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

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.

Command-Line Productivity

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

ag - Super fast string search through a directory hierarchy
aliases - Contextual, dynamic, organized aliases for bash
aliasme - alias helper to change directory quickly
autoenv - Directory-based environments
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
boilr - A blazingly fast CLI tool for creating projects from boilerplate templates.
boom - Store links and snippets in the commandline
byobu - Text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer
commacd - A faster way to move around in Bash
desk - A lightweight workspace manager for the shell
direnv - An environment switcher for the shell, compare with autoenv
enhancd - 🚀 A next-generation cd command with an interactive filter
fasd - Command-line productivity booster, offers quick access to files and directories
foxy - Plain text bookmarks for firefox and surf browsers.
fzf - A command-line fuzzy finder
hhighlighter - Colorize words in a command output
hr - <hr /> for your terminal
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
marker - Bookmark your shell commands
parallel - Build and execute shell command lines from standard input in parallel
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.
percol - Adds flavor of interactive filtering to the traditional pipe concept of UNIX shell
qfc - File-completion widget for Bash and Zsh
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
Shark - ▁▂▃▅ Sparkline Generator
sheet - Text snippets for the command line
spot - Tiny file search utility
snips - Commandline tool to manage snippets of code.
sshfs - A tool for mounting remote file systems over SSH
sshrc - Bring your .bashrc, .vimrc, etc. with you when you SSH
thefuck - Fix common shell mistakes by using an easy to remember command
tmux - Amazing terminal multiplexer
up - Ascend directories by name or count, for bash and zsh.
v - z for vim.
wemux - Multi-User Tmux Made Easy
z - z is the new j, yo

Customization

Custom prompts, color themes, etc.

base16-shell - Base16 for Shells
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 😱
flatui-terminal-theme - Nicer colors for terminal
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
sexy-bash-prompt - Bash prompt with colors, Git statuses, and Git branches

For Developers

Command-line development, version control, and deployment.

bocker - Docker implemented in 100 lines of bash
cloc - Count Lines of Code
dokku - Docker powered mini-Heroku. The smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seen.
getopts - CLI parser for fish
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 git open to open the GitHub page or website for a repository in your browser
git-semver - Git plugin for easing semantic versioning and changelog validation
git-sh - A customized Bash environment suitable for Git work
git-up - Automatically rebase incoming changes instead of merging. Be polite!
hub - hub helps you win at git.
mr - Multiple Repository management tool
overcommit - A fully configurable and extendable Git hook manager
pre-commit - A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks
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

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
cv - Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, ...
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.
htop - A ncurses based interactive process viewer which aims to be a better top
lnav - An advanced log file viewer for the small-scale
lsp - An improved ls, with file descriptions in plain language and intelligent file grouping
mtr - The functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool.
ncdu - NCurses Disk Usage
powertop - Battery/Power usage and device stats monitoring command-line tool, with tune-up options.
procdog - Lightweight command-line control of long-lived processes like servers
quick-secure - Quickly secure and harden UNIX/Linux systems

Downloading and Serving

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

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
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
ngincat - Tiny Bash HTTP server using netcat
resty - Little command line REST client that you can use in pipelines
youtube-dl - Small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

Multimedia and File Formats

Tools for handling video and audio files.

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.
gifgen - Simple high quality GIF encoding
image-scraper - A cool command line image scraper with a lot of features.
jq - Sed for json data. You can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data
mplayer - Lets you play most audio and video formats (using ASCII characters) in the shell as well as in a GUI.
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)
xmlstarlet - Old but powerful tool for command-line XML formatting, filtering, and manipulation.

Applications

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

ansiweather - Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols
bashblog - A Bash script that handles blog posting
choosealicense-cli - Bring http://choosealicense.com to your terminal
facy - Command line power tool for facebook
fanyi - Translate English to Chinese in terminal
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
ledger - Command line accounting
licen - Generate your license. Yet another lice, but implement with Jinja2 and docopt
moviemon - Everything about your movies within the command line.
pushblast - Get PushBullet notifications when a shell program exits
pushbullet-bash - Bash interface to the PushBullet API
Reddit Terminal Viewer - Browse Reddit from your terminal
SAWS - A Supercharged AWS CLI
transfer.sh — Quickly upload and share files from your shell
vl - URL link checker on text documents
wego - Weather app for the terminal
whereami - Get your geolocation information from the CLI

Games

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

bash2048 - Bash implementation of 2048 game
minesweeper - Bash implementation of minesweeper
sedtris - Tetris in sed
sed-scripts - Arkanoid and Sokoban written using sed

Shell Package Management

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

bash-it - A community Bash framework
basher - A package manager for shell scripts
bpkg - JavaScript has npm, Ruby has Gems, Python has pip and now Shell has bpkg
dotfiler – Shell agnostic git based dotfiles package manager, written in Python.
fresh - Keep your dotfiles fresh
homeshick - Git dotfile synchronizer written in Bash
vcsh - Config manager based on Git

Shell Script Development

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

ansi - ANSI escape codes in pure bash - change text color, position the cursor, much more
assert.sh - Bash unit testing framework
bashful - A collection of libraries to simplify writing Bash scripts
bashmanager - mini bash framework for creating command line tools
bats - Bash Automated Testing System
Fishtape - TAP producer and test harness for fish
composure - Compose, document, version and organize your shell functions
dispatch - A command line argument parser in 50 lines of portable shell script.
is.sh - An alternative for builtin test command, it will make your "if" statements pretty
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
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
shpec - A shell testing framework
sub - A delicious way to organize programs
ts - A shell test script
shunit2 - A unit test framework for Bash scripts with a flavour of JUnit/PyUnit.
rebash - Scripting library/framework. Features: imports, exceptions, doc-tests ...

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