Awesome CLI Apps

A curated list of command line apps.

Inspired by the awesome list thing.

Table of Contents

• Entertainment
  • Video
• Web Development
• Database
• Productivity
• Utilities
• OS X
• Command Line Tools
• Data Manipulation
• Files and Directories
  • Deletion
  • Files
  • Directories
  • Directory Navigation
• Version Control
  • Git
• Images
  • Gif Creation
  • SVG
• Text Manipulation
• Screensavers
• Graphics
• Resources
  • Node frameworks and packages
  • Node Command-line utilities
• String Manipulation
• Other

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Entertainment

• cmus - Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.
• Instant-Music-Downloader - Instant Music Downloader
• itunes-remote - It’s about listening to music without leaving the terminal. OS X only.
• pianobar - Pandora client
• TTYtter - Twitter client- (original)
• quote-cli - Get a random quote or the quote of the day in your CLI

Video

• youtube-dl - a small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a few more sites. You can install with brew install youtube-dl

Web Development

• bower-name-cli - Check whether a package name is available on bower
• caniuse-cmd - Searches caniuse.com about browser support of feature.
• is-up-cli - Check whether a website is up or down
• npm-name-cli - Check whether a package name is available on npm
• npm-user-cli - Get user info of a npm user
• 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 directory to the web.
• acmetool - An easy-to-use command line tool for automatically acquiring certificates from ACME servers.

Database

• mycli - A Terminal Client for MySQL with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting.

Productivity

• AutoScreenshotUploader- Instantly capture and upload screenshot to imgur
• doing - A command line tool for keeping track of what you’re doing and tracking what you’ve done.
• ffscreencast- ffmpeg screencast with video overlay and multi monitor support
• idea- A lightweight CLI tool and module for keeping ideas in a safe place quick and easy.
• imgur-uploader-cli- Upload images to imgur
• geeknote- Console client for Evernote.
• ledger - Powerful, double-entry accounting system that is accessed from the UNIX command-line.
• The Mutt E-Mail Client
• Taskwarrior - Free and Open Source Software that manages your TODO list from your command line.
• Timetrap- Simple command line timetracker

Utilities

• archive-type-cli - Detect the archive type of a Buffer/Uint8Array
• battery-level - Get current battery level
• brightness-cli - Change screen brightness- windows version
• file-type-cli - Detect the file type of a file or stdin
• screensaver - Start the screensaver
• wallpaper-ci - Get or set the desktop wallpaper
• yank - Yank terminal output to clipboard

OS X

• bundle-id-cli - Get bundle identifier from a bundle name (OS X): Safari → com.apple.Safari
• bundle-name-cli - Get bundle name from a bundle identifier (OS X): com.apple.Safari → Safari
• lnfs-cli - Safely force create symlinks
• osx-version-cli - Get the OS X version of the current system
• osx-wifi-cli - A cli for managing wifi connections on OSX

Command Line Tools

• The Fuck- Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.
• happyfinder- (another) Fuzzy file finder for the command line
• PathPicker - After parsing the output from a command, PathPicker presents you with a nice UI to select which files you're interested in.
• tldr- Simplified and community-driven man pages

Data Manipulation

• jq - Command-line JSON processor http://stedolan.github.io/jq/
• underscore-cli - Command-line utility-belt for hacking JSON and Javascript.

Files and Directories

Deletion

• trash-cli - Move files and directories to the trash
• empty-trash-cli - Empty the trash
• trashss - ( only) Trash screenshots on desktop.
• del-cli - Delete files and folders.

Files

• strip-json-comments-cli - Strip comments from JSON. Lets you use comments in your JSON files!

Directories

• find-up-cli - Find a file by walking up parent directories

Directory Navigation

• autojump - A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line- https://github.com/wting/autojump/wiki
• fasd - Command-line productivity booster, offers quick access to files and directories, inspired by autojump, z and v.
• j - semi clone of autojump (https://github.com/wting/autojump) in shell/awk
• pm - The easy way to switch to your projects on the shell
• z - z is the new j, yo

Version Control

Git

• CLI GitHub - 📺 A fancy GitHub client for command line.- http://ionicabizau.net/blog/15
• Gistup - Create a gist from terminal, then use git to update it.
• git commander - A git tool with a easy terminal interface.
• git-stats - 🍀 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.

Changelogs

• clog - A conventional changelog for the rest of us.

Images

Gif Creation

• 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.

SVG

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

Text Manipulation

• 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.

Screensavers

• cmatrix - show a scrolling 'Matrix' like screen- (original)
• pipes.sh

Graphics

• cli-mandelbrot - A cli for traversing the Mandelbrot fractal
• WOPR - A simple markup language for creating rich terminal reports, presentations and infographics
• sparkly-cli - Generate sparklines ▁▂▃▅▂▇.

Resources

Some fine resources to write your own CLI App.

Node frameworks and packages

• meow - The most simple way to write small CLI modules including argument parsing.
• inquirer - A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces like checkboxes, radio buttons etc. with a simple but powerful API.
• Vorpal - Complete solution for creating interactive apps. Includes UI features from inquirer.

Node Command-line utilities

• Chalk - Beautiful API to have beautiful terminal string styling.
• log-symbols - Colored symbols to differentiate output messages with a blink of an eye.
• log-update – Useful for ASCII animation. For example loading indicators.

String Manipulation

• indent-string-cli - Indent each line in a string
• pretty-ms-cli - Convert milliseconds to a human readable string: 1337000000 → 15d 11h 23m 20s
• repeating-cli - Repeat a string - fast
• string-width-cli - Get the visual width of a string - the number of columns required to display it
• find-versions-cli - Find semver versions in a string: unicorn v1.2.3 → 1.2.3

Other

• app-path-cli - Get the path to an app (OS X)
• Bible.Js CLI client - 📖 Bible.JS CLI client. Read the Holy Bible via the command line.
• birthday - Know when a friend's birthday is coming.
• cowsay and cowthink - You can install with homebrew
• detect-indent-cli - Detect the indentation of code
• fortune
• fullname-cli - Get the fullname of the current user
• get-port-cli - Get an available port
• gzip-size-cli - Get the gzipped size of a file or stdin
• HASHA -cli - Hashing made simple. Get the hash of text or stdin.
• is-reachable-cli - Check if hostnames are reachable or not
• 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
• open-shortcut-cli - Open the URL from a web shortcut file in the browser
• pkg-dir-cli - Find the root directory of a npm package
• speed-test - Test your internet connection speed and ping using speedtest.net from the CLI
• shortcut-url-cli - Get the URL from a web shortcut file
• SpeedRead - A simple terminal-based open source Spritz-alike
• 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
• yosay
• gdb-dashboard - Modular visual interface for GDB in Python
• weather-cli - Check the weather for your city from your terminal

License

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