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🖥 📊 🕹 🛠 A curated list of command line apps. With up-to-date repository stars⭐ and forks🍴

awesome cli apps

Awesome

A curated list of command line apps.

Inspired by the 296772⭐  26679🍴 awesome) list thing.

Table of Contents

  • Entertainment
    • Music
    • Social Media
    • Video
    • Movies
    • Games
    • Books
  • Development
    • Text Editors
    • Frontend Development
    • Mobile Development
    • Database
    • Devops
    • Docker
    • Release
    • Npm
    • Boilerplate
    • HTTP Server
    • HTTP Client
  • Productivity
    • Time Tracking
    • Note Taking and Lists
    • Finance
    • Presentations
    • Calendars
  • Utilities
    • macOS
    • Terminal Sharing Utilities
    • Network Utilities
    • Theming and Customization
    • Shell Utilities
    • System Interaction Utilities
    • Markdown
    • Security
    • Math
    • Weather
    • Browser Replacement
    • Internet Speedtest
  • Command Line Learning
  • Data Manipulation
    • Processors
    • JSON
    • YAML
    • Columns
    • Text
  • Files and Directories
    • File Managers
    • Deleting, Copying, and Renaming
    • Files
    • File Sync/Sharing
    • Directory Listing
    • Directory Navigation
    • Search
  • Version Control
    • Git
    • GitHub
    • Emoji
  • Images
    • Gif Creation
    • Image Conversion
  • Screensavers
  • Graphics
  • Just for Fun
    • Emoji
  • Other Awesome Lists
  • License

Entertainment

  •   1067⭐     85🍴 football-cli) - Get live scores, fixtures, standings of almost every football competition/league.
  •    490⭐     34🍴 pockyt) - Read, Manage, and Automate your 🌎 Pocket collection.
  •   2779⭐    205🍴 newsboat) - An extendable RSS feed reader for text terminals.

Music

  •   5238⭐    464🍴 cmus) - Small, fast and powerful console music player.
  •   1398⭐    161🍴 Instant-Music-Downloader) - Instant music downloader.
  •    429⭐     35🍴 itunes-remote) - Control iTunes via CLI.
  • 🌎 pianobar - Pandora client.
  •    132⭐     12🍴 somafm-cli) - Listen to SomaFM in your terminal.
  •   2050⭐    339🍴 mpd) - Music Player Daemon.
  •   1971⭐    222🍴 ncmpcpp) - mpd client.
  • moc - Console audio player for Linux/UNIX.
  •   3977⭐    286🍴 musikcube) - Cross-platform, terminal-based music player, audio engine, metadata indexer, and server.
  •  12346⭐   1773🍴 beets) - Music library manager and tagger.
  •  16494⭐    504🍴 spotify-tui) - Spotify client.
  •    313⭐     35🍴 swaglyrics-for-spotify) - Spotify lyrics.
  •    166⭐     10🍴 dzr) - deezer.com player.
  •    443⭐     22🍴 radio-active) - Internet radio player with 40k+ stations.

Social Media

  •    393⭐     35🍴 facebook-cli) - Facebook command line interface.
  •   3529⭐    259🍴 Rainbowstream) - A smart and nice Twitter client on the terminal.
  • 🌎 tuir - Reddit TUI.
  • 🌎 WeeChat - Fast, light and extensible chat client.
  •   2791⭐    348🍴 irssi) - IRC chat client.
  •    514⭐     29🍴 kirc) - Tiny IRC client.

Video

  • 128070⭐   9616🍴 youtube-dl) - Download videos from YouTube.com and many other video sites.
  •   9518⭐   1068🍴 streamlink) - Extract streams from various websites to a video player of your choosing.
  •   7877⭐    637🍴 mps-youtube) - Youtube player.
  • 🌎 mpv - Superior video player.
  •   4520⭐    284🍴 editly) - Declarative video editing.
  •  69281⭐   5495🍴 yt-dlp) - A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes.

Movies

  •    198⭐     14🍴 moviemon) - Everything about your movies.
  •    153⭐     10🍴 movie) - Get movie info or compare movies.

Games

  • Dwarf Fortress - Roguelike construction and management simulation.
  • 🌎 Cataclysm-DDA - Turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
  •   2788⭐    177🍴 pokete) - Pokemon-like.

Books

  •   1121⭐     45🍴 epr) - epub reader.
  •    286⭐     24🍴 Bible.Js CLI) - Bible.
  •     60⭐      2🍴 SpeedRead) - Spritz-alike speedreader.
  •    699⭐     62🍴 medium-cli) - Read 🌎 medium.com stories.

Development

  •    558⭐     19🍴 legit) - Generate Open Source licences as files or file headers.
  •    183⭐      8🍴 mklicense) - Create a custom LICENSE file painlessly with customized info.
  •   4060⭐    378🍴 rebound) - Fetch Stack Overflow results on compiler error.
  •    256⭐     14🍴 foy) - Lightweight general purpose task runner/build tool.
  •  16814⭐    387🍴 just) - Modern make-like command runner.
  •    617⭐     38🍴 bcal) - Byte CALculator for storage conversions and calculations.
  •    608⭐     28🍴 bitwise) - Base conversion and bit manipulation.
  •    369⭐     23🍴 cgasm) - x86 assembly documentation.
  •   6493⭐    149🍴 grex) - Generate regular expressions from user-provided test cases.
  •  10308⭐    744🍴 gdb-dashboard) - Modular visual interface for GDB.
  •    146⭐     15🍴 iola) - Socket client with REST API.
  •    639⭐     14🍴 add-gitignore) - Interactively generate a .gitignore for your project based on your needs.
  •    355⭐     17🍴 is-up-cli) - Check if a domain is up.
  •     27⭐      2🍴 reachable) - Check if a domain is up.
  •   2532⭐    212🍴 loadtest) - Run load tests.
  •    492⭐     49🍴 diff2html-cli) - Create pretty HTML from diffs.

Text Editors

  •   4225⭐   1255🍴 emacs) - An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor — and more.
  •  34748⭐   5188🍴 vim) - Vim - the ubiquitous text editor.
  •  75758⭐   5220🍴 neovim) - Modern vim.
  •   9538⭐    698🍴 kakoune) - Modal editor inspired by vim.
  •  23779⭐   1132🍴 micro) - A simple and intuitive editor.
  •    423⭐     16🍴 o) - Configuration-free text editor and IDE.
  •  29567⭐   2173🍴 helix) - Modal editor inspired by kakoune.

Frontend Development

  •   1608⭐     54🍴 caniuse-cmd) - Search 🌎 caniuse.com about browser support of features.
  •     38⭐      3🍴 strip-css-comments-cli) - Strip comments from CSS.
  •     59⭐      3🍴 viewport-list-cli) - Return a list of devices and their viewports.
  • 🌎 surge - Publish static websites for free.

Mobile Development

  •    111⭐     11🍴 mobicon-cli) - Mobile app icon generator.
  •     70⭐     10🍴 mobisplash-cli) - Mobile app splash screen generator.
  •    569⭐     32🍴 deviceframe) - Put device frames around your mobile/web/progressive app screenshots.

Database

  •  11236⭐    649🍴 mycli) - MySQL client with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
  •  11657⭐    536🍴 pgcli) - Postgres client with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
  •    603⭐    145🍴 sqlline) - Shell for issuing SQL via JDBC.
  •   2477⭐    100🍴 iredis) - Redis client with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
  •   8566⭐    341🍴 usql) - Universal SQL client with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.

Devops

  •    186⭐     11🍴 htconvert) - Convert .htaccess redirects to nginx.conf redirects.
  •   5186⭐    277🍴 SAWS) - Supercharged AWS CLI.
  •   4404⭐    897🍴 s3cmd) - Fully-Featured S3 client.
  •  40485⭐   2555🍴 pm2) - Production Process Manager for Node.js.
  •   1191⭐    129🍴 ops) - Unikernel compilation and orchestration tool.
  •   1019⭐    119🍴 flog) - A fake log generator for log formats such as apache-common, apache error and RFC3164 syslog.
  •  24599⭐   1559🍴 k9s) - Manage Kubernetes Clusters.
  •    710⭐     44🍴 PingMe) - Send messages/alerts to multiple messaging platforms & email.
  •   1137⭐    129🍴 ipfs-deploy) - Deploy static websites to  22488⭐   1464🍴 IPFS).
  •    557⭐     24🍴 Discharge) - Deploy static websites to Amazon S3.
  •    467⭐     59🍴 updatecli) - A declarative dependency management tool.

Docker

  •    320⭐     28🍴 lstags) - Synchronize images across registries.
  •   3672⭐    153🍴 dockly) - Interactively manage containers.
  •  32996⭐   1103🍴 lazydocker) - Simple docker/docker-compose interface.
  •    130⭐      4🍴 docker-pushrm) - Push a readme to container registries.

Release

  •   7479⭐    501🍴 release-it) - Automate releases for Git repositories and/or npm packages. Changelog generation, GitHub/GitLab releases, etc.
  •    832⭐     42🍴 clog) - A conventional changelog for the rest of us.
  •   7420⭐    293🍴 np) - A better npm publish.
  •   3546⭐    112🍴 release) - Generate changelogs with a single command.
  •  19665⭐   1637🍴 semantic-release) - Fully automated version management and package publishing.

Npm

  •    281⭐     26🍴 npm-name-cli) - Check whether a package name is available on npm.
  •     29⭐      4🍴 npm-user-cli) - Get user info of a npm user.
  •    194⭐     10🍴 npm-home) - Open the npm page of the package in the current directory.
  •     23⭐      4🍴 pkg-dir-cli) - Find the root directory of a npm package.
  •   9005⭐    308🍴 npm-check-updates) - Find newer versions of package dependencies than what your package.json allows.
  •     95⭐      9🍴 updates) - Flexible npm dependency update tool.
  •    343⭐      6🍴 wipe-modules) - Remove node_modules of inactive projects.

Boilerplate

  •   3784⭐    392🍴 yo) - Scaffolding tool for running Yeoman generators.
  •   1688⭐    119🍴 boilr) - Create projects from boilerplate templates.
  •  21465⭐   1939🍴 cookiecutter) - Create projects from templates.
  •    821⭐    155🍴 mevn-cli) - Light speed setup for MEVN (Mongo Express Vue Node) Apps.
  •    127⭐     17🍴 scaffold-static) - Scaffolding utility for vanilla JS.

HTTP Server

  •   9132⭐    682🍴 serve) - Serve static files (https, CORS, GZIP compression, etc).
  •     61⭐      3🍴 simplehttp) - Easily serve a local directory over HTTP.
  •   1264⭐    127🍴 shell2http) - Shell script based HTTP server.

HTTP Client

  •  31617⭐   3648🍴 HTTPie) - A user-friendly HTTP client.
  •   8863⭐    328🍴 HTTP Prompt) - Interactive HTTP client featuring autocomplete and syntax highlighting.
  •    558⭐     15🍴 ain) - HTTP client with a simple format to organize API endpoints.
  •   2622⭐     93🍴 curlie) - A curl frontend with the ease of use of HTTPie.

Productivity

  •      ?⭐      ?🍴 doing) - Keep track of what you’re doing and track what you’ve done.
  •   1762⭐     77🍴 ffscreencast) - A ffmpeg screencast with video overlay and multi monitor support.
  •     43⭐      3🍴 meetup-cli) - Meetup.com client.
  • 🌎 NeoMutt - Email client.
  •    860⭐     38🍴 terjira) - Jira client.
  •     11⭐      1🍴 ipt) - Pivotal Tracker client.
  •   1182⭐     56🍴 uber-cli) - Uber client.
  •   6100⭐    287🍴 Buku) - Browser-independent bookmark manager.
  •   1322⭐     94🍴 papis) - Extensible document and bibliography manager.
  •    257⭐     31🍴 pubs) - Scientific bibliography manager.
  •     82⭐      4🍴 fjira) - Fuzzy finder and TUI application for Jira.

Time Tracking

  •   1463⭐    114🍴 Timetrap) - Simple timetracker.
  •    465⭐     43🍴 moro) - Simple tool for tracking work hours.
  •   1134⭐     87🍴 Timewarrior) - Utility with simple stopwatch, calendar-based backfill and flexible reporting.
  •   2377⭐    233🍴 Watson) - Generate reports for clients and manage your time.
  •    297⭐     53🍴 utt) - Simple time tracking tool.
  •    572⭐     29🍴 Bartib) - Easy to use time tracking tool.

Note Taking and Lists

  •    222⭐     14🍴 idea) - A lightweight tool for keeping ideas in a safe place quick and easy.
  •    390⭐     51🍴 geeknote) - Evernote client.
  • 🌎 Taskwarrior - Manage your TODO list.
  • 🌎 Terminal velocity - A fast note-taking app.
  •    731⭐     47🍴 eureka) - Input and store your ideas.
  •    392⭐     32🍴 sncli) - Simplenote client.
  •    183⭐     10🍴 td-cli) - A TODO manager to organize and manage your TODO's across multiple projects.
  •   1690⭐     65🍴 taskell) - Interactive kanban board/task manager.
  •   8877⭐    383🍴 taskbook) - Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat.
  •   2665⭐    118🍴 dnote) - A interactive, multi-device notebook.
  •   6246⭐    173🍴 nb) - A note‑taking, bookmarking, archiving, and knowledge base application.
  •    283⭐     10🍴 obs) - Interact with your Obsidian vault.

Finance

See 🌎 plaintextaccounting.org for a great overview of relevant tools.

  • 🌎 ledger - Powerful, double-entry accounting system.
  • 🌎 hledger - Robust, fast, intuitive plain text accounting tool with CLI, TUI and web interfaces.
  •    138⭐     20🍴 moeda) - Foreign exchange rates and currency conversion.
  •    227⭐     18🍴 cash-cli) - Convert Currency Rates.
  •   3842⭐    304🍴 cointop) - Track cryptocurrencies.
  •   4810⭐    254🍴 ticker) - Stock ticker.

Presentations

  •   3033⭐     79🍴 WOPR) - A simple markup language for creating rich terminal reports, presentations and infographics.
  •   2128⭐    174🍴 decktape) - PDF exporter for HTML presentations.
  •   4866⭐    251🍴 mdp) - A markdown presentation tool.
  • 🌎 sent - Simple plaintext presentation tool.
  •   9083⭐    246🍴 slides) - A markdown presentation tool.

Calendars

  • 🌎 calcurse - Calendar and scheduling.
  •   3203⭐    311🍴 gcalcli) - Google calendar client.
  •   2466⭐    196🍴 khal) - CalDAV ready CLI and TUI calendar.
  •   1451⭐    152🍴 vdirsyncer) - CalDAV sync.
  • 🌎 remind - A sophisticated calendar and alarm program.
  •     77⭐      8🍴 birthday) - Know when a friend's birthday is coming.

Utilities

  •  33337⭐   3393🍴 aria2) - HTTP, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink download utility.
  •     51⭐      5🍴 bitly-client) - Bitly client.
  •    146⭐      3🍴 deadlink) - Find dead links in files.
  •    222⭐     13🍴 crawley) - Unix-way web crawler.
  •    385⭐     23🍴 kill-tabs) - Kill all Chrome tabs.
  •   4742⭐    213🍴 alex) - Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing.
  •    102⭐      2🍴 clevercli) - Collection of ChatGPT powered utilities.

macOS

  •    199⭐     15🍴 open-pip-cli) - Watch videos in picture-in-picture player.
  •     91⭐     15🍴 osx-wifi-cli) - Manage wifi connections.
  •     58⭐      5🍴 active-win-cli) - Get the title/id/etc of the active window.
  •   1056⭐    258🍴 stronghold) - Configure security settings from the terminal.
  •    650⭐     28🍴 dark-mode) - Toggle dark mode.

Terminal Sharing Utilities

  •  18409⭐   1351🍴 gotty) - Share your terminal as a web application.
  •  17974⭐   1282🍴 localtunnel) - Expose your localhost to the world for easy testing and sharing.
  • 🌎 mosh - Remote SSH client that allows roaming with intermittent connectivity.
  • 🌎 ngrok - Secure introspectable tunnels to localhost.
  • 🌎 tmate - Instant terminal (tmux) sharing.
  •   1607⭐     51🍴 warp) - Secure and simple terminal sharing.
  •    410⭐     22🍴 OverTime) - Time-overlap tables for remote teams.

Network Utilities

  •    140⭐     13🍴 get-port-cli) - Get an available port.
  •     24⭐      1🍴 is-reachable-cli) - Check if hostnames are reachable or not.
  •   2021⭐    125🍴 acmetool) - Automatic certificate acquisition for ACME (Let's Encrypt).
  •    662⭐     67🍴 certificate-ripper) - Extract server certificates.
  •    119⭐      2🍴 neoss) - User-friendly and detailed socket statistics.

Theming and Customization

  •    542⭐     31🍴 splash-cli) - Beautiful wallpapers from Unsplash.
  •    169⭐     17🍴 wallpaper-cli) - Get or set the desktop wallpaper.
  •   5366⭐    111🍴 themer) - Generate personalized themes for your editor, terminal, wallpaper, Slack, and more.
  •     12⭐      2🍴 JackPaper) - Set images from Unsplash as wallpaper.
  •   8001⭐    297🍴 pywal) - Generate and change color-schemes, then apply them system-wide to all of your favourite programs.
  •    186⭐      9🍴 QuickWall) - Directly set wallpapers from Unsplash.
  • 🌎 oh-my-posh - Prompt theme engine.

Shell Utilities

  •    607⭐     43🍴 has) - Checks for the presence of various commands and their versions on the path.
  •   8123⭐    135🍴 Ultimate Plumber) - Write Linux pipes with live previews.
  •   6824⭐    158🍴 fkill-cli) - Simple cross-platform process killer.
  • 🌎 task-spooler - Queue jobs for linear execution.
  •    154⭐      4🍴 undollar) - Strip the '$' preceding copy-pasted terminal commands.
  •     63⭐      5🍴 pipe_exec) - Run executables from stdin, pipes and ttys without creating a temporary file.

System Interaction Utilities

  •  20220⭐   1448🍴 neofetch) - System information tool.
  •     32⭐      3🍴 battery-level-cli) - Get current battery level.
  •    201⭐      8🍴 brightness-cli) - Change screen brightness (    10⭐      2🍴 windows)).
  •   1582⭐     46🍴 yank) - Yank terminal output to clipboard.
  •     41⭐      2🍴 screensaver) - Start the screensaver.
  •    176⭐     16🍴 google-font-installer) - Download and install Google Web Fonts on your local machine.
  • 🌎 glances - System monitoring tool.
  •   1626⭐     69🍴 tiptop) - System monitor.
  •    189⭐     12🍴 gzip-size-cli) - Get the gzipped size of a file.

Markdown

  •   4152⭐    480🍴 DocToc) - Generates table of contents for markdown files.
  •   6338⭐    416🍴 grip) - Preview markdown files as GitHub would render them.
  •   1768⭐    106🍴 mdv) - Styled terminal markdown viewer.
  •  14605⭐    313🍴 glow) - Styled markdown rendering.
  •    187⭐      7🍴 gtree) - Use markdown to generate directory trees and the directories itself.

Security

  • 🌎 pass - Password manager.
  •   5619⭐    470🍴 gopass) - Fully-featured password manager.
  •   1094⭐     47🍴 xiringuito) - SSH-based VPN.
  •     73⭐      3🍴 hasha-cli) - Get the hash of text or stdin.
  •   1731⭐     47🍴 ots) - Share secrets with others via a one-time URL.

Math

  •    169⭐      9🍴 mdlt) - Do quick math right from the command line.
  •   1622⭐    132🍴 Qalculate) - Calculate non-trival math expressions. Unit conversions, symbolic calculations and more.

Weather

Browser Replacement

  •   2255⭐    106🍴 s) - Open a web search in your terminal.
  •    347⭐     14🍴 hget) - Render websites in plain text from your terminal.
  •   6961⭐    231🍴 mapscii) - Terminal Map Viewer.
  •     82⭐     13🍴 nasa-cli) - Download NASA Picture of the Day.
  •    153⭐      9🍴 getnews.tech) - Fetch news headlines from various news outlets.
  •    134⭐     12🍴 trino) - Translation of words and phrases.
  •   6741⭐    388🍴 translate-shell) - Google Translate interface.

Internet Speedtest

  •    606⭐    124🍴 speedtest-net) - Test internet connection speed and ping using speedtest.net.
  •   3898⭐    164🍴 speed-test) - speedtest-net wrapper with different UI.
  •  13256⭐   1893🍴 speedtest-cli) - Test internet bandwidth using speedtest.net.
  •   8609⭐    259🍴 bandwhich) - Track bandwidth utilization by process.

Command Line Learning

  • 🌎 cmdchallenge - Presents small shell challenge with user submitted solutions.
  • 🌎 explainshell - Type a snippet to see the help text for each argument.
  •  10412⭐    866🍴 howdoi) - Instant coding answers.
  •   5688⭐    156🍴 how2) - Node.js implementation of howdoi.
  •  82558⭐   3391🍴 The Fuck) - Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.
  •  48090⭐   3948🍴 tldr) - Simplified and community-driven man pages.
  •    489⭐     25🍴 Wat) - Instant, central, community-built docs.
  •    372⭐     65🍴 teachcode) - Guide for the earliest lessons of coding.
  •  14252⭐    485🍴 navi) - Interactive cheatsheet tool.
  •    524⭐     21🍴 yai) - AI powered terminal assistant.

Data Manipulation

  •   7368⭐    270🍴 visidata) - Spreadsheet multitool for data discovery and arrangement.

Processors

  •  28861⭐   1516🍴 jq) - JSON processor.
  •   2441⭐     77🍴 yq) - YAML processor.
  •   4841⭐    114🍴 dasel) - JSON/YAML/TOML/XML processor (like jq/yq).
  •     87⭐      6🍴 yaml-cli) - Query/update YAML.
  •    571⭐     14🍴 ramda-cli) - Process data with functional pipelines.
  •    743⭐     24🍴 xq) - XML and HTML beautifier and content extractor.

JSON

  •     51⭐      4🍴 jp) - JSON parser.
  •  18362⭐    431🍴 fx) - Command-line JSON viewer.
  •     82⭐      4🍴 vj) - Makes JSON human readable.
  •   1714⭐     91🍴 underscore-cli) - Utility-belt for hacking JSON and Javascript.
  •     65⭐      6🍴 strip-json-comments-cli) - Strip comments from JSON.
  •    189⭐     11🍴 GROQ) – JSON processor with queries and projections.
  •  13447⭐    329🍴 gron) - Make JSON greppable.

YAML

  •   1149⭐     56🍴 dyff) - YAML diff tool.

Columns

  •     64⭐      6🍴 parse-columns-cli) - Parse text columns to JSON.
  • q - Execution of SQL-like queries on CSV/TSV/tabular text file.

Text

  • figlet - Creates large text out of ASCII characters.
  •   3156⭐    195🍴 stegcloak) - Hide secrets with invisible characters in plain text securely.

Files and Directories

File Managers

  •  14806⭐    880🍴 ranger) - A console file manager with VI key bindings.
  •   2340⭐    504🍴 midnight-commander) - A feature rich visual file manager.
  • 🌎 Vifm - VI influnced file manager.
  •  18087⭐    731🍴 nnn) - File browser and disk usage analyzer with excellent desktop integration.
  •   7107⭐    312🍴 lf) - Fast, extensively customizable file manager.
  •   4010⭐    165🍴 fff) - Fast, simple file manager.
  •   1236⭐     37🍴 clifm) - The command line file manager.
  •   1656⭐    162🍴 far2l) - Orthodox file manager.

Deleting, Copying, and Renaming

  •   1277⭐     39🍴 trash-cli) - Move files and directories to the trash.
  •    128⭐      5🍴 empty-trash-cli) - Empty the trash.
  •    302⭐     24🍴 del-cli) - Delete files and folders.
  •    334⭐     33🍴 cpy-cli) - Copies files.
  •    162⭐     18🍴 rename-cli) - Rename files quickly.
  • 🌎 renameutils - Mass renaming in your editor.
  •   2125⭐     61🍴 diskonaut) - Disk space navigator.

Files

  •    808⭐     57🍴 chokidar-cli) - CLI to watch file system changes.
  •     71⭐      4🍴 file-type-cli) - Detect the file type of a file or stdin.
  •  46094⭐   1148🍴 bat) - A cat clone with syntax highlighting.
  • 🌎 NCDu - A disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface.
  •    127⭐      4🍴 unix-permissions) - Swiss Army knife for Unix permissions.
  • 🌎 transmission-cli - Torrent client for your command line.
  •   1103⭐    128🍴 webtorrent-cli) – Streaming torrent client.
  •   3957⭐     98🍴 entr) - Run an arbitrary command when files change.
  •    325⭐     15🍴 organize-cli) - Organize your files automatically.
  • 🌎 organize-rt - organize-cli in Rust with more customization.
  •   1163⭐     53🍴 RecoverPy) - Recover overwritten or deleted files.

File Sync/Sharing

  •  43439⭐   3903🍴 rclone) - Sync files with various cloud providers.
  •   6816⭐    178🍴 ffsend) - Quick file share.
  •    346⭐     20🍴 share-cli) - Share files with your local network.
  •    676⭐    143🍴 google-drive-upload) - Upload/sync with Google Drive.
  •    290⭐     26🍴 gdrive-downloader) - Download files/folders from Google Drive.
  •   1114⭐     29🍴 portal) - Send files between computers.
  •      ?⭐      ?🍴 shbin) - Turn a Github repo into a pastebin.
  •   1714⭐     71🍴 sharing) - Send and receive files on your mobile device.
  •     31⭐      0🍴 ncp) - Transfer files and folders, to and from NFS servers.

Directory Listing

  •    220⭐     16🍴 alder) - Minimal tree with colors.
  •   6768⭐    128🍴 eza) - Improved version of ls.
  •    662⭐     13🍴 tre) - tree with git awareness, editor aliasing, and more.
  •     46⭐      1🍴 ll) - ls with git status.
  •  12184⭐    400🍴 lsd) - ls with many extra features.

Directory Navigation

  •  15903⭐    695🍴 autojump) - A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line.
  •    188⭐     17🍴 pm) - The easy way to switch to your projects on the shell.
  •  16001⭐   1158🍴 z) - z is the new j, yo.
  •      ?⭐      ?🍴 PathPicker) - After parsing the output from a command, PathPicker presents you with a nice UI to select which files you're interested in.
  •    497⭐     23🍴 fz) - Seamless fuzzy tab completion for z.
  •    859⭐     62🍴 goto) - Directory aliases for the shell with autocomplete.
  •   2907⭐    137🍴 z.lua) - cd command that learns your habits.
  •  17935⭐    488🍴 zoxide) - Fast directory jumper in Rust.
  •   1616⭐     35🍴 tere) - A faster alternative to using cd and ls.

Search

  •    330⭐      9🍴 happyfinder) - (another) Fuzzy file finder for the command line.
  •     36⭐      7🍴 find-up-cli) - Find a file by walking up parent directories.
  •  44423⭐   1873🍴 ripgrep) - A line-oriented search tool that recursively searches your current directory for a regex pattern.
  •  59062⭐   2286🍴 fzf) - A general purpose command-line fuzzy finder, can be used with any list: files/directories, command history, processes, hostnames, bookmarks, git commits, etc.
  •   3786⭐     80🍴 fselect) - Find files with SQL-like queries.
  •  31334⭐    758🍴 fd) - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.
  •   9980⭐    220🍴 broot) - Fuzzy finder similar to fzf, but with space usage visualization.
  •    250⭐     13🍴 rare) - Real-time regex aggregation and analysis.
  •   4786⭐    171🍴 skim) - A general fuzzy finder written in rust, similar to fzf.
  •   5737⭐    135🍴 ast-grep) - A tool for code structrual search, linting and rewriting.

Version Control

  •   1259⭐     41🍴 SnowFS) - A fast, scalable version control system for binaries.

Git

  •   1103⭐     62🍴 git commander) - Interactive git tool.
  •   6307⭐    177🍴 git-stats) - A local GitHub-like contributions calendar.
  •    180⭐     12🍴 dev-time) - Get the current local time of a GitHub user.
  •  12117⭐    598🍴 tig) - Text-mode interface for git.
  •   3994⭐     97🍴 grv) - Text-mode interface for git with customisable vi bindings.
  •   7523⭐    299🍴 git-standup) - Recall what you did on the last working day.
  •   3600⭐    200🍴 git-secret) - Store your private data inside a git repository.
  •    262⭐     46🍴 gitlab-cli) - Create GitLab merge requests.
  •  16675⭐   1189🍴 git-extras) - Git utilities.
  •   1597⭐     70🍴 gita) - Manage multiple git repos side by side.
  •  10733⭐   1347🍴 readme-md-generator) - Interactively generate README.md files.
  •    144⭐     12🍴 semantic-git-commit-cli) - Ensure semantic commits messages.
  •     17⭐      2🍴 import-github-labels-cli) - Sync labels between Github repos.
  •      5⭐      0🍴 git-all-branches) - Improved git branch -a.
  •    919⭐     32🍴 czg) - Interactively generate standardized commit messages.
  •   1173⭐    246🍴 shallow-backup) - Git integrated backup tool.
  •  44909⭐   1660🍴 Lazygit) - Simple TUI for git commands.

GitHub

  •    434⭐     15🍴 CLI GitHub) - Fancy GitHub client.
  •  22673⭐   2180🍴 hub) - Make git easier to use with GitHub.
  •    571⭐     41🍴 git-labelmaker) - Edit GitHub labels.

Emoji

  •   4482⭐    204🍴 gitmoji-cli) - Use emoji in commit messages.
  •    379⭐     48🍴 gitmoji-changelog) - Generate gitmoji changelogs.

Images

  •  20301⭐   1361🍴 SVGO) - Optimize SVG files.
  •   5669⭐    116🍴 carbon-now-cli) - Generate beautiful images of your code.
  •     56⭐      7🍴 imgur-uploader-cli) - Upload images to imgur.
  •   1643⭐     81🍴 pageres-cli) - Capture website screenshots.

Gif Creation

  •    535⭐     29🍴 gifgen) - Simple high quality GIF encoding.
  •   3599⭐    226🍴 gifsicle) - Create, manipulate, and optimize GIF images and animations.
  •   3897⭐    250🍴 ttygif) - Convert terminal recordings to animated gifs.
  •    266⭐     14🍴 ttygif) - ttyrec to gif.
  •   3234⭐     93🍴 ttystudio) - A terminal-to-gif recorder minus the headaches.
  •  13073⭐    884🍴 asciinema) - Terminal session recorder and companion app for asciinema.org.
  •    220⭐      5🍴 givegif) - GIFs on the command line.

Image Conversion

  • 🌎 imagemagick - Gold standard for anything images.
  •   1005⭐     49🍴 imgp) - Blazing fast batch image resizer and rotator.
  •    365⭐     15🍴 korkut) - Quick and simple image processing.

Screensavers

  •   3697⭐    377🍴 cmatrix) - Scrolling 'Matrix'-like screen.
  •   2236⭐     73🍴 pipes.sh) - Random pipes that grow across the screen.
  •     56⭐      1🍴 YuleLog) - Christmas Yule Log fireplace.
  •     48⭐      1🍴 cli-fireplace) - Digital fireplace.

Graphics

  •     85⭐      2🍴 cli-mandelbrot) - Traverse the Mandelbrot fractal.
  •    133⭐      5🍴 sparkly-cli) - Generate sparklines ▁▂▃▅▂▇..
  •   4872⭐     95🍴 pastel) - Generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors.
  •    170⭐      5🍴 lowcharts) - Draw low-resolution graphs.

Just for Fun

  •     84⭐      6🍴 quote-cli) - Get a random quote or the quote of the day in your CLI.
  •    375⭐     53🍴 fortune) - Shows a random fortune.
  •   1173⭐     78🍴 ponysay) - Pony rewrite of cowsay.
  •    207⭐     43🍴 yosay) - Like cowsay, but for yeoman.
  •   5838⭐    210🍴 lolcat) - Outputs text in rainbow colors.
  •    103⭐      6🍴 text-meme) - Generate text memes.
  •     52⭐      5🍴 dankcli) - Add text to meme image templates.
  •     55⭐      2🍴 ricksay) - Quotes from Rick and Morty.

Emoji

  •   2351⭐     86🍴 emoj) - Find relevant emoji from text on the command-line.
  •     26⭐      3🍴 emoji-finder) - Quickly find and copy emoji to the clipboard via the command-line.
  •    712⭐     20🍴 oji) - Interactive text emoji maker.

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