# Awesome Shell [![Awesome][awesome-badge]][awesome-link]

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](https://unix-shell.zeef.com/caleb.xu).
- [Awesome Bash](#awesome-bash)
	- [Command-Line Productivity](#command-line-productivity)
	- [Customization](#customization)
	- [For Developers](#for-developers)
	- [System Utilities](#system-utilities)
	- [Downloading and Serving](#downloading-and-serving)
	- [Multimedia and File Formats](#multimedia-and-file-formats)
	- [Applications](#applications)
	- [Games](#games)
	- [Shell Package Management](#shell-package-management)
	- [Shell Script Development](#shell-sfanicript-development)
- [Guides](#guides)
- [**Awesome Zsh**][awesome-zsh]  [![Awesome][awesome-badge]][awesome-zsh]
- [**Awesome Fish**][awesome-fish] [![Awesome][awesome-badge]][awesome-fish]
- [Other Awesome Lists](#other-awesome-lists)


# Awesome Bash


## Command-Line Productivity

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

* [ag](https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher) - Super fast string search through a directory hierarchy
* [autoenv](https://github.com/kennethreitz/autoenv) - Directory-based environments
* [autojump](https://github.com/wting/autojump) - A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line
* [bashmarks](https://github.com/huyng/bashmarks) - Directory bookmarks for the shell
* [bd](https://github.com/vigneshwaranr/bd) - Quickly go back to a parent directory
* [boilr](https://github.com/tmrts/boilr) - A blazingly fast CLI tool for creating projects from boilerplate templates.
- [boom](https://github.com/holman/boom) - Store links and snippets in the commandline
* [byobu](http://byobu.co/) - Text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer
* [commacd](https://github.com/shyiko/commacd) - A faster way to move around in Bash
* [desk](https://github.com/jamesob/desk) - A lightweight workspace manager for the shell
* [direnv](https://github.com/direnv/direnv) - An environment switcher for the shell, compare with autoenv
* [enhancd](https://github.com/b4b4r07/enhancd) - :rocket: A next-generation cd command with an interactive filter
* [fasd](https://github.com/clvv/fasd) - Command-line productivity booster, offers quick access to files and directories
* [fzf](https://github.com/junegunn/fzf) - A command-line fuzzy finder
* [hhighlighter](https://github.com/paoloantinori/hhighlighter) - Colorize words in a command output
* [hr](https://github.com/LuRsT/hr) - `<hr />` for your terminal
* [hstr](https://github.com/dvorka/hstr) - Bash History Suggest Box
* [k](https://github.com/supercrabtree/k) - k is a Zsh script to make directory listings more readable, adding Git status, fileweight colors and rotting dates
* [k alias](https://github.com/lingtalfi/k) - get kool aliases (and more) working with a simple one-liner
* [marker](https://github.com/pindexis/marker) - Bookmark your shell commands
* [parallel](http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/) - Build and execute shell command lines from standard input in parallel
* [pathpicker](https://github.com/facebook/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.
* [percol](https://github.com/mooz/percol) - Adds flavor of interactive filtering to the traditional pipe concept of UNIX shell
* [qfc](https://github.com/pindexis/qfc) - File-completion widget for Bash and Zsh
* [SHML](https://github.com/MaxCDN/shml) - Style framework for the terminal (Shell Markup Language)
* [slugify](https://github.com/benlinton/slugify) - Command that converts filenames and directories to a web friendly format
* [spark](https://github.com/holman/spark) - ▁▂▃▅▂▇ in your shell
* [Shark](https://github.com/fishery/shark) - ▁▂▃▅ Sparkline Generator
* [sheet](https://github.com/oscardelben/sheet) -  Text snippets for the command line
* [spot](https://github.com/rauchg/spot) - Tiny file search utility
- [snips](https://github.com/srijanshetty/snips) - Commandline tool to manage snippets of code.
* [sshfs](https://github.com/osxfuse/sshfs) - A tool for mounting remote file systems over SSH
* [sshrc](https://github.com/Russell91/sshrc) - Bring your .bashrc, .vimrc, etc. with you when you SSH
* [thefuck](https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck) - Fix common shell mistakes by using an easy to remember command
* [tmux](http://tmux.github.io/) - Amazing terminal multiplexer
* [up](https://github.com/shannonmoeller/up) - Ascend directories by name or count, for bash and zsh.
* [v](https://github.com/rupa/v) - z for vim.
* [wemux](https://github.com/zolrath/wemux) - Multi-User Tmux Made Easy
* [z](https://github.com/rupa/z) - z is the new j, yo

## Customization

*Custom prompts, color themes, etc.*

* [base16-shell](https://github.com/chriskempson/base16-shell) - Base16 for Shells
* [bash-git-prompt](https://github.com/magicmonty/bash-git-prompt) - An informative and fancy Bash prompt for Git users
* [bash-powerline](https://github.com/riobard/bash-powerline) - Powerline-style Bash prompt in pure Bash script
* [bashstrap](https://github.com/barryclark/bashstrap) - A quick way to spruce up OSX terminal
* [bullet-train-oh-my-zsh-theme](https://github.com/caiogondim/bullet-train-oh-my-zsh-theme) - :bullettrain_side: An oh-my-zsh shell theme based on the Powerline Vim plugin
* [emojify](https://github.com/mrowa44/emojify) Emoji on the command line :scream:
* [flatui-terminal-theme](https://dribbble.com/shots/1021755-Flat-UI-Terminal-Theme) - Nicer colors for terminal
* [git-prompt](https://github.com/lvv/git-prompt) - Bash prompt with Git, SVN and HG modules
* [gittify](https://github.com/momeni/gittify) - A colorful Bash prompt + customized Git aliases
* [Gogh - Color Scheme](https://github.com/Mayccoll/Gogh) - Color Scheme for Gnome Terminal
* [liquidprompt](https://github.com/nojhan/liquidprompt) - A full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh
* [mysql-colorize](https://github.com/horosgrisa/mysql-colorize.bash) -  Colorization for mysql comand-line client
* [oh-my-git](https://github.com/arialdomartini/oh-my-git) - An opinionated git prompt for bash and zsh
* [sexy-bash-prompt](https://github.com/twolfson/sexy-bash-prompt) - Bash prompt with colors, Git statuses, and Git branches

## For Developers

*Command-line development, version control, and deployment.*

* [bocker](https://github.com/p8952/bocker) - Docker implemented in 100 lines of bash
* [cloc](https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc) - Count Lines of Code
* [dokku](https://github.com/dokku/dokku) - Docker powered mini-Heroku. The smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seen.
* [getopts](https://github.com/fishery/getopts) - CLI parser for fish
* [git-extra-commands](https://github.com/unixorn/git-extra-commands) - Many Git extra utilities. Churn, cut-branch, improved-merge and many more.
* [git-extras](https://github.com/tj/git-extras) - Git utilities -- repo summary, repl, changelog population, author commit percentages and more
* [git-open](https://github.com/paulirish/git-open) - Type `git open` to open the GitHub page or website for a repository in your browser
* [git-semver](https://github.com/markchalloner/git-semver) - Git plugin for easing semantic versioning and changelog validation
* [git-sh](https://github.com/rtomayko/git-sh) - A customized Bash environment suitable for Git work
* [git-up](https://github.com/aanand/git-up) - Automatically rebase incoming changes instead of merging. Be polite!
* [hub](https://github.com/github/hub) - hub helps you win at git.
* [mr](https://github.com/joeyh/myrepos) - Multiple Repository management tool
* [overcommit](https://github.com/brigade/overcommit) - A fully configurable and extendable Git hook manager
* [pre-commit](http://pre-commit.com) - A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks
* [repren](https://github.com/jlevy/repren) - Command-line search-and-replace and file-renaming swiss army knife
* [slap](https://github.com/slap-editor/slap) - Sublime-like terminal-based text editor that runs on Node.js
* [shipit](https://github.com/sapegin/shipit) - Minimalistic SSH deployment

## System Utilities

*OS-related tools, including system administration, system debugging, and file and process management.*

* [atop](http://www.atoptool.nl) - ASCII full-screen performance monitor that is capable of reporting the activity of all processes
* [cv](https://github.com/Xfennec/progress) - Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, ...
* [glances](https://github.com/nicolargo/glances) - Glances an Eye on your system
* [goaccess](https://github.com/allinurl/goaccess) - GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in \*nix systems.
* [htop](https://github.com/hishamhm/htop) - A ncurses based interactive process viewer which aims to be a better `top`
* [lnav](http://lnav.org) - An advanced log file viewer for the small-scale
* [lsp](https://github.com/dborzov/lsp) - An improved `ls`, with file descriptions in plain language and intelligent file grouping
* [mtr](https://github.com/traviscross/mtr) - The functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool.
* [ncdu](https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu) - NCurses Disk Usage
* [powertop](https://github.com/fenrus75/powertop) - Battery/Power usage and device stats monitoring command-line tool, with tune-up options.
* [procdog](https://github.com/jlevy/procdog) - Lightweight command-line control of long-lived processes like servers
* [quick-secure](https://github.com/marshyski/quick-secure) - Quickly secure and harden UNIX/Linux systems

## Downloading and Serving

*Self-hosted, lightweight servers and networking tools written in shell scripts.*

* [aria2](https://github.com/tatsuhiro-t/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](https://github.com/jneen/balls) - Bash on Balls
* [bashttpd](https://github.com/avleen/bashttpd) - A web server written in Bash
* [bitpocket](https://github.com/sickill/bitpocket) - "DIY Dropbox" or "2-way directory (r)sync with proper deletion"
* [Dropbox-Uploader](https://github.com/andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader) - Dropbox Uploader is a Bash script which can be used to upload, download, list or delete files from Dropbox
* [httpie](https://github.com/jkbrzt/httpie) - HTTPie is a command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement
* [ngincat](https://github.com/jaburns/ngincat) - Tiny Bash HTTP server using netcat
* [resty](https://github.com/micha/resty) - Little command line REST client that you can use in pipelines
* [youtube-dl](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl) - Small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

## Multimedia and File Formats

*Tools for handling video and audio files.*

* [adb-export](https://github.com/sromku/adb-export) - Export Android content providers to CSV format
* [Android-Kitchen](https://github.com/dsixda/Android-Kitchen) - A text-based kitchen for Android ROM customization. Uses shell scripts and works with Cygwin/OS X/Linux
* [Beets](https://github.com/beetbox/beets) - Music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger
* [cmus](https://github.com/cmus/cmus) - Cross-platform cli audio player.
* [image-scraper](https://github.com/sananth12/ImageScraper) - A cool command line image scraper with a lot of features.
* [jq](https://github.com/stedolan/jq) - Sed for json data. You can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data
* [mplayer](http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html) - Lets you play most audio and video formats (using ASCII characters) in the shell as well as in a GUI.
* [PiCAST](https://github.com/lanceseidman/PiCAST) - PiCAST turns your $35 Raspberry Pi in to a Chromecast like Device
* [sejda](https://github.com/torakiki/sejda/) - Command line manipulation of PDF documents (split, merge, rotate, convert to jpg, extract text, etc)
* [xmlstarlet](http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/) - Old but powerful tool for command-line XML formatting, filtering, and manipulation.

## Applications

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

* [ansiweather](https://github.com/fcambus/ansiweather) - Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols
* [bashblog](https://github.com/cfenollosa/bashblog) - A Bash script that handles blog posting
* [choosealicense-cli](https://github.com/lord63/choosealicense-cli) - Bring http://choosealicense.com to your terminal
* [facy](https://github.com/huydx/facy) - Command line power tool for facebook
* [fanyi](https://github.com/afc163/fanyi) - Translate English to Chinese in terminal
* [geeknote](https://github.com/VitaliyRodnenko/geeknote) - Command line evernote client
* [hn-cli](https://github.com/rafaelrinaldi/hn-cli) - Browse Hacker News from the comfort of your Terminal
* [iponmap](https://github.com/nogizhopaboroda/iponmap) - Draw point on world map using ip address
* [isitup](https://github.com/lord63/isitup) - Check whether a website is up or down
* [jrnl](https://github.com/maebert/jrnl) - A simple command line journal application that stores your journal in a plain text file
* [ledger](https://github.com/ledger/ledger) - Command line accounting
* [licen](https://github.com/lord63/licen) - Generate your license. Yet another lice, but implement with Jinja2 and docopt
* [moviemon](https://github.com/iCHAIT/moviemon) - Everything about your movies within the command line.
* [pushblast](https://github.com/alebcay/pushblast) - Get PushBullet notifications when a shell program exits
* [pushbullet-bash](https://github.com/Red5d/pushbullet-bash) - Bash interface to the PushBullet API
* [SAWS](https://github.com/donnemartin/saws) - A Supercharged AWS CLI
* [transfer.sh](https://transfer.sh/) — Quickly upload and share files from your shell
* [wego](https://github.com/schachmat/wego) - Weather app for the terminal
* [whereami](https://github.com/rafaelrinaldi/whereami) - Get your geolocation information from the CLI

## Games

*All work and no play is a cruddy way to spend your day.*

* [bash2048](https://github.com/mydzor/bash2048) - Bash implementation of 2048 game
* [minesweeper](https://github.com/feherke/Bash-script/tree/master/minesweeper) - Bash implementation of minesweeper
* [sedtris](https://github.com/uuner/sedtris) - Tetris in sed
* [sed-scripts](https://github.com/aureliojargas/sed-scripts) - Arkanoid and Sokoban written using sed

## Shell Package Management

*Tools for managing multiple shell configurations. For zsh-specific tools, see the Zsh section.*

* [bash-it](https://github.com/Bash-it/bash-it) - A community Bash framework
* [basher](https://github.com/basherpm/basher) - A package manager for shell scripts
* [bpkg](http://www.bpkg.io/) - JavaScript has npm, Ruby has Gems, Python has pip and now Shell has bpkg
* [dotfiler](https://github.com/svetlyak40wt/dotfiler) – Shell agnostic git based dotfiles package manager, written in Python.
* [fresh](https://github.com/freshshell/fresh) - Keep your dotfiles fresh
* [homeshick](https://github.com/andsens/homeshick) - Git dotfile synchronizer written in Bash
* [vcsh](https://github.com/RichiH/vcsh) - Config manager based on Git

## Shell Script Development

*Tools for writing, improving, or organizing Bash or other shell scripts*

* [ansi](https://github.com/fidian/ansi) - ANSI escape codes in pure bash - change text color, position the cursor, much more
* [assert.sh](https://github.com/lehmannro/assert.sh) - Bash unit testing framework
* [bashful](https://github.com/jmcantrell/bashful) - A collection of libraries to simplify writing Bash scripts
* [bashmanager](https://github.com/lingtalfi/bashmanager) - mini bash framework for creating command line tools
* [bats](https://github.com/sstephenson/bats) - Bash Automated Testing System
* [Fishtape](https://github.com/fishery/fishtape) - TAP producer and test harness for fish
* [composure](https://github.com/erichs/composure) - Compose, document, version and organize your shell functions
* [dispatch](https://github.com/Mosai/workshop/blob/master/doc/dispatch.md) - A command line argument parser in 50 lines of portable shell script.
* [mo](https://github.com/tests-always-included/mo) - Mustache templates in pure bash
* [rerun](https://github.com/rerun/rerun) - A modular shell automation framework to organize your keeper scripts
* [semver_bash](https://github.com/cloudflare/semver_bash) - Semantic Versioning in Bash
* [shellcheck](https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck) - Static analysis tool for shell scripts
* [shpec](https://github.com/rylnd/shpec) - A shell testing framework
* [sub](https://github.com/basecamp/sub) - A delicious way to organize programs
* [ts](https://github.com/thinkerbot/ts) - A shell test script
* [shunit2](https://github.com/kward/shunit2) - A unit test framework for Bash scripts with a flavour of JUnit/PyUnit.


# Guides

* [Bash Hackers Wiki](http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/)
* [Greg Wooledge's (aka "greycat") wiki](http://mywiki.wooledge.org).
  Specifically [Bash Guide](http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide), [Bash FAQ](http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ) and [Bash Pitfalls](http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls)
* [Google's Shell Style Guide](https://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/shell.xml)
* [The Linux Documentation Project: Bash Programming - Intro/How-to](http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html#toc)
* [The Linux Documentation Project: Advanced Bash Scripting Guide](http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/)
* [WikiBooks: Bash Shell Scripting](https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Bash_Shell_Scripting)
* [Use the Unofficial Bash Strict Mode (Unless You Looove Debugging)](http://redsymbol.net/articles/unofficial-bash-strict-mode/)
* [The Art of Command Line](https://github.com/jlevy/the-art-of-command-line)


# Other Awesome Lists

Other amazingly awesome lists can be found in [awesome-awesome](https://github.com/emijrp/awesome-awesome) and [awesome-awesomeness](https://github.com/bayandin/awesome-awesomeness).

[awesome-zsh]: https://github.com/unixorn/awesome-zsh-plugins
[awesome-fish]: https://github.com/bucaran/awesome-fish
[awesome-link]: https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome
[awesome-badge]: https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/d7305f38d29fed78fa85652e3a63e154dd8e8829/media/badge.svg