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Terminals Are Sexy ★73813

A curated list of Terminal frameworks, plugins & resources for CLI lovers.

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Contents

• Shells
• Terminal Emulation Applications
• Package Managers
• Text Editors
• Tools and Plugins
• Communication
• Community
• Other Sexy Lists
• Contributing

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Shells

Sexy frameworks, plugins and resources for your sexy shell.

• Base Shells
  • bash - GNU Project’s shell (Bourne Again SHell).
  • zsh - Powerful shell with scripting language.
  • fish - Smart and user-friendly command line shell.
  • xonsh - Python-ish, BASHwards-looking shell language and command prompt.
  • PowerShell ★8765 - Automation and configuration tool/framework that is optimized for dealing with structured data.
  • Ammonite-Shell ★1512 - An object shell with a Scala-like scripting language.
• ZSH
  • oh-my-zsh ★63417 - Delightful community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration.
  • prezto ★8378 - Configuration framework for Zsh.
  • zsh-syntax-highlighting ★4430 - Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh.
  • antigen ★3624 - Plugin manager for zsh, inspired by oh-my-zsh and vundle.
  • slimzsh ★138 - Small, usable configuration for ZSH.
  • antibody ★493 - Faster and simpler antigen written in Golang.
  • pure ★4318 - Pretty, minimal and fast ZSH prompt.
  • powerlevel9k ★3434 - Super flexible awesome powerline ZSH theme.
  • liquidprompt ★3315 - Full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh.
  • dotzsh ★136 - Community driven framework for zsh.
  • zgen ★830 - Lightweight and simple plugin manager for ZSH.
  • zplug ★1945 - Next-generation plugin manager for zsh.
  • zunit - Powerful unit testing framework for ZSH.
  • zshdb ★123 - ZSH debugger.
  • zsh-quickstart-kit ★126 - Simple zsh quickstart for using zsh and zgen.
  • zsh-autosuggestions ★4093 - Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh.
  • alf ★34 ⏳1Y - Out of this world super fast and configurable framework for zsh.
  • ant-zsh ★9 - Tiny and lightweight ZSH configuration environment for special customization needs.
  • pumice ★3 ⏳2Y - Lightweight plugin manager for zsh.
  • zeesh ★28 - Cross-platform Zsh framework.
  • zilsh ★23 ⏳2Y - Zsh config system that aims to appeal more to power-users and follow the simplistic approach of vim-pathogen.
  • zim - Zsh configuration framework with blazing speed and modular extensions.
  • zoppo ★25 - Crippled configuration framework for Zsh.
  • zpm ★27 - Plugin manager for zsh similar to vim-plug.
  • ztanesh ★245 - Aims to improve your UNIX command line experience and productivity with the the configuration provided by the ztanesh project.
  • zulu ★68 - Total environment manager for ZSH 5+.
  • zsh-pony ★89 ⏳6Y - Covers customizing ZSH without a framework.
• Bash
  • bash-sensible ★1480 - Attempt at saner Bash defaults.
  • bash-powerline ★512 - Powerline-style Bash prompt in pure Bash script.
  • bashtrap ★1462 ⏳1Y - Quick way to spruce up OSX terminal.
  • liquidprompt ★3315 - Full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh.
  • hstr ★813 - Bash History Suggest Box.
  • aliases ★104 - Contextual, dynamic, organized aliases for the bash shell.
  • bash-it ★7195 - Collection of community Bash commands and scripts.
• Git
  • git-prompt ★317 - Bash prompt with Git, SVN and HG modules.
  • gittify ★23 ⏳1Y - Colorful Bash prompt + customized Git aliases.
  • oh-my-git ★2760 - Opinionated git prompt for bash and zsh.
  • bash-git-prompt ★3565 - Informative and fancy Bash prompt for Git users.
  • sexy-bash-prompt ★805 - Bash prompt with colors, Git statuses, and Git branches.
  • git-sh ★680 - Customized Bash environment suitable for Git work.
  • git-radar ★2551 - Heads up display for git
  • git-extra-commands ★228 - Collection of useful extra commands for git
• Fish
  • Fisherman ★2636 - Concurrent plugin manager for fish.
  • oh-my-fish ★2906 - The Fishshell Framework.

Terminal Emulation Applications

Sexy 3rd party terminal emulation applications.

• iTerm2 ★6520 - Terminal emulator for macOS that does amazing things.
• ConEmu ★4211 - Customizable Windows terminal with tabs, splits, quake-style and more.
• PuTTY - SSH and telnet client, developed originally by Simon Tatham for the Windows platform.
• KiTTY - Fork from version 0.67 of PuTTY, the best telnet / SSH client in the world.
• Terminator - The robot future of terminals.
• Konsole - Terminal emulator for the K Desktop Environment.
• MacTerm - Powerful replacement for macOS Terminal.
• xterm - Terminal emulator for the X Window System.
• Hyper ★20365 - Terminal built on web technologies.
• ZOC - SSH/Telnet Client and Terminal Emulator for macOS and Windows.
• Upterm ★17751 - Terminal emulator for the 21st century.
• TotalTerminal - System-wide terminal available on a hot-key.
• Go2Shell - Opens a terminal window to the current directory in Finder.
• Cathode - Vintage terminal for macOS.
• Alacritty ★8141 - Cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator.
• Termite ★1504 - Keyboard-centric terminal, aimed at use within a tiling window manager.
• Cmder ★12516 - Lovely console emulator package for Windows.
• ConsoleZ ★2323 - Windows console window enhancement. It is a fork of Console project.
• Mosh ★6978 - Remote terminal application that allows roaming and supports intermittent connectivity.
• Tilix - Advanced GTK3 tiling terminal emulator that follows the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines.
• Tilda ★536 - A Gtk based drop down terminal for Linux and Unix

Package Managers

Sexy package managers for your macOS, Linux & Windows CLIs.

• Universal
  • guix - Functional package manager for installed software packages and versions.
  • nix - Powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible.
  • pip - Package management system used to install and manage software packages written in Python.
  • npmjs - Package manager for JavaScript.
  • duo ★3553 ⏳1Y - Next-generation package manager for the front-end.
  • basher ★307 - Package manager for shell scripts.
  • bpkg - JavaScript has npm, Ruby has Gems, Python has pip and now Shell has bpkg.
  • rubygems - The Ruby community’s gem hosting service.
  • composer - Composer is a package manager for PHP.
  • yarn - New package and dependency manager for javascript.
• macOS
  • homebrew - Missing package manager for macOS.
  • fink - Wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and macOS.
  • macports - Package managemer that simplifies the installation of software on the macOS and Darwin operating systems.
• Linux
  • linuxbrew - The Homebrew package manager for Linux.
  • pkgin - Aimed at being an apt / yum like tool for managing pkgsrc binary packages.
• FreeBSD
  • pkg ★516 - Package management tool for FreeBSD.
• Windows
  • oneget ★1719 - PackageManagement (aka OneGet) is a package manager for Windows.
  • chocolatey - Package manager for Windows.
  • cygwin - Linux-like environment for Windows making it possible to port software running on POSIX systems to Windows.
  • ninite - Install and Update All Your Programs at Once.
  • ruckzuck - Software Package Manager for Windows, a quick way to install and update Software.
  • wpkg - Automated software deployment, upgrade and removal program for Windows.
  • scoop - Package manager for Windows.
  • babun - Preconfigured cygwin with an advance package manager - pact.

Text Editors

Sexy text editors for your Command Line Interface.

• vim - Extensively configurable, cross-platform and highly efficient text editor.
  • SpaceVim - Community-driven vim distribution.
  • neovim - Literally the future of vim.
• emacs - Cross-platform text-editor that has both command-line and graphical user interface.
  • spacemacs - Community-driven emacs distribution.
• nano - Text editor for Unix-like computing systems or operating environments using a command line interface.
• micro ★8140 - Modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor.
• jed - Freely available text editor for Unix, VMS, MSDOS, OS/2, BeOS, QNX, and win9X/NT platforms.
• kakoune - Modal editor with multiple selections and orthogonal design.
• vis ★2717 - Highly efficient text editor.
• slap ★4792 - Sublime-like terminal-based text editor.

Tools and Plugins

Sexy Applications for your Command Line Interface.

• haxor-news ★2470 - Browse Hacker News like a haxor.
• reddit terminal viewer ★2495 - Browse Reddit from your terminal.
• taskwarrior - Command-line TODO list manager.
• transfer.sh - Quickly upload and share files from your shell.
• whereami ★57 - Get your geolocation information from the CLI.
• howdoi ★6034 - Instant code answers and examples from the command line
• htop - Cool looking and interactive process viewer ‘replacement’ for the top command.
• lolcat ★2543 - Rainbows and unicorns!
• ack - Tool like grep, optimized for programmers.
• the_silver_searcher ★14002 - Code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster.
• lunchy ★2549 - Friendly wrapper for launchctl.
• bro - Examples for command line programs.
• tldr ★16097 - Simplified and community-driven man pages.
• tmux - Terminal multiplexer.
• ranger - Console file manager with vi key bindings.
• googler ★2131 - Search Google from your terminal.
• jq.node ★200 - Command-line JSON/string processor, JavaScript and Lodash in your shell.
• screenfetch ★1905 - Fetches system/theme information in terminal for Linux desktop screenshots.
• neofetch ★2601 - Fetches system/theme information in terminal for Linux desktop screenshots. Alternative to screenfetch.
• jrnl ★2823 - Simple command line journal application that stores your journal in a plain text file.
• tig ★5426 - Text mode interface for git.
• vifm - Console file manager with vi key bindings and some ideas from mutt.
• byobu - Byobu is an open source text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer.
• autojump ★6225 - cd command that learns
• fzf ★12621 - Command-line fuzzy finder.
• wttr.in ★4307 - The right way to check the weather.
• getnews.tech ★14 - Checking the latest news headlines from various news outlets on the web.
• hub - Command-line wrapper for git that makes working with GitHub easy.
• exa ★3831 - Replacement for ‘ls’ written in Rust.
• homebrew-cask ★12211 - CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries.
• mps-youtube ★3209 - Terminal based YouTube player and downloader
• colorls ★1279 - Beautify the terminal’s ls command, with color and font-awesome icons.
• buku ★1663 - command-line bookmark manager.
• youtube-dl - download videos from YouTube
• wal ★587 - generate and change colorschemes on the fly.
• streamlink ★1697 - CLI for extracting streams from various websites to a video player of your choosing.

Communication

Sexy Tools for communicating through the Command Line Interface.

• irssi - Self proclaimed client of the future and my favorite IRC client.
• bitchx - Feature-rich and highly configurable, terminal based IRC client based on ircII.
• centerim - Terminal based, multi-protocol Instant Messaging client with support for IRC.
• weechat - Fast, light and extensible chat client.
• epic - IRC client that has been under active development for 20+ years in 5 generations.
• Slackadaisical ★106 - Simple Slack client for the CLI.
• go-jira ★656 - Simple jira command line client in Go.

Community

Join the CLI lover community.

• /r/commandline - This is for anything regarding the command line, in any operating system.
• /r/osxterminal - Tips for using terminal.app in macOS.
• /r/zsh/ - Everything on zsh.
• /r/unixporn/ - Everything on unix.
• #bash - Bash IRC channel on freenode.
• Stack Overflow - Terminal tagged questions.

Other Sexy Lists

Here are some more sexy lists.

• Awesome
  • awesome-devenv ★981 - Curated list of delightful Bash scripts and resources.
  • awesome-sysadmin ★16354 - Curated list of amazingly awesome open source sysadmin resources.
  • awesome-zsh-plugins ★3561 - Collection of ZSH frameworks, plugins & themes inspired by the various awesome list collections out there.
  • awesome-emacs ★3312 - A community driven list of useful Emacs packages, libraries and others.
• Misc
  • the-art-of-command-line ★32906 - Master the command line, in one page.
  • bash-guide ★8152 - Guide to learn bash.

Contributing

Your contributions are always welcome! Please take a look at our contribution guidelines and code of conduct first.

Pull requests might be kept open if I haven’t decided whether additions are sexy enough.

This list is a copy of k4m4/terminals-are-sexy with ranks