Shell

GNU Project's shell (Bourne Again SHell)

Friendly, expressive shell features like anonymous functions and data structures

The extensible shell, based on Plan 9's rc shell

Smart and user-friendly command line shell

A modern system shell that features a simple, yet powerful, syntax. It is written entirely in Rust.

Korn Shell

MirBSD Korn Shell

A smarter shell and scripting environment with advanced features designed for usability, safety and productivity (eg smarter DevOps tooling)

Fully featured scripting language created specifically for Ops. REPL is being developed.

A modern shell written in Rust

Portable OpenBSD ksh

Bash compatible, with new/modern Unix shell language called Oil

Public domain Korn shell

a cross-platform task automation and configuration management framework, consisting of a command-line shell and scripting language

Friendly and modern functional and object oriented shell script language

Simple shell version management

C shell with file name completion and command line editing

Python-ish, BASHwards-looking shell language and command prompt

A POSIX-compliant command line shell with built-in support for completion and prediction based on command history

Powerful shell with scripting language

Fast creation of files and directories in a recursive way. Inspired by the Vim plugin.

Super fast string search through a directory hierarchy

Contextual, dynamic, organized aliases for bash

Beauty of text art meets functionality of clock, timer, pomodoro++ time manager

Directory-based environments.

single binary that run list of commands in parallel and waits for their termination

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.

Bash history in the cloud. Indexed and searchable.

A blazingly fast CLI tool for creating projects from boilerplate templates.

Store links and snippets in the command line

A terminal based search engine for bash commands

A better way to navigate directories

The modern text-based browser

Powerful command-line bookmark manager

Text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer

A completion daemon for shell that learns when you invoke --help commands

Your own clipboard in the cloud, copy and paste text with gist between different systems

DuckDuckGo from the terminal

A lightweight workspace manager for the shell

An environment switcher for the shell, compare with autoenv

A simple command line notebook with multi-device sync and web interface

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

Command-line productivity booster, offers quick access to files and directories

A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.

Plain text bookmarks for Firefox and surf browsers.

Find files with SQL-like queries.

Extends functionality of shell functions making them more powerful and flexible.

Seamless fuzzy tab completion for z

A command-line fuzzy finder

Show Git status in Tmux status bar

Google Search, Google Site Search, Google News from the terminal

Command line tool that lets you search Google from your terminal.

has helps you check presence of various command line tools and their versions on path

how2 finds the simplest way to do something in a unix shell. It's like man, but you can query it in natural language.

An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line

Colorize words in a command output

<hr /> for your terminal

An interactive parallel ssh client featuring autocomplete and asynchronous execution

Bash History Suggest Box

k is a Zsh script to make directory listings more readable, adding Git status, fileweight colors and rotting dates

get kool aliases (and more) working with a simple one-liner

Terminal file manager written in Go, inspired by ranger

Quickly search files with fewer typings and do many more (grepping, copying path to clipboard, etc)

Draw low-resolution graphs in terminal

Lua-based Environment Modules that enhances Tcl-based modules while being backward compatible (compare to modules)

Write and control complex loops with as one-liners

Bookmark your shell commands

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

Fly through your shell history. Great Scot!

Classical Tcl-based Environment Modules managing the shell environment (compare to Lmod, direnv, and autoenv)

File browser and disk usage analyzer with excellent desktop integration

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.

Build and execute shell command lines from standard input in parallel

Manage passwords from the command line with GPG encryption and optional git integration.

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.

Tiny date, time diff calculator with timers

Adds flavor of interactive filtering to the traditional pipe concept of UNIX shell

Vim like macro registers for your Bash and Zsh Shell

File-completion widget for Bash and Zsh

Contextual shell history for Zsh and Bash

ripgrep is a line oriented search tool that combines the usability of The Silver Searcher with the raw speed of GNU grep

GNU terminal multiplexer

Visualize your shell usage with Highcharts

Style framework for the terminal (Shell Markup Language)

Command that converts filenames and directories to a web friendly format

A command-line snippet manager

▁▂▃▅▂▇ in your shell

▁▂▃▅ Sparkline Generator

Text snippets for the command line

Tiny file search utility

Command line tool to manage snippets of code.

Shell for issuing SQL to relational databases via JDBC (multiline, completion, highlighting, dialect support)

A tool for mounting remote file systems over SSH

Learn English Vocabulary from your terminal

browse specific site and search the web from your terminal without browser.

Execute all your scripts with just two or three keystrokes.

A todo command line manager to organize and manage your todos across multiple projects.

A faster alternative to cd + ls

Fix common shell mistakes by using an easy to remember command

A fully-functional bash client for tldr, simplified and community-driven man pages

Amazing terminal multiplexer

undollar bites the dollar sign off the tip of the command you just pasted into your terminal

Universal command-line interface for SQL databases.

z for vim.

Multi-User Tmux Made Easy

Makes the shell console more friendly and powerful

A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer

a fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust

Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through the SSH.

alias helper to change directory quickly

A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line

Directory bookmarks for the shell

Quickly go back to a parent directory

A faster way to move around in Bash

A next-generation cd command with an interactive filter

A shell utility for navigation to aliased directories supporting auto-completion

Jump helps you navigate your file system faster by learning your habits.

Simple bash commands for bookmarked navigation of the file system, complete with bash-completion.

Ascend directories by name or count; for bash, zsh, and fish.

z is the new j, yo

A new cd command that helps you navigate faster by learning your habits

A faster way to navigate your filesystem, written in Rust

Python in Zsh - Easy python scripting in shell

Minimalistic Aphrodite theme (prompt) for sexy terminals that works in bash, fish and zsh

Base16-Builder

Powerful prompt with screen, tmux, git support and many more

An informative and fancy Bash prompt for Git users

Powerline-style Bash prompt in pure Bash script

A quick way to spruce up OSX terminal

An oh-my-zsh shell theme based on the Powerline Vim plugin

Emoji on the command line

Nicer colors for terminal

A minimal ZSH theme where any function can be added to the left prompt or (async) right prompt on the fly.

Bash prompt with Git, SVN and HG modules

A colorful Bash prompt + customized Git aliases

Color Scheme for Gnome Terminal

A full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh

Colorization for mysql comand-line client

An opinionated git prompt for bash and zsh

Prompt theme engine for any shell and platform written in go.

An informative Git prompt that works in bash, zsh, ksh, mksh, pdksh, oksh, dash, yash, busybox sh, and osh

Super flexible awesome powerline ZSH theme

Bash prompt with colors, Git statuses, and Git branches

Fast, customisable, cross-shell prompt written in rust

Greeter with a customizable status report and a fancy bash prompt

Authenticate Git and SSH workflows with biometric unlock using 1Password

A grep-like search tool optimized for source code.

Interactive CLI that generates a .gitignore for your project based on your needs.

Byte CALculator for storage conversions and calculations

Terminal based interactive bit manipulator in curses.

Docker implemented in 100 lines of bash

Count Lines of Code

A command line interface to Digital Ocean

Docker powered mini-Heroku. The smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seen.

Utility tool for git taking advantage of fuzzy finder fzf.

Many Git extra utilities. Churn, cut-branch, improved-merge and many more.

Git utilities -- repo summary, repl, changelog population, author commit percentages and more

Type git open to open the GitHub page or website for a repository in your browser

Git quick statistics is a simple and efficient way to access various statistics in git repository.

Git plugin for easing semantic versioning and changelog validation

A customized Bash environment suitable for Git work

A command-line tool to manage multiple git repos.

hub helps you win at git.

Task runner for saving and running project-specific commands.

Insert commented software licenses into source code.

Makefile + Docker = CI Pipeline

Multiple Repository management tool

Run any command on specific Node.js versions.

A fully configurable and extendable Git hook manager

A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks

Instantly browse Stack Overflow results in your terminal when you get a compiler error

Command-line search-and-replace and file-renaming swiss army knife

Sublime-like terminal-based text editor that runs on Node.js

Minimalistic SSH deployment

Automatically star the npm-packages that you are using on GitHub.

Instantly jump to your ag matches.

Blazingly fast meta code checker and formatter

git-based automatic versioning and state recovery solution agnostic to language or architecture

A little agent that removes the node_modules folder of non-active projects

ASCII full-screen performance monitor that is capable of reporting the activity of all processes

A cat clone with wings

Real-time network bandwidth monitor and rate estimator with human-friendly visual output

Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor

The command line catalog tool for your offline data

ccat is the colorizing cat. It works similar to cat but displays content with syntax highlighting.

A modern version of ls.

Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, and more...

Easily configure MacOS security settings from the terminal.

Glances an Eye on your system

GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems.

Hosts-file based adblocker

History for netstat

A ncurses based interactive process viewer which aims to be a better top

An advanced log file viewer for the small-scale

CLI utility and Python API for analyzing log files and other data.

Colorized ls on steroids

LSDeluxe, rewrite of GNU ls with lot of added features like colors, icons, tree-view and more formatting options.

An improved ls, with file descriptions in plain language and intelligent file grouping

Local ad blocker. Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating system.

The functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool.

NCurses Disk Usage

Text User Interface for controlling NetworkManager

Battery/Power usage and device stats monitoring command-line tool, with tune-up options.

Making the output of ping prettier, more colorful, more compact, and easier to read.

Lightweight command-line control of long-lived processes like servers

Quickly secure and harden UNIX/Linux systems

Copy range of lines from file or stdin to stdout.

Graphical command-line system monitor.

a Ruby command line application for managing WiFi on MacOS (install by gem install wifi-wand)

SSH-based "VPN for poors"

aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink

Bash on Balls

A web server written in Bash

Private cloud shell history. Open source server for bashhub

"DIY Dropbox" or "2-way directory (r)sync with proper deletion"

Dropbox Uploader is a Bash script which can be used to upload, download, list or delete files from Dropbox

HTTPie is a command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement

The interactive web server, let you inspect HTTP requests and forge responses.

If you can script it, you can HTTP it.

Tiny Bash HTTP server using netcat

Little command line REST client that you can use in pipelines

HTTP-server to execute shell commands. Designed for development, prototyping or remote control

File sharing from commandline.

🍸Vesper is a HTTP framework for Bash/Unix Shell

Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests

Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

Export Android content providers to CSV format

A text-based kitchen for Android ROM customization. Uses shell scripts and works with Cygwin/OS X/Linux

Music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger

Cross-platform cli audio player.

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.

Cross-platform Deezer.com audio player.

Command-line JSON processing tool by anononymus JavaScript functions

Simple high quality GIF encoding

A cool command line image scraper with a lot of features.

Blazing fast batch image resizer and rotator

Convert command output, file-types, and common strings to JSON or YAML for easier use in scripts.

A small utility to create JSON objects from command-line arguments.

Sed for json data. You can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data

Quick and simple image processing at the command line.

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.

Lets you play most audio and video formats (using ASCII characters) in the shell as well as in a GUI.

Console tool, which downloads, sets IDv3 tags and adds to your iTunes (if you use it) your SoundCloud likes in convenient way

PiCAST turns your $35 Raspberry Pi in to a Chromecast like Device

Command line manipulation of PDF documents (split, merge, rotate, convert to jpg, extract text, etc)

A terminal spreadsheet multitool for exploring and arranging data (csv/json/xml/xls/yaml/etc)

Cli tool to filter, map and create HTML/XML/JSON data with (Turing-complete) XPath and XQuery.

Old but powerful tool for command-line XML formatting, filtering, and manipulation.

yq is a portable command-line YAML processor

Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols

A powerful, innovative and small surface CLI to manage AWS.

A Bash script that handles blog posting

🎨 Beautiful images of your code — from right inside your terminal.

Choose an OSS license from the comfort of your terminal

The fastest and most interactive terminal based UI application for tracking cryptocurrencies

Single binary terminal-based TODO manager with git-based sync + markdown notes per task

Command line video editor

Facebook command line tool

Translate English to Chinese in terminal

Google Calendar command line interface

Command line evernote client

Browse Hacker News like a haxor

Browse Hacker News from the comfort of your Terminal

Draw point on world map using ip address

Check whether a website is up or down

A simple command line journal application that stores your journal in a plain text file

commandline asciii kanban board for minimalist productivity bash hackers (csv-based)

Command line accounting

Generate your license. Yet another lice, but implement with Jinja2 and docopt

Convert markdown to PNG image

Everything about your movies within the command line.

Batch rename utility using regex, sort and map file options.

Calculator made for programmers working with multiple number representations, sizes, and overall close to the bits.

Read, Manage, and Automate your Pocket collection.

Get PushBullet notifications when a shell program exits

Bash interface to the PushBullet API

A console file manager with VI key bindings.

Browse Reddit from your terminal

A Supercharged AWS CLI

Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat

A command-line TODO list manager

Command line power tool for Jira

Terminal stock ticker with live updates and position tracking

URL link checker on text documents

Weather app for the terminal

A tool to automatically dockerize your applications

Get your geolocation information from the CLI

The right way to check the weather (curl wttr.in)

Bash implementation of 2048 game

Bash implementation of minesweeper

ncurses based sudoku game written in C

Horizontal scroller game in bash with multiplayer mode!

Tetris in sed

Arkanoid and Sokoban written using sed

Reusable text adventure engine for Bash 4

Play solitaire in your terminal!

A community Bash framework

A package manager for shell scripts

Smashing Bash into Pieces

JavaScript has npm, Ruby has Gems, Python has pip and now Shell has bpkg

Save your dotfiles once, deploy them everywhere

Shell agnostic git based dotfiles package manager, written in Python.

Keep your dotfiles fresh

Git dotfile synchronizer written in Bash

Easily create lightweight documentation of installed packages, dotfiles, and more

Plugin manager for shell scripts

Config manager based on Git

Git-based dotfiles manager supporting encryption, alternates, and bootstrapping

ANSI escape codes in pure bash - change text color, position the cursor, much more

Bash unit testing framework

bash script creator - from small stand-alone script to complex projects with CI/CD and testing

A collection of libraries to simplify writing Bash scripts

A modular extensible toolbox for Bash

Bash command line framework and CLI generator

mini bash framework for creating command line tools

a Bash framework written just for fun with testing, dependency management & packaging

LSP-based Bash language server

functions for developing with unofficial strict mode enabled.

Bash Automated Testing System

Compose, document, version and organize your shell functions

Proper error handling, exceptions and try/catch for ZSH

Dead simple testing framework for Bash with coverage reporting

A command line argument parser in 50 lines of portable shell script.

A simple templating engine based on shell, implemented in ~290 lines of POSIX shell and awk.

TAP producer and test harness for fish

An elegant option parser for shell scripts (sh, bash and all POSIX shells)

CLI parser for fish

An alternative for builtin test command, it will make your "if" statements pretty

A logging interface for shell scripts

Mustache templates in pure bash

A BASH wrapper for getopts, for simple command line arguments.

A modular shell automation framework to organize your keeper scripts

A reusable progress spinner for shell scripts

Minimally invasive bash preprocessor, select sections of your script to run

bash transpiler written in bash (coffeescript for bash)

Semantic Versioning in Bash

Semver tool for bash - finds versions matching to specified rules

Static analysis tool for shell scripts

A repository of namespaced, composable shell (bash, sh and dash) function libraries

A full-featured BDD unit testing framework for dash, bash, ksh, zsh and all POSIX shells

A shell parser, formatter, and interpreter with bash support; includes shfmt

A shell testing framework

Automation framework based on bash and pexpect

A delicious way to organize programs

A shell test script

An idiomatic shell testing framework that uses only shell commands

A unit test framework for Bash scripts with a flavour of JUnit/PyUnit.

Scripting library/framework. Features: imports, exceptions, doc-tests ...

A powerful unit testing framework for ZSH

. Specifically Bash Guide, Bash FAQ and Bash Pitfalls

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