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Awesome Shell Awesome

A curated list of awesome command-line frameworks, toolkits, guides and gizmos. Inspired by awesome-php. This awesome collection is also available on 🌎 Unix-Shell.ZEEF.com.

Shells

Choose your base shell.

  • 🌎 bash - GNU Project's shell (Bourne Again SHell)
  • 🌎 elvish - Friendly, expressive shell features like anonymous functions and data structures
  • 🌎 es - The extensible shell, based on Plan 9's    243⭐     24🍴 rc) shell
  • 🌎 fish - Smart and user-friendly command line shell
  •   1445⭐    137🍴 ion) - A modern system shell that features a simple, yet powerful, syntax. It is written entirely in Rust.
  •    534⭐    151🍴 ksh93) - Korn Shell
  •    192⭐     35🍴 mksh) - MirBSD Korn Shell
  •   1388⭐     28🍴 murex) - A smarter shell and scripting environment with advanced features designed for usability, safety and productivity (eg smarter DevOps tooling)
  •   1376⭐     43🍴 ngs) - Fully featured scripting language created specifically for Ops. REPL is being developed.
  •  30363⭐   1558🍴 nushell) - A modern shell written in Rust
  •    346⭐     34🍴 oksh) - Portable OpenBSD ksh
  • 🌎 osh - Bash compatible, with new/modern Unix shell language called Oil
  • 🌎 pdksh - Public domain Korn shell
  • 🌎 powershell a cross-platform task automation and configuration management framework, consisting of a command-line shell and scripting language
  •    145⭐     10🍴 shell++) - Friendly and modern functional and object oriented shell script language
  •     40⭐      3🍴 shenv) - Simple shell version management
  • 🌎 tcsh - C shell with file name completion and command line editing
  • 🌎 xonsh - Python-ish, BASHwards-looking shell language and command prompt
  •    289⭐     25🍴 yash) - A POSIX-compliant command line shell with built-in support for completion and prediction based on command history
  • 🌎 zsh - Powerful shell with scripting language

Command-Line Productivity

Search, bookmarks, multiplexing, and other tools that make your terminal experience more productive.

  •    248⭐      8🍴 AdvancedNewFile) - Fast creation of files and directories in a recursive way. Inspired by the Vim plugin.
  •  25782⭐   1407🍴 ag) - Super fast string search through a directory hierarchy
  •    529⭐     40🍴 aliases) - Contextual, dynamic, organized aliases for bash
  •    832⭐     16🍴 arttime) - Beauty of text art meets functionality of clock, timer, pomodoro++ time manager
  •   5572⭐    263🍴 autoenv) - Directory-based environments.
  •    127⭐      3🍴 await) - single binary that run list of commands in parallel and waits for their termination
  •    606⭐     32🍴 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.
  •   1232⭐     76🍴 bashhub) - ☁️ Bash history in the cloud. Indexed and searchable.
  •   1700⭐    118🍴 boilr) - A blazingly fast CLI tool for creating projects from boilerplate templates.
  •   1277⭐    118🍴 boom) - Store links and snippets in the command line
  •   1606⭐     58🍴 borg) - A terminal based search engine for bash commands
  •  10193⭐    220🍴 broot) - A better way to navigate directories
  •  16652⭐    407🍴 browsh) - The modern text-based browser
  •   6174⭐    287🍴 Buku) - Powerful command-line bookmark manager
  • 🌎 byobu - Text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer
  •    512⭐     25🍴 cod) — A completion daemon for shell that learns when you invoke --help commands
  •     76⭐      8🍴 CloudClip) - Your own clipboard in the cloud, copy and paste text with gist between different systems
  •   2867⭐    140🍴 ddgr) - DuckDuckGo from the terminal
  •   2519⭐    121🍴 desk) - A lightweight workspace manager for the shell
  •  11794⭐    618🍴 direnv) - An environment switcher for the shell, compare with autoenv
  •   2707⭐    116🍴 dnote) - A simple command line notebook with multi-device sync and web interface
  •      ?⭐      ?🍴 eureka) - 💡 CLI tool to input and store your ideas without leaving the terminal
  •   5873⭐    221🍴 fasd) - Command-line productivity booster, offers quick access to files and directories
  •  31960⭐    770🍴 fd) - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.
  •     41⭐      3🍴 foxy) - Plain text bookmarks for Firefox and surf browsers.
  •   3832⭐     82🍴 fselect) - Find files with SQL-like queries.
  •    639⭐     19🍴 funky) - Extends functionality of shell functions making them more powerful and flexible.
  •    508⭐     23🍴 fz) - Seamless fuzzy tab completion for z
  •  60463⭐   2308🍴 fzf) - A command-line fuzzy finder
  •    555⭐     22🍴 gitmux) - Show Git status in Tmux status bar
  •   6064⭐    531🍴 googler) - Google Search, Google Site Search, Google News from the terminal
  •     45⭐      3🍴 googlr) - Command line tool that lets you search Google from your terminal.
  •    622⭐     43🍴 has) - has helps you check presence of various command line tools and their versions on path
  •   5705⭐    156🍴 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.
  •  14444⭐    484🍴 navi) - An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line
  •    459⭐     55🍴 hhighlighter) - Colorize words in a command output
  •   1273⭐     64🍴 hr) - <hr /> for your terminal
  •    344⭐     24🍴 hss) - An interactive parallel ssh client featuring autocomplete and asynchronous execution
  •   3927⭐    232🍴 hstr) - Bash History Suggest Box
  •   1766⭐    121🍴 k) - k is a Zsh script to make directory listings more readable, adding Git status, fileweight colors and rotting dates
  •     20⭐      5🍴 k alias) - get kool aliases (and more) working with a simple one-liner
  •   7288⭐    320🍴 lf) - Terminal file manager written in Go, inspired by ranger
  •     43⭐      3🍴 lf.sh) - Quickly search files with fewer typings and do many more (grepping, copying path to clipboard, etc)
  •    182⭐      5🍴 lowcharts) - Draw low-resolution graphs in terminal
  • 🌎 Lmod - Lua-based Environment Modules that enhances Tcl-based modules while being backward compatible (compare to modules)
  •    667⭐     29🍴 loop) - Write and control complex loops with as one-liners
  •   2025⭐    107🍴 marker) - Bookmark your shell commands
  •      ?⭐      ?🍴 mackup) - Keep your application settings in sync (OS X/Linux)
  •   6695⭐    172🍴 mcfly) - Fly through your shell history. Great Scot!
  • modules - Classical Tcl-based Environment Modules managing the shell environment (compare to Lmod, direnv, and autoenv)
  •  18317⭐    733🍴 nnn) - File browser and disk usage analyzer with excellent desktop integration
  •     82⭐      5🍴 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.
  • 🌎 parallel - Build and execute shell command lines from standard input in parallel
  • 🌎 pass - Manage passwords from the command line with GPG encryption and optional git integration.
  •   5083⭐    281🍴 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.
  •    373⭐     18🍴 pdd) - Tiny date, time diff calculator with timers
  •   3282⭐    144🍴 percol) - Adds flavor of interactive filtering to the traditional pipe concept of UNIX shell
  •     68⭐      7🍴 q) - Vim like macro registers for your Bash and Zsh Shell
  •    574⭐     25🍴 qfc) - File-completion widget for Bash and Zsh
  •    987⭐     20🍴 resh) - Contextual shell history for Zsh and Bash
  •  45381⭐   1887🍴 rg) - ripgrep is a line oriented search tool that combines the usability of The Silver Searcher with the raw speed of GNU grep
  • 🌎 screen - GNU terminal multiplexer
  •    110⭐      3🍴 shell-history) - Visualize your shell usage with Highcharts
  •    439⭐     14🍴 SHML) - Style framework for the terminal (Shell Markup Language)
  •    300⭐     36🍴 slugify) - Command that converts filenames and directories to a web friendly format
  •    290⭐     26🍴 sman) - 🐛 A command-line snippet manager
  •   5992⭐    295🍴 spark) - ▁▂▃▅▂▇ in your shell
  •    333⭐      6🍴 spark.fish) - ▁▂▃▅ Sparkline Generator
  •    262⭐     13🍴 sheet) - Text snippets for the command line
  •    928⭐     51🍴 spot) - Tiny file search utility
  •     78⭐      5🍴 snips) - Command line tool to manage snippets of code.
  •    607⭐    145🍴 sqlline) - Shell for issuing SQL to relational databases via JDBC (multiline, completion, highlighting, dialect support)
  •   1125⭐    128🍴 sshfs) - A tool for mounting remote file systems over SSH
  •    161⭐     23🍴 sudocabulary) - Learn English Vocabulary from your terminal
  • 🌎 surfraw - browse specific site and search the web from your terminal without browser.
  •     19⭐      1🍴 task-manager) - Execute all your scripts with just two or three keystrokes.
  •    186⭐     10🍴 td-cli) - A todo command line manager to organize and manage your todos across multiple projects.
  •   1636⭐     36🍴 tere) - A faster alternative to cd + ls
  •  83135⭐   3398🍴 thefuck) - Fix common shell mistakes by using an easy to remember command
  •    703⭐     50🍴 tldr) - A fully-functional bash client for tldr, simplified and community-driven man pages
  • 🌎 tmux - Amazing terminal multiplexer
  •    156⭐      4🍴 undollar) - undollar bites the dollar sign off the tip of the command you just pasted into your terminal
  •   8661⭐    344🍴 usql) - Universal command-line interface for SQL databases.
  •    446⭐     37🍴 v) - z for vim.
  •   3618⭐    138🍴 wemux) - Multi-User Tmux Made Easy
  •   3761⭐    208🍴 xiki) - Makes the shell console more friendly and powerful
  •   3982⭐     75🍴 xplr) - A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer
  •  10123⭐    314🍴 xsv) - a fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust
  •   5025⭐    102🍴 xxh) - Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through the SSH.

Directory Navigation

  •    113⭐     11🍴 aliasme) - alias helper to change directory quickly
  •  15985⭐    701🍴 autojump) - A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line
  •   1857⭐    292🍴 bashmarks) - Directory bookmarks for the shell
  •    920⭐     65🍴 bd) - Quickly go back to a parent directory
  •    359⭐     20🍴 commacd) - A faster way to move around in Bash
  •   2519⭐    108🍴 enhancd) - 🚀 A next-generation cd command with an interactive filter
  •    864⭐     62🍴 goto) - A shell utility for navigation to aliased directories supporting auto-completion
  •   1749⭐     60🍴 jump) - Jump helps you navigate your file system faster by learning your habits.
  •     20⭐      1🍴 lazy-cd) - Simple bash commands for bookmarked navigation of the file system, complete with bash-completion.
  •    168⭐     11🍴 up) - Ascend directories by name or count; for bash, zsh, and fish.
  •  16083⭐   1161🍴 z) - z is the new j, yo
  •   2925⭐    136🍴 z.lua) - A new cd command that helps you navigate faster by learning your habits
  •  19307⭐    507🍴 zoxide) - A faster way to navigate your filesystem, written in Rust
  •    103⭐      5🍴 zpyi) - Python in Zsh - Easy python scripting in shell

Customization

Custom prompts, color themes, etc.

  •    125⭐     26🍴 aphrodite-terminal-theme) — Minimalistic Aphrodite theme (prompt) for sexy terminals that works in bash, fish and zsh
  •    431⭐     41🍴 base16-builder) - Base16-Builder
  •    178⭐     42🍴 bash-full-of-colors) - Powerful prompt with screen, tmux, git support and many more
  •   6638⭐    959🍴 bash-git-prompt) - An informative and fancy Bash prompt for Git users
  •    883⭐    168🍴 bash-powerline) - Powerline-style Bash prompt in pure Bash script
  •   1556⭐    123🍴 bashstrap) - A quick way to spruce up OSX terminal
  •   2810⭐    380🍴 bullet-train-oh-my-zsh-theme) - 🚄 An oh-my-zsh shell theme based on the Powerline Vim plugin
  •   1537⭐     68🍴 emojify) Emoji on the command line 😱
  • 🌎 flatui-terminal-theme - Nicer colors for terminal
  •    920⭐     93🍴 geometry) - A minimal ZSH theme where any function can be added to the left prompt or (async) right prompt on the fly.
  •    326⭐     98🍴 git-prompt) - Bash prompt with Git, SVN and HG modules
  •     69⭐      6🍴 gittify) - A colorful Bash prompt + customized Git aliases
  •   8834⭐    573🍴 Gogh - Color Scheme) - Color Scheme for Gnome Terminal
  •   4436⭐    422🍴 liquidprompt) - A full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh
  •    100⭐     11🍴 mysql-colorize) - Colorization for mysql comand-line client
  •   3642⭐    285🍴 oh-my-git) - An opinionated git prompt for bash and zsh
  • 🌎 oh-my-posh - Prompt theme engine for any shell and platform written in go.
  •    169⭐     14🍴 polyglot) - An informative Git prompt that works in bash, zsh, ksh, mksh, pdksh, oksh, dash, yash, busybox sh, and osh
  •  43468⭐   2076🍴 powerlevel10k) - Super flexible awesome powerline ZSH theme
  •   1126⭐    155🍴 sexy-bash-prompt) - Bash prompt with colors, Git statuses, and Git branches
  • 🌎 starship - Fast, customisable, cross-shell prompt written in rust
  •    901⭐    234🍴 synth-shell) - Greeter with a customizable status report and a fancy bash prompt

For Developers

Command-line development, version control, and deployment.

  • 🌎 1Password SSH Agent - Authenticate Git and SSH workflows with biometric unlock using 1Password
  • 🌎 ack - A grep-like search tool optimized for source code.
  •    649⭐     14🍴 add-gitignore) - Interactive CLI that generates a .gitignore for your project based on your needs.
  •    621⭐     39🍴 bcal) - Byte CALculator for storage conversions and calculations
  •    616⭐     28🍴 bitwise) - Terminal based interactive bit manipulator in curses.
  •  11140⭐    708🍴 bocker) - Docker implemented in 100 lines of bash
  •  18629⭐    990🍴 cloc) - Count Lines of Code
  •     45⭐      3🍴 doclt) - A command line interface to Digital Ocean
  •  26130⭐   1835🍴 dokku) - Docker powered mini-Heroku. The smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seen.
  •   4284⭐    136🍴 forgit) - Utility tool for git taking advantage of fuzzy finder fzf.
  •    978⭐     90🍴 git-extra-commands) - Many Git extra utilities. Churn, cut-branch, improved-merge and many more.
  •  16759⭐   1189🍴 git-extras) - Git utilities -- repo summary, repl, changelog population, author commit percentages and more
  •   3276⭐    246🍴 git-open) - Type git open to open the GitHub page or website for a repository in your browser
  •   6181⭐    248🍴 git-quick-stats) - Git quick statistics is a simple and efficient way to access various statistics in git repository.
  •    375⭐     45🍴 git-semver) - Git plugin for easing semantic versioning and changelog validation
  •    735⭐     84🍴 git-sh) - A customized Bash environment suitable for Git work
  •   1623⭐     72🍴 gita) - A command-line tool to manage multiple git repos.
  •  22694⭐   2184🍴 hub) - hub helps you win at git.
  •  17748⭐    400🍴 just) - Task runner for saving and running project-specific commands.
  •     23⭐      2🍴 licins) - Insert commented software licenses into source code.
  •    361⭐     21🍴 mkdkr) - Makefile + Docker = CI Pipeline
  • 🌎 mr - Multiple Repository management tool
  •    693⭐     15🍴 nve) - Run any command on specific Node.js versions.
  •   3878⭐    279🍴 overcommit) - A fully configurable and extendable Git hook manager
  • 🌎 pre-commit - A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks
  •   4083⭐    379🍴 rebound) - Instantly browse Stack Overflow results in your terminal when you get a compiler error
  •    342⭐     38🍴 repren) - Command-line search-and-replace and file-renaming swiss army knife
  •   6119⭐    215🍴 slap) - Sublime-like terminal-based text editor that runs on Node.js
  •    564⭐     39🍴 shipit) - Minimalistic SSH deployment
  •    154⭐      8🍴 starring) - Automatically star the npm-packages that you are using on GitHub.
  •    598⭐     33🍴 tag) - Instantly jump to your ag matches.
  • 🌎 trunk - Blazingly fast meta code checker and formatter
  •     61⭐     11🍴 vmn) - git-based automatic versioning and state recovery solution agnostic to language or architecture
  •    346⭐      6🍴 wipe-modules) - A little agent that removes the node_modules folder of non-active projects

System Utilities

OS-related tools, including system administration, system debugging, and file and process management.

  • 🌎 atop - ASCII full-screen performance monitor that is capable of reporting the activity of all processes
  •  46929⭐   1160🍴 bat) - A cat clone with wings
  •   1149⭐     95🍴 bmon) - Real-time network bandwidth monitor and rate estimator with human-friendly visual output
  •  17140⭐    552🍴 btop) - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor
  •    196⭐     17🍴 catcli) - The command line catalog tool for your offline data
  •   3140⭐    116🍴 ccat) - ccat is the colorizing cat. It works similar to cat but displays content with syntax highlighting.
  •  23318⭐    662🍴 exa) - A modern version of ls.
  •   8220⭐    310🍴 progress) - Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, and more...
  •   1070⭐    259🍴 stronghold) - Easily configure MacOS security settings from the terminal.
  •  25231⭐   1446🍴 glances) - Glances an Eye on your system
  •  17607⭐   1081🍴 goaccess) - GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems.
  •   1477⭐    101🍴 hblock) - Hosts-file based adblocker
  •     97⭐     21🍴 histstat) - History for netstat
  •   5819⭐    583🍴 htop) - A ncurses based interactive process viewer which aims to be a better top
  • 🌎 lnav - An advanced log file viewer for the small-scale
  •    138⭐     22🍴 logdissect) - CLI utility and Python API for analyzing log files and other data.
  •    503⭐     44🍴 ls++) - Colorized ls on steroids
  •  12543⭐    406🍴 lsd) - LSDeluxe, rewrite of GNU ls with lot of added features like colors, icons, tree-view and more formatting options.
  •    522⭐     17🍴 lsp) - An improved ls, with file descriptions in plain language and intelligent file grouping
  •   1756⭐     70🍴 maza) - Local ad blocker. Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating system.
  •   2547⭐    330🍴 mtr) - The functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool.
  • 🌎 ncdu - NCurses Disk Usage
  •    359⭐    168🍴 nmtui) - Text User Interface for controlling NetworkManager
  •    968⭐    130🍴 powertop) - Battery/Power usage and device stats monitoring command-line tool, with tune-up options.
  •   1188⭐     77🍴 prettyping) - Making the output of ping prettier, more colorful, more compact, and easier to read.
  •     75⭐      9🍴 procdog) - Lightweight command-line control of long-lived processes like servers
  •    409⭐     52🍴 quick-secure) - Quickly secure and harden UNIX/Linux systems
  •     31⭐      2🍴 rng) - Copy range of lines from file or stdin to stdout.
  •   1668⭐     68🍴 tiptop) - Graphical command-line system monitor.
  •     62⭐      6🍴 wifi-wand) - a Ruby command line application for managing WiFi on MacOS (install by gem install wifi-wand)
  •   1096⭐     47🍴 xiringuito) - SSH-based "VPN for poors"

Downloading and Serving

Self-hosted, lightweight servers and networking tools written in shell scripts.

  •  33777⭐   3419🍴 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
  •    856⭐     44🍴 balls) - Bash on Balls
  •   1499⭐    199🍴 bashttpd) - A web server written in Bash
  •    299⭐     22🍴 bashhub-server) - Private cloud shell history. Open source server for bashhub
  •   1028⭐     78🍴 bitpocket) - "DIY Dropbox" or "2-way directory (r)sync with proper deletion"
  •   6551⭐   1081🍴 Dropbox-Uploader) - Dropbox Uploader is a Bash script which can be used to upload, download, list or delete files from Dropbox
  •  32199⭐   3662🍴 httpie) - HTTPie is a command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement
  •   3988⭐    123🍴 HTTPLab) - The interactive web server, let you inspect HTTP requests and forge responses.
  •    590⭐     28🍴 Kapow!) - If you can script it, you can HTTP it.
  •    174⭐     11🍴 ngincat) - Tiny Bash HTTP server using netcat
  •   2646⭐    146🍴 resty) - Little command line REST client that you can use in pipelines
  •   1278⭐    127🍴 shell2http) - HTTP-server to execute shell commands. Designed for development, prototyping or remote control
  •    111⭐     13🍴 tshare) - File sharing from commandline.
  •    205⭐      8🍴 vesper) - 🍸Vesper is a HTTP framework for Bash/Unix Shell
  •   4817⭐     86🍴 xh) - Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests
  •  72614⭐   5766🍴 yt-dlp) - Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

Multimedia and File Formats

Tools for handling video and audio files.

  •    103⭐     17🍴 adb-export) - Export Android content providers to CSV format
  •   1019⭐    586🍴 Android-Kitchen) - A text-based kitchen for Android ROM customization. Uses shell scripts and works with Cygwin/OS X/Linux
  •  12452⭐   1777🍴 Beets) - Music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger
  •   5279⭐    464🍴 cmus) - Cross-platform cli audio player.
  •   4898⭐    112🍴 dasel) - Query and update data structures using selectors from the command line. Comparable to  29232⭐   1530🍴 jq) /   2488⭐     78🍴 yq) but supports JSON, YAML, TOML and XML with zero runtime dependencies.
  •    165⭐     10🍴 dzr) - Cross-platform Deezer.com audio player.
  •  18577⭐    436🍴 fx) - Command-line JSON processing tool by anononymus JavaScript functions
  •    537⭐     29🍴 gifgen) - Simple high quality GIF encoding
  •    752⭐     98🍴 image-scraper) - A cool command line image scraper with a lot of features.
  •   1013⭐     48🍴 imgp) - Blazing fast batch image resizer and rotator
  •   7622⭐    194🍴 jc) - Convert command output, file-types, and common strings to JSON or YAML for easier use in scripts.
  •   4598⭐    153🍴 jo) - A small utility to create JSON objects from command-line arguments.
  •  29232⭐   1530🍴 jq) - Sed for json data. You can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data
  •    366⭐     15🍴 korkut) - Quick and simple image processing at the command line.
  •    173⭐      5🍴 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.
  • 🌎 mpv - Lets you play most audio and video formats (using ASCII characters) in the shell as well as in a GUI.
  •     85⭐      7🍴 nehm) - Console tool, which downloads, sets IDv3 tags and adds to your iTunes (if you use it) your SoundCloud likes in convenient way
  •   1755⭐    264🍴 PiCAST) - PiCAST turns your $35 Raspberry Pi in to a Chromecast like Device
  •      ?⭐      ?🍴 sejda) - Command line manipulation of PDF documents (split, merge, rotate, convert to jpg, extract text, etc)
  •   7461⭐    271🍴 visidata) - A terminal spreadsheet multitool for exploring and arranging data (csv/json/xml/xls/yaml/etc)
  •      ?⭐      ?🍴 xidel) - Cli tool to filter, map and create HTML/XML/JSON data with (Turing-complete) XPath and XQuery.
  • xmlstarlet - Old but powerful tool for command-line XML formatting, filtering, and manipulation.
  •  10925⭐    546🍴 yq) - yq is a portable command-line YAML processor

Applications

Command line-based applications or command line access to existing services.

  •   1852⭐    145🍴 ansiweather) - Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols
  •   4965⭐    262🍴 awless) - A powerful, innovative and small surface CLI to manage AWS.
  •   1624⭐    227🍴 bashblog) - A Bash script that handles blog posting
  •   5704⭐    118🍴 carbon-now-cli) - 🎨 Beautiful images of your code — from right inside your terminal.
  •     70⭐      3🍴 choosealicense-cli) - Choose an OSS license from the comfort of your terminal
  •   3893⭐    308🍴 cointop) - The fastest and most interactive terminal based UI application for tracking cryptocurrencies
  •    774⭐     45🍴 dstask) - Single binary terminal-based TODO manager with git-based sync + markdown notes per task
  •   4583⭐    291🍴 editly) - Command line video editor
  •    394⭐     35🍴 facebook-cli) - Facebook command line tool
  •   1346⭐    132🍴 fanyi) - Translate English to Chinese in terminal
  •   3234⭐    309🍴 gcalcli) - Google Calendar command line interface
  •   2104⭐    333🍴 geeknote) - Command line evernote client
  •   3935⭐    166🍴 haxor-news) - Browse Hacker News like a haxor
  •    461⭐     24🍴 hn-cli) - Browse Hacker News from the comfort of your Terminal
  •    307⭐     22🍴 iponmap) - Draw point on world map using ip address
  •     62⭐      4🍴 isitup) - Check whether a website is up or down
  •   6299⭐    519🍴 jrnl) - A simple command line journal application that stores your journal in a plain text file
  •    878⭐     53🍴 kanban.bash) - commandline asciii kanban board for minimalist productivity bash hackers (csv-based)
  •   5162⭐    489🍴 ledger) - Command line accounting
  •     38⭐      4🍴 licen) - Generate your license. Yet another lice, but implement with Jinja2 and docopt
  •     31⭐      0🍴 md2png) - Convert markdown to PNG image
  •    201⭐     14🍴 moviemon) - Everything about your movies within the command line.
  •    546⭐     19🍴 nomino) - Batch rename utility using regex, sort and map file options.
  •    532⭐     21🍴 pcalc) - Calculator made for programmers working with multiple number representations, sizes, and overall close to the bits.
  •    493⭐     34🍴 pockyt) - Read, Manage, and Automate your 🌎 Pocket collection.
  •     97⭐      8🍴 pushblast) - Get PushBullet notifications when a shell program exits
  •    232⭐     41🍴 pushbullet-bash) - Bash interface to the PushBullet API
  •  15003⭐    883🍴 ranger) - A console file manager with VI key bindings.
  •   4634⭐    273🍴 Reddit Terminal Viewer) - Browse Reddit from your terminal
  •   5200⭐    279🍴 SAWS) - A Supercharged AWS CLI
  •   8893⭐    383🍴 taskbook) - Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat
  • 🌎 taskwarrior - A command-line TODO list manager
  •    864⭐     38🍴 terjira) - Command line power tool for Jira
  •   4834⭐    258🍴 ticker) — Terminal stock ticker with live updates and position tracking
  •     26⭐      3🍴 vl) - URL link checker on text documents
  •   7690⭐    461🍴 wego) - Weather app for the terminal
  •    375⭐     20🍴 whales) - A tool to automatically dockerize your applications
  •    162⭐     11🍴 whereami) - Get your geolocation information from the CLI
  •  23764⭐   1068🍴 wttr.in) - ⛅ The right way to check the weather (curl wttr.in)

Games

All work and no play is a cruddy way to spend your day.

  •    894⭐    204🍴 bash2048) - Bash implementation of 2048 game
  •     62⭐     28🍴 minesweeper) - Bash implementation of minesweeper
  •    314⭐     53🍴 nudoku) - ncurses based sudoku game written in C
  •    726⭐     36🍴 piu-piu) - Horizontal scroller game in bash with multiplayer mode!
  •    518⭐     40🍴 sedtris) - Tetris in sed
  •     43⭐      4🍴 sed-scripts) - Arkanoid and Sokoban written using sed
  • 🌎 SHTAP - Reusable text adventure engine for Bash 4
  •    265⭐     32🍴 tty-solitaire) - Play solitaire in your terminal!

Shell Package Management

Tools for managing multiple shell configurations. For zsh-specific tools, see the Zsh section.

  •  14069⭐   2285🍴 bash-it) - A community Bash framework
  •   1118⭐     74🍴 basher) - A package manager for shell scripts
  •     75⭐      9🍴 bashing) - Smashing Bash into Pieces
  • 🌎 bpkg - JavaScript has npm, Ruby has Gems, Python has pip and now Shell has bpkg
  •   1751⭐    104🍴 dotdrop) - Save your dotfiles once, deploy them everywhere
  •    237⭐     31🍴 dotfiler) – Shell agnostic git based dotfiles package manager, written in Python.
  •   1170⭐     93🍴 fresh) - Keep your dotfiles fresh
  •   2052⭐    145🍴 homeshick) - Git dotfile synchronizer written in Bash
  •   1191⭐    245🍴 shallow-backup) - Easily create lightweight documentation of installed packages, dotfiles, and more
  •     81⭐      4🍴 shundle) - Plugin manager for shell scripts
  •   2158⭐    121🍴 vcsh) - Config manager based on Git
  • 🌎 yadm - Git-based dotfiles manager supporting encryption, alternates, and bootstrapping

Shell Script Development

Tools for writing, improving, or organizing Bash or other shell scripts

  •    595⭐     47🍴 ansi) - ANSI escape codes in pure bash - change text color, position the cursor, much more
  •    485⭐     58🍴 assert.sh) - Bash unit testing framework
  •    243⭐     20🍴 bashew) - bash script creator - from small stand-alone script to complex projects with CI/CD and testing
  •    594⭐     63🍴 bashful) - A collection of libraries to simplify writing Bash scripts
  •     71⭐      3🍴 Bashlets) - A modular extensible toolbox for Bash
  • 🌎 bashly - Bash command line framework and CLI generator
  •     90⭐     11🍴 bashmanager) - mini bash framework for creating command line tools
  •     33⭐      4🍴 bashwithnails) - a Bash framework written just for fun with testing, dependency management & packaging
  •   1961⭐    117🍴 bash-language-server) - 🌎 LSP-based Bash language server
  •    122⭐     17🍴 bash-modules) - functions for developing with unofficial strict mode enabled.
  •   4671⭐    409🍴 bats) - Bash Automated Testing System
  •    320⭐     30🍴 composure) - Compose, document, version and organize your shell functions
  •     61⭐      4🍴 crash) - Proper error handling, exceptions and try/catch for ZSH
  •    449⭐     11🍴 critic.sh) - Dead simple testing framework for Bash with coverage reporting
  •     89⭐      4🍴 dispatch) - A command line argument parser in 50 lines of portable shell script.
  •    202⭐     16🍴 esh) - A simple templating engine based on shell, implemented in ~290 lines of POSIX shell and awk.
  •    343⭐     20🍴 Fishtape) - TAP producer and test harness for fish
  •    372⭐     20🍴 getoptions) - An elegant option parser for shell scripts (sh, bash and all POSIX shells)
  •    218⭐      6🍴 getopts.fish) - CLI parser for fish
  •    158⭐     11🍴 is.sh) - An alternative for builtin test command, it will make your "if" statements pretty
  •     41⭐      3🍴 lumberjack) - A logging interface for shell scripts
  •    543⭐     67🍴 mo) - Mustache templates in pure bash
  •    154⭐     31🍴 optparse) - A BASH wrapper for getopts, for simple command line arguments.
  •    452⭐     62🍴 rerun) - A modular shell automation framework to organize your keeper scripts
  •    142⭐     21🍴 revolver) - A reusable progress spinner for shell scripts
  •     13⭐      1🍴 phases) - Minimally invasive bash preprocessor, select sections of your script to run
  •    154⭐     12🍴 powscript) - bash transpiler written in bash (coffeescript for bash)
  •    243⭐     62🍴 semver_bash) - Semantic Versioning in Bash
  •     30⭐      7🍴 sh-semver) - Semver tool for bash - finds versions matching to specified rules
  •  35181⭐   1722🍴 shellcheck) - Static analysis tool for shell scripts
  •   1195⭐     52🍴 shellfire) - A repository of namespaced, composable shell (bash, sh and dash) function libraries
  •   1050⭐     69🍴 shellspec) - A full-featured BDD unit testing framework for dash, bash, ksh, zsh and all POSIX shells
  •   6850⭐    328🍴 shfmt) - A shell parser, formatter, and interpreter with bash support; includes shfmt
  •    377⭐     25🍴 shpec) - A shell testing framework
  • 🌎 shutit - Automation framework based on bash and pexpect
  •   1740⭐    151🍴 sub) - A delicious way to organize programs
  •     59⭐      9🍴 ts) - A shell test script
  •    211⭐     30🍴 urchin) - An idiomatic shell testing framework that uses only shell commands
  •   1556⭐    211🍴 shunit2) - A unit test framework for Bash scripts with a flavour of JUnit/PyUnit.
  •     74⭐      9🍴 rebash) - Scripting library/framework. Features: imports, exceptions, doc-tests ...
  •    199⭐     22🍴 zunit) - A powerful unit testing framework for ZSH

Guides

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Other amazingly awesome lists can be found in   2678⭐    269🍴 awesome-awesome) and  31336⭐   3533🍴 awesome-awesomeness).

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