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Awesome Shell ¶

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. - Awesome Zsh - Awesome Fish - Awesome Bash

Shells¶

Choose your base shell.

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 rc shell
fish - Smart and user-friendly command line shell
ion - A modern system shell that features a simple, yet powerful, syntax. It is written entirely in Rust.
ksh93 - Korn Shell
mksh - MirBSD Korn Shell
murex - A smarter shell and scripting environment with advanced features designed for usability, safety and productivity (eg smarter DevOps tooling)
ngs - Fully featured scripting language created specifically for Ops. REPL is being developed.
nushell - A modern shell written in Rust
oksh - 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++ - Friendly and modern functional and object oriented shell script language
shenv - 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 - A POSIX-compliant command line shell with built-in support for completion and prediction based on command history
zsh - Powerful shell with scripting language

Command-Line Productivity¶

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

AdvancedNewFile - Fast creation of files and directories in a recursive way. Inspired by the Vim plugin.
ag - Super fast string search through a directory hierarchy
aliases - Contextual, dynamic, organized aliases for bash
arttime - Beauty of text art meets functionality of clock, timer, pomodoro++ time manager
autoenv - Directory-based environments.
await - single binary that run list of commands in parallel and waits for their termination
bartib - 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 - Bash history in the cloud. Indexed and searchable.
boilr - A blazingly fast CLI tool for creating projects from boilerplate templates.
boom - Store links and snippets in the command line
borg - A terminal based search engine for bash commands
broot - A better way to navigate directories
browsh - The modern text-based browser
Buku - Powerful command-line bookmark manager
byobu - Text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer
cod — A completion daemon for shell that learns when you invoke --help commands
CloudClip - Your own clipboard in the cloud, copy and paste text with gist between different systems
ddgr - DuckDuckGo from the terminal
desk - A lightweight workspace manager for the shell
direnv - An environment switcher for the shell, compare with autoenv
dnote - A simple command line notebook with multi-device sync and web interface
eureka - CLI tool to input and store your ideas without leaving the terminal
fasd - Command-line productivity booster, offers quick access to files and directories
fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.
foxy - Plain text bookmarks for Firefox and surf browsers.
fselect - Find files with SQL-like queries.
funky - Extends functionality of shell functions making them more powerful and flexible.
fz - Seamless fuzzy tab completion for z
fzf - A command-line fuzzy finder
gitmux - Show Git status in Tmux status bar
googler - Google Search, Google Site Search, Google News from the terminal
googlr - Command line tool that lets you search Google from your terminal.
has - has helps you check presence of various command line tools and their versions on path
how2 - how2 finds the simplest way to do something in a unix shell. It's like man, but you can query it in natural language.
navi - An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line
hhighlighter - Colorize words in a command output
hr - <hr /> for your terminal
hss - An interactive parallel ssh client featuring autocomplete and asynchronous execution
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
lf - Terminal file manager written in Go, inspired by ranger
lf.sh - Quickly search files with fewer typings and do many more (grepping, copying path to clipboard, etc)
lowcharts - Draw low-resolution graphs in terminal
Lmod - Lua-based Environment Modules that enhances Tcl-based modules while being backward compatible (compare to modules)
loop - Write and control complex loops with as one-liners
marker - Bookmark your shell commands
mackup - Keep your application settings in sync (OS X/Linux)
mcfly - Fly through your shell history. Great Scot!
modules - Classical Tcl-based Environment Modules managing the shell environment (compare to Lmod, direnv, and autoenv)
nnn - File browser and disk usage analyzer with excellent desktop integration
ok-sh - 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 - 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 - Tiny date, time diff calculator with timers
percol - Adds flavor of interactive filtering to the traditional pipe concept of UNIX shell
q - Vim like macro registers for your Bash and Zsh Shell
qfc - File-completion widget for Bash and Zsh
resh - Contextual shell history for Zsh and Bash
rg - 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 - Visualize your shell usage with Highcharts
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
spark.fish - ▁▂▃▅ Sparkline Generator
sheet - Text snippets for the command line
spot - Tiny file search utility
snips - Command line tool to manage snippets of code.
sqlline - Shell for issuing SQL to relational databases via JDBC (multiline, completion, highlighting, dialect support)
sshfs - A tool for mounting remote file systems over SSH
sudocabulary - Learn English Vocabulary from your terminal
surfraw - browse specific site and search the web from your terminal without browser.
task-manager - Execute all your scripts with just two or three keystrokes.
td-cli - A todo command line manager to organize and manage your todos across multiple projects.
tere - A faster alternative to cd + ls
thefuck - Fix common shell mistakes by using an easy to remember command
tldr - A fully-functional bash client for tldr, simplified and community-driven man pages
tmux - Amazing terminal multiplexer
undollar - undollar bites the dollar sign off the tip of the command you just pasted into your terminal
usql - Universal command-line interface for SQL databases.
v - z for vim.
wemux - Multi-User Tmux Made Easy
xiki - Makes the shell console more friendly and powerful
xplr - A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer
xsv - a fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust
xxh - Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through the SSH.

aliasme - alias helper to change directory quickly
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
commacd - A faster way to move around in Bash
enhancd - A next-generation cd command with an interactive filter
goto - A shell utility for navigation to aliased directories supporting auto-completion
jump - Jump helps you navigate your file system faster by learning your habits.
lazy-cd - Simple bash commands for bookmarked navigation of the file system, complete with bash-completion.
up - Ascend directories by name or count; for bash, zsh, and fish.
z - z is the new j, yo
z.lua - A new cd command that helps you navigate faster by learning your habits
zoxide - A faster way to navigate your filesystem, written in Rust
zpyi - Python in Zsh - Easy python scripting in shell

Customization¶

Custom prompts, color themes, etc.

aphrodite-terminal-theme — Minimalistic Aphrodite theme (prompt) for sexy terminals that works in bash, fish and zsh
base16-builder - Base16-Builder
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
geometry - A minimal ZSH theme where any function can be added to the left prompt or (async) right prompt on the fly.
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
oh-my-posh - Prompt theme engine for any shell and platform written in go.
polyglot - An informative Git prompt that works in bash, zsh, ksh, mksh, pdksh, oksh, dash, yash, busybox sh, and osh
powerlevel10k - Super flexible awesome powerline ZSH theme
sexy-bash-prompt - Bash prompt with colors, Git statuses, and Git branches
starship - Fast, customisable, cross-shell prompt written in rust
synth-shell - Greeter with a customizable status report and a fancy bash prompt

For Developers¶

Command-line development, version control, and deployment.

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 - Interactive CLI that generates a .gitignore for your project based on your needs.
bcal - Byte CALculator for storage conversions and calculations
bitwise - Terminal based interactive bit manipulator in curses.
bocker - Docker implemented in 100 lines of bash
cloc - Count Lines of Code
doclt - A command line interface to Digital Ocean
dokku - Docker powered mini-Heroku. The smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seen.
forgit - Utility tool for git taking advantage of fuzzy finder fzf.
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-quick-stats - Git quick statistics is a simple and efficient way to access various statistics in git repository.
git-semver - Git plugin for easing semantic versioning and changelog validation
git-sh - A customized Bash environment suitable for Git work
gita - A command-line tool to manage multiple git repos.
hub - hub helps you win at git.
just - Task runner for saving and running project-specific commands.
licins - Insert commented software licenses into source code.
mkdkr - Makefile + Docker = CI Pipeline
mr - Multiple Repository management tool
nve - Run any command on specific Node.js versions.
overcommit - A fully configurable and extendable Git hook manager
pre-commit - A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks
rebound - Instantly browse Stack Overflow results in your terminal when you get a compiler error
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
starring - Automatically star the npm-packages that you are using on GitHub.
tag - Instantly jump to your ag matches.
trunk - Blazingly fast meta code checker and formatter
vmn - git-based automatic versioning and state recovery solution agnostic to language or architecture
wipe-modules - A little agent that removes the node_modules folder of non-active projects

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
bat - A cat clone with wings
bmon - Real-time network bandwidth monitor and rate estimator with human-friendly visual output
btop - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor
catcli - The command line catalog tool for your offline data
exa - A modern version of ls.
progress - Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, and more...
stronghold - Easily configure MacOS security settings from the terminal.
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.
hblock - Hosts-file based adblocker
histstat - History for netstat
htop - A ncurses based interactive process viewer which aims to be a better top
lnav - An advanced log file viewer for the small-scale
logdissect - CLI utility and Python API for analyzing log files and other data.
ls++ - Colorized ls on steroids
lsd - LSDeluxe, rewrite of GNU ls with lot of added features like colors, icons, tree-view and more formatting options.
lsp - An improved ls, with file descriptions in plain language and intelligent file grouping
maza - Local ad blocker. Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating system.
mtr - The functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool.
ncdu - NCurses Disk Usage
nmtui - Text User Interface for controlling NetworkManager
powertop - Battery/Power usage and device stats monitoring command-line tool, with tune-up options.
prettyping - Making the output of ping prettier, more colorful, more compact, and easier to read.
procdog - Lightweight command-line control of long-lived processes like servers
quick-secure - Quickly secure and harden UNIX/Linux systems
rng - Copy range of lines from file or stdin to stdout.
tiptop - Graphical command-line system monitor.
wifi-wand - a Ruby command line application for managing WiFi on MacOS (install by gem install wifi-wand)
xiringuito - SSH-based "VPN for poors"

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
bashhub-server - Private cloud shell history. Open source server for bashhub
bitpocket - "DIY Dropbox" or "2-way directory ®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
HTTPLab - The interactive web server, let you inspect HTTP requests and forge responses.
Kapow! - If you can script it, you can HTTP it.
ngincat - Tiny Bash HTTP server using netcat
resty - Little command line REST client that you can use in pipelines
shell2http - HTTP-server to execute shell commands. Designed for development, prototyping or remote control
tshare - File sharing from commandline.
vesper - 🍸Vesper is a HTTP framework for Bash/Unix Shell
xh - Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests
yt-dlp - Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

Multimedia and File Formats¶

Tools for handling video and audio files.

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.
dasel - Query and update data structures using selectors from the command line. Comparable to jq / yq but supports JSON, YAML, TOML and XML with zero runtime dependencies.
dzr - Cross-platform Deezer.com audio player.
fx - Command-line JSON processing tool by anononymus JavaScript functions
gifgen - Simple high quality GIF encoding
image-scraper - A cool command line image scraper with a lot of features.
imgp - Blazing fast batch image resizer and rotator
jc - Convert command output, file-types, and common strings to JSON or YAML for easier use in scripts.
jo - A small utility to create JSON objects from command-line arguments.
jq - Sed for json data. You can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data
korkut - Quick and simple image processing at the command line.
library - 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 - Console tool, which downloads, sets IDv3 tags and adds to your iTunes (if you use it) your SoundCloud likes in convenient way
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)
visidata - A terminal spreadsheet multitool for exploring and arranging data (csv/json/xml/xls/yaml/etc)
xidel - 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 - yq is a portable command-line YAML processor

Applications¶

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

ansiweather - Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols
awless - A powerful, innovative and small surface CLI to manage AWS.
bashblog - A Bash script that handles blog posting
carbon-now-cli - 🎨 Beautiful images of your code — from right inside your terminal.
choosealicense-cli - Choose an OSS license from the comfort of your terminal
cointop - The fastest and most interactive terminal based UI application for tracking cryptocurrencies
dstask - Single binary terminal-based TODO manager with git-based sync + markdown notes per task
editly - Command line video editor
facebook-cli - Facebook command line tool
fanyi - Translate English to Chinese in terminal
gcalcli - Google Calendar command line interface
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
kanban.bash - commandline asciii kanban board for minimalist productivity bash hackers (csv-based)
ledger - Command line accounting
licen - Generate your license. Yet another lice, but implement with Jinja2 and docopt
md2png - Convert markdown to PNG image
moviemon - Everything about your movies within the command line.
nomino - Batch rename utility using regex, sort and map file options.
pcalc - Calculator made for programmers working with multiple number representations, sizes, and overall close to the bits.
pockyt - Read, Manage, and Automate your Pocket collection.
pushblast - Get PushBullet notifications when a shell program exits
pushbullet-bash - Bash interface to the PushBullet API
ranger - A console file manager with VI key bindings.
Reddit Terminal Viewer - Browse Reddit from your terminal
SAWS - A Supercharged AWS CLI
taskbook - Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat
taskwarrior - A command-line TODO list manager
terjira - Command line power tool for Jira
ticker — Terminal stock ticker with live updates and position tracking
vl - URL link checker on text documents
wego - Weather app for the terminal
whales - A tool to automatically dockerize your applications
whereami - Get your geolocation information from the CLI
wttr.in - The right way to check the weather (curl wttr.in)

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
nudoku - ncurses based sudoku game written in C
piu-piu - Horizontal scroller game in bash with multiplayer mode!
sedtris - Tetris in sed
sed-scripts - Arkanoid and Sokoban written using sed
SHTAP - Reusable text adventure engine for Bash 4
tty-solitaire - Play solitaire in your terminal!

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
bashing - Smashing Bash into Pieces
bpkg - JavaScript has npm, Ruby has Gems, Python has pip and now Shell has bpkg
dotdrop - Save your dotfiles once, deploy them everywhere
dotfiler – Shell agnostic git based dotfiles package manager, written in Python.
fresh - Keep your dotfiles fresh
homeshick - Git dotfile synchronizer written in Bash
shallow-backup - Easily create lightweight documentation of installed packages, dotfiles, and more
shundle - Plugin manager for shell scripts
vcsh - Config manager based on Git
yadm - Git-based dotfiles manager supporting encryption, alternates, and bootstrapping

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
bashew - bash script creator - from small stand-alone script to complex projects with CI/CD and testing
bashful - A collection of libraries to simplify writing Bash scripts
Bashlets - A modular extensible toolbox for Bash
bashly - Bash command line framework and CLI generator
bashmanager - mini bash framework for creating command line tools
bashwithnails - a Bash framework written just for fun with testing, dependency management & packaging
bash-language-server - LSP-based Bash language server
bash-modules - functions for developing with unofficial strict mode enabled.
bats - Bash Automated Testing System
composure - Compose, document, version and organize your shell functions
crash - Proper error handling, exceptions and try/catch for ZSH
critic.sh - Dead simple testing framework for Bash with coverage reporting
dispatch - A command line argument parser in 50 lines of portable shell script.
esh - A simple templating engine based on shell, implemented in ~290 lines of POSIX shell and awk.
Fishtape - TAP producer and test harness for fish
getoptions - An elegant option parser for shell scripts (sh, bash and all POSIX shells)
getopts.fish - CLI parser for fish
is.sh - An alternative for builtin test command, it will make your "if" statements pretty
lumberjack - A logging interface for shell scripts
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
revolver - A reusable progress spinner for shell scripts
phases - Minimally invasive bash preprocessor, select sections of your script to run
powscript - bash transpiler written in bash (coffeescript for bash)
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
shellspec - A full-featured BDD unit testing framework for dash, bash, ksh, zsh and all POSIX shells
shfmt - A shell parser, formatter, and interpreter with bash support; includes shfmt
shpec - A shell testing framework
shutit - Automation framework based on bash and pexpect
sub - A delicious way to organize programs
ts - A shell test script
urchin - An idiomatic shell testing framework that uses only shell commands
shunit2 - A unit test framework for Bash scripts with a flavour of JUnit/PyUnit.
rebash - Scripting library/framework. Features: imports, exceptions, doc-tests ...
zunit - A powerful unit testing framework for ZSH

Guides¶

Other Awesome Lists¶

Other amazingly awesome lists can be found in awesome-awesome and awesome-awesomeness.