Terminals Are Sexy
Base Shells
6_ENTRIES- Ammonite-Shell
An object shell with a Scala-like scripting language.
- bash
GNU Project's shell (Bourne Again SHell).
- fish
Smart and user-friendly command line shell.
- PowerShell
Automation and configuration tool/framework that is optimized for dealing with structured data.
- xonsh
Python-ish, BASHwards-looking shell language and command prompt.
- zsh
Powerful shell with scripting language.
ZSH
28_ENTRIES- alf
Out of this world super fast and configurable framework for zsh.
- ant-zsh
Tiny and lightweight ZSH configuration environment for special customization needs.
- antibody
Faster and simpler antigen written in Golang.
- antigen
Plugin manager for zsh, inspired by oh-my-zsh and vundle.
- dotzsh
Community driven framework for zsh.
- liquidprompt
Full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh.
- oh-my-zsh
Delightful community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration.
- powerlevel9k
Super flexible awesome powerline ZSH theme.
- prezto
Configuration framework for Zsh.
- pumice
Lightweight plugin manager for zsh.
- pure
Pretty, minimal and fast ZSH prompt.
- slimzsh
Small, usable configuration for ZSH.
- zeesh
Cross-platform Zsh framework.
- zgen
Lightweight and simple plugin manager for ZSH.
- zilsh
Zsh config system that aims to appeal more to power-users and follow the simplistic approach of vim-pathogen.
- zim
Zsh configuration framework with blazing speed and modular extensions.
- zinit
Flexible Zsh plugin manager with clean fpath, reports, completion management, turbo mode, services.
- zoppo
Crippled configuration framework for Zsh.
- zplug
Next-generation plugin manager for zsh.
- zpm
Plugin manager for zsh similar to vim-plug.
- zsh-autosuggestions
Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh.
- zsh-pony
Covers customizing ZSH without a framework.
- zsh-quickstart-kit
Simple zsh quickstart for using zsh and zgen.
- zsh-syntax-highlighting
Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh.
- zshdb
ZSH debugger.
- ztanesh
Aims to improve your UNIX command line experience and productivity with the the configuration provided by the ztanesh project.
- zulu
Total environment manager for ZSH 5+.
- zunit
Powerful unit testing framework for ZSH.
Bash
7_ENTRIES- aliases
Contextual, dynamic, organized aliases for the bash shell.
- bash-it
Collection of community Bash commands and scripts.
- bash-powerline
Powerline-style Bash prompt in pure Bash script.
- bash-sensible
Attempt at saner Bash defaults.
- bashtrap
Quick way to spruce up OSX terminal.
- hstr
Bash History Suggest Box.
- liquidprompt
Full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh.
Git
8_ENTRIES- bash-git-prompt
Informative and fancy Bash prompt for Git users.
- git-extra-commands
Collection of useful extra commands for git
- git-prompt
Bash prompt with Git, SVN and HG modules.
- git-radar
Heads up display for git
- git-sh
Customized Bash environment suitable for Git work.
- gittify
Colorful Bash prompt + customized Git aliases.
- oh-my-git
Opinionated git prompt for bash and zsh.
- sexy-bash-prompt
Bash prompt with colors, Git statuses, and Git branches.
Fish
2_ENTRIES- Fisher
Package manager for the fish shell.
- oh-my-fish
The Fishshell Framework.
Terminal Emulation Applications
24_ENTRIESSexy 3rd party terminal emulation applications.
- Alacritty
Cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator.
- Cmder
Lovely console emulator package for Windows.
- ConEmu
Customizable Windows terminal with tabs, splits, quake-style and more.
- FluentTerminal
A Terminal Emulator based on UWP and web technologies.
- GNOME Terminal
Terminal emulator for GNOME.
- GNU Screen
Full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes.
- Go2Shell
Opens a terminal window to the current directory in Finder.
- Hyper
Terminal built on web technologies.
- iTerm2
Terminal emulator for macOS that does amazing things.
- KiTTY
Fork from version 0.70 of PuTTY, the best telnet / SSH client in the world.
- Konsole
Terminal emulator for the K Desktop Environment.
- MacTerm
Powerful replacement for macOS Terminal.
- Mosh
Remote terminal application that allows roaming and supports intermittent connectivity.
- PuTTY
SSH and telnet client, developed originally by Simon Tatham for the Windows platform.
- Terminator
Multiple GNOME terminals in one window.
- Terminology
The best terminal emulator based on the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries.
- Terminus
Cross-platform terminal for a more modern age, based on web technologies.
- Termite
Keyboard-centric terminal, aimed at use within a tiling window manager.
- Tilda
Gtk based drop down terminal for Linux and Unix.
- Tilix
Advanced GTK3 tiling terminal emulator that follows the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines.
- Xfce Terminal
Modern terminal emulator primarily for the Xfce desktop environment.
- xterm
Terminal emulator for the X Window System.
- ZOC
SSH/Telnet Client and Terminal Emulator for macOS and Windows.
Universal
10_ENTRIES- asdf
Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more
- basher
Package manager for shell scripts.
- bpkg
JavaScript has npm, Ruby has Gems, Python has pip and now Shell has bpkg.
- composer
Composer is a package manager for PHP.
- guix
Functional package manager for installed software packages and versions.
- nix
Powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible.
- npmjs
Package manager for JavaScript.
- pip
Package management system used to install and manage software packages written in Python.
- rubygems
The Ruby community’s gem hosting service.
- yarn
New package and dependency manager for javascript.
macOS
4_ENTRIESLinux
2_ENTRIESChromeOS
1_ENTRIES- chromebrew
Package manager for Chrome OS.
Windows
7_ENTRIES- chocolatey
Package manager for Windows.
- cygwin
Linux-like environment for Windows making it possible to port software running on POSIX systems to Windows.
- ninite
Install and Update All Your Programs at Once.
- oneget
PackageManagement (aka OneGet) is a package manager for Windows.
- ruckzuck
Software Package Manager for Windows, a quick way to install and update Software.
- scoop
Package manager for Windows.
- wpkg
Automated software deployment, upgrade and removal program for Windows.
Text Editors
8_ENTRIESSexy text editors for your Command Line Interface.
- jed
Freely available text editor for Unix, VMS, MSDOS, OS/2, BeOS, QNX, and win9X/NT platforms.
- kakoune
Modal editor with multiple selections and orthogonal design.
- micro
Modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor.
- nano
Text editor for Unix-like computing systems or operating environments using a command line interface.
- slap
Sublime-like terminal-based text editor.
- vis
Highly efficient text editor.
Tools and Plugins
66_ENTRIESSexy Applications for your Command Line Interface.
- ack3
Greplike tool, optimized for programmers.
- add-gitignore
An interactive CLI that generates a .gitignore for your project based on your needs.
- asciinema
Terminal session recorder.
- autojump
cd command that learns
- bcal
Storage conversion and expression calculator.
- buku
command-line bookmark manager.
- byobu
Byobu is an open source text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer.
- cointop
The fastest and most interactive terminal based UI application for tracking cryptocurrencies.
- colorls
Beautify the terminal's
lscommand, with color and font-awesome icons. - ddgr
DuckDuckGo from the terminal.
- df-show
Interactive directory and file browser with a similar feel to the
lscommand. - dockly
Docker console UI and Dashboard for quickly managing and inspecting Containers and Services.
- dry
Docker manager for the terminal.
- exa
Replacement for 'ls' written in Rust.
- fselect
'find' replacement with SQL-like syntax.
- fx
Command-line JSON viewer.
- fzf
Command-line fuzzy finder.
- gcalcli
Google Calendar command line interface.
- getnews.tech
Checking the latest news headlines from various news outlets on the web.
- glances
top/htop alternative.
- googler
Search Google from your terminal.
- haxor-news
Browse Hacker News like a haxor.
- homebrew-cask
CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries.
- howdoi
Instant code answers and examples from the command line
- htop
Cool looking and interactive process viewer 'replacement' for the top command.
- hub
Command-line wrapper for git that makes working with GitHub easy.
- imgp
Multi-core batch image resizer and rotator.
- jaymock-cli
Mock an API and generate fake JSON test data, right from the terminal.
- jq.node
Command-line JSON/string processor, JavaScript and Lodash in your shell.
- jrnl
Simple command line journal application that stores your journal in a plain text file.
- k
Directory listings for zsh with git features.
- kubebox
Terminal console for Kubernetes.
- lexis
word counting made easy. Retrieve the number of words in a string or stdin.
- lf
Terminal file manager.
- lolcat
Rainbows and unicorns!
- lunchy
Friendly wrapper for launchctl.
- mps-youtube
Terminal based YouTube player and downloader
- navi
An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line.
- neofetch
Fetches system/theme information in terminal for Linux desktop screenshots. Alternative to screenfetch.
- nnn
Tiny, lightning fast, feature-packed file manager.
- ranger
Console file manager with vi key bindings.
- rebound
Command-line debugger that instantly fetches Stack Overflow results when you get a compiler error.
- reddit terminal viewer
Browse Reddit from your terminal.
- ripgrep
Code-searching tool like ack and the_silver_searcher, but faster.
- screenfetch
Fetches system/theme information in terminal for Linux desktop screenshots.
- shell2http
HTTP-server to execute shell commands. Designed for development, prototyping or remote control.
- streamlink
CLI for extracting streams from various websites to a video player of your choosing.
- taskell
Command-line Trello-like kanban-board/TODO lists.
- taskwarrior
Command-line TODO list manager.
- the_silver_searcher
Code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster.
- tig
Text mode interface for git.
- tiv
Text mode terminal image viewer.
- tldr
Simplified and community-driven man pages.
- tmux
Terminal multiplexer.
- tmuxinator
Manage complex tmux sessions easily.
- transfer.sh
Quickly upload and share files from your shell.
- tre
Improved
treecommand that knows git, creates shell alias for quick opening, and more! - vifm
Console file manager with vi key bindings and some ideas from mutt.
- wal
generate and change colorschemes on the fly.
- whereami
Get your geolocation information from the CLI.
- wttr.in
The right way to check the weather.
- yadm
Seamless git-based management of your dotfiles.
- youtube-dl
download videos from YouTube
- z
Tool to jump to folders based on history matching a given regex
- z.lua
New cd command that helps you navigate faster by learning your habits.
- zoxide
cd anywhere without typing in long paths.
Communication
8_ENTRIESSexy Tools for communicating through the Command Line Interface.
- bitchx
Feature-rich and highly configurable, terminal based IRC client based on ircII.
- centerim
Terminal based, multi-protocol Instant Messaging client with support for IRC.
- epic
IRC client that has been under active development for 20+ years in 5 generations.
- go-jira
Simple jira command line client in Go.
- irssi
Self proclaimed client of the future and my favorite IRC client.
- slack-term
Slack client for your terminal.
- Slackadaisical
Simple Slack client for the CLI.
- weechat
Fast, light and extensible chat client.
Community
6_ENTRIESJoin the CLI lover community.
- /r/commandline
This is for anything regarding the command line, in any operating system.
- /r/osxterminal
Tips for using terminal.app in macOS.
- /r/zsh/
Everything on zsh.
- /r/unixporn/
Everything on unix.
- #bash
Bash IRC channel on freenode.
- Stack Overflow
Terminal tagged questions.
Awesome
4_ENTRIES- awesome-devenv
Curated list of delightful Bash scripts and resources.
- awesome-emacs
Community driven list of useful Emacs packages, libraries and others.
- awesome-sysadmin
Curated list of amazingly awesome open source sysadmin resources.
- awesome-zsh-plugins
Collection of ZSH frameworks, plugins & themes inspired by the various awesome list collections out there.
Misc
2_ENTRIES- bash-guide
Guide to learn bash.
- the-art-of-command-line
Master the command line, in one page.