awesome-shell

GNU Project's shell (Bourne Again SHell)

Friendly, expressive shell features like anonymous functions and data structures

The extensible shell, based on Plan 9's shell

Smart and user-friendly command line 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

Bash compatible, with new/modern Unix shell language called Oil

Public domain Korn shell

a cross-platform task automation and configuration management framework, consisting of a command-line shell and scripting language

shell++

Friendly and modern functional and object oriented shell script language

shenv

Simple shell version management

C shell with file name completion and command line editing

Python-ish, BASHwards-looking shell language and command prompt

yash

A POSIX-compliant command line shell with built-in support for completion and prediction based on command history

Powerful shell with scripting language

AdvancedNewFile

Fast creation of files and directories in a recursive way. Inspired by the Vim plugin

ag

Super fast string search through a directory hierarchy

aliases

Contextual, dynamic, organized aliases for bash

arttime

Beauty of text art meets functionality of clock, timer, pomodoro++ time manager

autoenv

Directory-based environments

await

single binary that run list of commands in parallel and waits for their termination

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

bashhub

Bash history in the cloud. Indexed and searchable

boilr

A blazingly fast CLI tool for creating projects from boilerplate templates

boom

Store links and snippets in the command line

borg

A terminal based search engine for bash commands

broot

A better way to navigate directories

browsh

The modern text-based browser

Buku

Powerful command-line bookmark manager

Text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer

cod

— A completion daemon for shell that learns when you invoke commands

CloudClip

Your own clipboard in the cloud, copy and paste text with gist between different systems

ddgr

DuckDuckGo from the terminal

desk

A lightweight workspace manager for the shell

direnv

An environment switcher for the shell, compare with autoenv

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

fasd

Command-line productivity booster, offers quick access to files and directories

fd

A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find

foxy

Plain text bookmarks for Firefox and surf browsers

fselect

Find files with SQL-like queries

funky

Extends functionality of shell functions making them more powerful and flexible

fz

Seamless fuzzy tab completion for z

fzf

A command-line fuzzy finder

gitmux

Show Git status in Tmux status bar

googler

Google Search, Google Site Search, Google News from the terminal

googlr

Command line tool that lets you search Google from your terminal

has

helps you check presence of various command line tools and their versions on path

how2

finds the simplest way to do something in a unix shell. It's like , but you can query it in natural language

navi

An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line

hhighlighter

Colorize words in a command output

hr

for your terminal

hss

An interactive parallel ssh client featuring autocomplete and asynchronous execution

hstr

Bash History Suggest Box

k

k is a Zsh script to make directory listings more readable, adding Git status, fileweight colors and rotting dates

k alias

get kool aliases (and more) working with a simple one-liner

lf

Terminal file manager written in Go, inspired by ranger

lf.sh

Quickly search files with fewer typings and do many more (grepping, copying path to clipboard, etc)

lowcharts

Draw low-resolution graphs in terminal

Lua-based Environment Modules that enhances Tcl-based modules while being backward compatible (compare to modules)

loop

Write and control complex loops with as one-liners

marker

Bookmark your shell commands

mackup

Keep your application settings in sync (OS X/Linux)

mcfly

Fly through your shell history. Great Scot!

Classical Tcl-based Environment Modules managing the shell environment (compare to Lmod, direnv, and autoenv)

nnn

File browser and disk usage analyzer with excellent desktop integration

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

Build and execute shell command lines from standard input in parallel

Manage passwords from the command line with GPG encryption and optional git integration

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

pdd

Tiny date, time diff calculator with timers

percol

Adds flavor of interactive filtering to the traditional pipe concept of UNIX shell

q

Vim like macro registers for your Bash and Zsh Shell

qfc

File-completion widget for Bash and Zsh

resh

Contextual shell history for Zsh and Bash

rg

ripgrep is a line oriented search tool that combines the usability of The Silver Searcher with the raw speed of GNU grep

GNU terminal multiplexer

shell-history

Visualize your shell usage with Highcharts

SHML

Style framework for the terminal (Shell Markup Language)

slugify

Command that converts filenames and directories to a web friendly format

sman

A command-line snippet manager

spark

▁▂▃▅▂▇ in your shell

spark.fish

▁▂▃▅ Sparkline Generator

sheet

Text snippets for the command line

spot

Tiny file search utility

snips

Command line tool to manage snippets of code

sqlline

Shell for issuing SQL to relational databases via JDBC (multiline, completion, highlighting, dialect support)

sshfs

A tool for mounting remote file systems over SSH

sudocabulary

Learn English Vocabulary from your terminal

browse specific site and search the web from your terminal without browser

task-manager

Execute all your scripts with just two or three keystrokes

td-cli

A todo command line manager to organize and manage your todos across multiple projects

tere

A faster alternative to cd + ls

thefuck

Fix common shell mistakes by using an easy to remember command

tldr

A fully-functional bash client for tldr, simplified and community-driven man pages

Amazing terminal multiplexer

undollar

undollar bites the dollar sign off the tip of the command you just pasted into your terminal

usql

Universal command-line interface for SQL databases

v

z for vim

wemux

Multi-User Tmux Made Easy

xiki

Makes the shell console more friendly and powerful

xplr

A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer

xsv

a fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust

xxh

Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through the SSH

aliasme

alias helper to change directory quickly

autojump

A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line

bashmarks

Directory bookmarks for the shell

bd

Quickly go back to a parent directory

commacd

A faster way to move around in Bash

enhancd

A next-generation cd command with an interactive filter

goto

A shell utility for navigation to aliased directories supporting auto-completion

jump

Jump helps you navigate your file system faster by learning your habits

lazy-cd

Simple bash commands for bookmarked navigation of the file system, complete with bash-completion

up

Ascend directories by name or count; for bash, zsh, and fish

z

z is the new j, yo

z.lua

A new cd command that helps you navigate faster by learning your habits

zoxide

A faster way to navigate your filesystem, written in Rust

zpyi

Python in Zsh - Easy python scripting in shell

aphrodite-terminal-theme

— Minimalistic Aphrodite theme (prompt) for sexy terminals that works in bash, fish and zsh

base16-builder

Base16-Builder

bash-full-of-colors

Powerful prompt with screen, tmux, git support and many more

bash-git-prompt

An informative and fancy Bash prompt for Git users

bash-powerline

Powerline-style Bash prompt in pure Bash script

bashstrap

A quick way to spruce up OSX terminal

bullet-train-oh-my-zsh-theme

An oh-my-zsh shell theme based on the Powerline Vim plugin

emojify

Emoji on the command line

Nicer colors for terminal

geometry

A minimal ZSH theme where any function can be added to the left prompt or (async) right prompt on the fly

git-prompt

Bash prompt with Git, SVN and HG modules

gittify

A colorful Bash prompt + customized Git aliases

Gogh - Color Scheme

Color Scheme for Gnome Terminal

liquidprompt

A full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh

mysql-colorize

Colorization for mysql comand-line client

oh-my-git

An opinionated git prompt for bash and zsh

Prompt theme engine for any shell and platform written in go

polyglot

An informative Git prompt that works in bash, zsh, ksh, mksh, pdksh, oksh, dash, yash, busybox sh, and osh

powerlevel10k

Super flexible awesome powerline ZSH theme

sexy-bash-prompt

Bash prompt with colors, Git statuses, and Git branches

Fast, customisable, cross-shell prompt written in rust

synth-shell

Greeter with a customizable status report and a fancy bash prompt

Authenticate Git and SSH workflows with biometric unlock using 1Password

A grep-like search tool optimized for source code

add-gitignore

Interactive CLI that generates a .gitignore for your project based on your needs

bcal

Byte CALculator for storage conversions and calculations

bitwise

Terminal based interactive bit manipulator in curses

bocker

Docker implemented in 100 lines of bash

cloc

Count Lines of Code

doclt

A command line interface to Digital Ocean

dokku

Docker powered mini-Heroku. The smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seen

forgit

Utility tool for taking advantage of fuzzy finder fzf

git-extra-commands

Many Git extra utilities. Churn, cut-branch, improved-merge and many more

git-extras

Git utilities -- repo summary, repl, changelog population, author commit percentages and more

git-open

Type to open the GitHub page or website for a repository in your browser

git-quick-stats

Git quick statistics is a simple and efficient way to access various statistics in git repository

git-semver

Git plugin for easing semantic versioning and changelog validation

git-sh

A customized Bash environment suitable for Git work

gita

A command-line tool to manage multiple git repos

hub

hub helps you win at git

just

Task runner for saving and running project-specific commands

licins

Insert commented software licenses into source code

mkdkr

Makefile + Docker = CI Pipeline

Multiple Repository management tool

nve

Run any command on specific Node.js versions

overcommit

A fully configurable and extendable Git hook manager

A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks

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

Blazingly fast meta code checker and formatter

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

ASCII full-screen performance monitor that is capable of reporting the activity of all processes

bat

A 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

progress

Linux tool to show progress for , , , 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

An advanced log file viewer for the small-scale

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 , 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

NCurses Disk Usage

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 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 )

xiringuito

SSH-based "VPN for poors"

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

balls

Bash on Balls

bashttpd

A web server written in Bash

bashhub-server

Private cloud shell history. Open source server for bashhub

bitpocket

"DIY Dropbox" or "2-way directory (r)sync with proper deletion"

Dropbox-Uploader

Dropbox Uploader is a Bash script which can be used to upload, download, list or delete files from Dropbox

httpie

HTTPie is a command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement

HTTPLab

The interactive web server, let you inspect HTTP requests and forge responses

Kapow!

If you can script it, you can HTTP it

ngincat

Tiny Bash HTTP server using netcat

resty

Little command line REST client that you can use in pipelines

shell2http

HTTP-server to execute shell commands. Designed for development, prototyping or remote control

tshare

File sharing from commandline

vesper

🍸Vesper is a HTTP framework for Bash/Unix Shell

xh

Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests

yt-dlp

Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

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 / 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

jq

Sed for json data. You can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data

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

Lets you play most audio and video formats (using ASCII characters) in the shell as well as in a GUI

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

sejda

Command line manipulation of PDF documents (split, merge, rotate, convert to jpg, extract text, etc)

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

Old but powerful tool for command-line XML formatting, filtering, and manipulation

yq

yq is a portable command-line YAML processor

ansiweather

Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols

awless

A powerful, innovative and small surface CLI to manage AWS

bashblog

A Bash script that handles blog posting

carbon-now-cli

🎨 Beautiful images of your code — from right inside your terminal

choosealicense-cli

Choose an OSS license from the comfort of your terminal

cointop

The fastest and most interactive terminal based UI application for tracking cryptocurrencies

dstask

Single binary terminal-based TODO manager with git-based sync + markdown notes per task

editly

Command line video editor

facebook-cli

Facebook command line tool

fanyi

Translate English to Chinese in terminal

gcalcli

Google Calendar command line interface

geeknote

Command line evernote client

haxor-news

Browse Hacker News like a haxor

hn-cli

Browse Hacker News from the comfort of your Terminal

iponmap

Draw point on world map using ip address

isitup

Check whether a website is up or down

jrnl

A simple command line journal application that stores your journal in a plain text file

kanban.bash

commandline asciii kanban board for minimalist productivity bash hackers (csv-based)

ledger

Command line accounting

licen

Generate your license. Yet another lice, but implement with Jinja2 and docopt

md2png

Convert markdown to PNG image

moviemon

Everything about your movies within the command line

nomino

Batch rename utility using regex, sort and map file options

pcalc

Calculator made for programmers working with multiple number representations, sizes, and overall close to the bits

pockyt

Read, Manage, and Automate your collection

pushblast

Get PushBullet notifications when a shell program exits

pushbullet-bash

Bash interface to the PushBullet API

ranger

A console file manager with VI key bindings

Reddit Terminal Viewer

Browse Reddit from your terminal

SAWS

A Supercharged AWS CLI

taskbook

Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat

A command-line TODO list manager

terjira

Command line power tool for Jira

ticker

— Terminal stock ticker with live updates and position tracking

vl

URL link checker on text documents

wego

Weather app for the terminal

whales

A tool to automatically dockerize your applications

whereami

Get your geolocation information from the CLI

wttr.in

The right way to check the weather (curl wttr.in)

bash2048

Bash implementation of 2048 game

minesweeper

Bash implementation of minesweeper

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

Reusable text adventure engine for Bash 4

tty-solitaire

Play solitaire in your terminal!

bash-it

A community Bash framework

basher

A package manager for shell scripts

bashing

Smashing Bash into Pieces

JavaScript has npm, Ruby has Gems, Python has pip and now Shell has bpkg

dotdrop

Save your dotfiles once, deploy them everywhere

dotfiler

– Shell agnostic git based dotfiles package manager, written in Python

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

Git-based dotfiles manager supporting encryption, alternates, and bootstrapping

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

Bashlets

A modular extensible toolbox for Bash

Bash command line framework and CLI generator

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

-based Bash language server

bash-modules

functions for developing with 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

dispatch

A command line argument parser in 50 lines of portable shell script

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

Automation framework based on bash and pexpect

sub

A delicious way to organize programs

ts

A shell test script

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

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