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Awesome CLI Apps 
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A curated list of command line apps.
Inspired by the awesome ★59088 list thing.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents generated with DocToc ★1354
- Entertainment
- Development
- Database
- Productivity
- Utilities
- Command Line Learning
- Data Manipulation
- Files and Directories
- Terminal Utilities
- Version Control
- Images
- SVG
- Text Manipulation
- Screensavers
- Graphics
- Other
- Other Awesome Lists
- License
Entertainment
- cmus ★2046 - Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.
- Instant-Music-Downloader ★1136 - Instant music downloader.
- itunes-remote ★252 ⏳1Y - It’s about listening to music without leaving the terminal. macOS only.
- moviemon ★72 - Everything about your movies within the command line.
- pianobar - Pandora client.
- quote-cli ★13 - Get a random quote or the quote of the day in your CLI.
- movie ★26 ⏳1Y - Get movie info or compare movies in terminal.
- somafm-cli ★12 - Listen to SomaFM in your terminal.
- nehm ★20 - Console tool, which downloads, sets IDv3 tags and adds to your iTunes (if you use macOS) your SoundCloud likes in convenient way
- football-cli ★107 - Get live scores, fixtures, standings of almost every football competition/league in your terminal.
- pockyt ★176 - Read, Manage, and Automate your Pocket collection.
Social Media
- facebook-cli ★107 - Facebook command line interface
- TTYtter ★171 - Twitter client- (original).
- Rainbowstream - A smart and nice Twitter client on terminal written in Python.
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. - open-pip-cli ★59 - Watch movies in macOS native picture-in-picture player from your terminal.
Development
- bcal ★38 - Byte CALculator for storage conversions and calculations.
- boilr ★484 - Dependency free CLI to create projects from boilerplate templates.
- cookiecutter ★5128 - creates projects from cookiecutters (project templates)
- dockly ★58 - Interactive CLI for managing Docker containers.
Web Development
- bower-name-cli ★13 ⏳1Y - Check whether a package name is available on bower.
- caniuse-cmd ★1176 - Searches caniuse.com about browser support of feature.
- htconvert ★133 - Convert .htaccess redirects to nginx.conf redirects.
- is-up-cli ★66 ⏳1Y - Check whether a website is up or down.
- npm-name-cli ★94 - Check whether a package name is available on npm.
- npm-user-cli ★12 ⏳1Y - Get user info of a npm user.
- pageres-cli ★634 - Capture website screenshots.
- strip-css-comments-cli ★18 ⏳1Y - Strip comments from CSS.
- viewport-list-cli ★18 ⏳1Y - Return a list of devices and their viewports.
- surge - deploy directory to the web.
- acmetool ★1227 - An easy-to-use command line tool for automatically acquiring certificates from ACME servers.
- loadtest ★739 - Runs a load test on the selected URL. Easy to extend minimally for your own ends.
- wp-cli ★3267 - Manage WordPress installations, update plugins, set up multisite installs and much more, without using a web browser.
- diff2html-cli ★64 - Command-line tool to parse git diffs as JSON and generate pretty HTML.
- npm-home ★49 - Open the npm page of the package in the current directory.
- HTTPie - A user-friendly HTTP client.
Mobile Development
- mobicon-cli ★31 ⏳1Y - Mobile app icon generator.
- mobisplash-cli ★16 - Mobile app splash screen generator.
Database
- cycli ★179 - A terminal client for Neo4j with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
- mycli ★4070 - A Terminal Client for MySQL with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting.
- pgcli ★5562 - A Terminal Client for Postgre with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting.
Productivity
- AutoScreenshotUploader ★10 - Instantly capture and upload screenshot to imgur.
- bitly-client ★10 - Make and manage Bitly shortlinks with this command line utility
- doing ★500 ⏳1Y - A command line tool for keeping track of what you’re doing and tracking what you’ve done.
- ffscreencast ★686 - ffmpeg screencast with video overlay and multi monitor support.
- idea ★48 - A lightweight CLI tool and module for keeping ideas in a safe place quick and easy.
- imgur-uploader-cli ★16 - Upload images to imgur.
- geeknote ★1778 - Console client for Evernote.
- localtunnel ★4623 - Exposes your localhost to the world for easy testing and sharing.
- ledger - Powerful, double-entry accounting system that is accessed from the UNIX command-line.
- meetup-cli ★14 - Meetup.com command line interface
- The Mutt E-Mail Client - Email client.
- Taskwarrior - Free and Open Source Software that manages your TODO list from your command line.
- Timetrap ★775 - Simple command line timetracker.
- terjira ★276 - Command line power tool for Jira
- g3l ★201 - Git is easy, github cli is easy but g3l easiest git cli in the w0rld!
- uber-cli ★962 - Uber, at your fingertips.
- moro ★87 - Time Tracker with a single command
- Buku ★1373 - Powerful command-line bookmark manager
- googler ★1607 - Google Search, Google Site Search, Google News from the terminal
Utilities
- archive-type-cli ★3 - Detect the archive type of a Buffer/Uint8Array.
- battery-level ★131 - Get current battery level.
- brightness-cli - Change screen brightness- windows version ★8 ⏳1Y.
- screensaver ★16 ⏳1Y - Start the screensaver.
- wallpaper-ci ★57 - Get or set the desktop wallpaper.
- yank ★611 - Yank terminal output to clipboard.
- text-meme ★45 - Generate text meme.
- s ★1448 - Open a web search in your terminal. Supports multiple search providers.
- google-font-installer ★34 - Search, download, and install any Google Font on your local machine.
- aria2 - Lightweight multi-protocol and multi-source, cross platform download utility. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.
- mklicense ★68 ⏳1Y - Create a custom LICENSE file painlessly with customized info. Busy people & beginner’s friendly.
- share-cli ★19 - Quickly share files from command line with your local network.
- remote-share-cli ★13 - Quickly share files from your command line with the world.
- moeda ★66 - A foreign exchange rates and currency conversion using cli
- wego ★4847 - Get the weather right in your browser or your console.
- mapscii ★1582 - Terminal Map Viewer - the whole world in your console!
- website-popup-cli ★7 ⏳1Y - Quickly watch a window in a pop up window without closing or opening another full screen window.
macOS
- bundle-id-cli ★11 ⏳1Y - Get bundle identifier from a bundle name (macOS): Safari → com.apple.Safari.
- bundle-name-cli ★3 ⏳1Y - Get bundle name from a bundle identifier (macOS): com.apple.Safari → Safari.
- lnfs-cli ★2 - Safely force create symlinks.
- osx-version-cli - Get the macOS version of the current system.
- osx-wifi-cli ★27 - A cli for managing wifi connections on OSX.
- active-win-cli ★15 - Get the title/id/etc of the active window
Command Line Learning
- cmdchallenge - presents small shell challenge with user submitted solutions.
- explainshell - type a command line snippet to see the help text for each argument.
- howdoi ★5378 - Instant coding answers via the command line.
- how2 ★4522 - Finds the simplest way to do something on a unix bash command line (Nodejs implementation of howdoi).
- shortcutfoo - Learn shortcuts for VIM, Emacs, git, bash and more.
- The Fuck ★28102 - Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.
- tldr ★9412 - Simplified and community-driven man pages.
- Wat ★353 - Instant, central, community-built docs.
Data Manipulation
- jq ★8946 - Command-line JSON processor http://stedolan.github.io/jq/.
- underscore-cli ★1440 - Command-line utility-belt for hacking JSON and Javascript.
- ramda-cli ★322 - A CLI tool for processing data with functional pipelines.
- yaml-cli ★15 - A simple CLI for querying and updating YAML files
Files and Directories
File managers
- ranger ★2343 - a console file manager with VI key bindings.
- midnight-commander ★533 - a feature rich visual file manager
Deleting, Copying, and Renaming
- trash-cli ★277 - Move files and directories to the trash.
- empty-trash-cli ★39 ⏳1Y - Empty the trash.
- trashss ★22 - ( only) Trash screenshots on desktop.
- del-cli ★66 - Delete files and folders.
- cpy-cli ★53 - Copies files.
- rename-cli ★1 - A cross-platform tool for renaming files quickly, especially multiple files at once.
Files
- chokidar-cli ★296 - CLI to watch file system changes.
- file-type-cli ★17 - Detect the file type of a file or stdin.
- strip-json-comments-cli ★21 ⏳1Y - Strip comments from JSON. Lets you use comments in your JSON files!
- DocToc ★1354 - Generates table of contents for markdown files inside local git repository. Links are compatible with anchors generated by github or other sites.
Directory Listing
- alder ★90 - A minimal implementation of the UNIX tree command with colors!
Directory Navigation
- autojump ★5506 - A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line- https://github.com/wting/autojump/wiki.
- fasd ★3112 - Command-line productivity booster, offers quick access to files and directories, inspired by autojump, z and v.
- pm ★39 ⏳1Y - The easy way to switch to your projects on the shell.
- z ★6816 - z is the new j, yo.
- happyfinder ★273 ⏳1Y - (another) Fuzzy file finder for the command line.
- PathPicker ★3374 - After parsing the output from a command, PathPicker presents you with a nice UI to select which files you’re interested in.
- find-up-cli ★12 - Find a file by walking up parent directories.
- fz ★86 - Seamless fuzzy tab completion for z
- nnn ★258 - File browser and disk usage analyzer with excellent desktop integration
Terminal Utilities
- gotty ★7723 - Share your terminal as a web application.
- mosh - Remote SSH client that allows roaming with intermittent connectivity.
- teleconsole - Share your UNIX terminal in seconds.
- tmate.io - Instant terminal (tmux) sharing.
- warp ★896 - Secure and simple terminal sharing.
Version Control
Git
-
CLI GitHub ★260 -
A fancy GitHub client for command line. - Gistup ★368 - Create a gist from terminal, then use git to update it.
- git commander ★988 ⏳1Y - A git tool with a easy terminal interface.
-
git-stats ★4325 -
A GitHub-like contributions calendar, but locally, with all your git commits. - hub ★10458 - A command-line wrapper for git that makes you better at GitHub.
- dev-time ★136 - Get the current local time of a GitHub user.
- git-labelmaker ★230 - Edit GitHub labels from the command line.
- tig ★4430 - Text-mode interface for Git.
- git-standup ★4134 - Recall what you did on the last working day.
- starring ★91 - Automatically star the npm-packages that you are using on GitHub.
Changelogs
- clog ★11 - A conventional changelog for the rest of us.
Images
Gif Creation
- gifgen ★121 - Simple high quality GIF encoding.
- gifsicle ★1039 - Create, manipulate, and optimize GIF images and animations.
- ttygif ★2224 - Convert terminal recordings to animated gifs.
- ttygif ★187 - ttyrec to gif.
- ttystudio ★2711 ⏳1Y - A terminal-to-gif recorder minus the headaches.
- asciinema ★2546 - Terminal session recorder and the best companion of asciinema.org.
- givegif ★173 - GIFs on the command line.
Image Conversion
- imgp ★206 - Blazing fast batch image resizer and rotator
SVG
- SVGO ★7135 - SVG Optimizer is a Nodejs-based tool for optimizing SVG vector graphics files.
Text Manipulation
- parse-columns-cli ★20 ⏳1Y - Parse text columns, like the output of unix commands. Returns JSON that you can manipulate with tools like jq or underscore-cli.
Screensavers
- cmatrix ★88 - Show a scrolling ‘Matrix’ like screen- (original).
- pipes.sh ★331 - Shows random pipes that grow across the screen.
Graphics
- cli-mandelbrot ★17 - A cli for traversing the Mandelbrot fractal.
- WOPR ★2342 ⏳1Y - A simple markup language for creating rich terminal reports, presentations and infographics.
- sparkly-cli ★50 ⏳1Y - Generate sparklines ▁▂▃▅▂▇..
- JackPaper ★2 - Pull random/queried images from unplash.com and apply to your desktop wallpaper.
Other
- app-path-cli ★14 ⏳1Y - Get the path to an app (macOS).
-
Bible.Js CLI client ★114 ⏳1Y -
Bible.JS CLI client. Read the Holy Bible via the command line. - birthday ★15 - Know when a friend’s birthday is coming.
- cowsay ★22 - You can install with homebrew.
- cgasm ★178 ⏳1Y - A tool that gives x86 assembly documentation. It is pronounced “SeekAzzem”.
- detect-indent-cli ★11 ⏳1Y - Detect the indentation of code.
- emoj ★1255 - Find relevant emoji from text on the command-line.
- emoji-finder ★5 - Quickly find and copy emoji to the clipboard via the command-line
- fortune - Shows a random fortune.
- fullname-cli ★9 ⏳1Y - Get the fullname of the current user.
- get-port-cli ★39 - Get an available port.
- gzip-size-cli ★66 - Get the gzipped size of a file or stdin.
- HASHA -cli ★28 - Hashing made simple. Get the hash of text or stdin.
- is-reachable-cli ★5 ⏳1Y - Check if hostnames are reachable or not.
- kill-tabs ★199 - Kill all Chrome tabs to improve performance, decrease battery usage, and save memory.
- leven-cli ★21 ⏳1Y - Measure the difference between two strings using the Levenshtein distance algorithm.
- maybe ★6200 - See what a program does before deciding whether you really want it to happen.
- mdlt ★27 - Do quick math right from the command line.
- medium-cli ★482 - Read medium.com stories within your terminal, also gives top stories.
- open-shortcut-cli ★5 ⏳1Y - Open the URL from a web shortcut file in the browser.
- pkg-dir-cli ★7 - Find the root directory of a npm package.
- speed-test ★1873 - Test your internet connection speed and ping using speedtest.net from the CLI.
- shortcut-url-cli ★5 ⏳1Y - Get the URL from a web shortcut file.
- SpeedRead ★20 ⏳3Y - A simple terminal-based open source Spritz-alike.
- to-double-quotes ★8 - Convert matching single-quotes to double-quotes: I ‘love’ unicorns => I “love” unicorns.
- to-single-quotes ★15 - Convert matching double-quotes to single-quotes: I “love” unicorns → I ‘love’ unicorns.
- yosay ★125 - Like cowsay, but for yeoman.
- gdb-dashboard ★3533 - Modular visual interface for GDB in Python.
- weather-cli ★13 - Check the weather for your city from your terminal.
- hget ★224 - Render websites in plain text from your terminal.
- ponysay ★539 - Pony rewrite of cowsay.
- google-wifi-status ★0 - A Node.js CLI app that displays status of your Google Wifi / OnHub router.
- calories ★12 - Calories and weight tracker.
- trino ★59 - Trino CLI allows a quick and easy translation of words and phrases entered in the command line.
Other Awesome Lists
- awesome-git-addons ★452 - A curated list of addons that extends git cli.
License
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This list is a copy of aharris88/awesome-cli-apps with ranks