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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
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)
fish - Smart and user-friendly command line shell
xiki - Makes the shell console more friendly and powerful
xonsh - Python-ish, BASHwards-looking shell language and command prompt
zsh - Powerful shell with scripting language

Command-Line Productivity

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

ag - Super fast string search through a directory hierarchy
aliases - Contextual, dynamic, organized aliases for bash
aliasme - alias helper to change directory quickly
autoenv - Directory-based environments
autojump - A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line
bashhub - ☁️ Bash history in the cloud. Indexed and searchable.
bashmarks - Directory bookmarks for the shell
bd - Quickly go back to a parent directory
boilr - A blazingly fast CLI tool for creating projects from boilerplate templates.
boom - Store links and snippets in the commandline
borg - A terminal based search engine for bash commands
Buku - Powerful command-line bookmark manager
byobu - Text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer
commacd - A faster way to move around in Bash
desk - A lightweight workspace manager for the shell
direnv - An environment switcher for the shell, compare with autoenv
enhancd - 🚀 A next-generation cd command with an interactive filter
fasd - Command-line productivity booster, offers quick access to files and directories
foxy - Plain text bookmarks for firefox and surf browsers.
fz - Seamless fuzzy tab completion for z
fzf - A command-line fuzzy finder
googler - Google Search, Google Site Search, Google News from the terminal
hhighlighter - Colorize words in a command output
hr - <hr /> for your terminal
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
marker - Bookmark your shell commands
modules - Environment manager for the shell (compare to 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.
percol - Adds flavor of interactive filtering to the traditional pipe concept of UNIX shell
qfc - File-completion widget for Bash and Zsh
rg - ripgrep is a line oriented search tool that combines the usability of The Silver Searcher with the raw speed of GNU grep
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 - Commandline tool to manage snippets of code.

sshfs - A tool for mounting remote file systems over SSH
sshrc - Bring your .bashrc, .vimrc, etc. with you when you SSH
sudocabulary - Learn English Vocabulary from your terminal
surfraw - browse specific site and search the web from your terminal without browser.
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
up - Ascend directories by name or count; for bash, zsh, and fish.
v - z for vim.
wemux - Multi-User Tmux Made Easy
z - z is the new j, yo

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
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
sexy-bash-prompt - Bash prompt with colors, Git statuses, and Git branches

For Developers

Command-line development, version control, and deployment.

bcal - Byte CALculator for storage conversions and calculations
bocker - Docker implemented in 100 lines of bash
cloc - Count Lines of Code
dokku - Docker powered mini-Heroku. The smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seen.
getopts - CLI parser for fish
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-semver - Git plugin for easing semantic versioning and changelog validation
git-sh - A customized Bash environment suitable for Git work
git-up - Automatically rebase incoming changes instead of merging. Be polite!
hub - hub helps you win at git.
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
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.

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
ccat - ccat is the colorizing cat. It works similar to cat but displays content with syntax highlighting.
colorex - Displays files or sdtin with pretty colors for matched patterns.
progress - Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, ...
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.
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
ls++ - Colorized ls on steroids
lsp - An improved ls, with file descriptions in plain language and intelligent file grouping
mtr - The functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool.
ncdu - NCurses Disk Usage
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

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
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
ngincat - Tiny Bash HTTP server using netcat
resty - Little command line REST client that you can use in pipelines
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.
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
jq - Sed for json data. You can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data
mplayer - 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)
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
bashblog - A Bash script that handles blog posting
choosealicense-cli - Choose an OSS license from the comfort of your terminal
facy - Command line power tool for facebook
fanyi - Translate English to Chinese in terminal
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
moviemon - Everything about your movies within the command line.
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
Reddit Terminal Viewer - Browse Reddit from your terminal
SAWS - A Supercharged AWS CLI
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
whereami - Get your geolocation information from the CLI

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
sedtris - Tetris in sed
sed-scripts - Arkanoid and Sokoban written using sed
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
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
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
bashmanager - mini bash framework for creating command line tools
bashwithnails - a Bash framework written just for fun with testing, dependency management & packaging
bats - Bash Automated Testing System
crash - Proper error handling, exceptions and try/catch for ZSH
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
semver_bash - Semantic Versioning in Bash
[sh-semver] (https://github.com/qzb/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
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

Other Awesome Lists

Other amazingly awesome lists can be found in awesome-awesome and awesome-awesomeness.

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