awesome-shell

A curated list of awesome command-line frameworks, toolkits, guides and gizmos. Inspired by awesome-php.
https://github.com/alebcay/awesome-shell

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For Developers
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  - just - Task runner for saving and running project-specific commands.
  - licins - Insert commented software licenses into source code.
  - mkdkr - Makefile + Docker = CI Pipeline
  - nve - Run any command on specific Node.js versions.
  - overcommit - A fully configurable and extendable Git hook manager
  - rebound - Instantly browse Stack Overflow results in your terminal when you get a compiler error
  - repren - Command-line search-and-replace and file-renaming swiss army knife
  - slap - Sublime-like terminal-based text editor that runs on Node.js
  - shipit - Minimalistic SSH deployment
  - starring - Automatically star the npm-packages that you are using on GitHub.
  - tag - Instantly jump to your ag matches.
  - vmn - git-based automatic versioning and state recovery solution agnostic to language or architecture
  - wipe-modules - A little agent that removes the node_modules folder of non-active projects
  - hub - hub helps you win at git.
Games
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  - minesweeper - Bash implementation of minesweeper
  - SHTAP - Reusable text adventure engine for Bash 4
  - bash2048 - Bash implementation of 2048 game
  - nudoku - ncurses based sudoku game written in C
  - piu-piu - Horizontal scroller game in bash with multiplayer mode!
  - sedtris - Tetris in sed
  - sed-scripts - Arkanoid and Sokoban written using sed
  - tty-solitaire - Play solitaire in your terminal!
Multimedia and File Formats
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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.
  - adb-export - Export Android content providers to CSV format
  - Android-Kitchen - A text-based kitchen for Android ROM customization. Uses shell scripts and works with Cygwin/OS X/Linux
  - Beets - Music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger
  - cmus - Cross-platform cli audio player.
  - 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.
  - dzr - Cross-platform Deezer.com audio player.
  - fx - Command-line JSON processing tool by anononymus JavaScript functions
  - gifgen - Simple high quality GIF encoding
  - image-scraper - A cool command line image scraper with a lot of features.
  - imgp - Blazing fast batch image resizer and rotator
  - jc - Convert command output, file-types, and common strings to JSON or YAML for easier use in scripts.
  - jo - A small utility to create JSON objects from command-line arguments.
  - korkut - Quick and simple image processing at the command line.
  - 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
  - PiCAST - PiCAST turns your $35 Raspberry Pi in to a Chromecast like Device
  - visidata - A terminal spreadsheet multitool for exploring and arranging data (csv/json/xml/xls/yaml/etc)
  - yq - yq is a portable command-line YAML processor
  - jq - Sed for json data. You can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data
  - xmlstarlet - Old but powerful tool for command-line XML formatting, filtering, and manipulation.
Shell Package Management
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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
  - basher - A package manager for shell scripts
  - bashing - Smashing Bash into Pieces
  - dotdrop - Save your dotfiles once, deploy them everywhere
  - dotfiler
  - fresh - Keep your dotfiles fresh
  - homeshick - Git dotfile synchronizer written in Bash
  - shallow-backup - Easily create lightweight documentation of installed packages, dotfiles, and more
  - shundle - Plugin manager for shell scripts
  - vcsh - Config manager based on Git
  - bpkg - JavaScript has npm, Ruby has Gems, Python has pip and now Shell has bpkg
Shells
- bash - GNU Project's shell (Bourne Again SHell)
- elvish - Friendly, expressive shell features like anonymous functions and data structures
- osh - Bash compatible, with new/modern Unix shell language called Oil
- pdksh - Public domain Korn shell
- powershell - platform task automation and configuration management framework, consisting of a command-line shell and scripting language
- tcsh - C shell with file name completion and command line editing
- yash - A POSIX-compliant command line shell with built-in support for completion and prediction based on command history
- es - The extensible shell, based on Plan 9's [rc](https://github.com/rakitzis/rc) shell
- ion - A modern system shell that features a simple, yet powerful, syntax. It is written entirely in Rust.
- ksh93 - Korn Shell
- mksh - MirBSD Korn Shell
- murex - A smarter shell and scripting environment with advanced features designed for usability, safety and productivity (eg smarter DevOps tooling)
- ngs - Fully featured scripting language created specifically for Ops. REPL is being developed.
- nushell - A modern shell written in Rust
- oksh - Portable OpenBSD ksh
- shell++ - Friendly and modern functional and object oriented shell script language
- shenv - Simple shell version management
- yash - A POSIX-compliant command line shell with built-in support for completion and prediction based on command history
- powershell - platform task automation and configuration management framework, consisting of a command-line shell and scripting language
- zsh - Powerful shell with scripting language
- powershell - platform task automation and configuration management framework, consisting of a command-line shell and scripting language
- fish - Smart and user-friendly command line shell
Shell Script Development
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  - bashly - Bash command line framework and CLI generator
  - dispatch - A command line argument parser in 50 lines of portable shell script.
  - Bash Official Reference Manual
  - Bash Hackers Wiki
  - Greg Wooledge's (aka "greycat") wiki
  - Bash Guide
  - Google's Shell Style Guide
  - The Linux Documentation Project: Bash Programming - Intro/How-to
  - The Linux Documentation Project: Advanced Bash Scripting Guide
  - WikiBooks: Bash Shell Scripting
  - Use the Unofficial Bash Strict Mode (Unless You Looove Debugging)
  - Learn Enough Command Line to Be Dangerous
  - Shell Field Guide
  - ansi - ANSI escape codes in pure bash - change text color, position the cursor, much more
  - assert.sh - Bash unit testing framework
  - bashew - bash script creator - from small stand-alone script to complex projects with CI/CD and testing
  - bashful - A collection of libraries to simplify writing Bash scripts
  - bashmanager - mini bash framework for creating command line tools
  - bashwithnails - a Bash framework written just for fun with testing, dependency management & packaging
  - bash-language-server - [LSP](https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/)-based Bash language server
  - bash-modules - functions for developing with [unofficial strict mode](http://redsymbol.net/articles/unofficial-bash-strict-mode/) enabled.
  - bats - Bash Automated Testing System
  - composure - Compose, document, version and organize your shell functions
  - crash - Proper error handling, exceptions and try/catch for ZSH
  - critic.sh - Dead simple testing framework for Bash with coverage reporting
  - esh - A simple templating engine based on shell, implemented in ~290 lines of POSIX shell and awk.
  - Fishtape - TAP producer and test harness for fish
  - getoptions - An elegant option parser for shell scripts (sh, bash and all POSIX shells)
  - getopts.fish - CLI parser for fish
  - is.sh - An alternative for builtin test command, it will make your "if" statements pretty
  - lumberjack - A logging interface for shell scripts
  - mo - Mustache templates in pure bash
  - optparse - A BASH wrapper for getopts, for simple command line arguments.
  - rerun - A modular shell automation framework to organize your keeper scripts
  - revolver - A reusable progress spinner for shell scripts
  - phases - Minimally invasive bash preprocessor, select sections of your script to run
  - powscript - bash transpiler written in bash (coffeescript for bash)
  - semver_bash - Semantic Versioning in Bash
  - sh-semver - Semver tool for bash - finds versions matching to specified rules
  - shellcheck - Static analysis tool for shell scripts
  - shellfire - A repository of namespaced, composable shell (bash, sh and dash) function libraries
  - shellspec - A full-featured BDD unit testing framework for dash, bash, ksh, zsh and all POSIX shells
  - shfmt - A shell parser, formatter, and interpreter with bash support; includes shfmt
  - shpec - A shell testing framework
  - shutit - Automation framework based on bash and pexpect
  - ts - A shell test script
  - urchin - An idiomatic shell testing framework that uses only shell commands
  - shunit2 - A unit test framework for Bash scripts with a flavour of JUnit/PyUnit.
  - rebash - Scripting library/framework. Features: imports, exceptions, doc-tests ...
  - zunit - A powerful unit testing framework for ZSH
  - Use the Unofficial Bash Strict Mode (Unless You Looove Debugging)
  - The Art of Command Line
  - A guide to learn bash
  - awesome-awesome - awesomeness](https://github.com/bayandin/awesome-awesomeness).
- See also
  - awesome-cli-apps
  - terminals-are-sexy
System Utilities
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  - ncdu - NCurses Disk Usage
  - bat - A `cat` clone with wings
  - bmon - Real-time network bandwidth monitor and rate estimator with human-friendly visual output
  - btop - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor
  - catcli - The command line catalog tool for your offline data
  - ccat - ccat is the colorizing cat. It works similar to cat but displays content with syntax highlighting.
  - exa - A modern version of `ls`.
  - progress - Linux tool to show progress for `cp`, `rm`, `dd`, and more...
  - stronghold - Easily configure MacOS security settings from the terminal.
  - 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.
  - hblock - Hosts-file based adblocker
  - histstat - History for netstat
  - htop - A ncurses based interactive process viewer which aims to be a better `top`
  - logdissect - CLI utility and Python API for analyzing log files and other data.
  - ls++ - Colorized ls on steroids
  - lsd - LSDeluxe, rewrite of GNU ls with lot of added features like colors, icons, tree-view and more formatting options.
  - lsp - An improved `ls`, with file descriptions in plain language and intelligent file grouping
  - maza - Local ad blocker. Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating system.
  - mtr - The functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool.
  - nmtui - Text User Interface for controlling NetworkManager
  - powertop - Battery/Power usage and device stats monitoring command-line tool, with tune-up options.
  - prettyping - Making the output of `ping` prettier, more colorful, more compact, and easier to read.
  - procdog - Lightweight command-line control of long-lived processes like servers
  - quick-secure - Quickly secure and harden UNIX/Linux systems
  - rng - Copy range of lines from file or stdin to stdout.
  - tiptop - Graphical command-line system monitor.
  - wifi-wand - a Ruby command line application for managing WiFi on MacOS (install by `gem install wifi-wand`)
  - xiringuito - SSH-based "VPN for poors"

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Shell 108 Python 52 Go 30 C 25 Rust 22 JavaScript 14 Ruby 9 TypeScript 5 C++ 5 Perl 2

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