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References

• football-cli - Get live scores, fixtures, standings of almost every football competition/league.
• pockyt - Read, Manage, and Automate your Pocket collection.
• newsboat - An extendable RSS feed reader for text terminals.

• cmus - Small, fast and powerful console music player.
• Instant-Music-Downloader - Instant music downloader.
• itunes-remote - Control iTunes via CLI.
• pianobar - Pandora client.
• somafm-cli - Listen to SomaFM in your terminal.
• nehm - Download tracks from SoundCloud.
• mpd - Music Player Daemon.
• ncmpcpp - mpd client.
• moc - Console audio player for Linux/UNIX.
• musikcube - Cross-platform, terminal-based music player, audio engine, metadata indexer, and server.
• beets - Music library manager and tagger.
• playx - Stream songs/playlists from various sources.
• spotify-tui - Spotify client.

• facebook-cli - Facebook command line interface.
• TTYtter - Twitter client.
• Rainbowstream - A smart and nice Twitter client on the terminal.
• tuir - Reddit TUI.
• WeeChat - Fast, light and extensible chat client.
• irssi - IRC chat client.

• youtube-dl - Download videos from YouTube.com and many other video sites.
• streamlink - Extract streams from various websites to a video player of your choosing.
• mps-youtube - Youtube player.
• mpv - Superior video player.

• moviemon - Everything about your movies.
• movie - Get movie info or compare movies.

• Dwarf Fortress - Roguelike construction and management simulation.
• Cataclysm-DDA - Turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world.

• epr - epub reader.
• Bible.Js CLI - Bible.
• SpeedRead - Spritz-alike speedreader.

• bcal - Byte CALculator for storage conversions and calculations.
• cgasm - Gives x86 assembly documentation.
• legit - Generate Open Source licences as files or file headers.
• mklicense - Create a custom LICENSE file painlessly with customized info.
• rebound - Fetch Stack Overflow results in your terminal when you get a compiler error.
• grip - Preview markdown files with GitHub styles before committing them.
• bitwise - Base conversion and bit manipulator in ncurses.
• foy - Lightweight general purpose task runner/build tool.

• emacs - An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor — and more.
• vim - Vim - the ubiquitous text editor.
• neovim - Vim fork focused on extensibility and usability.
• kakoune - Modal editor inspired by vim.
• micro - A simple and intuitive editor.

• caniuse-cmd - Search caniuse.com about browser support of feature.
• is-up-cli - Check whether a website is up.
• pageres-cli - Capture website screenshots.
• strip-css-comments-cli - Strip comments from CSS.
• viewport-list-cli - Return a list of devices and their viewports.
• surge - Deploy a directory to the web.
• acmetool - An automatic certificate acquisition tool for ACME (Let's Encrypt).
• loadtest - Runs a load test on the selected URL. Easy to extend minimally for your own ends.
• wp-cli - Manage WordPress installations, update plugins, set up multisite installs and much more.
• diff2html-cli - Parse git diffs as JSON and generate pretty HTML.
• HTTPie - A user-friendly HTTP client.
• serve - Easy to use static file server with features like https, CORS and GZIP compression.
• add-gitignore - Interactively generate a .gitignore for your project based on your needs.
• Discharge - Deploy static websites to Amazon S3.
• reachable - Check if a domain is up.
• simplehttp - Easily serve a local directory over http.
• shell2http - Execute shell commands via HTTP server.
• HTTP Prompt - Interactive HTTP client featuring autocomplete and syntax highlighting.
• ipfs-deploy - Deploy static websites to IPFS.

• mobicon-cli - Mobile app icon generator.
• mobisplash-cli - Mobile app splash screen generator.
• deviceframe - Put device frames around your mobile/web/progressive app screenshots.

• mycli - MySQL client with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
• pgcli - Postgres client with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
• sqlline - Shell for issuing SQL via JDBC.
• iredis - Redis client with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.

• htconvert - Convert .htaccess redirects to nginx.conf redirects.
• aws-cli - Universal Interface for Amazon Web Services.
• azure-cli - Command-line tools for Azure.
• SAWS - Supercharged AWS CLI.
• s3cmd - Fully-Featured S3 client.
• lstags - Synchronize Docker images across different registries.
• pm2 - Production Process Manager for Node.js.
• dockly - Interactively manage Docker containers.
• ops - Unikernel compilation and orchestration tool.
• lazydocker - Simple docker/docker-compose interface.
• flog - A fake log generator for log formats such as apache-common, apache error and RFC3164 syslog.
• isitfit - Manage AWS EC2 rightsizing.
• docker-shell - Simple interactive docker interface.

• release-it - Automate releases for Git repositories and/or npm packages. Changelog generation, GitHub/GitLab releases, etc.
• clog - A conventional changelog for the rest of us.
• np - A better npm publish.
• release - Generate changelogs with a single command.

• npm-name-cli - Check whether a package name is available on npm.
• npm-user-cli - Get user info of a npm user.
• npm-home - Open the npm page of the package in the current directory.
• pkg-dir-cli - Find the root directory of a npm package.
• npm-check-updates - Find newer versions of package dependencies than what your package.json allows.
• updates - Flexible npm dependency update tool.
• wipe-modules - Remove node_modules of inactive projects.

• yo - Scaffolding tool for running Yeoman generators.
• boilr - Create projects from boilerplate templates.
• cookiecutter - Create projects from templates.
• mevn-cli - Light speed setup for MEVN (Mongo Express Vue Node) Apps.
• scaffold-static - Scaffolding utility for vanilla JS.

• AutoScreenshotUploader - Capture and upload screenshots to imgur.
• bitly-client - Bitly client.
• doing - Keep track of what you’re doing and track what you’ve done.
• ffscreencast - A ffmpeg screencast with video overlay and multi monitor support.
• imgur-uploader-cli - Upload images to imgur.
• meetup-cli - Meetup.com client.
• NeoMutt - Email client.
• terjira - Jira client.
• ipt - Pivotal Tracker client.
• g3l - Easiest git cli in the w0rld!
• uber-cli - Uber client.
• Buku - Browser-independent bookmark manager.
• googler - Google from the terminal.
• papis - Extensible document and bibliography manager.

• Timetrap - Simple command-line timetracker.
• moro - Simple tool for tracking work hours.
• Timewarrior - Utility with simple stopwatch, calendar-based backfill and flexible reporting.
• Watson - Generate reports for clients and manage your time.
• utt - Simple time tracking tool.

• idea - A lightweight tool for keeping ideas in a safe place quick and easy.
• geeknote - Evernote client.
• Taskwarrior - Manage your TODO list from your command-line.
• Terminal velocity - A fast note-taking app for the terminal.
• eureka - Store your ideas without leaving the terminal.
• sncli - Simplenote client.
• td-cli - A TODO manager to organize and manage your TODO's across multiple projects.
• taskell - Interactive kanban board/task manager.
• taskbook - Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat.
• dnote - A interactive, multi-device notebook.

• ledger - Powerful, double-entry accounting system on the terminal
• moeda - Foreign exchange rates and currency conversion.
• cash-cli - Convert Currency Rates.
• cointop - Track cryptocurrencies.

• WOPR - A simple markup language for creating rich terminal reports, presentations and infographics.
• decktape - PDF exporter for HTML presentations.
• mdp - A command-line based markdown presentation tool.
• sent - Simple plaintext presentation tool.

• calcurse - Calendar and scheduling.
• gcalcli - Google calendar client.
• khal - CalDAV ready CLI and TUI calendar.
• vidirsyncer - CalDAV sync.

• archive-type-cli - Detect archive type for a file or stdin.
• s - Open a web search in your terminal.
• aria2 - HTTP, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink download utility.
• wego - Get the weather.
• weather-cli - Check the weather.
• mapscii - Terminal Map Viewer.
• getnews.tech - Fetch news headlines from various news outlets.
• carbon-now-cli - Generate beautiful images of your code.
• pass - Password manager.
• awesome-finder - Search the awesome lists without a browser.
• mdv - Styled terminal markdown viewer.
• shallow-backup - Git integrated backup tool.

• open-pip-cli - Watch videos in picture-in-picture player.
• app-path-cli - Get the path to an app.
• bundle-id-cli - Get bundle identifier from a bundle name: Safari → com.apple.Safari.
• bundle-name-cli - Get bundle name from a bundle identifier: com.apple.Safari → Safari.
• lnfs-cli - Safely force create symlinks.
• osx-version-cli - Get the macOS version.
• osx-wifi-cli - Manage wifi connections.
• active-win-cli - Get the title/id/etc of the active window.
• stronghold - Configure security settings from the terminal.
• website-popup-cli - Open a website in a popup.
• dark-mode - Toggle dark mode.

• gotty - Share your terminal as a web application.
• localtunnel - Expose your localhost to the world for easy testing and sharing.
• mosh - Remote SSH client that allows roaming with intermittent connectivity.
• ngrok - Secure introspectable tunnels to localhost.
• serveo - Expose local servers to the internet using only a SSH client.
• seashells.io - Pipe output to the web.
• teleconsole - Share your UNIX terminal.
• tmate - Instant terminal (tmux) sharing.
• warp - Secure and simple terminal sharing.
• OverTime - Time-overlap tables for remote teams.

• get-port-cli - Get an available port.
• is-reachable-cli - Check if hostnames are reachable or not.
• speedtest-net - Test internet connection speed and ping using speedtest.net.
• speed-test - speedtest-net wrapper with different UI.
• speedtest-cli - Test internet bandwidth using speedtest.net.

• splash-cli - Beautiful wallpapers from Unsplash.
• wallpaper-cli - Get or set the desktop wallpaper.
• themer - Generate personalized themes for your editor, terminal, wallpaper, Slack, and more.
• JackPaper - Set images from Unsplash as wallpaper.
• pywal - Generate and change color-schemes, then apply them system-wide to all of your favourite programs.
• QuickWall - Directly set wallpapers from Unsplash.

• has - Checks for the presence of various commands and their versions on the path.
• Ultimate Plumber - Write Linux pipes with live previews.
• fkill-cli - Simple cross-platform process killer.
• task-spooler - Queue jobs for linear execution.
• undollar - Strip the '$' preceding copy-pasted terminal commands.
• pipe_exec - Run executables from stdin, pipes and ttys without creating a temporary file.

• battery-level-cli - Get current battery level.
• brightness-cli - Change screen brightness (windows).
• yank - Yank terminal output to clipboard.
• screensaver - Start the screensaver.
• google-font-installer - Download and install Google Web Fonts on your local machine.
• neofetch - System information tool.
• Glances - System monitoring tool.

• cmdchallenge - presents small shell challenge with user submitted solutions.
• explainshell - type a command line snippet to see the help text for each argument.
• howdoi - Instant coding answers via the command line.
• how2 - Finds the simplest way to do something on a unix bash command line (Nodejs implementation of howdoi).
• The Fuck - Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.
• tldr - Simplified and community-driven man pages.
• Wat - Instant, central, community-built docs.
• teachcode - A tool to develop and improve a student’s programming skills by introducing the earliest lessons of coding.
• navi - Interactive cheatsheet tool.

• underscore-cli - Command-line utility-belt for hacking JSON and Javascript.
• ramda-cli - A CLI tool for processing data with functional pipelines.
• yaml-cli - A simple CLI for querying and updating YAML files.
• q - A command line tool that allows execution of SQL-like queries on CSVs/TSVs (and any other tabular text files).
• yq - Command-line YAML processor (Uses the same syntax as jq).

• jq - JSON processor.
• jp - Simply parse and drill into JSON on the commandline, with jsonpath and stdin stream support (jq compatible, not a replacement).
• fx - Command-line JSON viewer.
• vj - Makes JSON human readable.
• strip-json-comments-cli - Strip comments from JSON.
• GROQ – JSON processor with queries and projections.

• parse-columns-cli - Parse text columns, like the output of unix commands. Returns JSON that you can manipulate with tools like jq or underscore-cli.
• figlet - Creates large text out of ASCII characters.

• ranger - A console file manager with VI key bindings.
• midnight-commander - A feature rich visual file manager.
• organize-cli - Organize your files, imagine cleaning up your downloads in an instant.
• Vifm - Vifm is an ncurses based file manager with vi like keybindings/modes/options/commands/configuration, which also borrows some useful ideas from mutt.
• nnn - File browser and disk usage analyzer with excellent desktop integration.
• lf - Fast, extensively customizable file manager.
• fff - Fast, simple file manager.

• trash-cli - Move files and directories to the trash.
• empty-trash-cli - Empty the trash.
• del-cli - Delete files and folders.
• cpy-cli - Copies files.
• rename-cli - A cross-platform tool for renaming files quickly, especially multiple files at once.

• chokidar-cli - CLI to watch file system changes.
• file-type-cli - Detect the file type of a file or stdin.
• DocToc - Generates table of contents for markdown files inside local git repository. Links are compatible with anchors generated by github or other sites.
• bat - A cat clone with syntax highlighting.
• NCDu - A disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface.
• unix-permissions - Swiss Army knife for Unix permissions
• rclone - Sync files to and from various cloud providers (Dropbox, Google Drive, Onedrive, etc.).
• transmission-cli - Torrent client for your command line.
• ffsend - Fully featured CLI for Firefox Send - simple and private file sharing.
• webtorrent-cli – Streaming torrent client.
• share-cli - Share files with your local network.

• alder - Minimal tree with colors.
• exa - Improved version of ls.
• tre - tree with git awareness, editor aliasing, and more.
• ll - ls with git status.

• autojump - A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line.
• fasd - Command-line productivity booster, offers quick access to files and directories, inspired by autojump, z and v.
• pm - The easy way to switch to your projects on the shell.
• z - z is the new j, yo.
• PathPicker - After parsing the output from a command, PathPicker presents you with a nice UI to select which files you're interested in.
• fz - Seamless fuzzy tab completion for z.
• goto - Directory aliases for the shell with autocomplete.
• z.lua - cd command that learns your habits.
• zoxide - Fast directory jumper in Rust.

• happyfinder - (another) Fuzzy file finder for the command line.
• find-up-cli - Find a file by walking up parent directories.
• ripgrep - A line-oriented search tool that recursively searches your current directory for a regex pattern.
• fzf - A general purpose command-line fuzzy finder, can be used with any list: files/directories, command history, processes, hostnames, bookmarks, git commits, etc.
• fselect - Find files with SQL-like queries.
• fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.
• broot - Fuzzy finder similar to fzf, but with space usage visualization.

• CLI GitHub - :tv: A fancy GitHub client for command line.
• Gistup - Create a gist from terminal, then use git to update it.
• git commander - A git tool with a easy terminal interface.
• git-stats - :four_leaf_clover: A GitHub-like contributions calendar, but locally, with all your git commits.
• hub - A command-line wrapper for git that makes you better at GitHub.
• dev-time - Get the current local time of a GitHub user.
• git-labelmaker - Edit GitHub labels from the command line.
• tig - Text-mode interface for Git.
• grv - Text-mode interface for Git with customisable vi bindings.
• git-standup - Recall what you did on the last working day.
• git-secret - Store your private data inside a git repository.
• gitlab-cli - gitlab cli for creating merge request from the command line.
• git-extras - Little git extras like git-ignore, git-setup, git-changelog, git-release, git-effort and more.
• gita - Manage multiple git repos side by side for sanity.
• readme-md-generator - Generate README.md files interactively.
• semantic-git-commit-cli - Ensure semantic commits messages.

• gifgen - Simple high quality GIF encoding.
• gifsicle - Create, manipulate, and optimize GIF images and animations.
• ttygif - Convert terminal recordings to animated gifs.
• ttygif - ttyrec to gif.
• ttystudio - A terminal-to-gif recorder minus the headaches.
• asciinema - Terminal session recorder and the best companion of asciinema.org.
• givegif - GIFs on the command line.

• imgp - Blazing fast batch image resizer and rotator.
• korkut - Quick and simple image processing.
• imagemagick - Gold standard for anything images.

• SVGO - SVG Optimizer is a Nodejs-based tool for optimizing SVG vector graphics files.

• cmatrix - Show a scrolling 'Matrix' like screen.
• pipes.sh - Shows random pipes that grow across the screen.
• YuleLog - Terminal based Christmas YuleLog fireplace.
• cli-fireplace - Shows digital fireplace.

• cli-mandelbrot - A cli for traversing the Mandelbrot fractal.
• sparkly-cli - Generate sparklines ▁▂▃▅▂▇..
• pastel - Generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors.

• cowsay - A configurable talking cow (and other animals).
• quote-cli - Get a random quote or the quote of the day in your CLI.
• fortune - Shows a random fortune.
• ponysay - Pony rewrite of cowsay.
• yosay - Like cowsay, but for yeoman.
• lolcat - Outputs text in rainbow colors.
• text-meme - Generate text memes.
• dankcli - Add text to meme image templates.

• birthday - Know when a friend's birthday is coming.
• detect-indent-cli - Detect the indentation of code.
• fullname-cli - Get the fullname of the current user.
• gzip-size-cli - Get the gzipped size of a file or stdin.
• HASHA -cli - Hashing made simple. Get the hash of text or stdin.
• kill-tabs - Kill all Chrome tabs to improve performance, decrease battery usage, and save memory.
• leven-cli - Measure the difference between two strings using the Levenshtein distance algorithm.
• mdlt - Do quick math right from the command line.
• medium-cli - Read medium.com stories within your terminal, also gives top stories.
• open-shortcut-cli - Open the URL from a web shortcut file in the browser.
• shortcut-url-cli - Get the URL from a web shortcut file.
• to-double-quotes - Convert matching single-quotes to double-quotes: I 'love' unicorns ⇒ I “love” unicorns.
• to-single-quotes - Convert matching double-quotes to single-quotes: I “love” unicorns → I 'love' unicorns.
• gdb-dashboard - Modular visual interface for GDB in Python.
• hget - Render websites in plain text from your terminal.
• google-wifi-status - A Node.js CLI app that displays status of your Google Wifi / OnHub router.
• calories - Calories and weight tracker.
• trino - Trino CLI allows a quick and easy translation of words and phrases entered in the command line.
• alex - This enhances texts with checking for insensitive, inconsiderate writing by catching many possible offences.
• xiringuito - A “poor man's VPN”. An SSH-based “VPN” that's easy to install, but with slower performance than a real VPN.
• nasa-cli - Download NASA Picture of the Day from your terminal.
• googlr - Search Google from the command line.
• Qalculate - Calculate non-trival math expressions. Unit conversions, symbolic calculations and more.
• translate-shell - Google Translate interface.

• emoj - Find relevant emoji from text on the command-line.
• emoji-finder - Quickly find and copy emoji to the clipboard via the command-line.
• oji - Interactive text emoji maker.
• gitmoji-cli - Use emoji in commit messages.
• gitmoji-changelog - Generate gitmoji changelogs.

https://project-awesome.org/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps

https://github.com/herrbischoff/awesome-command-line-apps#readme

https://github.com/stevemao/awesome-git-addons#readme

https://github.com/alebcay/awesome-shell#readme

https://github.com/k4m4/terminals-are-sexy#readme

https://github.com/unixorn/awesome-zsh-plugins#readme

https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome-nodejs#command-line-apps

MacOS - https://github.com/herrbischoff/awesome-macos-command-line#readme