Command Line Apps
Entertainment 1)
Development 2) - Productivity 3)
Utilities 4) - Command Line Learning
Data Manipulation 5) - Files and Directories 6) - Version Control 7)
Images 8)
References
Entertainment
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.
Music
cmus - Small, fast and powerful console music player.
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nehm - Download tracks from SoundCloud.
mpd - Music Player Daemon.
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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.
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WeeChat - Fast, light and extensible chat client.
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Video
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.
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mpv - Superior video player.
Movies
moviemon - Everything about your movies.
movie - Get movie info or compare movies.
Games
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Cataclysm-DDA - Turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
Books
Development
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.
Text Editors
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.
Web Development
caniuse-cmd - Search caniuse.com about browser support of feature.
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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.
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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.
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Mobile Development
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deviceframe - Put device frames around your mobile/web/progressive app screenshots.
Database
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.
Devops
htconvert - Convert .htaccess redirects to nginx.conf redirects.
aws-cli - Universal Interface for Amazon Web Services.
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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.
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Release
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
npm-name-cli - Check whether a package name is available on npm.
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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.
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Boilerplate
yo - Scaffolding tool for running Yeoman generators.
boilr - Create projects from boilerplate templates.
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mevn-cli - Light speed setup for MEVN (Mongo Express Vue Node) Apps.
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Productivity
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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.
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ipt - Pivotal Tracker client.
g3l - Easiest git cli in the w0rld!
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Buku - Browser-independent bookmark manager.
googler - Google from the terminal.
papis - Extensible document and bibliography manager.
Time Tracking
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.
Note Taking and Lists
idea - A lightweight tool for keeping ideas in a safe place quick and easy.
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Taskwarrior - Manage your TODO list from your command-line.
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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.
Finance
ledger - Powerful, double-entry accounting system on the terminal
moeda - Foreign exchange rates and currency conversion.
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Presentations
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.
Calendars
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khal - CalDAV ready CLI and TUI calendar.
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Utilities
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s - Open a web search in your terminal.
aria2 - HTTP,
FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink download utility.
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getnews.tech - Fetch news headlines from various news outlets.
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mdv - Styled terminal markdown viewer.
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macOS
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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.
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stronghold - Configure security settings from the terminal.
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Terminal Sharing Utilities
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.
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tmate - Instant terminal (tmux) sharing.
warp - Secure and simple terminal sharing.
OverTime - Time-overlap tables for remote teams.
Network Utilities
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speedtest-net - Test internet connection speed and ping using speedtest.net.
speed-test - speedtest-net wrapper with different UI.
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Theming and Customization
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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.
Shell Utilities
has - Checks for the presence of various commands and their versions on the path.
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fkill-cli - Simple cross-platform process killer.
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undollar - Strip the '$' preceding copy-pasted terminal commands.
pipe_exec - Run executables from stdin, pipes and ttys without creating a temporary file.
System Interaction Utilities
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yank - Yank terminal output to clipboard.
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Command Line Learning
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.
Data Manipulation
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).
JSON
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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.
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GROQ – JSON processor with queries and projections.
Text
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.
Files and Directories - File Managers
ranger - A console file manager with VI key bindings.
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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.
Files and Directories - Deleting, Copying, and Renaming
trash-cli - Move files and directories to the trash.
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del-cli - Delete files and folders.
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rename-cli - A cross-platform tool for renaming files quickly, especially multiple files at once.
Files and Directories - Files
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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.
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rclone - Sync files to and from various cloud providers (Dropbox, Google Drive, Onedrive, etc.).
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ffsend - Fully featured CLI for Firefox Send - simple and private file sharing.
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share-cli - Share files with your local network.
Files and Directories - Directory Listing
alder - Minimal tree with colors.
exa - Improved version of ls.
tre - tree with git awareness, editor aliasing, and more.
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Files and Directories - Directory Navigation
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.
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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.
Files and Directories - Search
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.
Version Control - Git
CLI GitHub - :tv: A fancy GitHub client for command line.
Gistup - Create a gist from terminal, then use git to update it.
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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.
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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.
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Images - Gif Creation
gifgen - Simple high quality GIF encoding.
gifsicle - Create, manipulate, and optimize GIF images and animations.
ttygif - Convert terminal recordings to animated gifs.
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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.
Image Conversion
imgp - Blazing fast batch image resizer and rotator.
korkut - Quick and simple image processing.
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SVG
SVGO - SVG Optimizer is a Nodejs-based tool for optimizing SVG vector graphics files.
Screensavers
cmatrix - Show a scrolling 'Matrix' like screen.
pipes.sh - Shows random pipes that grow across the screen.
YuleLog - Terminal based Christmas YuleLog fireplace.
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Graphics
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pastel - Generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors.
Just for Fun
cowsay - A configurable talking cow (and other animals).
quote-cli - Get a random quote or the quote of the day in your CLI.
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yosay - Like cowsay, but for yeoman.
lolcat - Outputs text in rainbow colors.
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dankcli - Add text to meme image templates.
Other
birthday - Know when a friend's birthday is coming.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Emoji
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.
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References