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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    273⭐     25🍴 rc) shell
  • 🌎 fish - Smart and user-friendly command line shell
  •   1493⭐    142🍴 ion) - A modern system shell that features a simple, yet powerful, syntax. It is written entirely in Rust.
  •    565⭐    154🍴 ksh93) - Korn Shell
  •    214⭐     36🍴 mksh) - MirBSD Korn Shell
  •   1528⭐     27🍴 murex) - A smarter shell and scripting environment with advanced features designed for usability, safety and productivity (eg smarter DevOps tooling)
  •   1486⭐     41🍴 ngs) - Fully featured scripting language created specifically for Ops. REPL is being developed.
  •  33324⭐   1714🍴 nushell) - A modern shell written in Rust
  •    366⭐     39🍴 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
  •    157⭐     10🍴 shell++) - Friendly and modern functional and object oriented shell script language
  •     43⭐      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
  •    352⭐     30🍴 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.

  •    265⭐      8🍴 AdvancedNewFile) - Fast creation of files and directories in a recursive way. Inspired by the Vim plugin.
  •  26277⭐   1427🍴 ag) - Super fast string search through a directory hierarchy
  •    580⭐     36🍴 aliases) - Contextual, dynamic, organized aliases for bash
  •    990⭐     15🍴 arttime) - Beauty of text art meets functionality of clock, timer, pomodoro++ time manager
  •   5753⭐    261🍴 autoenv) - Directory-based environments.
  •    157⭐      3🍴 await) - single binary that run list of commands in parallel and waits for their termination
  •    698⭐     36🍴 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.
  •   1273⭐     84🍴 bashhub) - ☁️ Bash history in the cloud. Indexed and searchable.
  •   1729⭐    118🍴 boilr) - A blazingly fast CLI tool for creating projects from boilerplate templates.
  •   1287⭐    115🍴 boom) - Store links and snippets in the command line
  •   1606⭐     58🍴 borg) - A terminal based search engine for bash commands
  •  10983⭐    239🍴 broot) - A better way to navigate directories
  •  17188⭐    421🍴 browsh) - The modern text-based browser
  •   6576⭐    298🍴 Buku) - Powerful command-line bookmark manager
  • 🌎 byobu - Text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer
  •    526⭐     23🍴 cod) — A completion daemon for shell that learns when you invoke --help commands
  •     79⭐      8🍴 CloudClip) - Your own clipboard in the cloud, copy and paste text with gist between different systems
  •   2991⭐    141🍴 ddgr) - DuckDuckGo from the terminal
  •   2545⭐    112🍴 desk) - A lightweight workspace manager for the shell
  •  12868⭐    648🍴 direnv) - An environment switcher for the shell, compare with autoenv
  •   2814⭐    120🍴 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
  •   5903⭐    225🍴 fasd) - Command-line productivity booster, offers quick access to files and directories
  •  34931⭐    833🍴 fd) - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.
  •     43⭐      3🍴 foxy) - Plain text bookmarks for Firefox and surf browsers.
  •   4057⭐     85🍴 fselect) - Find files with SQL-like queries.
  •    648⭐     19🍴 funky) - Extends functionality of shell functions making them more powerful and flexible.
  •    531⭐     26🍴 fz) - Seamless fuzzy tab completion for z
  •  67018⭐   2428🍴 fzf) - A command-line fuzzy finder
  •    642⭐     24🍴 gitmux) - Show Git status in Tmux status bar
  •   6125⭐    533🍴 googler) - Google Search, Google Site Search, Google News from the terminal
  •     48⭐      3🍴 googlr) - Command line tool that lets you search Google from your terminal.
  •    696⭐     49🍴 has) - has helps you check presence of various command line tools and their versions on path
  •   5730⭐    151🍴 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.
  •  15351⭐    513🍴 navi) - An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line
  •    471⭐     56🍴 hhighlighter) - Colorize words in a command output
  •   1283⭐     63🍴 hr) - <hr /> for your terminal
  •    355⭐     23🍴 hss) - An interactive parallel ssh client featuring autocomplete and asynchronous execution
  •   4132⭐    234🍴 hstr) - Bash History Suggest Box
  •   1780⭐    125🍴 k) - k is a Zsh script to make directory listings more readable, adding Git status, fileweight colors and rotting dates
  •     22⭐      5🍴 k alias) - get kool aliases (and more) working with a simple one-liner
  •   7890⭐    328🍴 lf) - Terminal file manager written in Go, inspired by ranger
  •     44⭐      3🍴 lf.sh) - Quickly search files with fewer typings and do many more (grepping, copying path to clipboard, etc)
  •    207⭐      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)
  •    676⭐     28🍴 loop) - Write and control complex loops with as one-liners
  •   2055⭐    108🍴 marker) - Bookmark your shell commands
  •      ?⭐      ?🍴 mackup) - Keep your application settings in sync (OS X/Linux)
  •   7017⭐    180🍴 mcfly) - Fly through your shell history. Great Scot!
  • modules - Classical Tcl-based Environment Modules managing the shell environment (compare to Lmod, direnv, and autoenv)
  •  19569⭐    771🍴 nnn) - File browser and disk usage analyzer with excellent desktop integration
  •     91⭐      7🍴 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.
  •   5146⭐    279🍴 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.
  •    383⭐     19🍴 pdd) - Tiny date, time diff calculator with timers
  •   3309⭐    145🍴 percol) - Adds flavor of interactive filtering to the traditional pipe concept of UNIX shell
  •     70⭐      7🍴 q) - Vim like macro registers for your Bash and Zsh Shell
  •    580⭐     23🍴 qfc) - File-completion widget for Bash and Zsh
  •   1021⭐     19🍴 resh) - Contextual shell history for Zsh and Bash
  •  49657⭐   2032🍴 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
  •    114⭐      1🍴 shell-history) - Visualize your shell usage with Highcharts
  •    443⭐     14🍴 SHML) - Style framework for the terminal (Shell Markup Language)
  •    308⭐     35🍴 slugify) - Command that converts filenames and directories to a web friendly format
  •    294⭐     26🍴 sman) - 🐛 A command-line snippet manager
  •   6014⭐    290🍴 spark) - ▁▂▃▅▂▇ in your shell
  •    349⭐      6🍴 spark.fish) - ▁▂▃▅ Sparkline Generator
  •    264⭐     13🍴 sheet) - Text snippets for the command line
  •    933⭐     44🍴 spot) - Tiny file search utility
  •     82⭐      5🍴 snips) - Command line tool to manage snippets of code.
  •    629⭐    148🍴 sqlline) - Shell for issuing SQL to relational databases via JDBC (multiline, completion, highlighting, dialect support)
  •   1180⭐    130🍴 sshfs) - A tool for mounting remote file systems over SSH
  •    161⭐     22🍴 sudocabulary) - Learn English Vocabulary from your terminal
  • 🌎 surfraw - browse specific site and search the web from your terminal without browser.
  •     21⭐      1🍴 task-manager) - Execute all your scripts with just two or three keystrokes.
  •    197⭐     10🍴 td-cli) - A todo command line manager to organize and manage your todos across multiple projects.
  •   1715⭐     39🍴 tere) - A faster alternative to cd + ls
  •  88890⭐   3563🍴 thefuck) - Fix common shell mistakes by using an easy to remember command
  •    716⭐     49🍴 tldr) - A fully-functional bash client for tldr, simplified and community-driven man pages
  • 🌎 tmux - Amazing terminal multiplexer
  •    179⭐      5🍴 undollar) - undollar bites the dollar sign off the tip of the command you just pasted into your terminal
  •   9159⭐    356🍴 usql) - Universal command-line interface for SQL databases.
  •    448⭐     39🍴 v) - z for vim.
  •   3635⭐    143🍴 wemux) - Multi-User Tmux Made Easy
  •   3759⭐    209🍴 xiki) - Makes the shell console more friendly and powerful
  •   4262⭐     79🍴 xplr) - A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer
  •  10455⭐    324🍴 xsv) - a fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust
  •   5470⭐    107🍴 xxh) - Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through the SSH.

Directory Navigation

  •    115⭐     10🍴 aliasme) - alias helper to change directory quickly
  •  16366⭐    706🍴 autojump) - A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line
  •   1905⭐    293🍴 bashmarks) - Directory bookmarks for the shell
  •    923⭐     65🍴 bd) - Quickly go back to a parent directory
  •    365⭐     20🍴 commacd) - A faster way to move around in Bash
  •   2590⭐    111🍴 enhancd) - 🚀 A next-generation cd command with an interactive filter
  •    880⭐     64🍴 goto) - A shell utility for navigation to aliased directories supporting auto-completion
  •   1807⭐     60🍴 jump) - Jump helps you navigate your file system faster by learning your habits.
  •     22⭐      1🍴 lazy-cd) - Simple bash commands for bookmarked navigation of the file system, complete with bash-completion.
  •    176⭐     10🍴 up) - Ascend directories by name or count; for bash, zsh, and fish.
  •  16462⭐   1172🍴 z) - z is the new j, yo
  •   3020⭐    141🍴 z.lua) - A new cd command that helps you navigate faster by learning your habits
  •  24151⭐    571🍴 zoxide) - A faster way to navigate your filesystem, written in Rust
  •    107⭐      5🍴 zpyi) - Python in Zsh - Easy python scripting in shell

Customization

Custom prompts, color themes, etc.

  •    151⭐     27🍴 aphrodite-terminal-theme) — Minimalistic Aphrodite theme (prompt) for sexy terminals that works in bash, fish and zsh
  •    432⭐     41🍴 base16-builder) - Base16-Builder
  •    185⭐     44🍴 bash-full-of-colors) - Powerful prompt with screen, tmux, git support and many more
  •   6739⭐    968🍴 bash-git-prompt) - An informative and fancy Bash prompt for Git users
  •    901⭐    169🍴 bash-powerline) - Powerline-style Bash prompt in pure Bash script
  •   1559⭐    121🍴 bashstrap) - A quick way to spruce up OSX terminal
  •   2828⭐    383🍴 bullet-train-oh-my-zsh-theme) - 🚄 An oh-my-zsh shell theme based on the Powerline Vim plugin
  •   1557⭐     70🍴 emojify) Emoji on the command line 😱
  • 🌎 flatui-terminal-theme - Nicer colors for terminal
  •    945⭐     95🍴 geometry) - A minimal ZSH theme where any function can be added to the left prompt or (async) right prompt on the fly.
  •    327⭐     97🍴 git-prompt) - Bash prompt with Git, SVN and HG modules
  •     75⭐      6🍴 gittify) - A colorful Bash prompt + customized Git aliases
  •   9482⭐    606🍴 Gogh - Color Scheme) - Color Scheme for Gnome Terminal
  •   4526⭐    424🍴 liquidprompt) - A full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh
  •    105⭐     10🍴 mysql-colorize) - Colorization for mysql comand-line client
  •   3668⭐    291🍴 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.
  •    182⭐     13🍴 polyglot) - An informative Git prompt that works in bash, zsh, ksh, mksh, pdksh, oksh, dash, yash, busybox sh, and osh
  •  47360⭐   2225🍴 powerlevel10k) - Super flexible awesome powerline ZSH theme
  •   1140⭐    155🍴 sexy-bash-prompt) - Bash prompt with colors, Git statuses, and Git branches
  • 🌎 starship - Fast, customisable, cross-shell prompt written in rust
  •   1022⭐    241🍴 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.
  •    682⭐     14🍴 add-gitignore) - Interactive CLI that generates a .gitignore for your project based on your needs.
  •    636⭐     38🍴 bcal) - Byte CALculator for storage conversions and calculations
  •    654⭐     28🍴 bitwise) - Terminal based interactive bit manipulator in curses.
  •  12116⭐    745🍴 bocker) - Docker implemented in 100 lines of bash
  •  20039⭐   1031🍴 cloc) - Count Lines of Code
  •     46⭐      3🍴 doclt) - A command line interface to Digital Ocean
  •  29602⭐   1933🍴 dokku) - Docker powered mini-Heroku. The smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seen.
  •   4505⭐    141🍴 forgit) - Utility tool for git taking advantage of fuzzy finder fzf.
  •   1038⭐     93🍴 git-extra-commands) - Many Git extra utilities. Churn, cut-branch, improved-merge and many more.
  •  17453⭐   1208🍴 git-extras) - Git utilities -- repo summary, repl, changelog population, author commit percentages and more
  •   3330⭐    250🍴 git-open) - Type git open to open the GitHub page or website for a repository in your browser
  •   6423⭐    256🍴 git-quick-stats) - Git quick statistics is a simple and efficient way to access various statistics in git repository.
  •    382⭐     43🍴 git-semver) - Git plugin for easing semantic versioning and changelog validation
  •    733⭐     83🍴 git-sh) - A customized Bash environment suitable for Git work
  •   1688⭐     74🍴 gita) - A command-line tool to manage multiple git repos.
  •  22853⭐   2193🍴 hub) - hub helps you win at git.
  •  23130⭐    504🍴 just) - Task runner for saving and running project-specific commands.
  •     23⭐      2🍴 licins) - Insert commented software licenses into source code.
  •    370⭐     21🍴 mkdkr) - Makefile + Docker = CI Pipeline
  • 🌎 mr - Multiple Repository management tool
  •    696⭐     15🍴 nve) - Run any command on specific Node.js versions.
  •   3926⭐    279🍴 overcommit) - A fully configurable and extendable Git hook manager
  • 🌎 pre-commit - A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks
  •   4120⭐    384🍴 rebound) - Instantly browse Stack Overflow results in your terminal when you get a compiler error
  •    358⭐     39🍴 repren) - Command-line search-and-replace and file-renaming swiss army knife
  •   6147⭐    217🍴 slap) - Sublime-like terminal-based text editor that runs on Node.js
  •    568⭐     37🍴 shipit) - Minimalistic SSH deployment
  •    155⭐      8🍴 starring) - Automatically star the npm-packages that you are using on GitHub.
  •    597⭐     33🍴 tag) - Instantly jump to your ag matches.
  • 🌎 trunk - Blazingly fast meta code checker and formatter
  •     62⭐     12🍴 vmn) - git-based automatic versioning and state recovery solution agnostic to language or architecture
  •    353⭐      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
  •  50515⭐   1273🍴 bat) - A cat clone with wings
  •   1209⭐     98🍴 bmon) - Real-time network bandwidth monitor and rate estimator with human-friendly visual output
  •  22048⭐    671🍴 btop) - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor
  •    198⭐     18🍴 catcli) - The command line catalog tool for your offline data
  •   3171⭐    120🍴 ccat) - ccat is the colorizing cat. It works similar to cat but displays content with syntax highlighting.
  •  23711⭐    660🍴 exa) - A modern version of ls.
  •   8598⭐    315🍴 progress) - Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, and more...
  •   1107⭐    262🍴 stronghold) - Easily configure MacOS security settings from the terminal.
  •  27331⭐   1545🍴 glances) - Glances an Eye on your system
  •  18778⭐   1117🍴 goaccess) - GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems.
  •   1656⭐    105🍴 hblock) - Hosts-file based adblocker
  •     98⭐     18🍴 histstat) - History for netstat
  •   5853⭐    580🍴 htop) - A ncurses based interactive process viewer which aims to be a better top
  • 🌎 lnav - An advanced log file viewer for the small-scale
  •    146⭐     23🍴 logdissect) - CLI utility and Python API for analyzing log files and other data.
  •    507⭐     46🍴 ls++) - Colorized ls on steroids
  •  13806⭐    441🍴 lsd) - LSDeluxe, rewrite of GNU ls with lot of added features like colors, icons, tree-view and more formatting options.
  •    529⭐     17🍴 lsp) - An improved ls, with file descriptions in plain language and intelligent file grouping
  •   1808⭐     67🍴 maza) - Local ad blocker. Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating system.
  •   2741⭐    344🍴 mtr) - The functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool.
  • 🌎 ncdu - NCurses Disk Usage
  •    408⭐    181🍴 nmtui) - Text User Interface for controlling NetworkManager
  •   1091⭐    132🍴 powertop) - Battery/Power usage and device stats monitoring command-line tool, with tune-up options.
  •   1213⭐     78🍴 prettyping) - Making the output of ping prettier, more colorful, more compact, and easier to read.
  •     77⭐      7🍴 procdog) - Lightweight command-line control of long-lived processes like servers
  •    416⭐     49🍴 quick-secure) - Quickly secure and harden UNIX/Linux systems
  •     31⭐      1🍴 rng) - Copy range of lines from file or stdin to stdout.
  •   1796⭐     70🍴 tiptop) - Graphical command-line system monitor.
  •     68⭐      6🍴 wifi-wand) - a Ruby command line application for managing WiFi on MacOS (install by gem install wifi-wand)
  •   1121⭐     46🍴 xiringuito) - SSH-based "VPN for poors"

Downloading and Serving

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

  •  36393⭐   3637🍴 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
  •    860⭐     44🍴 balls) - Bash on Balls
  •   1514⭐    200🍴 bashttpd) - A web server written in Bash
  •    308⭐     24🍴 bashhub-server) - Private cloud shell history. Open source server for bashhub
  •   1029⭐     78🍴 bitpocket) - "DIY Dropbox" or "2-way directory (r)sync with proper deletion"
  •   6575⭐   1076🍴 Dropbox-Uploader) - Dropbox Uploader is a Bash script which can be used to upload, download, list or delete files from Dropbox
  •  34355⭐   3693🍴 httpie) - HTTPie is a command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement
  •   4062⭐    122🍴 HTTPLab) - The interactive web server, let you inspect HTTP requests and forge responses.
  •    614⭐     28🍴 Kapow!) - If you can script it, you can HTTP it.
  •    177⭐     11🍴 ngincat) - Tiny Bash HTTP server using netcat
  •   2651⭐    143🍴 resty) - Little command line REST client that you can use in pipelines
  •   1366⭐    136🍴 shell2http) - HTTP-server to execute shell commands. Designed for development, prototyping or remote control
  •    132⭐     13🍴 tshare) - File sharing from commandline.
  •    209⭐      8🍴 vesper) - 🍸Vesper is a HTTP framework for Bash/Unix Shell
  •   5747⭐     99🍴 xh) - Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests
  •  95792⭐   7517🍴 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.

  •    108⭐     17🍴 adb-export) - Export Android content providers to CSV format
  •   1036⭐    584🍴 Android-Kitchen) - A text-based kitchen for Android ROM customization. Uses shell scripts and works with Cygwin/OS X/Linux
  •  13077⭐   1831🍴 Beets) - Music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger
  •   5637⭐    469🍴 cmus) - Cross-platform cli audio player.
  •   7296⭐    141🍴 dasel) - Query and update data structures using selectors from the command line. Comparable to  30927⭐   1593🍴 jq) /   2672⭐     84🍴 yq) but supports JSON, YAML, TOML and XML with zero runtime dependencies.
  •    205⭐     14🍴 dzr) - Cross-platform Deezer.com audio player.
  •  19182⭐    441🍴 fx) - Command-line JSON processing tool by anononymus JavaScript functions
  •    555⭐     30🍴 gifgen) - Simple high quality GIF encoding
  •    765⭐    102🍴 image-scraper) - A cool command line image scraper with a lot of features.
  •   1049⭐     51🍴 imgp) - Blazing fast batch image resizer and rotator
  •   7995⭐    212🍴 jc) - Convert command output, file-types, and common strings to JSON or YAML for easier use in scripts.
  •   4692⭐    158🍴 jo) - A small utility to create JSON objects from command-line arguments.
  •  30927⭐   1593🍴 jq) - Sed for json data. You can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data
  •    373⭐     15🍴 korkut) - Quick and simple image processing at the command line.
  •    380⭐     11🍴 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.
  •     86⭐      7🍴 nehm) - Console tool, which downloads, sets IDv3 tags and adds to your iTunes (if you use it) your SoundCloud likes in convenient way
  •   1771⭐    263🍴 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)
  •   7993⭐    286🍴 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.
  •  12606⭐    610🍴 yq) - yq is a portable command-line YAML processor

Applications

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

  •   1881⭐    145🍴 ansiweather) - Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols
  •   4984⭐    264🍴 awless) - A powerful, innovative and small surface CLI to manage AWS.
  •   1683⭐    231🍴 bashblog) - A Bash script that handles blog posting
  •   5821⭐    121🍴 carbon-now-cli) - 🎨 Beautiful images of your code — from right inside your terminal.
  •     73⭐      3🍴 choosealicense-cli) - Choose an OSS license from the comfort of your terminal
  •   4098⭐    318🍴 cointop) - The fastest and most interactive terminal based UI application for tracking cryptocurrencies
  •    825⭐     50🍴 dstask) - Single binary terminal-based TODO manager with git-based sync + markdown notes per task
  •   4825⭐    316🍴 editly) - Command line video editor
  •    397⭐     35🍴 facebook-cli) - Facebook command line tool
  •   1454⭐    137🍴 fanyi) - Translate English to Chinese in terminal
  •   3354⭐    314🍴 gcalcli) - Google Calendar command line interface
  •   2102⭐    327🍴 geeknote) - Command line evernote client
  •   3997⭐    168🍴 haxor-news) - Browse Hacker News like a haxor
  •    462⭐     18🍴 hn-cli) - Browse Hacker News from the comfort of your Terminal
  •    320⭐     23🍴 iponmap) - Draw point on world map using ip address
  •     66⭐      3🍴 isitup) - Check whether a website is up or down
  •   6580⭐    524🍴 jrnl) - A simple command line journal application that stores your journal in a plain text file
  •    907⭐     55🍴 kanban.bash) - commandline asciii kanban board for minimalist productivity bash hackers (csv-based)
  •   5429⭐    513🍴 ledger) - Command line accounting
  •     38⭐      4🍴 licen) - Generate your license. Yet another lice, but implement with Jinja2 and docopt
  •     36⭐      0🍴 md2png) - Convert markdown to PNG image
  •    209⭐     16🍴 moviemon) - Everything about your movies within the command line.
  •    636⭐     20🍴 nomino) - Batch rename utility using regex, sort and map file options.
  •    553⭐     23🍴 pcalc) - Calculator made for programmers working with multiple number representations, sizes, and overall close to the bits.
  •    508⭐     35🍴 pockyt) - Read, Manage, and Automate your 🌎 Pocket collection.
  •     97⭐      8🍴 pushblast) - Get PushBullet notifications when a shell program exits
  •    236⭐     41🍴 pushbullet-bash) - Bash interface to the PushBullet API
  •  15809⭐    896🍴 ranger) - A console file manager with VI key bindings.
  •   4654⭐    278🍴 Reddit Terminal Viewer) - Browse Reddit from your terminal
  •   5256⭐    283🍴 SAWS) - A Supercharged AWS CLI
  •   9001⭐    384🍴 taskbook) - Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat
  • 🌎 taskwarrior - A command-line TODO list manager
  •    889⭐     38🍴 terjira) - Command line power tool for Jira
  •   5051⭐    276🍴 ticker) — Terminal stock ticker with live updates and position tracking
  •     27⭐      3🍴 vl) - URL link checker on text documents
  •   7877⭐    478🍴 wego) - Weather app for the terminal
  •    385⭐     20🍴 whales) - A tool to automatically dockerize your applications
  •    168⭐     11🍴 whereami) - Get your geolocation information from the CLI
  •  25139⭐   1116🍴 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.

  •    896⭐    207🍴 bash2048) - Bash implementation of 2048 game
  •     63⭐     28🍴 minesweeper) - Bash implementation of minesweeper
  •    335⭐     58🍴 nudoku) - ncurses based sudoku game written in C
  •    738⭐     36🍴 piu-piu) - Horizontal scroller game in bash with multiplayer mode!
  •    540⭐     40🍴 sedtris) - Tetris in sed
  •     44⭐      4🍴 sed-scripts) - Arkanoid and Sokoban written using sed
  • 🌎 SHTAP - Reusable text adventure engine for Bash 4
  •    283⭐     34🍴 tty-solitaire) - Play solitaire in your terminal!

Shell Package Management

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

  •  14348⭐   2291🍴 bash-it) - A community Bash framework
  •   1170⭐     74🍴 basher) - A package manager for shell scripts
  •     79⭐      9🍴 bashing) - Smashing Bash into Pieces
  • 🌎 bpkg - JavaScript has npm, Ruby has Gems, Python has pip and now Shell has bpkg
  •   1810⭐    104🍴 dotdrop) - Save your dotfiles once, deploy them everywhere
  •    241⭐     31🍴 dotfiler) – Shell agnostic git based dotfiles package manager, written in Python.
  •   1186⭐     87🍴 fresh) - Keep your dotfiles fresh
  •   2123⭐    145🍴 homeshick) - Git dotfile synchronizer written in Bash
  •   1253⭐    250🍴 shallow-backup) - Easily create lightweight documentation of installed packages, dotfiles, and more
  •     82⭐      4🍴 shundle) - Plugin manager for shell scripts
  •   2200⭐    124🍴 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

  •    663⭐     50🍴 ansi) - ANSI escape codes in pure bash - change text color, position the cursor, much more
  •    486⭐     57🍴 assert.sh) - Bash unit testing framework
  •    267⭐     22🍴 bashew) - bash script creator - from small stand-alone script to complex projects with CI/CD and testing
  •    604⭐     64🍴 bashful) - A collection of libraries to simplify writing Bash scripts
  •     76⭐      3🍴 Bashlets) - A modular extensible toolbox for Bash
  • 🌎 bashly - Bash command line framework and CLI generator
  •     97⭐     11🍴 bashmanager) - mini bash framework for creating command line tools
  •     34⭐      4🍴 bashwithnails) - a Bash framework written just for fun with testing, dependency management & packaging
  •   2193⭐    129🍴 bash-language-server) - 🌎 LSP-based Bash language server
  •    135⭐     16🍴 bash-modules) - functions for developing with unofficial strict mode enabled.
  •   5054⭐    426🍴 bats) - Bash Automated Testing System
  •    332⭐     29🍴 composure) - Compose, document, version and organize your shell functions
  •     65⭐      4🍴 crash) - Proper error handling, exceptions and try/catch for ZSH
  •    457⭐     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.
  •    219⭐     16🍴 esh) - A simple templating engine based on shell, implemented in ~290 lines of POSIX shell and awk.
  •    349⭐     20🍴 Fishtape) - TAP producer and test harness for fish
  •    427⭐     22🍴 getoptions) - An elegant option parser for shell scripts (sh, bash and all POSIX shells)
  •    224⭐      6🍴 getopts.fish) - CLI parser for fish
  •    163⭐     11🍴 is.sh) - An alternative for builtin test command, it will make your "if" statements pretty
  •     43⭐      3🍴 lumberjack) - A logging interface for shell scripts
  •    573⭐     68🍴 mo) - Mustache templates in pure bash
  •    159⭐     32🍴 optparse) - A BASH wrapper for getopts, for simple command line arguments.
  •    457⭐     60🍴 rerun) - A modular shell automation framework to organize your keeper scripts
  •    147⭐     22🍴 revolver) - A reusable progress spinner for shell scripts
  •     15⭐      1🍴 phases) - Minimally invasive bash preprocessor, select sections of your script to run
  •    159⭐     13🍴 powscript) - bash transpiler written in bash (coffeescript for bash)
  •    251⭐     56🍴 semver_bash) - Semantic Versioning in Bash
  •     29⭐      7🍴 sh-semver) - Semver tool for bash - finds versions matching to specified rules
  •  36735⭐   1787🍴 shellcheck) - Static analysis tool for shell scripts
  •   1206⭐     50🍴 shellfire) - A repository of namespaced, composable shell (bash, sh and dash) function libraries
  •   1183⭐     73🍴 shellspec) - A full-featured BDD unit testing framework for dash, bash, ksh, zsh and all POSIX shells
  •   7424⭐    353🍴 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
  •   1746⭐    148🍴 sub) - A delicious way to organize programs
  •     60⭐      9🍴 ts) - A shell test script
  •      ?⭐      ?🍴 urchin) - An idiomatic shell testing framework that uses only shell commands
  •   1620⭐    212🍴 shunit2) - A unit test framework for Bash scripts with a flavour of JUnit/PyUnit.
  •     74⭐     10🍴 rebash) - Scripting library/framework. Features: imports, exceptions, doc-tests ...
  •    209⭐     23🍴 zunit) - A powerful unit testing framework for ZSH

Guides

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Other amazingly awesome lists can be found in   2867⭐    277🍴 awesome-awesome) and  32256⭐   3567🍴 awesome-awesomeness).

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