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Awesome Shell

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.

Shells
Command-Line Productivity
- Directory Navigation
Customization
For Developers
System Utilities
Downloading and Serving
Multimedia and File Formats
Applications
Games
Shell Package Management
Shell Script Development
Guides
Awesome Zsh
Awesome Fish
Other Awesome Lists

Shells

Choose your base shell.

bash - GNU Project's shell (Bourne Again SHell)
elvish - Friendly, expressive shell features like anonymous functions and data structures
fish - Smart and user-friendly command line shell
ion - A modern system shell that features a simple, yet powerful, syntax. It is written entirely in Rust.
ksh93 - Korn Shell
mksh - MirBSD Korn Shell
nushell - A modern shell written in Rust
oksh - Portable OpenBSD ksh
osh - Bash compatible, with new/modern Unix shell language called Oil
pdksh - Public domain Korn shell
shell++ - Friendly and modern functional and object oriented shell script language
shenv - Simple shell version management
tcsh - C shell with file name completion and command line editing
xiki - Makes the shell console more friendly and powerful
xonsh - Python-ish, BASHwards-looking shell language and command prompt
yash - A POSIX-compliant command line shell with built-in support for completion and prediction based on command history
zsh - Powerful shell with scripting language

Command-Line Productivity

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

AdvancedNewFile - Fast creation of files and directories in a recursive way. Inspired by the Vim plugin.
ag - Super fast string search through a directory hierarchy
aliases - Contextual, dynamic, organized aliases for bash
autoenv - Directory-based environments
bashhub - ☁️ Bash history in the cloud. Indexed and searchable.
boilr - A blazingly fast CLI tool for creating projects from boilerplate templates.
boom - Store links and snippets in the command line
borg - A terminal based search engine for bash commands
browsh - The modern text-based browser
Buku - Powerful command-line bookmark manager
byobu - Text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer
cod — A completion daemon for shell that learns when you invoke --help commands
CloudClip - Your own clipboard in the cloud, copy and paste text with gist between different systems
ddgr - DuckDuckGo from the terminal
desk - A lightweight workspace manager for the shell
direnv - An environment switcher for the shell, compare with autoenv
dnote - A simple command line notebook with multi-device sync and web interface
eureka - 💡 CLI tool to input and store your ideas without leaving the terminal
fasd - Command-line productivity booster, offers quick access to files and directories
fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.
foxy - Plain text bookmarks for Firefox and surf browsers.
fselect - Find files with SQL-like queries.
funky - Extends functionality of shell functions making them more powerful and flexible.
fz - Seamless fuzzy tab completion for z
fzf - A command-line fuzzy finder
gitmux - Show Git status in Tmux status bar
googler - Google Search, Google Site Search, Google News from the terminal
googlr - Command line tool that lets you search Google from your terminal.
has - has helps you check presence of various command line tools and their versions on path
how2 - how2 finds the simplest way to do something in a unix shell. It's like man, but you can query it in natural language.
navi - An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line
hhighlighter - Colorize words in a command output
hr - <hr /> for your terminal
hss - An interactive parallel ssh client featuring autocomplete and asynchronous execution
hstr - Bash History Suggest Box
k - k is a Zsh script to make directory listings more readable, adding Git status, fileweight colors and rotting dates
k alias - get kool aliases (and more) working with a simple one-liner
lf.sh - Quickly search files with fewer typings and do many more (grepping, copying path to clipboard, etc)
Lmod - Lua-based Environment Modules that enhances Tcl-based modules while being backward compatible (compare to modules)
loop - Write and control complex loops with as one-liners
marker - Bookmark your shell commands
mackup - Keep your application settings in sync (OS X/Linux)
mcfly - Fly through your shell history. Great Scot!
modules - Classical Tcl-based Environment Modules managing the shell environment (compare to Lmod, direnv, and autoenv)
nnn - File browser and disk usage analyzer with excellent desktop integration
parallel - Build and execute shell command lines from standard input in parallel
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.
pdd - Tiny date, time diff calculator with timers
percol - Adds flavor of interactive filtering to the traditional pipe concept of UNIX shell
q - Vim like macro registers for your Bash and Zsh Shell
qfc - File-completion widget for Bash and Zsh
resh - Contextual shell history for Zsh and Bash
rg - ripgrep is a line oriented search tool that combines the usability of The Silver Searcher with the raw speed of GNU grep
screen - GNU terminal multiplexer
shell-history - Visualize your shell usage with Highcharts
SHML - Style framework for the terminal (Shell Markup Language)
slugify - Command that converts filenames and directories to a web friendly format
sman - 🐛 A command-line snippet manager
spark - ▁▂▃▅▂▇ in your shell
shark - ▁▂▃▅ Sparkline Generator
sheet - Text snippets for the command line
spot - Tiny file search utility

snips - Command line tool to manage snippets of code.

sqlline - Shell for issuing SQL to relational databases via JDBC (multiline, completion, highlighting, dialect support)
sshfs - A tool for mounting remote file systems over SSH
sudocabulary - Learn English Vocabulary from your terminal
surfraw - browse specific site and search the web from your terminal without browser.
task-manager - Execute all your scripts with just two or three keystrokes.
td-cli - A todo command line manager to organize and manage your todos across multiple projects.
thefuck - Fix common shell mistakes by using an easy to remember command
tldr - A fully-functional bash client for tldr, simplified and community-driven man pages
tmux - Amazing terminal multiplexer
undollar - undollar bites the dollar sign off the tip of the command you just pasted into your terminal
v - z for vim.
wemux - Multi-User Tmux Made Easy
xsv - a fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust
xxh - Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through the SSH.

aliasme - alias helper to change directory quickly
autojump - A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line
bashmarks - Directory bookmarks for the shell
bd - Quickly go back to a parent directory
commacd - A faster way to move around in Bash
enhancd - 🚀 A next-generation cd command with an interactive filter
goto - A shell utility for navigation to aliased directories supporting auto-completion
jump - Jump helps you navigate your file system faster by learning your habits.
lazy-cd - Simple bash commands for bookmarked navigation of the file system, complete with bash-completion.
up - Ascend directories by name or count; for bash, zsh, and fish.
z - z is the new j, yo
z.lua - A new cd command that helps you navigate faster by learning your habits
zoxide - A faster way to navigate your filesystem, written in Rust

Customization

Custom prompts, color themes, etc.

base16-builder - Base16-Builder
bash-full-of-colors - Powerful prompt with screen, tmux, git support and many more
bash-git-prompt - An informative and fancy Bash prompt for Git users
bash-powerline - Powerline-style Bash prompt in pure Bash script
bashstrap - A quick way to spruce up OSX terminal
bullet-train-oh-my-zsh-theme - 🚄 An oh-my-zsh shell theme based on the Powerline Vim plugin
emojify Emoji on the command line 😱
flatui-terminal-theme - Nicer colors for terminal
geometry - A minimal ZSH theme where any function can be added to the left prompt or (async) right prompt on the fly.
git-prompt - Bash prompt with Git, SVN and HG modules
gittify - A colorful Bash prompt + customized Git aliases
Gogh - Color Scheme - Color Scheme for Gnome Terminal
liquidprompt - A full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh
mysql-colorize - Colorization for mysql comand-line client
oh-my-git - An opinionated git prompt for bash and zsh
polyglot - An informative Git prompt that works in bash, zsh, ksh, mksh, pdksh, dash, and busybox sh
sexy-bash-prompt - Bash prompt with colors, Git statuses, and Git branches
synth-shell - Greeter with a customizable status report and a fancy bash prompt

For Developers

Command-line development, version control, and deployment.

ack - A grep-like search tool optimized for source code.
add-gitignore - Interactive CLI that generates a .gitignore for your project based on your needs.
bcal - Byte CALculator for storage conversions and calculations
bitwise - Terminal based interactive bit manipulator in curses.
bocker - Docker implemented in 100 lines of bash
cloc - Count Lines of Code
doclt - A command line interface to Digital Ocean
dokku - Docker powered mini-Heroku. The smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seen.
fish-getopts - CLI parser for fish
forgit - Utility tool for git taking advantage of fuzzy finder fzf.
git-extra-commands - Many Git extra utilities. Churn, cut-branch, improved-merge and many more.
git-extras - Git utilities -- repo summary, repl, changelog population, author commit percentages and more
git-open - Type git open to open the GitHub page or website for a repository in your browser
git-quick-stats - Git quick statistics is a simple and efficient way to access various statistics in git repository.
git-semver - Git plugin for easing semantic versioning and changelog validation
git-sh - A customized Bash environment suitable for Git work
hub - hub helps you win at git.
licins - Insert commented software licenses into source code.
mkdkr - Makefile + Docker = CI Pipeline
mr - Multiple Repository management tool
overcommit - A fully configurable and extendable Git hook manager
pre-commit - A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks
rebound - Instantly browse Stack Overflow results in your terminal when you get a compiler error
repren - Command-line search-and-replace and file-renaming swiss army knife
slap - Sublime-like terminal-based text editor that runs on Node.js
shipit - Minimalistic SSH deployment
starring - Automatically star the npm-packages that you are using on GitHub.
tag - Instantly jump to your ag matches.
wipe-modules - A little agent that removes the node_modules folder of non-active projects

System Utilities

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

atop - ASCII full-screen performance monitor that is capable of reporting the activity of all processes
bat - A cat clone with wings
bmon - Real-time network bandwidth monitor and rate estimator with human-friendly visual output
catcli - The command line catalog tool for your offline data
ccat - ccat is the colorizing cat. It works similar to cat but displays content with syntax highlighting.
exa - A modern version of ls.
progress - Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, and more...
stronghold - Easily configure MacOS security settings from the terminal.
glances - Glances an Eye on your system
goaccess - GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems.
hblock - Hosts-file based adblocker
histstat - History for netstat
htop - A ncurses based interactive process viewer which aims to be a better top
lnav - An advanced log file viewer for the small-scale
logdissect - CLI utility and Python API for analyzing log files and other data.
ls++ - Colorized ls on steroids
lsp - An improved ls, with file descriptions in plain language and intelligent file grouping
maza - Local ad blocker. Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating system.
mtr - The functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool.
ncdu - NCurses Disk Usage
nmtui - Text User Interface for controlling NetworkManager
powertop - Battery/Power usage and device stats monitoring command-line tool, with tune-up options.
procdog - Lightweight command-line control of long-lived processes like servers
quick-secure - Quickly secure and harden UNIX/Linux systems
rng - Copy range of lines from file or stdin to stdout.
wifi-wand - a Ruby command line application for managing WiFi on MacOS (install by gem install wifi-wand)
xiringuito - SSH-based "VPN for poors"

Downloading and Serving

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

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 - Bash on Balls
bashttpd - A web server written in Bash
bashhub-server - Private cloud shell history. Open source server for bashhub
bitpocket - "DIY Dropbox" or "2-way directory (r)sync with proper deletion"
Dropbox-Uploader - Dropbox Uploader is a Bash script which can be used to upload, download, list or delete files from Dropbox
httpie - HTTPie is a command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement
HTTPLab - The interactive web server, let you inspect HTTP requests and forge responses.
ngincat - Tiny Bash HTTP server using netcat
resty - Little command line REST client that you can use in pipelines
shell2http - HTTP-server to execute shell commands. Designed for development, prototyping or remote control
vesper - 🍸Vesper is a HTTP framework for Bash/Unix Shell
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 - Export Android content providers to CSV format
Android-Kitchen - A text-based kitchen for Android ROM customization. Uses shell scripts and works with Cygwin/OS X/Linux
Beets - Music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger
cmus - Cross-platform cli audio player.
fx - Command-line JSON processing tool by anononymus JavaScript functions
gifgen - Simple high quality GIF encoding
image-scraper - A cool command line image scraper with a lot of features.
imgp - Blazing fast batch image resizer and rotator
jo - A small utility to create JSON objects from command-line arguments.
jq - Sed for json data. You can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data
korkut - Quick and simple image processing at the command line.
mpv - Lets you play most audio and video formats (using ASCII characters) in the shell as well as in a GUI.
nehm - Console tool, which downloads, sets IDv3 tags and adds to your iTunes (if you use it) your SoundCloud likes in convenient way
PiCAST - PiCAST turns your $35 Raspberry Pi in to a Chromecast like Device
sejda - Command line manipulation of PDF documents (split, merge, rotate, convert to jpg, extract text, etc)
visidata - A terminal spreadsheet multitool for exploring and arranging data (csv/json/xml/xls/yaml/etc)
xidel - Cli tool to filter, map and create HTML/XML/JSON data with (Turing-complete) XPath and XQuery.
xmlstarlet - 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 - Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols
awless - A powerful, innovative and small surface CLI to manage AWS.
bashblog - A Bash script that handles blog posting
carbon-now-cli - 🎨 Beautiful images of your code — from right inside your terminal.
choosealicense-cli - Choose an OSS license from the comfort of your terminal
cointop - The fastest and most interactive terminal based UI application for tracking cryptocurrencies
facebook-cli - Facebook command line tool
fanyi - Translate English to Chinese in terminal
gcalcli - Google Calendar command line interface
geeknote - Command line evernote client
haxor-news - Browse Hacker News like a haxor
hn-cli - Browse Hacker News from the comfort of your Terminal
iponmap - Draw point on world map using ip address
isitup - Check whether a website is up or down
jrnl - A simple command line journal application that stores your journal in a plain text file
ledger - Command line accounting
licen - Generate your license. Yet another lice, but implement with Jinja2 and docopt
md2png - Convert markdown to PNG image
moviemon - Everything about your movies within the command line.
nomino - Batch rename utility using regex, sort and map file options.
pockyt - Read, Manage, and Automate your Pocket collection.
pushblast - Get PushBullet notifications when a shell program exits
pushbullet-bash - Bash interface to the PushBullet API
ranger - A console file manager with VI key bindings.
Reddit Terminal Viewer - Browse Reddit from your terminal
SAWS - A Supercharged AWS CLI
taskbook - Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat
taskwarrior - A command-line TODO list manager
terjira - Command line power tool for Jira
transfer.sh — Quickly upload and share files from your shell
vl - URL link checker on text documents
wego - Weather app for the terminal
whales - A tool to automatically dockerize your applications
whereami - Get your geolocation information from the CLI
wttr.in - ⛅ The right way to check the weather (curl wttr.in)

Games

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

bash2048 - Bash implementation of 2048 game
minesweeper - Bash implementation of minesweeper
nudoku - ncurses based sudoku game written in C
piu-piu - Horizontal scroller game in bash with multiplayer mode!
sedtris - Tetris in sed
sed-scripts - Arkanoid and Sokoban written using sed
SHTAP - Reusable text adventure engine for Bash 4
tty-solitaire - Play solitaire in your terminal!

Shell Package Management

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

bash-it - A community Bash framework
basher - A package manager for shell scripts
bashing - Smashing Bash into Pieces
bpkg - JavaScript has npm, Ruby has Gems, Python has pip and now Shell has bpkg
dotdrop - Save your dotfiles once, deploy them everywhere
dotfiler – Shell agnostic git based dotfiles package manager, written in Python.
fresh - Keep your dotfiles fresh
homeshick - Git dotfile synchronizer written in Bash
shallow-backup - Easily create lightweight documentation of installed packages, dotfiles, and more
shundle - Plugin manager for shell scripts
vcsh - Config manager based on Git
yadm - Git-based dotfiles manager supporting encryption, alternates, and bootstrapping

Shell Script Development

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

ansi - ANSI escape codes in pure bash - change text color, position the cursor, much more
assert.sh - Bash unit testing framework
bashful - A collection of libraries to simplify writing Bash scripts
Bashlets - A modular extensible toolbox for Bash
bashmanager - mini bash framework for creating command line tools
bashwithnails - a Bash framework written just for fun with testing, dependency management & packaging
bash-language-server - LSP-based Bash language server
bats - Bash Automated Testing System
crash - Proper error handling, exceptions and try/catch for ZSH
critic.sh - Dead simple testing framework for Bash with coverage reporting
esh - A simple templating engine based on shell, implemented in ~290 lines of POSIX shell and awk.
Fishtape - TAP producer and test harness for fish
composure - Compose, document, version and organize your shell functions
dispatch - A command line argument parser in 50 lines of portable shell script.
is.sh - An alternative for builtin test command, it will make your "if" statements pretty
lumberjack - A logging interface for shell scripts
mo - Mustache templates in pure bash
optparse - A BASH wrapper for getopts, for simple command line arguments.
rerun - A modular shell automation framework to organize your keeper scripts
revolver - A reusable progress spinner for shell scripts
phases - Minimally invasive bash preprocessor, select sections of your script to run
semver_bash - Semantic Versioning in Bash
sh-semver - Semver tool for bash - finds versions matching to specified rules
shellcheck - Static analysis tool for shell scripts
shellfire - A repository of namespaced, composable shell (bash, sh and dash) function libraries
shpec - A shell testing framework
shutit - Automation framework based on bash and pexpect
sub - A delicious way to organize programs
ts - A shell test script
urchin - An idiomatic shell testing framework that uses only shell commands
shunit2 - A unit test framework for Bash scripts with a flavour of JUnit/PyUnit.
rebash - Scripting library/framework. Features: imports, exceptions, doc-tests ...
zunit - A powerful unit testing framework for ZSH

Guides

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