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Awesome CLI
A curated list of command line interfaces, or command line tools.
Inspired by the awesome list thing.
Table of Contents
- Entertainment
- Web Development
- Database
- Productivity
- Utilities
- OS X
- Command Line Tools
- Data Manipulation
- Directory Navigation
- Git
- Terminal GIF Creation
- Text Manipulation
- Screensavers
- Graphics
- Other
Entertainment
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cmus- Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.
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Instant-Music-Downloader - Instant Music Downloader
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pianobar- Pandora client
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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
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bower-name-cli- Check whether a package name is available on bower
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caniuse-cmd- Caniuse command line tool
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is-up-cli- Check whether a website is up or down
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npm-name-cli- Check whether a package name is available on npm
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npm-user-cli- Get user info of a npm user
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pageres-cli- Capture website screenshots
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strip-css-comments-cli- Strip comments from CSS
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viewport-list-cli- Return a list of devices and their viewports
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surge - deploy directory to the web.
Database
- mycli- A Terminal Client for MySQL with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting.
Productivity
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AutoScreenshotUploader- Instantly capture and upload screenshot to imgur
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ffscreencast- ffmpeg screencast with video overlay and multi monitor support
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idea- A lightweight CLI tool and module for keeping ideas in a safe place quick and easy.
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imgur-uploader-cli- Upload images to imgur
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geeknote- Console client for Evernote.
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Timetrap- Simple command line timetracker
Utilities
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archive-type-cli- Detect the archive type of a Buffer/Uint8Array
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brightness-cli- Change screen brightness- windows version
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empty-trash-cli- Empty the trash
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file-type-cli- Detect the file type of a file or stdin
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trash-cli- Move files and directories to the trash
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wallpaper-ci- Get or set the desktop wallpaper
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yank- Yank terminal output to clipboard
OS X
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bundle-id-cli- Get bundle identifier from a bundle name (OS X): Safari → com.apple.Safari
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bundle-name-cli- Get bundle name from a bundle identifier (OS X): com.apple.Safari → Safari
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lnfs-cli- Safely force create symlinks
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osx-version-cli- Get the OS X version of the current system
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osx-wifi-cli- A cli for managing wifi connections on OSX
Command Line Tools
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The Fuck- Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.
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happyfinder- (another) Fuzzy file finder for the command line
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tldr- Simplified and community-driven man pages
Data Manipulation
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jq- Command-line JSON processor http://stedolan.github.io/jq/
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underscore-cli- Command-line utility-belt for hacking JSON and Javascript.
Directory Navigation
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autojump- A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line- http://wiki.github.com/joelthelion/autojump/
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fasd- Command-line productivity booster, offers quick access to files and directories, inspired by autojump, z and v.
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j- semi clone of autojump (http://github.com/joelthelion/autojump) in shell/awk
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pm- The easy way to switch to your projects on the shell
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z- z is the new j, yo
Git
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CLI GitHub- 📺 A fancy GitHub client for command line.- http://ionicabizau.net/blog/15
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Gistup- Create a gist from terminal, then use git to update it.
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git commander- A git tool with a easy terminal interface.
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git-stats- 🍀 A GitHub-like contributions calendar, but locally, with all your git commits.
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hub- A command-line wrapper for git that makes you better at GitHub.
Terminal Gif Creation
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gifsicle- Create, manipulate, and optimize GIF images and animations
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ttygif- Convert terminal recordings to animated gifs
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ttygif- ttyrec to gif
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ttystudio- A terminal-to-gif recorder minus the headaches.
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
Graphics
- cli-mandelbrot- A cli for traversing the Mandelbrot fractal
Other
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app-path-cli- Get the path to an app (OS X)
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Bible.Js CLI client- 📖 Bible.JS CLI client. Read the Holy Bible via the command line.
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birthday- Know when a friend's birthday is coming.
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cowsay and cowthink- You can install with homebrew
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detect-indent-cli- Detect the indentation of code
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find-up-cli- Find a file by walking up parent directories
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fullname-cli- Get the fullname of the current user
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get-port-cli- Get an available port
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gzip-size-cli- Get the gzipped size of a file or stdin
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HASHA -cli- Hashing made simple. Get the hash of text or stdin.
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indent-string-cli- Indent each line in a string
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is-reachable-cli- Check if hostnames are reachable or not
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kill-tabs- Kill all Chrome tabs to improve performance, decrease battery usage, and save memory
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leven-cli- Measure the difference between two strings using the Levenshtein distance algorithm
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open-shortcut-cli- Open the URL from a web shortcut file in the browser
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pkg-dir-cli- Find the root directory of a npm package
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pretty-ms-cli- Convert milliseconds to a human readable string: 1337000000 → 15d 11h 23m 20s
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repeating-cli- Repeat a string - fast
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speed-test- Test your internet connection speed and ping using speedtest.net from the CLI
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shortcut-url-cli- Get the URL from a web shortcut file
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SpeedRead- A simple terminal-based open source Spritz-alike
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string-width-cli- Get the visual width of a string - the number of columns required to display it
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to-double-quotes- Convert matching single-quotes to double-quotes: I 'love' unicorns => I "love" unicorns
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to-single-quotes- Convert matching double-quotes to single-quotes: I "love" unicorns → I 'love' unicorns
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gdb-dashboard- Modular visual interface for GDB in Python
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weather-cli- Check the weather for your city from your terminal