSIX shells)

• shfmt (⭐6.5k) - A shell parser, formatter, and interpreter with bash support; includes shfmt

• Shell Field Guide

Mar 29 - Apr 04, 2021

Multimedia and File Formats / Directory Navigation

• dasel (⭐4.7k) - Query and update data structures using selectors from the command line. Comparable to jq (⭐28k) / yq (⭐2.4k) but supports JSON, YAML, TOML and XML with zero runtime dependencies.

Applications / Directory Navigation

• editly (⭐4.5k) - Command line video editor

Nov 02 - Nov 08, 2020

Shells

• es - The extensible shell, based on Plan 9's rc (⭐235) shell

Command-Line Productivity

• undollar (⭐156) - undollar bites the dollar sign off the tip of the command you just pasted into your terminal

Command-Line Productivity / Directory Navigation

• zpyi (⭐101) - Python in Zsh - Easy python scripting in shell

Applications / Directory Navigation

• dstask (⭐754) - Single binary terminal-based TODO manager with git-based sync + markdown notes per task

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• shellspec (⭐1k) - A full-featured BDD unit testing framework for dash, bash, ksh, zsh and all POSIX shells

Oct 12 - Oct 18, 2020

Customization / Directory Navigation

• powerlevel10k (⭐42k) - 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 (⭐31k) - HTTPie is a command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement

Applications / Directory Navigation

• kanban.bash (⭐869) - commandline asciii kanban board for minimalist productivity bash hackers (csv-based)

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• powscript (⭐149) - 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 03 - Aug 09, 2020

Command-Line Productivity

• spark.fish (⭐322) - ▁▂▃▅ Sparkline Generator

Command-Line Productivity / Directory Navigation

• zoxide (⭐13k) - A faster way to navigate your filesystem, written in Rust

Jul 06 - Jul 12, 2020

Command-Line Productivity / Directory Navigation

• aliasme (⭐111) - 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 (⭐918) - Quickly go back to a parent directory

• commacd (⭐357) - A faster way to move around in Bash

• enhancd (⭐2.5k) - 🚀 A next-generation cd command with an interactive filter

• goto (⭐856) - 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 (⭐164) - Ascend directories by name or count; for bash, zsh, and fish.

Jun 15 - Jun 21, 2020

Command-Line Productivity

• tldr (⭐697) - A fully-functional bash client for tldr, simplified and community-driven man pages

May 18 - May 24, 2020

Multimedia and File Formats / Directory Navigation

• visidata (⭐7.3k) - A terminal spreadsheet multitool for exploring and arranging data (csv/json/xml/xls/yaml/etc)

Applications / Directory Navigation

• nomino (⭐534) - Batch rename utility using regex, sort and map file options.

• pockyt (⭐490) - Read, Manage, and Automate your Pocket collection.

Apr 13 - Apr 19, 2020

Shells

• nushell (⭐29k) - A modern shell written in Rust

Command-Line Productivity

• byobu - Text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer

• xxh (⭐4.8k) - 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.

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• bash-language-server (⭐1.9k) - LSP-based Bash language server

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

• esh (⭐198) - A simple templating engine based on shell, implemented in ~290 lines of POSIX shell and awk.

Mar 09 - Mar 15, 2020

Shells

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

Mar 02 - Mar 08, 2020

Command-Line Productivity

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

• cod (⭐508) — 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 (⭐954) - Contextual shell history for Zsh and Bash

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

For Developers / Directory Navigation

• mkdkr (⭐352) - Makefile + Docker = CI Pipeline

Downloading and Serving / Directory Navigation

• bashhub-server (⭐294) - Private cloud shell history. Open source server for bashhub

Jan 20 - Jan 26, 2020

Shells

• zsh - Powerful shell with scripting language

Command-Line Productivity

• eureka (⭐723) - 💡 CLI tool to input and store your ideas without leaving the terminal

• gitmux (⭐512) - 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 (⭐907) - A minimal ZSH theme where any function can be added to the left prompt or (async) right prompt on the fly.

• synth-shell (⭐856) - 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 09 - Dec 15, 2019

Downloading and Serving / Directory Navigation

• vesper (⭐203) - 🍸Vesper is a HTTP framework for Bash/Unix Shell

Dec 02 - Dec 08, 2019

Command-Line Productivity

• funky (⭐634) - 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 04 - Nov 10, 2019

System Utilities / Directory Navigation

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

Oct 28 - Nov 03, 2019

Shells

• ksh93 (⭐520) - Korn Shell

• mksh (⭐190) - MirBSD Korn Shell

• oksh (⭐330) - Portable OpenBSD ksh

• pdksh - Public domain Korn shell

• shell++ (⭐141) - 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

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

• googlr (⭐42) - Command line tool that lets you search Google from your terminal.

• mcfly (⭐6.4k) - Fly through your shell history. Great Scot!

• sqlline (⭐598) - Shell for issuing SQL to relational databases via JDBC (multiline, completion, highlighting, dialect support)

• td-cli (⭐182) - A todo command line manager to organize and manage your todos across multiple projects.

Command-Line Productivity / Directory Navigation

• z.lua (⭐2.9k) - 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 (⭐600) - Terminal based interactive bit manipulator in curses.

• forgit (⭐4.2k) - Utility tool for git taking advantage of fuzzy finder fzf.

• overcommit (⭐3.9k) - A fully configurable and extendable Git hook manager

• wipe-modules (⭐341) - A little agent that removes the node_modules folder of non-active projects

System Utilities / Directory Navigation

• bat (⭐45k) - A cat clone with wings

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

• nmtui (⭐334) - Text User Interface for controlling NetworkManager

Multimedia and File Formats / Directory Navigation

• jo (⭐4.6k) - A small utility to create JSON objects from command-line arguments.

Applications / Directory Navigation

• jrnl (⭐6.2k) - 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 (⭐591) - A collection of libraries to simplify writing Bash scripts

• Bashlets (⭐70) - A modular extensible toolbox for Bash

• Fishtape (⭐339) - TAP producer and test harness for fish

May 20 - May 26, 2019

Command-Line Productivity

• screen - GNU terminal multiplexer

Feb 04 - Feb 10, 2019

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• Learn Enough Command Line to Be Dangerous

Nov 26 - Dec 02, 2018

Command-Line Productivity

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

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

• pdd (⭐368) - Tiny date, time diff calculator with timers

Applications / Directory Navigation

• taskbook (⭐8.9k) - Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat

Oct 22 - Oct 28, 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 (⭐659) - Write and control complex loops with as one-liners

• xsv (⭐9.9k) - 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 03 - Sep 09, 2018

Shells

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

• shenv (⭐37) - Simple shell version management

Command-Line Productivity

• fd (⭐31k) - 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 (⭐107) - Visualize your shell usage with Highcharts

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

Customization / Directory Navigation

• polyglot (⭐165) - 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 (⭐628) - Interactive CLI that generates a .gitignore for your project based on your needs.

• mr - Multiple Repository management tool

System Utilities / Directory Navigation

• rng (⭐31) - Copy range of lines from file or stdin to stdout.

• wifi-wand (⭐60) - a Ruby command line application for managing WiFi on MacOS (install by gem install wifi-wand)

Multimedia and File Formats / Directory Navigation

• korkut (⭐362) - Quick and simple image processing at the command line.

Applications / Directory Navigation

• md2png (⭐30) - Convert markdown to PNG image

• whales (⭐370) - A tool to automatically dockerize your applications

Aug 13 - Aug 19, 2018

System Utilities / Directory Navigation

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

Shell Package Management / Directory Navigation

• bashing (⭐73) - Smashing Bash into Pieces

Jul 02 - Jul 08, 2018

Command-Line Productivity

• task-manager (⭐18) - Execute all your scripts with just two or three keystrokes.

For Developers / Directory Navigation

• git-quick-stats (⭐6.1k) - Git quick statistics is a simple and efficient way to access various statistics in git repository.

Jun 18 - Jun 24, 2018

Applications / Directory Navigation

• awless (⭐5k) - A powerful, innovative and small surface CLI to manage AWS.

• ranger (⭐15k) - A console file manager with VI key bindings.

Jun 04 - Jun 10, 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 (⭐1.2k) - Easily create lightweight documentation of installed packages, dotfiles, and more

May 07 - May 13, 2018

Applications / Directory Navigation

• gcalcli (⭐3.2k) - Google Calendar command line interface

Apr 16 - Apr 22, 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 (⭐4.1k) - Instantly browse Stack Overflow results in your terminal when you get a compiler error

System Utilities / Directory Navigation

• catcli (⭐191) - The command line catalog tool for your offline data

• logdissect (⭐133) - CLI utility and Python API for analyzing log files and other data.

Downloading and Serving / Directory Navigation

• HTTPLab (⭐4k) - The interactive web server, let you inspect HTTP requests and forge responses.

Apr 02 - Apr 08, 2018

Command-Line Productivity

• q (⭐67) - Vim like macro registers for your Bash and Zsh Shell

For Developers / Directory Navigation

• licins (⭐23) - Insert commented software licenses into source code.

System Utilities / Directory Navigation

• progress (⭐8.1k) - 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 (⭐721) - 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 26 - Apr 01, 2018

Shell Script Development / See also

• awesome-cli-apps (⭐13k)

Mar 19 - Mar 25, 2018

Command-Line Productivity

• CloudClip (⭐76) - Your own clipboard in the cloud, copy and paste text with gist between different systems

Jan 29 - Feb 04, 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 (⭐338) - 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

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• bats (⭐4.5k) - Bash Automated Testing System

Oct 30 - Nov 05, 2017

Command-Line Productivity

• AdvancedNewFile (⭐243) - Fast creation of files and directories in a recursive way. Inspired by the Vim plugin.

Oct 23 - Oct 29, 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 - Oct 22, 2017

Applications / Directory Navigation

• facebook-cli (⭐394) - Facebook command line tool

Aug 28 - Sep 03, 2017

Command-Line Productivity

• has (⭐594) - has helps you check presence of various command line tools and their versions on path

Aug 14 - Aug 20, 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 - Aug 06, 2017

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• sh-semver (⭐30) - Semver tool for bash - finds versions matching to specified rules

• zunit (⭐196) - A powerful unit testing framework for ZSH

May 22 - May 28, 2017

Shell Package Management / Directory Navigation

• shundle (⭐81) - Plugin manager for shell scripts

May 08 - May 14, 2017

For Developers / Directory Navigation

• tag (⭐593) - Instantly jump to your ag matches.

Apr 24 - Apr 30, 2017

Shell Package Management / Directory Navigation

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

Apr 17 - Apr 23, 2017

Command-Line Productivity

• Buku (⭐6k) - Powerful command-line bookmark manager

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

• nnn (⭐18k) - File browser and disk usage analyzer with excellent desktop integration

For Developers / Directory Navigation

• bcal (⭐615) - Byte CALculator for storage conversions and calculations

System Utilities / Directory Navigation

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

Multimedia and File Formats / Directory Navigation

• imgp (⭐998) - Blazing fast batch image resizer and rotator

Applications / Directory Navigation

• choosealicense-cli (⭐68) - 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 10 - Apr 16, 2017

For Developers / Directory Navigation

• starring (⭐155) - Automatically star the npm-packages that you are using on GitHub.

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• A guide to learn bash (⭐12k)

Mar 13 - Mar 19, 2017

Command-Line Productivity

• fz (⭐496) - Seamless fuzzy tab completion for z

Feb 20 - Feb 26, 2017

Games / Directory Navigation

• nudoku (⭐303) - ncurses based sudoku game written in C

• tty-solitaire (⭐263) - Play solitaire in your terminal!

Feb 13 - Feb 19, 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 (⭐98) - Colorization for mysql comand-line client

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• crash (⭐60) - Proper error handling, exceptions and try/catch for ZSH

Shell Script Development / See also

• awesome-fish (⭐3.8k)

• awesome-zsh (⭐14k)

Feb 06 - Feb 12, 2017

Command-Line Productivity

• rg (⭐43k) - 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 02 - Jan 08, 2017

System Utilities / Directory Navigation

• ls++ (⭐500) - Colorized ls on steroids

Multimedia and File Formats / Directory Navigation

• xidel (⭐633) - Cli tool to filter, map and create HTML/XML/JSON data with (Turing-complete) XPath and XQuery.

Applications / Directory Navigation

• terjira (⭐858) - Command line power tool for Jira

Nov 28 - Dec 04, 2016

Shells

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

• fish - Smart and user-friendly command line shell

Customization / Directory Navigation

• base16-builder (⭐427) - Base16-Builder

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 (⭐40) - A logging interface for shell scripts

• revolver (⭐139) - A reusable progress spinner for shell scripts

Oct 24 - Oct 30, 2016

Command-Line Productivity

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

Oct 10 - Oct 16, 2016

Command-Line Productivity

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

Sep 12 - Sep 18, 2016

System Utilities / Directory Navigation

• histstat (⭐93) - History for netstat

Aug 08 - Aug 14, 2016

Command-Line Productivity

• SHML (⭐437) - Style framework for the terminal (Shell Markup Language)

• sudocabulary (⭐160) - Learn English Vocabulary from your terminal

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 25 - Jul 31, 2016

Command-Line Productivity

• aliases (⭐509) - Contextual, dynamic, organized aliases for bash

Jul 11 - Jul 17, 2016

Multimedia and File Formats / Directory Navigation

• gifgen (⭐536) - Simple high quality GIF encoding

Applications / Directory Navigation

• vl (⭐26) - URL link checker on text documents

Jun 06 - 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 16 - May 22, 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 09 - May 15, 2016

Downloading and Serving / Directory Navigation

• aria2 (⭐33k) - 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

• rebash (⭐73) - Scripting library/framework. Features: imports, exceptions, doc-tests ...

• Google's Shell Style Guide

Apr 11 - Apr 17, 2016

Command-Line Productivity

• sman (⭐287) - 🐛 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 22 - Feb 28, 2016

Command-Line Productivity

• sheet (⭐257) - Text snippets for the command line

Customization / Directory Navigation

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

Feb 15 - Feb 21, 2016

Command-Line Productivity

• k (⭐1.8k) - k is a Zsh script to make directory listings more readable, adding Git status, fileweight colors and rotting dates

Feb 01 - Feb 07, 2016

Command-Line Productivity

• k alias (⭐19) - get kool aliases (and more) working with a simple one-liner

Applications / Directory Navigation

• moviemon (⭐198) - Everything about your movies within the command line.

Jan 25 - Jan 31, 2016

Command-Line Productivity

• slugify (⭐298) - Command that converts filenames and directories to a web friendly format

Applications / Directory Navigation

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

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

• whereami (⭐162) - Get your geolocation information from the CLI

Jan 11 - Jan 17, 2016

Command-Line Productivity

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

Multimedia and File Formats / Directory Navigation

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

Jan 04 - Jan 10, 2016

For Developers / Directory Navigation

• dokku (⭐26k) - Docker powered mini-Heroku. The smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seen.

• 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.

Jan 04 - Jan 10, 2016

System Utilities / Directory Navigation

• mtr (⭐2.5k) - The functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool.

Dec 28 - Jan 03, 2015

Command-Line Productivity

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

Dec 21 - Dec 27, 2015

Command-Line Productivity

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

Dec 14 - Dec 20, 2015

Command-Line Productivity

• spot (⭐919) - Tiny file search utility

Customization / Directory Navigation

• Gogh - Color Scheme (⭐8.5k) - Color Scheme for Gnome Terminal

For Developers / Directory Navigation

• git-extras (⭐17k) - 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 30 - Dec 06, 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 (⭐569) - File-completion widget for Bash and Zsh

Oct 26 - Nov 01, 2015

Applications / Directory Navigation

• iponmap (⭐303) - Draw point on world map using ip address

Oct 19 - Oct 25, 2015

Applications / Directory Navigation

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

Oct 05 - Oct 11, 2015

For Developers / Directory Navigation

• cloc (⭐18k) - Count Lines of Code

Sep 28 - Oct 04, 2015

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• bashmanager (⭐90) - mini bash framework for creating command line tools

Sep 07 - Sep 13, 2015

Multimedia and File Formats / Directory Navigation

• cmus (⭐5.2k) - Cross-platform cli audio player.

Aug 24 - Aug 30, 2015

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• ansi (⭐554) - ANSI escape codes in pure bash - change text color, position the cursor, much more

• mo (⭐531) - Mustache templates in pure bash

Aug 10 - Aug 16, 2015

Applications / Directory Navigation

• isitup (⭐61) - Check whether a website is up or down

• licen (⭐37) - Generate your license. Yet another lice, but implement with Jinja2 and docopt

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• assert.sh (⭐479) - Bash unit testing framework

Aug 03 - Aug 09, 2015

Shell Package Management / Directory Navigation

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

Jul 27 - Aug 02, 2015

Customization / Directory Navigation

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

For Developers / Directory Navigation

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

System Utilities / Directory Navigation

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

Jul 13 - Jul 19, 2015

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

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

Jun 22 - Jun 28, 2015

Command-Line Productivity

• fzf (⭐58k) - A command-line fuzzy finder

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

• thefuck (⭐81k) - 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

System Utilities / Directory Navigation

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

• powertop (⭐906) - Battery/Power usage and device stats monitoring command-line tool, with tune-up options.

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

Games / Directory Navigation

• minesweeper (⭐54) - Bash implementation of minesweeper

Jun 15 - Jun 21, 2015

Command-Line Productivity

• ag (⭐26k) - Super fast string search through a directory hierarchy

• fasd (⭐5.9k) - Command-line productivity booster, offers quick access to files and directories

• hhighlighter (⭐447) - Colorize words in a command output

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

• hstr (⭐3.8k) - 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 (⭐440) - z for vim.

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

Customization / Directory Navigation

• bash-git-prompt (⭐6.6k) - 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 (⭐947) - Many Git extra utilities. Churn, cut-branch, improved-merge and many more.

• git-semver (⭐372) - Git plugin for easing semantic versioning and changelog validation

• git-sh (⭐732) - A customized Bash environment suitable for Git work

• repren (⭐337) - Command-line search-and-replace and file-renaming swiss army knife

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

• shipit (⭐561) - Minimalistic SSH deployment

System Utilities / Directory Navigation

• lsp (⭐521) - 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 (⭐853) - 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 (⭐171) - 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 (⭐1k) - A text-based kitchen for Android ROM customization. Uses shell scripts and works with Cygwin/OS X/Linux

• image-scraper (⭐742) - A cool command line image scraper with a lot of features.

• jq (⭐28k) - Sed for json data. You can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data

• sejda (⭐468) - 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 (⭐5k) - Command line accounting

• pushblast (⭐97) - Get PushBullet notifications when a shell program exits

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

• wego (⭐7.6k) - 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 (⭐448) - A modular shell automation framework to organize your keeper scripts

• semver_bash (⭐240) - Semantic Versioning in Bash

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

• shpec (⭐375) - A shell testing framework

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

• ts (⭐58) - A shell test script

• The Art of Command Line (⭐144k)

May 04 - May 10, 2015

Customization / Directory Navigation

• gittify (⭐69) - A colorful Bash prompt + customized Git aliases

Oct 13 - Oct 19, 2014

Customization / Directory Navigation

• flatui-terminal-theme - Nicer colors for terminal

Oct 06 - Oct 12, 2014

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

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

Sep 29 - Oct 05, 2014

Games / Directory Navigation

• sedtris (⭐504) - Tetris in sed

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

Jul 14 - Jul 20, 2014

Customization / Directory Navigation

• bash-powerline (⭐874) - Powerline-style Bash prompt in pure Bash script

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

• liquidprompt (⭐4.4k) - A full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh

Multimedia and File Formats / Directory Navigation

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

Games / Directory Navigation

• bash2048 (⭐885) - Bash implementation of 2048 game