command-line-tools

xsv

Fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust

csvdiff

Fast diff tool for comparing csv files

sc-im

ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal

RecoverPy

Recover overwritten or deleted data

modd

Flexible tool for responding to filesystem changes

reflex

Run a command when files change

primitive

reproducing images with geometric primitives

Framework to make 2D games in Lua

fac

Easy-to-use CUI for fixing git conflicts

The stupid content tracker

hub

Wrapper around Git to extend it with features

Text-mode interface for git

dep

Go dependency management tool

Manage go source code

playgo

Send .go file to the Go Playground

richgo

Enrich outputs with text decorations

Java based make tool

java-repl

Read Eval Print Loop for Java

Lua interpreter

Just-in-time compiler for the lua language

Apple Software Restore; copy volumes (e.g. from disk images)

Access user's defaults

do-not-disturb

Control the macOS feature

Display status of loaded kernel extensions

m-cli

Swiss Army Knife for macOS

Read and write values to plists

System software update tool

iStats

Mac stats

mas

Command line interface for the Mac App Store

switchaudio-osx

Change the audio source for Mac OS X from the command line

displayplacer

macOS command line utility to configure multi-display resolutions and arrangements. Essentially XRandR for macOS

neoss

Socket statistics visualization and explanation tool for Unix systems

Catflap

Creates a listening TCP socket and passes its FD to a child process

curlie

Power of curl, the ease of use of httpie

sshfs

Network filesystem client to connect to SSH servers

sshuttle

Transparent proxy server that works as a poor man's VPN. Forwards over ssh. Doesn't require admin. Works with Linux and MacOS. Supports DNS tunneling

User interface to the TELNET protocol

bandwhich

CLI utility for displaying current network utilization by process, connection and remote IP/hostname

httpie

Modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era

http-prompt

Interactive command-line HTTP and API testing tool built on top of HTTPie with autocomplete, syntax highlighting, and more

Manipulate or query Nix user environments

Start an interactive shell based on a Nix expression

Tools to make nix nicer to use

Package manager for macOS

Package manager for javascript

Package manager for javascript

eureka

CLI tool to input and store your ideas without leaving the terminal

cb

Powerful clipboard manager for all platforms

livepython

Visually trace python code in real-time

rq

Simple job queues for Python

tg

Telegram terminal client

visa-cli

Visa Requirements terminal interface

rbenv

Groom your app’s Ruby environment

ruby-build

Compile and install Ruby

project init

Project templates in rust

rustup

Rust toolchain installer

Static site generator written in go

Static site generator written in ruby

kakoune

Modal editor with multi selections

helix

A Kakoune / Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust

micro

Modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

Extendable/customizable text editor

neovim

Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

vim

Modal text editor

create-react-app

Create React apps with no build configuration

preact

Create preact app

up

Deploy infinitely scalable serverless apps, apis, and sites in seconds to AWS

urlsup

CLI to validate URLs in files

lnav

Advanced log file viewer for the small-scale; Watch and analyze your log files from a terminal

red

Terminal log analysis tools

goaccess

Real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in nix systems or through your browser

angle-grinder

Slice and dice logs on the command line

drep

Grep with dynamic reloadable filter expressions. This allows filtering stream of logs/lines, while changing filters on the fly

zenith

Sort of like top or htop but with zoom-able charts, network, and disk usage

grcov

Collects and aggregates code coverage information for multiple source files

wtf

Personal information dashboard for your terminal

navi

Interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line

zoxide

cd command that learns your habits

pastefile

Create a file that contains the contents from the clipboard

ran

Simple static web server written in Go

watchexec

Executes commands in response to file modifications

procs

Modern replacement for ps written in Rust

termdash

Terminal based dashboard

yq

Portable command-line YAML processor

squeeze

Enables to extract rich information from any text (raw, JSON, HTML, YAML, etc)

amber

Code search / replace tool

Pueue

Daemon for managing long running shell commands

mmv

Rename multiple files using your $EDITOR

jq

Command-line JSON processor. ( )

jq in Go

Pure Go implementation of jq

faq

Format Agnostic jQ

gomi

Trash can in CLI

jql

Easy JSON Query Processor with a Lispy syntax in Go

linkchecker

Check links in web documents or full websites

brok

Find broken links in text documents. ( )

broot

New way to see and navigate directory trees

chars

Display names and codes for various ASCII (and unicode) characters / code points

diskus

Minimal, fast alternative to du -sh

glow

Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz

dtool

Collection of development tools

uni

Query the Unicode database from the commandline, with good support for emojis

viu

Command-line application to view images from the terminal written in Rust

tealdeer

Very fast implementation of tldr in Rust

xcp

Extended cp

pazi

Fast autojump helper

cbf

Build custom CLI apps with only a json or yaml file

rga

Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz, etc

hunter

Ranger-like file browser written in rust

ytop

TUI system monitor written in Rust

noti

Monitor a process and trigger a notification

ffsend

Easily and securely share files from the command line. A fully featured Firefox Send client

Advanced, easy to use, asynchronous-capable DNS client library and utilities

advancecomp

Collection of recompression utilities for your .ZIP archives, .PNG snapshots, .MNG video clips and .GZ files

ag

Recursively search for pattern

Antibody

Fastest shell plugin manager

aria2A

Lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility

Terminal session recorder

asdf

Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more

Solver for package dependencies

Automatically create Makefile.in's from Makefile.am's

Strip directory and suffix from filenames

GNU Bourne-Again SHell

camlp4

Software system for writing extensible parsers for programming languages

ccat

Colorizing

chroma

General purpose syntax highlighter in pure Go

chrome-cli

Control Google Chrome from the command line

Cross-platform makefile generator

cowyo

Feature rich wiki webserver for minimalists

croc

Easily get things from one computer to another

ctop

Container metric viewer

Transfer a URL

direnv

Unclutter your .profile

Strip last component from file name

Self-sufficient runtime for containers

Run arbitrary commands when files change. ( ) ( )

eisd

Execute your favorite command in SubDirectories

fasd

Quick access to files and directories

fd

Simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'

Video converter

fkill

Kill processes

friendly-find

Usable replacement for find

fzf

Command-line fuzzy finder

fzy

Better fuzzy finder

Library of database functions that use extensible hashing and work similar to the standard UNIX dbm

gifski

GIF encoder. Squeezes maximum possible quality from the awful GIF format

gotty

Share your terminal as a web application

Swiss army knife of image processing

hask-replace

Command-line tool to rename modules in Haskell projects

hexyl

Command-line hex viewer

HTTP client

hyperfine

Command-line benchmarking tool

temci

Advanced benchmarking tool written in Python 3 that supports setting up an environment for benchmarking and the generation of visually appealing reports

imgur-screenshot

Take screenshot selection, upload to Imgur. + more cool things

Lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor

jump

Helps you navigate faster by learning your habits

just

Handy way to save and run project-specific commands

Kubernetes cluster manager

Free, open-source file pager

license-up

Create a license quickly for a given name

Open source code library for the dynamic creation of images by programmers

loc

Count lines of code quickly

mackup

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

GNU make utility to maintain groups of programs

massren

Easily rename multiple files using your text editor

mediumexporter

Export medium.com articles to markdown

Growing collection of the unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago when unix was young

mycli

Terminal Client for MySQL with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting

Disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface

neofetch

Displays information about your operating system, software and hardware in an aesthetic and visually pleasing way

Small build system with a focus on speed

Display name list (symbol table)

Network mapper

pgcli

Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting

pkg

Package your node.js project into an executable

Command-line utility and a library for lossy compression of PNG images

pspg

Postgres Pager

pv

Pipe Viewer

Rsync for cloud storage

Renames files according to modification rules specified on the command line

scipy

Open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering

scons

Software construction tool

skim

Fuzzy Finder in rust

snallygaster

Tool to scan for secret files on HTTP servers

Sparklines for your shell

spotify-ripper

Rip Spotify URIs to MP3 files

static-docs

General-purpose library, purpose-built commands for various domains

stow

Symlink farm manager program

svgcleaner

Clean up your SVG files from the unnecessary data

Manipulate tape archives

tin-summer

Find build artifacts that are taking up disk space

tokei

Display statistics about your code. ( )

visidata

Terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data

Publish VS Code extensions

warp

Secure and simple terminal sharing

weather

Weather via the command line

wego

Weather app for the terminal

wifi-password

Get wifi pass

you-get

Dumb downloader that scrapes the web

dust

More intuitive version of du in rust

mdcat

for Markdown

exa

Replacement for ls written in Rust

sd

Intuitive find & replace CLI

Grep-like text finder

Define or display aliases

Search the manual page names and descriptions

Pattern-directed scanning and processing language

Arbitrary precision calculator language

Concatenate and print files

Change Directory

Change file mode bits

Copy files and directories

Daemon to execute scheduled commands

Cut out selected portions of each line of a file

Compare files line by line

Write arguments to the standard output

Set environment and execute command, or print environment

Determine file type

Walk a file hierarchy

Generate two and three dimensional plots of data

File pattern searcher

Output the first part of files

Display status of jobs in the current session

Join lines of two files on a common field

Send a signal to a process

Kill processes by name

Create symbolic links

List directory contents

List open files

Open manual pages

Move (rename) files

Execute a utility with an altered scheduling priority

Run a command immune to hangups, with output to a non-tty

Merge lines of files

Remove directory entries

Remove empty directories

Secure copy (remote file copy program)

Screen manager

Stream editor

Set or unset options and positional parameters

Put the lines of a text file in alphanumeric order

Split a file into pieces

Remote login

Print the strings of printable characters in files

Output the last part of files

Display and update sorted information about processes

Change file timestamps

Translate or delete characters

List contents of directories in a tree-like format

Describe a command

Report or omit repeated lines

Tell how long the system has been running

Print newline, word, and byte counts for each file

Print effective userid

Client for the whois directory service

habitctl

Minimalist command line tool you can use to track and examine your habits

jwt-cli

Super fast CLI tool to decode and encode JWTs built in Rust

rtss

Relative TimeStamps for Stuff

jc

Serializes the output of popular gnu linux command line tools and file types to structured JSON output. This allows piping of output to tools like jq

psrecord

Record the CPU and memory activity of a process

bottom

Cross-platform graphical process/system monitor with a customizable interface and a multitude of features

undent

Unindent text/code

misspell

Correct commonly misspelled English words in source files

rargs

Kind of xargs + awk with pattern-matching support

dupe-krill

Fast file deduplicator

fcat

Cat implementation in Rust. Only works on Linux

lorem

Python lorem ipsum generator

miller

Like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON

kickstart

Scaffolding tool to get new projects up and running quickly

scc

Very fast accurate code counter with complexity calculations and COCOMO estimates

gf

Wrapper around grep, to help you grep for things

godu

Simple golang utility helping to discover large files/folders

now

Develop. Preview. Ship

nomino

Batch rename utility for developers

hex

Futuristic take on hexdump, made in Rust

url-parser

Command-line URL parser, written in Go

luneta

Interactive filter that can be easily composed within any script

spin

Simple scaffolding tool

as-tree

Print a list of paths as a tree of paths

wifi-password

Quickly share Wi-Fi connection info

delta

Syntax-highlighter for git and diff output

fzz

Allows you to change the input of a single command interactively

github-stats

Command-line tool to get the total traffic statistics of your GitHub repositories

map

Map lines from stdin to commands

JQL

JSON Query Language CLI tool built with Rust

jiq

jid on jq - interactive JSON query tool using jq expressions

Interactive jq tool. Like jqplay for the command line

Command line playground for regular expressions

PWatch

Process Watcher

Rdfind

Command line tool that finds duplicate files

bfs

Breadth-first search for your files

Choose

Human-friendly and fast alternative to awk and cut. ( )

yj

Convert YAML <=> TOML <=> JSON <=> HCL

buku

Browser-independent bookmark manager

twf

Standalone tree view file explorer, inspired by fzf

hostblock

Simple terminal interface for blocking websites via the /etc/hosts file

ugrep

Ultra fast grep with interactive query UI

sad

CLI search and replace. Show you a nice diff of proposed changes before you commit them

wfh

Continuously watches your local directories and rsync them against a remote host

teip

Select partial standard input and replace with the result of another command

Got

Simple and fast concurrent downloader

duf

Disk Usage/Free Utility

espanso

Cross-platform Text Expander written in Rust

huniq

Command line utility to remove duplicates from the given input. Note that huniq does not sort the input, it just removes duplicates

RustScan

Modern Port Scanner

nat

Complete replacement for the 'ls' command

csvq

SQL-like query language for csv

gping

Ping, but with a graph

FClones

Efficient Duplicate File Finder

googler

Google from the terminal

Proji

Powerful cross-platform CLI project templating tool

dasel

Allows you to query and modify data structures using selector strings

McFly

Fly through your shell history

pbgopy

Copy and paste between devices

prism

RTMP stream recaster / splitter

menyoki

Screen{shot,cast} and perform ImageOps on the command line. ( )

projen

Define and maintain complex project configuration through code

lsd

Next gen ls command

ls-lint

Extremely fast directory and filename linter - Bring some structure to your project directories. ( )

lychee

Fast, async, resource-friendly link checker written in Rust

vgrep

User-friendly pager for grep

urlhunter

Recon tool that allows searching on URLs that are exposed via shortener services

rip

Safe and ergonomic alternative to rm

Orderly

Tool that provides ordered and controlled start, stop, restart and cleanup of a group of processes

Ruplacer

Find and replace text in source files

Graphtage

Semantic diff utility and library for tree-like files such as JSON, JSON5, XML, HTML, YAML, and CSV

sq

Command line tool that provides jq-style access to structured data sources such as SQL databases, or document formats like CSV or Excel. ( )

yank

Yank terminal output to clipboard. ( )

xplr

Hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer, stealing ideas from nnn and fzf

Freshfetch

Fresh take on Neofetch

rush

Cross-platform command-line tool for executing jobs in parallel

so

Terminal interface for Stack Overflow

gdu

Disk usage analyzer with console interface written in Go

kalk

Command line calculator that supports math-like syntax with user-defined variables, functions, derivation, integration, and complex numbers. ( ) ( )

fcp

Significantly faster alternative to the classic Unix cp command

Renamer

Command line utility to batch-rename files via your editor

Difftastic

Syntax-aware structured diff tool. ( )

hck

Drop in replacement for cut that can use a regex delimiter instead of a fixed string

calendarheatmap

Calendar heatmap inspired by GitHub contribution activity

rnr

Command-line tool to batch rename files and directories

Gaze

Runs a command, right after you save a file

Czkawka

Multi functional app to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images etc

Rustcat

Netcat Alternative in Rust

s

Web search from the terminal. Just opens in your browser

Sweep

Reduce the disk usage of your projects by removing dependencies & builds

Viddy

Modern watch command. Time machine and pager etc

tree-grepper

Like grep, but uses tree-sitter grammars to search

qq

Select stdin with query

todocheck

Static code analyzer for annotated TODO comments

TV

Cross-platform CSV pretty printer made to maximize viewer enjoyment. ( )

anew

Tool for adding new lines to files, skipping duplicates

hors

Instant coding answers via the command line

dua

View disk space usage and delete unwanted data, fast

conan

Find clue about the type of the file

alt

Find alternate files

fzwiki

Command with fzf-like UI to quickly search Wikipedia articles and open it in your browser

Untree

Converts tree diagrams produced by tree back into directory file structures

IDNT

Batch software uninstall

Structured text tools

List of text-based file formats and command line tools for manipulating each