awesome-shell

CLI toolbox

A curated list of command-line frameworks and tools for improving productivity and efficiency

A curated list of awesome command-line frameworks, toolkits, guides and gizmos. Inspired by awesome-php.

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Awesome Shell
Awesome Zsh 15,638 11 months ago
Awesome Fish 4,250 over 1 year ago
Awesome Bash 8,030 12 months ago

Awesome Shell / Shells
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 shell
fish Smart and user-friendly command line shell
ion 1,484 12 months ago A modern system shell that features a simple, yet powerful, syntax. It is written entirely in Rust
ksh93 562 over 2 years ago Korn Shell
mksh 211 about 1 year ago MirBSD Korn Shell
murex 1,511 11 months ago A smarter shell and scripting environment with advanced features designed for usability, safety and productivity (eg smarter DevOps tooling)
ngs 1,486 about 1 year ago Fully featured scripting language created specifically for Ops. REPL is being developed
nushell 32,955 11 months ago A modern shell written in Rust
oksh 364 over 1 year ago 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
shell++ 156 over 2 years ago Friendly and modern functional and object oriented shell script language
shenv 43 over 1 year ago 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
yash 348 11 months ago A POSIX-compliant command line shell with built-in support for completion and prediction based on command history
zsh Powerful shell with scripting language

Awesome Shell / Command-Line Productivity
AdvancedNewFile 265 over 1 year ago Fast creation of files and directories in a recursive way. Inspired by the Vim plugin
ag 26,229 over 1 year ago Super fast string search through a directory hierarchy
aliases 577 about 1 year ago Contextual, dynamic, organized aliases for bash
arttime 973 12 months ago Beauty of text art meets functionality of clock, timer, pomodoro++ time manager
autoenv 5,733 about 1 year ago Directory-based environments
await 149 12 months ago single binary that run list of commands in parallel and waits for their termination
bartib 690 over 1 year ago 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 1,269 about 1 year ago Bash history in the cloud. Indexed and searchable
boilr 1,727 over 2 years ago A blazingly fast CLI tool for creating projects from boilerplate templates
boom 1,283 over 2 years ago Store links and snippets in the command line
borg 1,603 over 7 years ago A terminal based search engine for bash commands
broot 10,858 11 months ago A better way to navigate directories
browsh 17,142 over 1 year ago The modern text-based browser
Buku 6,546 11 months ago Powerful command-line bookmark manager
byobu Text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer
cod 521 almost 2 years ago — A completion daemon for shell that learns when you invoke commands
CloudClip 79 over 7 years ago Your own clipboard in the cloud, copy and paste text with gist between different systems
ddgr 2,975 about 1 year ago DuckDuckGo from the terminal
desk 2,545 over 3 years ago A lightweight workspace manager for the shell
direnv 12,741 12 months ago An environment switcher for the shell, compare with autoenv
dnote 2,808 over 1 year ago A simple command line notebook with multi-device sync and web interface
eureka 781 about 2 years ago CLI tool to input and store your ideas without leaving the terminal
fasd 5,903 over 5 years ago Command-line productivity booster, offers quick access to files and directories
fd 34,453 11 months ago A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find
foxy 43 over 7 years ago Plain text bookmarks for Firefox and surf browsers
fselect 4,030 11 months ago Find files with SQL-like queries
funky 647 over 1 year ago Extends functionality of shell functions making them more powerful and flexible
fz 531 over 1 year ago Seamless fuzzy tab completion for z
fzf 66,191 11 months ago A command-line fuzzy finder
gitmux 635 over 1 year ago Show Git status in Tmux status bar
googler 6,112 almost 4 years ago Google Search, Google Site Search, Google News from the terminal
googlr 46 over 6 years ago Command line tool that lets you search Google from your terminal
has 689 about 1 year ago helps you check presence of various command line tools and their versions on path
how2 5,727 over 2 years ago finds the simplest way to do something in a unix shell. It's like , but you can query it in natural language
navi 15,273 12 months ago An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line
hhighlighter 470 over 1 year ago Colorize words in a command output
hr 1,280 almost 3 years ago for your terminal
hss 353 over 3 years ago An interactive parallel ssh client featuring autocomplete and asynchronous execution
hstr 4,120 about 1 year ago Bash History Suggest Box
k 1,779 almost 3 years ago k is a Zsh script to make directory listings more readable, adding Git status, fileweight colors and rotting dates
k alias 21 over 9 years ago get kool aliases (and more) working with a simple one-liner
lf 7,839 11 months ago Terminal file manager written in Go, inspired by ranger
lf.sh 44 over 2 years ago Quickly search files with fewer typings and do many more (grepping, copying path to clipboard, etc)
lowcharts 205 about 1 year ago Draw low-resolution graphs in terminal
Lmod Lua-based Environment Modules that enhances Tcl-based modules while being backward compatible (compare to modules)
loop 674 about 3 years ago Write and control complex loops with as one-liners
marker 2,052 over 1 year ago Bookmark your shell commands
mackup 14,651 about 1 year ago Keep your application settings in sync (OS X/Linux)
mcfly 6,994 12 months ago Fly through your shell history. Great Scot!
modules Classical Tcl-based Environment Modules managing the shell environment (compare to Lmod, direnv, and autoenv)
nnn 19,467 11 months ago File browser and disk usage analyzer with excellent desktop integration
ok-sh 89 over 1 year ago 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
pathpicker 5,133 about 1 year ago 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 381 over 1 year ago Tiny date, time diff calculator with timers
percol 3,303 almost 2 years ago Adds flavor of interactive filtering to the traditional pipe concept of UNIX shell
q 70 over 5 years ago Vim like macro registers for your Bash and Zsh Shell
qfc 580 over 3 years ago File-completion widget for Bash and Zsh
resh 1,015 over 2 years ago Contextual shell history for Zsh and Bash
rg 49,203 about 1 year ago 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
shell-history 112 about 5 years ago Visualize your shell usage with Highcharts
SHML 442 almost 7 years ago Style framework for the terminal (Shell Markup Language)
slugify 307 over 3 years ago Command that converts filenames and directories to a web friendly format
sman 292 almost 8 years ago A command-line snippet manager
spark 6,008 over 3 years ago ▁▂▃▅▂▇ in your shell
spark.fish 348 almost 5 years ago ▁▂▃▅ Sparkline Generator
sheet 262 almost 3 years ago Text snippets for the command line
spot 932 almost 2 years ago Tiny file search utility
snips 82 over 1 year ago Command line tool to manage snippets of code
sqlline 625 over 2 years ago Shell for issuing SQL to relational databases via JDBC (multiline, completion, highlighting, dialect support)
sshfs 1,175 about 3 years ago A tool for mounting remote file systems over SSH
sudocabulary 161 over 8 years ago Learn English Vocabulary from your terminal
surfraw browse specific site and search the web from your terminal without browser
task-manager 20 over 8 years ago Execute all your scripts with just two or three keystrokes
td-cli 196 about 1 year ago A todo command line manager to organize and manage your todos across multiple projects
tere 1,707 about 1 year ago A faster alternative to cd + ls
thefuck 85,858 over 1 year ago Fix common shell mistakes by using an easy to remember command
tldr 712 almost 2 years ago A fully-functional bash client for tldr, simplified and community-driven man pages
tmux Amazing terminal multiplexer
undollar 176 about 7 years ago undollar bites the dollar sign off the tip of the command you just pasted into your terminal
usql 9,125 11 months ago Universal command-line interface for SQL databases
v 448 over 6 years ago z for vim
wemux 3,635 about 3 years ago Multi-User Tmux Made Easy
xiki 3,760 almost 6 years ago Makes the shell console more friendly and powerful
xplr 4,242 about 1 year ago A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer
xsv 10,430 over 1 year ago a fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust
xxh 5,424 over 1 year ago Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through the SSH

Awesome Shell / Command-Line Productivity / Directory Navigation
aliasme 115 almost 5 years ago alias helper to change directory quickly
autojump 16,322 about 2 years ago A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line
bashmarks 1,902 about 1 year ago Directory bookmarks for the shell
bd 922 about 3 years ago Quickly go back to a parent directory
commacd 364 almost 6 years ago A faster way to move around in Bash
enhancd 2,579 over 1 year ago A next-generation cd command with an interactive filter
goto 878 over 1 year ago A shell utility for navigation to aliased directories supporting auto-completion
jump 1,805 over 1 year ago Jump helps you navigate your file system faster by learning your habits
lazy-cd 21 over 5 years ago Simple bash commands for bookmarked navigation of the file system, complete with bash-completion
up 174 over 5 years ago Ascend directories by name or count; for bash, zsh, and fish
z 16,404 over 1 year ago z is the new j, yo
z.lua 3,016 about 1 year ago A new cd command that helps you navigate faster by learning your habits
zoxide 23,350 12 months ago A faster way to navigate your filesystem, written in Rust
zpyi 106 about 8 years ago Python in Zsh - Easy python scripting in shell

Awesome Shell / Customization
aphrodite-terminal-theme 150 over 1 year ago — Minimalistic Aphrodite theme (prompt) for sexy terminals that works in bash, fish and zsh
base16-builder 432 over 4 years ago Base16-Builder
bash-full-of-colors 183 almost 4 years ago Powerful prompt with screen, tmux, git support and many more
bash-git-prompt 6,741 over 1 year ago An informative and fancy Bash prompt for Git users
bash-powerline 901 over 2 years ago Powerline-style Bash prompt in pure Bash script
bashstrap 1,558 over 6 years ago A quick way to spruce up OSX terminal
bullet-train-oh-my-zsh-theme 2,827 over 1 year ago An oh-my-zsh shell theme based on the Powerline Vim plugin
emojify 1,556 almost 2 years ago Emoji on the command line
flatui-terminal-theme Nicer colors for terminal
geometry 941 almost 2 years ago A minimal ZSH theme where any function can be added to the left prompt or (async) right prompt on the fly
git-prompt 327 over 1 year ago Bash prompt with Git, SVN and HG modules
gittify 74 over 3 years ago A colorful Bash prompt + customized Git aliases
Gogh - Color Scheme 9,422 11 months ago Color Scheme for Gnome Terminal
liquidprompt 4,516 11 months ago A full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh
mysql-colorize 105 almost 5 years ago Colorization for mysql comand-line client
oh-my-git 3,668 over 3 years ago An opinionated git prompt for bash and zsh
oh-my-posh Prompt theme engine for any shell and platform written in go
polyglot 182 almost 2 years ago An informative Git prompt that works in bash, zsh, ksh, mksh, pdksh, oksh, dash, yash, busybox sh, and osh
powerlevel10k 46,947 12 months ago Super flexible awesome powerline ZSH theme
sexy-bash-prompt 1,139 over 4 years ago Bash prompt with colors, Git statuses, and Git branches
starship Fast, customisable, cross-shell prompt written in rust
synth-shell 1,015 12 months ago Greeter with a customizable status report and a fancy bash prompt

Awesome Shell / For Developers
1Password SSH Agent Authenticate Git and SSH workflows with biometric unlock using 1Password
ack A grep-like search tool optimized for source code
add-gitignore 678 almost 2 years ago Interactive CLI that generates a .gitignore for your project based on your needs
bcal 636 over 1 year ago Byte CALculator for storage conversions and calculations
bitwise 652 about 2 years ago Terminal based interactive bit manipulator in curses
bocker 11,950 almost 8 years ago Docker implemented in 100 lines of bash
cloc 19,866 11 months ago Count Lines of Code
doclt 47 about 7 years ago A command line interface to Digital Ocean
dokku 29,468 11 months ago Docker powered mini-Heroku. The smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seen
forgit 4,484 11 months ago Utility tool for taking advantage of fuzzy finder fzf
git-extra-commands 1,024 11 months ago Many Git extra utilities. Churn, cut-branch, improved-merge and many more
git-extras 17,416 11 months ago Git utilities -- repo summary, repl, changelog population, author commit percentages and more
git-open 3,327 about 1 year ago Type to open the GitHub page or website for a repository in your browser
git-quick-stats 6,397 about 1 year ago Git quick statistics is a simple and efficient way to access various statistics in git repository
git-semver 382 almost 6 years ago Git plugin for easing semantic versioning and changelog validation
git-sh 734 over 2 years ago A customized Bash environment suitable for Git work
gita 1,684 over 1 year ago A command-line tool to manage multiple git repos
hub 22,851 almost 2 years ago hub helps you win at git
just 22,560 11 months ago Task runner for saving and running project-specific commands
licins 23 over 3 years ago Insert commented software licenses into source code
mkdkr 370 over 4 years ago Makefile + Docker = CI Pipeline
mr Multiple Repository management tool
nve 694 11 months ago Run any command on specific Node.js versions
overcommit 3,924 about 1 year ago A fully configurable and extendable Git hook manager
pre-commit A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks
rebound 4,109 over 3 years ago Instantly browse Stack Overflow results in your terminal when you get a compiler error
repren 355 11 months ago Command-line search-and-replace and file-renaming swiss army knife
slap 6,144 about 4 years ago Sublime-like terminal-based text editor that runs on Node.js
shipit 568 over 5 years ago Minimalistic SSH deployment
starring 155 about 8 years ago Automatically star the npm-packages that you are using on GitHub
tag 597 almost 3 years ago Instantly jump to your ag matches
trunk Blazingly fast meta code checker and formatter
vmn 62 about 1 year ago git-based automatic versioning and state recovery solution agnostic to language or architecture
wipe-modules 354 almost 3 years ago A little agent that removes the node_modules folder of non-active projects

Awesome Shell / System Utilities
atop ASCII full-screen performance monitor that is capable of reporting the activity of all processes
bat 50,076 11 months ago A clone with wings
bmon 1,204 about 2 years ago Real-time network bandwidth monitor and rate estimator with human-friendly visual output
btop 21,529 12 months ago Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor
catcli 198 over 1 year ago The command line catalog tool for your offline data
ccat 3,168 about 3 years ago ccat is the colorizing cat. It works similar to cat but displays content with syntax highlighting
exa 23,694 about 1 year ago A modern version of
progress 8,589 12 months ago Linux tool to show progress for , , , and more
stronghold 1,105 about 6 years ago Easily configure MacOS security settings from the terminal
glances 27,127 11 months ago Glances an Eye on your system
goaccess 18,649 11 months ago GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems
hblock 1,640 about 1 year ago Hosts-file based adblocker
histstat 98 almost 4 years ago History for netstat
htop 5,850 almost 5 years ago A ncurses based interactive process viewer which aims to be a better
lnav An advanced log file viewer for the small-scale
logdissect 148 about 1 year ago CLI utility and Python API for analyzing log files and other data
ls++ 507 over 1 year ago Colorized ls on steroids
lsd 13,683 12 months ago LSDeluxe, rewrite of GNU ls with lot of added features like colors, icons, tree-view and more formatting options
lsp 529 over 4 years ago An improved , with file descriptions in plain language and intelligent file grouping
maza 1,803 11 months ago Local ad blocker. Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating system
mtr 2,721 about 1 year ago The functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool
ncdu NCurses Disk Usage
nmtui 406 11 months ago Text User Interface for controlling NetworkManager
powertop 1,078 over 1 year ago Battery/Power usage and device stats monitoring command-line tool, with tune-up options
prettyping 1,212 about 2 years ago Making the output of prettier, more colorful, more compact, and easier to read
procdog 77 about 7 years ago Lightweight command-line control of long-lived processes like servers
quick-secure 415 over 5 years ago Quickly secure and harden UNIX/Linux systems
rng 31 over 1 year ago Copy range of lines from file or stdin to stdout
tiptop 1,785 11 months ago Graphical command-line system monitor
wifi-wand 67 11 months ago a Ruby command line application for managing WiFi on MacOS (install by )
xiringuito 1,118 almost 4 years ago SSH-based "VPN for poors"

Awesome Shell / Downloading and Serving
aria2 36,144 over 1 year ago 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 860 over 9 years ago Bash on Balls
bashttpd 1,514 about 6 years ago A web server written in Bash
bashhub-server 306 over 2 years ago Private cloud shell history. Open source server for bashhub
bitpocket 1,030 about 2 years ago "DIY Dropbox" or "2-way directory (r)sync with proper deletion"
Dropbox-Uploader 6,570 over 1 year ago Dropbox Uploader is a Bash script which can be used to upload, download, list or delete files from Dropbox
httpie 34,188 about 1 year ago HTTPie is a command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement
HTTPLab 4,057 over 1 year ago The interactive web server, let you inspect HTTP requests and forge responses
Kapow! 614 about 1 year ago If you can script it, you can HTTP it
ngincat 177 over 11 years ago Tiny Bash HTTP server using netcat
resty 2,651 over 2 years ago Little command line REST client that you can use in pipelines
shell2http 1,356 12 months ago HTTP-server to execute shell commands. Designed for development, prototyping or remote control
tshare 130 almost 2 years ago File sharing from commandline
vesper 209 almost 6 years ago 🍸Vesper is a HTTP framework for Bash/Unix Shell
xh 5,676 11 months ago Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests
yt-dlp 92,706 11 months ago Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

Awesome Shell / Multimedia and File Formats
adb-export 108 about 3 years ago Export Android content providers to CSV format
Android-Kitchen 1,035 over 4 years ago A text-based kitchen for Android ROM customization. Uses shell scripts and works with Cygwin/OS X/Linux
Beets 13,003 11 months ago Music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger
cmus 5,605 11 months ago Cross-platform cli audio player
dasel 7,248 11 months ago 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 203 about 1 year ago Cross-platform Deezer.com audio player
fx 19,100 about 1 year ago Command-line JSON processing tool by anononymus JavaScript functions
gifgen 554 almost 3 years ago Simple high quality GIF encoding
image-scraper 763 almost 8 years ago A cool command line image scraper with a lot of features
imgp 1,046 11 months ago Blazing fast batch image resizer and rotator
jc 7,955 11 months ago Convert command output, file-types, and common strings to JSON or YAML for easier use in scripts
jo 4,685 12 months ago A small utility to create JSON objects from command-line arguments
jq 30,734 11 months ago Sed for json data. You can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data
korkut 373 almost 3 years ago Quick and simple image processing at the command line
library 377 11 months ago 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
nehm 86 over 5 years ago Console tool, which downloads, sets IDv3 tags and adds to your iTunes (if you use it) your SoundCloud likes in convenient way
PiCAST 1,770 over 5 years ago PiCAST turns your $35 Raspberry Pi in to a Chromecast like Device
sejda 514 11 months ago Command line manipulation of PDF documents (split, merge, rotate, convert to jpg, extract text, etc)
visidata 7,962 11 months ago A terminal spreadsheet multitool for exploring and arranging data (csv/json/xml/xls/yaml/etc)
xidel 690 over 1 year ago 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
yq 12,469 11 months ago yq is a portable command-line YAML processor

Awesome Shell / Applications
ansiweather 1,878 over 1 year ago Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols
awless 4,985 over 3 years ago A powerful, innovative and small surface CLI to manage AWS
bashblog 1,672 over 2 years ago A Bash script that handles blog posting
carbon-now-cli 5,802 11 months ago 🎨 Beautiful images of your code — from right inside your terminal
choosealicense-cli 72 over 5 years ago Choose an OSS license from the comfort of your terminal
cointop 4,069 over 1 year ago The fastest and most interactive terminal based UI application for tracking cryptocurrencies
dstask 808 about 1 year ago Single binary terminal-based TODO manager with git-based sync + markdown notes per task
editly 4,805 over 1 year ago Command line video editor
facebook-cli 397 over 3 years ago Facebook command line tool
fanyi 1,442 11 months ago Translate English to Chinese in terminal
gcalcli 3,340 about 1 year ago Google Calendar command line interface
geeknote 2,105 over 4 years ago Command line evernote client
haxor-news 3,995 over 3 years ago Browse Hacker News like a haxor
hn-cli 460 over 7 years ago Browse Hacker News from the comfort of your Terminal
iponmap 318 about 9 years ago Draw point on world map using ip address
isitup 66 over 2 years ago Check whether a website is up or down
jrnl 6,538 11 months ago A simple command line journal application that stores your journal in a plain text file
kanban.bash 904 about 1 year ago commandline asciii kanban board for minimalist productivity bash hackers (csv-based)
ledger 5,410 11 months ago Command line accounting
licen 38 over 10 years ago Generate your license. Yet another lice, but implement with Jinja2 and docopt
md2png 36 about 7 years ago Convert markdown to PNG image
moviemon 208 almost 9 years ago Everything about your movies within the command line
nomino 578 11 months ago Batch rename utility using regex, sort and map file options
pcalc 552 over 1 year ago Calculator made for programmers working with multiple number representations, sizes, and overall close to the bits
pockyt 506 over 1 year ago Read, Manage, and Automate your collection
pushblast 97 almost 10 years ago Get PushBullet notifications when a shell program exits
pushbullet-bash 236 about 2 years ago Bash interface to the PushBullet API
ranger 15,729 about 1 year ago A console file manager with VI key bindings
Reddit Terminal Viewer 4,651 over 2 years ago Browse Reddit from your terminal
SAWS 5,255 over 1 year ago A Supercharged AWS CLI
taskbook 8,986 about 1 year ago Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat
taskwarrior A command-line TODO list manager
terjira 888 over 2 years ago Command line power tool for Jira
ticker 5,030 12 months ago — Terminal stock ticker with live updates and position tracking
vl 27 over 1 year ago URL link checker on text documents
wego 7,864 about 1 year ago Weather app for the terminal
whales 384 over 6 years ago A tool to automatically dockerize your applications
whereami 168 over 2 years ago Get your geolocation information from the CLI
wttr.in 24,953 about 1 year ago The right way to check the weather (curl wttr.in)

Awesome Shell / Games
bash2048 899 over 1 year ago Bash implementation of 2048 game
minesweeper 63 over 5 years ago Bash implementation of minesweeper
nudoku 333 about 1 year ago ncurses based sudoku game written in C
piu-piu 739 12 months ago Horizontal scroller game in bash with multiplayer mode!
sedtris 536 over 5 years ago Tetris in sed
sed-scripts 44 over 12 years ago Arkanoid and Sokoban written using sed
SHTAP Reusable text adventure engine for Bash 4
tty-solitaire 279 about 1 year ago Play solitaire in your terminal!

Awesome Shell / Shell Package Management
bash-it 14,322 12 months ago A community Bash framework
basher 1,166 over 1 year ago A package manager for shell scripts
bashing 79 over 5 years ago Smashing Bash into Pieces
bpkg JavaScript has npm, Ruby has Gems, Python has pip and now Shell has bpkg
dotdrop 1,800 12 months ago Save your dotfiles once, deploy them everywhere
dotfiler 240 12 months ago – Shell agnostic git based dotfiles package manager, written in Python
fresh 1,183 about 2 years ago Keep your dotfiles fresh
homeshick 2,116 about 1 year ago Git dotfile synchronizer written in Bash
shallow-backup 1,249 about 1 year ago Easily create lightweight documentation of installed packages, dotfiles, and more
shundle 82 almost 6 years ago Plugin manager for shell scripts
vcsh 2,198 about 1 year ago Config manager based on Git
yadm Git-based dotfiles manager supporting encryption, alternates, and bootstrapping

Awesome Shell / Shell Script Development
ansi 654 almost 4 years ago ANSI escape codes in pure bash - change text color, position the cursor, much more
assert.sh 486 almost 4 years ago Bash unit testing framework
bashew 267 over 1 year ago bash script creator - from small stand-alone script to complex projects with CI/CD and testing
bashful 603 over 4 years ago A collection of libraries to simplify writing Bash scripts
Bashlets 76 over 4 years ago A modular extensible toolbox for Bash
bashly Bash command line framework and CLI generator
bashmanager 97 over 9 years ago mini bash framework for creating command line tools
bashwithnails 34 over 2 years ago a Bash framework written just for fun with testing, dependency management & packaging
bash-language-server 2,172 11 months ago -based Bash language server
bash-modules 135 over 3 years ago functions for developing with enabled
bats 5,014 11 months ago Bash Automated Testing System
composure 331 almost 3 years ago Compose, document, version and organize your shell functions
crash 65 over 8 years ago Proper error handling, exceptions and try/catch for ZSH
critic.sh 456 about 5 years ago Dead simple testing framework for Bash with coverage reporting
dispatch 89 about 11 years ago A command line argument parser in 50 lines of portable shell script
esh 217 over 3 years ago A simple templating engine based on shell, implemented in ~290 lines of POSIX shell and awk
Fishtape 349 over 1 year ago TAP producer and test harness for fish
getoptions 421 12 months ago An elegant option parser for shell scripts (sh, bash and all POSIX shells)
getopts.fish 223 almost 5 years ago CLI parser for fish
is.sh 162 almost 6 years ago An alternative for builtin test command, it will make your "if" statements pretty
lumberjack 43 about 9 years ago A logging interface for shell scripts
mo 571 about 1 year ago Mustache templates in pure bash
optparse 159 almost 4 years ago A BASH wrapper for getopts, for simple command line arguments
rerun 458 over 7 years ago A modular shell automation framework to organize your keeper scripts
revolver 146 over 1 year ago A reusable progress spinner for shell scripts
phases 15 over 7 years ago Minimally invasive bash preprocessor, select sections of your script to run
powscript 159 11 months ago bash transpiler written in bash (coffeescript for bash)
semver_bash 251 about 1 year ago Semantic Versioning in Bash
sh-semver 29 about 4 years ago Semver tool for bash - finds versions matching to specified rules
shellcheck 36,593 11 months ago Static analysis tool for shell scripts
shellfire 1,207 almost 10 years ago A repository of namespaced, composable shell (bash, sh and dash) function libraries
shellspec 1,178 about 1 year ago A full-featured BDD unit testing framework for dash, bash, ksh, zsh and all POSIX shells
shfmt 7,376 11 months ago A shell parser, formatter, and interpreter with bash support; includes shfmt
shpec 377 almost 3 years ago A shell testing framework
shutit Automation framework based on bash and pexpect
sub 1,745 about 4 years ago A delicious way to organize programs
ts 59 almost 5 years ago A shell test script
urchin An idiomatic shell testing framework that uses only shell commands
shunit2 1,616 about 1 year ago A unit test framework for Bash scripts with a flavour of JUnit/PyUnit
rebash 74 over 3 years ago Scripting library/framework. Features: imports, exceptions, doc-tests
zunit 209 about 2 years ago A powerful unit testing framework for ZSH

Guides
Bash Official Reference Manual
Bash Hackers Wiki
Greg Wooledge's (aka "greycat") wiki . Specifically , and
Google's Shell Style Guide
The Linux Documentation Project: Bash Programming - Intro/How-to
The Linux Documentation Project: Advanced Bash Scripting Guide
WikiBooks: Bash Shell Scripting
Use the Unofficial Bash Strict Mode (Unless You Looove Debugging)
The Art of Command Line 154,018 over 1 year ago
Learn Enough Command Line to Be Dangerous
A guide to learn bash 11,891 about 1 year ago
Shell Field Guide

Other Awesome Lists / See also
awesome-cli-apps 15,535 12 months ago
awesome-fish 4,250 over 1 year ago
awesome-zsh 15,638 11 months ago
awesome-bash 8,030 12 months ago
terminals-are-sexy 12,316 over 1 year ago

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