See also

• awesome-cli-apps
• terminals-are-sexy

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• WikiBooks: Bash Shell Scripting
• Google's Shell Style Guide
• Bash Hackers Wiki
• The Linux Documentation Project: Advanced Bash Scripting Guide
• Use the Unofficial Bash Strict Mode (Unless You Looove Debugging)
• Bash Official Reference Manual
• The Linux Documentation Project: Bash Programming - Intro/How-to
• bashly - Bash command line framework and CLI generator
• dispatch - A command line argument parser in 50 lines of portable shell script.
• Greg Wooledge's (aka "greycat") wiki
• Bash Guide
• Learn Enough Command Line to Be Dangerous
• Shell Field Guide
• shellcheck - Static analysis tool for shell scripts
• The Art of Command Line
• A guide to learn bash
• shfmt - A shell parser, formatter, and interpreter with bash support; includes shfmt
• awesome-awesome - awesomeness](https://github.com/bayandin/awesome-awesomeness).
• composure - Compose, document, version and organize your shell functions
• optparse - A BASH wrapper for getopts, for simple command line arguments.
• bats - Bash Automated Testing System
• bash-language-server - [LSP](https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/)-based Bash language server
• shellspec - A full-featured BDD unit testing framework for dash, bash, ksh, zsh and all POSIX shells
• assert.sh - Bash unit testing framework
• shunit2 - A unit test framework for Bash scripts with a flavour of JUnit/PyUnit.
• getoptions - An elegant option parser for shell scripts (sh, bash and all POSIX shells)
• getopts.fish - CLI parser for fish
• Fishtape - TAP producer and test harness for fish
• zunit - A powerful unit testing framework for ZSH
• mo - Mustache templates in pure bash
• ansi - ANSI escape codes in pure bash - change text color, position the cursor, much more
• semver_bash - Semantic Versioning in Bash
• bashful - A collection of libraries to simplify writing Bash scripts
• bash-modules - functions for developing with [unofficial strict mode](http://redsymbol.net/articles/unofficial-bash-strict-mode/) enabled.
• shellfire - A repository of namespaced, composable shell (bash, sh and dash) function libraries
• esh - A simple templating engine based on shell, implemented in ~290 lines of POSIX shell and awk.
• critic.sh - Dead simple testing framework for Bash with coverage reporting
• bashew - bash script creator - from small stand-alone script to complex projects with CI/CD and testing
• revolver - A reusable progress spinner for shell scripts
• is.sh - An alternative for builtin test command, it will make your "if" statements pretty
• sh-semver - Semver tool for bash - finds versions matching to specified rules
• lumberjack - A logging interface for shell scripts
• crash - Proper error handling, exceptions and try/catch for ZSH
• powscript - bash transpiler written in bash (coffeescript for bash)
• shpec - A shell testing framework
• urchin - An idiomatic shell testing framework that uses only shell commands
• shutit - Automation framework based on bash and pexpect
• bashmanager - mini bash framework for creating command line tools
• bashwithnails - a Bash framework written just for fun with testing, dependency management & packaging
• rerun - A modular shell automation framework to organize your keeper scripts
• phases - Minimally invasive bash preprocessor, select sections of your script to run
• ts - A shell test script
• rebash - Scripting library/framework. Features: imports, exceptions, doc-tests ...
• Use the Unofficial Bash Strict Mode (Unless You Looove Debugging)
• Bashlets - A modular extensible toolbox for Bash
• bashly - Bash command line framework and CLI generator
• sub - A delicious way to organize programs

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• starship - Fast, customisable, cross-shell prompt written in rust
• flatui-terminal-theme - Nicer colors for terminal
• powerlevel10k - Super flexible awesome powerline ZSH theme
• bash-git-prompt - An informative and fancy Bash prompt for Git users
• bullet-train-oh-my-zsh-theme - :bullettrain_side: An oh-my-zsh shell theme based on the Powerline Vim plugin
• bash-powerline - Powerline-style Bash prompt in pure Bash script
• oh-my-git - An opinionated git prompt for bash and zsh
• bashstrap - A quick way to spruce up OSX terminal
• git-prompt - Bash prompt with Git, SVN and HG modules
• gittify - A colorful Bash prompt + customized Git aliases
• sexy-bash-prompt - Bash prompt with colors, Git statuses, and Git branches
• emojify
• bash-full-of-colors - Powerful prompt with screen, tmux, git support and many more
• synth-shell - Greeter with a customizable status report and a fancy bash prompt
• aphrodite-terminal-theme
• geometry - A minimal ZSH theme where any function can be added to the left prompt or (async) right prompt on the fly.
• base16-builder - Base16-Builder
• mysql-colorize - Colorization for mysql comand-line client
• polyglot - An informative Git prompt that works in bash, zsh, ksh, mksh, pdksh, oksh, dash, yash, busybox sh, and osh
• liquidprompt - A full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh

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• mpv - Lets you play most audio and video formats (using ASCII characters) in the shell as well as in a GUI.
• xmlstarlet - Old but powerful tool for command-line XML formatting, filtering, and manipulation.
• fx - Command-line JSON processing tool by anononymus JavaScript functions
• visidata - A terminal spreadsheet multitool for exploring and arranging data (csv/json/xml/xls/yaml/etc)
• Beets - Music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger
• dasel - Query and update data structures using selectors from the command line. Comparable to [jq](https://github.com/stedolan/jq) / [yq](https://github.com/kislyuk/yq) but supports JSON, YAML, TOML and XML with zero runtime dependencies.
• jc - Convert command output, file-types, and common strings to JSON or YAML for easier use in scripts.
• yq - yq is a portable command-line YAML processor
• imgp - Blazing fast batch image resizer and rotator
• cmus - Cross-platform cli audio player.
• jo - A small utility to create JSON objects from command-line arguments.
• image-scraper - A cool command line image scraper with a lot of features.
• korkut - Quick and simple image processing at the command line.
• adb-export - Export Android content providers to CSV format
• gifgen - Simple high quality GIF encoding
• dzr - Cross-platform Deezer.com audio player.
• PiCAST - PiCAST turns your $35 Raspberry Pi in to a Chromecast like Device
• library - 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.
• nehm - Console tool, which downloads, sets IDv3 tags and adds to your iTunes (if you use it) your SoundCloud likes in convenient way
• Android-Kitchen - A text-based kitchen for Android ROM customization. Uses shell scripts and works with Cygwin/OS X/Linux
• jq - Sed for json data. You can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data
• sejda - Command line manipulation of PDF documents (split, merge, rotate, convert to jpg, extract text, etc)
• xidel - Cli tool to filter, map and create HTML/XML/JSON data with (Turing-complete) XPath and XQuery.

• Lmod - Lua-based Environment Modules that enhances Tcl-based modules while being backward compatible (compare to modules)
• pass - Manage passwords from the command line with GPG encryption and optional git integration.
• screen - GNU terminal multiplexer
• byobu - Text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer
• modules - Classical Tcl-based Environment Modules managing the shell environment (compare to Lmod, direnv, and autoenv)
• tmux - Amazing terminal multiplexer
• parallel - Build and execute shell command lines from standard input in parallel
• Buku - Powerful command-line bookmark manager
• ag - Super fast string search through a directory hierarchy
• direnv - An environment switcher for the shell, compare with autoenv
• lf - Terminal file manager written in Go, inspired by ranger
• dnote - A simple command line notebook with multi-device sync and web interface
• fzf - A command-line fuzzy finder
• autoenv - Directory-based environments.
• rg - ripgrep is a line oriented search tool that combines the usability of The Silver Searcher with the raw speed of GNU grep
• fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.
• browsh - The modern text-based browser
• funky - Extends functionality of shell functions making them more powerful and flexible.
• googler - Google Search, Google Site Search, Google News from the terminal
• mcfly - Fly through your shell history. Great Scot!
• xxh - Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through the SSH.
• broot - A better way to navigate directories
• fselect - Find files with SQL-like queries.
• hstr - Bash History Suggest Box
• bashhub - :cloud: Bash history in the cloud. Indexed and searchable.
• percol - Adds flavor of interactive filtering to the traditional pipe concept of UNIX shell
• marker - Bookmark your shell commands
• pathpicker - 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.
• thefuck - Fix common shell mistakes by using an easy to remember command
• nnn - File browser and disk usage analyzer with excellent desktop integration
• spark - ▁▂▃▅▂▇ in your shell
• sshfs - A tool for mounting remote file systems over SSH
• xsv - a fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust
• pdd - Tiny date, time diff calculator with timers
• k - k is a Zsh script to make directory listings more readable, adding Git status, fileweight colors and rotting dates
• boilr - A blazingly fast CLI tool for creating projects from boilerplate templates.
• usql - Universal command-line interface for SQL databases.
• fasd - Command-line productivity booster, offers quick access to files and directories
• how2 - `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 - An interactive parallel ssh client featuring autocomplete and asynchronous execution
• navi - An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line
• slugify - Command that converts filenames and directories to a web friendly format
• AdvancedNewFile - Fast creation of files and directories in a recursive way. Inspired by the Vim plugin.
• hr - `<hr />` for your terminal
• aliases - Contextual, dynamic, organized aliases for bash
• loop - Write and control complex loops with as one-liners
• hhighlighter - Colorize words in a command output
• k alias - get kool aliases (and more) working with a simple one-liner
• spot - Tiny file search utility
• tldr - A fully-functional bash client for tldr, simplified and community-driven man pages
• xplr - A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer
• undollar - undollar bites the dollar sign off the tip of the command you just pasted into your terminal
• wemux - Multi-User Tmux Made Easy
• borg - A terminal based search engine for bash commands
• bartib - 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.
• tere - A faster alternative to cd + ls
• resh - Contextual shell history for Zsh and Bash
• v - z for vim.
• ddgr - DuckDuckGo from the terminal
• spark.fish - ▁▂▃▅ Sparkline Generator
• arttime - Beauty of text art meets functionality of clock, timer, pomodoro++ time manager
• await - single binary that run list of commands in parallel and waits for their termination
• boom - Store links and snippets in the command line
• cod - -help` commands
• CloudClip - Your own clipboard in the cloud, copy and paste text with gist between different systems
• desk - A lightweight workspace manager for the shell
• foxy - Plain text bookmarks for Firefox and surf browsers.
• gitmux - Show Git status in Tmux status bar
• googlr - Command line tool that lets you search Google from your terminal.
• has - `has` helps you check presence of various command line tools and their versions on path
• sqlline - Shell for issuing SQL to relational databases via JDBC (multiline, completion, highlighting, dialect support)
• lf.sh - Quickly search files with fewer typings and do many more (grepping, copying path to clipboard, etc)
• lowcharts - Draw low-resolution graphs in terminal
• td-cli - A todo command line manager to organize and manage your todos across multiple projects.
• xiki - Makes the shell console more friendly and powerful
• sman - :bug: A command-line snippet manager
• shell-history - Visualize your shell usage with Highcharts
• snips - Command line tool to manage snippets of code.
• surfraw - browse specific site and search the web from your terminal without browser.
• sheet - Text snippets for the command line
• qfc - File-completion widget for Bash and Zsh
• SHML - Style framework for the terminal (Shell Markup Language)
• q - Vim like macro registers for your Bash and Zsh Shell
• modules - Classical Tcl-based Environment Modules managing the shell environment (compare to Lmod, direnv, and autoenv)
• ok-sh - 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.
• sudocabulary - Learn English Vocabulary from your terminal
• task-manager - Execute all your scripts with just two or three keystrokes.
• byobu - Text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer
• eureka - :bulb: CLI tool to input and store your ideas without leaving the terminal
• mackup - Keep your application settings in sync (OS X/Linux)
• modules - Classical Tcl-based Environment Modules managing the shell environment (compare to Lmod, direnv, and autoenv)

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• z.lua - A new cd command that helps you navigate faster by learning your habits
• autojump - A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line
• zoxide - A faster way to navigate your filesystem, written in Rust
• z - z is the new j, yo
• aliasme - alias helper to change directory quickly
• bashmarks - Directory bookmarks for the shell
• jump - Jump helps you navigate your file system faster by learning your habits.
• commacd - A faster way to move around in Bash
• up - Ascend directories by name or count; for bash, zsh, and fish.
• goto - A shell utility for navigation to aliased directories supporting auto-completion
• bd - Quickly go back to a parent directory
• zpyi - Python in Zsh - Easy python scripting in shell
• lazy-cd - Simple bash commands for bookmarked navigation of the file system, complete with bash-completion.

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• ncdu - NCurses Disk Usage
• bat - A `cat` clone with wings
• maza - Local ad blocker. Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating system.
• exa - A modern version of `ls`.
• btop - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor
• glances - Glances an Eye on your system
• goaccess - GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in \*nix systems.
• htop - A ncurses based interactive process viewer which aims to be a better `top`
• progress - Linux tool to show progress for `cp`, `rm`, `dd`, and more...
• bmon - Real-time network bandwidth monitor and rate estimator with human-friendly visual output
• powertop - Battery/Power usage and device stats monitoring command-line tool, with tune-up options.
• rng - Copy range of lines from file or stdin to stdout.
• ccat - ccat is the colorizing cat. It works similar to cat but displays content with syntax highlighting.
• lsp - An improved `ls`, with file descriptions in plain language and intelligent file grouping
• ls++ - Colorized ls on steroids
• catcli - The command line catalog tool for your offline data
• logdissect - CLI utility and Python API for analyzing log files and other data.
• hblock - Hosts-file based adblocker
• mtr - The functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool.
• tiptop - Graphical command-line system monitor.
• prettyping - Making the output of `ping` prettier, more colorful, more compact, and easier to read.
• stronghold - Easily configure MacOS security settings from the terminal.
• xiringuito - SSH-based "VPN for poors"
• quick-secure - Quickly secure and harden UNIX/Linux systems
• nmtui - Text User Interface for controlling NetworkManager
• histstat - History for netstat
• wifi-wand - a Ruby command line application for managing WiFi on MacOS (install by `gem install wifi-wand`)
• procdog - Lightweight command-line control of long-lived processes like servers
• lsd - LSDeluxe, rewrite of GNU ls with lot of added features like colors, icons, tree-view and more formatting options.
• atop - ASCII full-screen performance monitor that is capable of reporting the activity of all processes
• lnav - An advanced log file viewer for the small-scale

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• minesweeper - Bash implementation of minesweeper
• SHTAP - Reusable text adventure engine for Bash 4
• nudoku - ncurses based sudoku game written in C
• piu-piu - Horizontal scroller game in bash with multiplayer mode!
• tty-solitaire - Play solitaire in your terminal!
• sedtris - Tetris in sed
• bash2048 - Bash implementation of 2048 game
• sed-scripts - Arkanoid and Sokoban written using sed

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• taskwarrior - A command-line TODO list manager
• wego - Weather app for the terminal
• ticker
• editly - Command line video editor
• jrnl - A simple command line journal application that stores your journal in a plain text file
• wttr.in - :partly_sunny: The right way to check the weather (curl wttr.in)
• carbon-now-cli - 🎨 Beautiful images of your code — from right inside your terminal.
• pcalc - Calculator made for programmers working with multiple number representations, sizes, and overall close to the bits.
• dstask - Single binary terminal-based TODO manager with git-based sync + markdown notes per task
• whales - A tool to automatically dockerize your applications
• Reddit Terminal Viewer - Browse Reddit from your terminal
• ranger - A console file manager with VI key bindings.
• terjira - Command line power tool for Jira
• ledger - Command line accounting
• gcalcli - Google Calendar command line interface
• pockyt - Read, Manage, and Automate your [Pocket](https://getpocket.com) collection.
• fanyi - Translate English to Chinese in terminal
• bashblog - A Bash script that handles blog posting
• SAWS - A Supercharged AWS CLI
• vl - URL link checker on text documents
• nomino - Batch rename utility using regex, sort and map file options.
• haxor-news - Browse Hacker News like a haxor
• awless - A powerful, innovative and small surface CLI to manage AWS.
• facebook-cli - Facebook command line tool
• moviemon - Everything about your movies within the command line.
• iponmap - Draw point on world map using ip address
• ansiweather - Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols
• md2png - Convert markdown to PNG image
• hn-cli - Browse Hacker News from the comfort of your Terminal
• kanban.bash - commandline asciii kanban board for minimalist productivity bash hackers (csv-based)
• pushblast - Get PushBullet notifications when a shell program exits
• whereami - Get your geolocation information from the CLI
• geeknote - Command line evernote client
• taskbook - Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat
• choosealicense-cli - Choose an OSS license from the comfort of your terminal
• isitup - Check whether a website is up or down
• licen - Generate your license. Yet another lice, but implement with Jinja2 and docopt
• pushbullet-bash - Bash interface to the PushBullet API
• cointop - The fastest and most interactive terminal based UI application for tracking cryptocurrencies

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• 1Password SSH Agent - Authenticate Git and SSH workflows with biometric unlock using 1Password
• ack - A grep-like search tool optimized for source code.
• trunk - Blazingly fast meta code checker and formatter
• cloc - Count Lines of Code
• forgit - Utility tool for `git` taking advantage of fuzzy finder fzf.
• git-open - Type `git open` to open the GitHub page or website for a repository in your browser
• nve - Run any command on specific Node.js versions.
• repren - Command-line search-and-replace and file-renaming swiss army knife
• bcal - Byte CALculator for storage conversions and calculations
• bitwise - Terminal based interactive bit manipulator in curses.
• git-extras - Git utilities -- repo summary, repl, changelog population, author commit percentages and more
• just - Task runner for saving and running project-specific commands.
• bocker - Docker implemented in 100 lines of bash
• dokku - Docker powered mini-Heroku. The smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seen.
• slap - Sublime-like terminal-based text editor that runs on Node.js
• doclt - A command line interface to Digital Ocean
• wipe-modules - A little agent that removes the node_modules folder of non-active projects
• rebound - Instantly browse Stack Overflow results in your terminal when you get a compiler error
• overcommit - A fully configurable and extendable Git hook manager
• gita - A command-line tool to manage multiple git repos.
• git-extra-commands - Many Git extra utilities. Churn, cut-branch, improved-merge and many more.
• git-sh - A customized Bash environment suitable for Git work
• add-gitignore - Interactive CLI that generates a .gitignore for your project based on your needs.
• mkdkr - Makefile + Docker = CI Pipeline
• shipit - Minimalistic SSH deployment
• tag - Instantly jump to your ag matches.
• git-semver - Git plugin for easing semantic versioning and changelog validation
• starring - Automatically star the npm-packages that you are using on GitHub.
• licins - Insert commented software licenses into source code.
• git-quick-stats - Git quick statistics is a simple and efficient way to access various statistics in git repository.
• vmn - git-based automatic versioning and state recovery solution agnostic to language or architecture
• hub - hub helps you win at git.
• mr - Multiple Repository management tool
• vmn - git-based automatic versioning and state recovery solution agnostic to language or architecture

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• bpkg - JavaScript has npm, Ruby has Gems, Python has pip and now Shell has bpkg
• yadm - Git-based dotfiles manager supporting encryption, alternates, and bootstrapping
• bash-it - A community Bash framework
• fresh - Keep your dotfiles fresh
• shallow-backup - Easily create lightweight documentation of installed packages, dotfiles, and more
• homeshick - Git dotfile synchronizer written in Bash
• dotdrop - Save your dotfiles once, deploy them everywhere
• vcsh - Config manager based on Git
• dotfiler
• basher - A package manager for shell scripts
• bashing - Smashing Bash into Pieces
• shundle - Plugin manager for shell scripts
• bpkg - JavaScript has npm, Ruby has Gems, Python has pip and now Shell has bpkg

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• shell2http - HTTP-server to execute shell commands. Designed for development, prototyping or remote control
• yt-dlp - Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites
• aria2 - aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink
• resty - Little command line REST client that you can use in pipelines
• xh - Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests
• bashttpd - A web server written in Bash
• balls - Bash on Balls
• Dropbox-Uploader - Dropbox Uploader is a Bash script which can be used to upload, download, list or delete files from Dropbox
• ngincat - Tiny Bash HTTP server using netcat
• bashhub-server - Private cloud shell history. Open source server for bashhub
• Kapow! - If you can script it, you can HTTP it.
• tshare - File sharing from commandline.
• vesper - 🍸Vesper is a HTTP framework for Bash/Unix Shell
• httpie - HTTPie is a command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement
• HTTPLab - The interactive web server, let you inspect HTTP requests and forge responses.
• bitpocket - "DIY Dropbox" or "2-way directory (r)sync with proper deletion"