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  • BSD

    • World Wide Web

      • ezjail - Jail administration framework.
      • iocage - Convenient, lightweight & easy container management for BSD jails.
      • pkgsrc - Portable package build system.
      • ezjail - Jail administration framework.
      • poudriere - Port/package build and test system.

  • Linux

    • World Wide Web

      • aptly - Swiss army knife for Debian repository management.
      • IPTraf - Network statistics utility for Linux.
      • IPTraf - Network statistics utility for Linux.

  • Mac OS X

    • World Wide Web

      • itunes-remote - Control iTunes via CLI.
      • mas - Mac App Store command line interface.
      • Night Shift Shell Utility - Simple shell utility to control the macOS Night Shift feature.
      • reminders-cli - Simple interface for interacting with Reminders.
      • tag - Manipulate tags on files and query for files with those tags.
      • XLD - Tool to decode/convert/play various lossless audio files.
      • Fink - The full world of Unix Open Source software for Darwin.
      • MacPorts - Compile, install and upgrade either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software.

  • \*nix/\*nux

    • Automation

      • fswatch - Cross-platform file change monitor with multiple backends.

    • Backup

      • Bacula - Manage backups, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds.
      • BorgBackup - Significantly improved fork of Attic.
      • mysqldump-secure - Secure mysqldump script with encryption, compression, logging, blacklisting and Nagios monitoring integration.
      • Attic - Deduplicating backup program written in Python.
      • Restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program.

    • Benchmarking

      • pv - Monitor the progress of data through a pipeline.
      • hyperfine - Benchmark commands through the command line.
      • loadtest - Runs a load test on the selected HTTP URL.

    • Cloud Services

      • awscli - Official Amazon AWS command-line interface.
      • cadaver - WebDAV client for Unix.
      • awless - Mighty command-line interface for Amazon Web Services.
      • google-drive-upload - Upload and sync files to Google Drive.
      • cadaver - WebDAV client for Unix.

    • Compression

      • archivemount - FUSE filesystem using libarchive to mount archives.
      • dtrx - Takes all the hassle out of extracting archives.

    • Content Creation

      • GitBook - Library and cmd utility to generate GitBooks.

    • Conversion

      • binchunker - Converts a CD image in a ".bin/.cue" format (sometimes ".raw/.cue") to a set of .iso and .cdr tracks.
      • Echo - Convert HTML tables to JSON/CSVs.
      • binchunker - Converts a CD image in a ".bin/.cue" format (sometimes ".raw/.cue") to a set of .iso and .cdr tracks.

    • Databases

      • usql - Universal command-line interface for SQL databases.

    • Data Processing

      • datamash - Perform basic numeric, textual and statistical operations on textual data files.
      • edcount - Estimate distinct count of values from standard input.
      • jq - Lightweight and flexible JSON processor.
      • edcount - Estimate distinct count of values from standard input.

    • Developer

      • bat - Go implement CLI, cURL-like tool for humans.
      • bcal - Byte calculator for storage conversions and calculations.
      • bitwise - Interactive bit manipulator in curses.
      • caniuse-cmd - All the power of caniuse.com with none of the GUI.
      • clog - Conventional changelog for the rest of us.
      • Critical - Extract & inline critical-path CSS in HTML pages.
      • grex - Generate regular expressions from user-provided test cases.
      • how2 - Stack Overflow from the terminal.
      • penthouse - Critical path CSS generator.
      • Publoy - Command line tool to deploy your static web apps via Dropbox.
      • Rebound - Instantly fetch Stack Overflow results when you get a compiler error.
      • saws - Supercharged AWS command-line interface.
      • shellcheck - Static analysis tool for shell scripts.
      • tokei - Quickly display statistics about your code like number of files, total lines, comments and blanks, grouped by language.
      • http-prompt - Interactive HTTP client featuring autocomplete and syntax highlighting, built on HTTPie and prompt_toolkit.
      • HTTPie - User-friendly cURL replacement featuring intuitive UI, JSON support, syntax highlighting, wget-like downloads, extensions, etc.
      • Publoy - Command line tool to deploy your static web apps via Dropbox.
      • Cookiecutter - Creates projects from cookiecutters (project templates).

    • Dotfile Management

      • dotdrop - Save your dotfiles once, deploy them everywhere.
      • homeshick - Git dotfiles synchronizer written in Bash.

    • Download Utilities

      • aria2 - Lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source command-line download utility.
      • peerflix - Streaming torrent client for node.js.

    • Email

      • abook - Text-based address book program designed to use with mutt mail client.
      • Alpine - Fast, easy to use email client.
      • isync - Synchronize Maildir and IMAP4 mailboxes both ways.
      • Notmuch - Fast, global-search and tag-based email system.
      • abook - Text-based address book program designed to use with mutt mail client.
      • isync - Synchronize Maildir and IMAP4 mailboxes both ways.
      • imapsync - IMAP synchronisation, sync, copy or migration tool.
      • Mutt - All mail clients suck, this one just sucks less.
      • OfflineIMAP - Two-way sync your e-mail mailboxes as a local Maildir.
      • Sup - Curses threads-with-tags style email client.
      • Terjira - Command line power tool for Jira.
      • Notmuch - Fast, global-search and tag-based email system.

    • Encryption

      • EncFS - Provides an encrypted filesystem in user-space.

    • Filesystem Management

      • Ncdu - Disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface.
      • ranger - Minimalistic visual file manager featuring curses interface with vi key bindings.
      • zfsnap - Rolling ZFS snapshots the easy way.
      • dust - More intuitive version of 'du'.
      • FDUPES - Identify or delete duplicate files residing within specified directories.
      • ranger - Minimalistic visual file manager featuring curses interface with vi key bindings.

    • FTP

      • CurlFtpFS - Filesystem for accessing FTP hosts based on FUSE and libcurl.
      • LFTP - Sophisticated ftp/http client, and a file transfer program supporting a number of network protocols.
      • NcFTP - Set of free application programs implementing the File Transfer Protocol (FTP).
      • LFTP - Sophisticated ftp/http client, and a file transfer program supporting a number of network protocols.
      • LFTP - Sophisticated ftp/http client, and a file transfer program supporting a number of network protocols.
      • LFTP - Sophisticated ftp/http client, and a file transfer program supporting a number of network protocols.

    • Games

      • Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - Roguelike set in a post-apocalyptic world.
      • dopewars - Deal in drugs on the streets of New York, amassing a huge fortune and paying off the loan shark, while avoiding the ever-annoying police.
      • Frotz - Interpreter for Infocom games and other Z-machine games.
      • vitetris - Tetris clone.
      • Curse of War - Fast-paced real-time action strategy game.

    • IRC

      • BitlBee - IRC to other chat networks gateway.
      • WeeChat - Fast, light and extensible chat client.
      • Irssi - The client of the future.

    • Media

      • abcde - A Better CD Encoder.
      • AtomicParsely - Reads, parses and sets metadata into MPEG-4 files.
      • Gifsicle - Creates, edits, and gets information about GIF images and animations.
      • MKVToolNix - Set of tools to create, alter and inspect Matroska files under Linux, other Unices and Windows.
      • mp4v2 - Library and tools to provide functions to read, create, and modify mp4 files.
      • Pngcrush - Optimizer for PNG (Portable Network Graphics) files.
      • AtomicParsely - Reads, parses and sets metadata into MPEG-4 files.
      • OptiPNG - PNG optimizer that recompresses image files to a smaller size, without losing any information.
      • Audiogrep - Creates audio supercuts.
      • FFmpeg - Records, converts and streams audio and video.
      • Gifsicle - Creates, edits, and gets information about GIF images and animations.
      • Legofy - Makes images look like they were built out of Lego.
      • moviemon - Everything about your movies within the command-line.
      • mp3fs - FUSE-based transcoding filesystem from FLAC to MP3.
      • Shellpic - Display images inline in the shell, ASCII-art is so 2013.
      • subdownloader - Downloading subtitles for one or more files is just a command away.
      • ttystudio - Terminal-to-gif recorder minus the headaches.
      • Videogrep - Automatic supercuts with Python.
      • Video Transcoding Scripts - Utilities to transcode, inspect and convert videos.
      • Beets - The music geek's media organizer.
      • FFmpeg - Records, converts and streams audio and video.
      • abcde - A Better CD Encoder.

    • Miscellaneous

      • ansiweather - Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols.
      • license - Create LICENSEs from the command-line.
      • wego - Weather client for the terminal.
      • cointop - Interactive cryptocurrency tracking.

    • Networking

      • Bandwidth Monitor NG - Small and simple live network and disk IO bandwidth monitor.
      • Blucat - netcat for Bluetooth.
      • httping - Like 'ping' but for http requests.
      • Netcat - Networking utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using the TCP/IP protocol.
      • vnStat - Console-based network traffic monitor for Linux and BSD that keeps a log of network traffic for the selected interface(s).
      • bandwhich - Displays current network utilization by process, connection and remote IP or hostname.
      • gping - Ping, but with a graph.
      • localtunnel - Exposes your localhost to the world for easy testing and sharing.
      • Nethogs - Linux 'net top' tool.
      • nmap - Network discovery and security auditing utility.
      • iftop - Display bandwidth usage on an interface.
      • ngrep - grep as a network packet analyzer.

    • Presentation

      • termui - Cross-platform, easy-to-compile, and fully-customizable terminal dashboard.
      • WOPR - Simple markup language for creating rich terminal reports, presentations and infographics.

    • Productivity

      • doing - Keeping track of what you’re doing and tracking what you’ve done.
      • pdfgrep - Command-line utility to search text in PDF files.
      • Remind - Sophisticated calendar and alarm program.
      • woof - Simple one-off HTTP file sharing.
      • idea - Lightweight CLI tool and module for keeping ideas in a safe place quick and easy.
      • MapSCII - OpenStreetMap client, renders an explorable Braille & ASCII world map.
      • pin-cushion - Simple, maintained command-line interface to the Pinboard.in API.
      • SC-IM - ncurses-based spreadsheet application.
      • Timetrap - Simple timetracker.
      • woof - Simple one-off HTTP file sharing.
      • pdfgrep - Command-line utility to search text in PDF files.

    • RSS

      • newsbeuter - The Mutt of RSS feed readers.
      • rss2email - Get news from RSS feeds in email.
      • rsstail - Monitors a single RSS feed and emits only new entries.
      • rss2email - Get news from RSS feeds in email.

    • Searching

      • The Silver Searcher - Blazingly fast tool for searching code.
      • fd - fd is a simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'.
      • fselect - 'find' replacement with SQL-like syntax.
      • fzf - A general-purpose fuzzy finder.
      • ripgrep - Recursively search directories for a regex pattern extremely fast.
      • sd - Intuitive find-and-replace alternative to 'sed'.

    • Security

      • Aircrack-ng - 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking program that can recover keys once enough data packets have been captured.
      • acme.sh - Pure Unix shell script implementing ACME client protocol, for Let's Encrypt.
      • Aircrack-ng - 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking program that can recover keys once enough data packets have been captured.

    • SSH

      • autossh - Automatically restart SSH sessions and tunnels.
      • storm - Manage your SSH connections.
      • autossh - Automatically restart SSH sessions and tunnels.
      • sshfs - Locally mount a remote folder via SSH.

    • System

      • dstat - Versatile replacement for vmstat, iostat, netstat and ifstat.
      • iotop - Find out what's stressing and increasing load on your hard disks.
      • bottom - Graphical process/system monitor with a customizable interface and multitude of features.
      • dstat - Versatile replacement for vmstat, iostat, netstat and ifstat.
      • maybe - See what a program does before deciding whether you really want it to happen.
      • procs - Modern replacement for 'ps'.
      • screenFetch - Fetches system/theme information in terminal for desktop screenshots.
      • iotop - Find out what's stressing and increasing load on your hard disks.
      • netboot.xyz - Boot multiple Operating System installers or utilities over the network from a single menu.

    • Terminal

      • bgrep - Like grep but for binary strings.
      • byobu - Text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer.
      • MultiTail - Monitor logfiles and command output in multiple windows in a terminal, colorize, filter and merge.
      • SCREEN - "Window manager" for the console and terminals.
      • autojump - 'cd' command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line.
      • bat - 'cat' clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration.
      • cheat - Create and view interactive cheatsheets.
      • desk - Lightweight workspace manager for the shell.
      • exa - Modern version of 'ls'.
      • Fisher - Package manager for the fish shell.
      • Marker - The terminal command palette.
      • PathPicker - After parsing the output from a command, PathPicker presents you with a nice UI to select which files you're interested in.
      • yank - Yank terminal output to clipboard.
      • z - Tracks your most used directories, based on "frecency".
      • zoxide - Similar to 'z' but a standalone binary, therefore shell-independent.
      • ccat - Colorizing the 'cat' command.
      • bgrep - Like grep but for binary strings.
      • tealdeer - Very fast implementation of 'tldr'.
      • SCREEN - "Window manager" for the console and terminals.
      • Starship - Minimal, blazing-fast and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell.
      • asciinema - Record terminal sessions and share them on the web.

    • Text Editors

      • Emacs - Extensible, customizable text editor.
      • Diakonos - Linux editor for the masses.
      • Micro - Modern and intuitive text editor.
      • Vis - Highly efficient text editor.

    • Version Control

      • Bazaar - Easily manage source code on Windows, Ubuntu, GNU/Linux, and Mac OS X.
      • grv - ncurses based text-mode Git repository browser.
Programming Languages
Python 16 Rust 15 JavaScript 13 C 12 Shell 11 Go 7 Ruby 4 C++ 3 Swift 2 CoffeeScript 1
Categories
\*nix/\*nux 193 Mac OS X 8 BSD 5 Linux 3
Sub Categories
Media 22 Terminal 21 World Wide Web 20 Developer 18 Networking 12 Email 12 Productivity 11 System 9 Searching 6 Filesystem Management 6 FTP 6 Games 5 Cloud Services 5 Backup 5 Data Processing 4 SSH 4 Version Control 4 Miscellaneous 4 Text Editors 4 RSS 4 Security 3 IRC 3 VPN 3 Benchmarking 3 Conversion 3 Dotfile Management 2 Download Utilities 2 Compression 2 Presentation 2 Automation 1 Encryption 1 Databases 1 Content Creation 1
Keywords
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