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` 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 * [nnn](https://github.com/jarun/nnn) - File browser and disk usage analyzer with excellent desktop integration * [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 * [rg](https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep) - ripgrep is a line oriented search tool that combines the usability of The Silver Searcher with the raw speed of GNU grep * [SHML](https://github.com/odb/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 * [sman](https://github.com/tokozedg/sman) - :bug: A command-line snippet manager * [spark](https://github.com/holman/spark) - ▁▂▃▅▂▇ in your shell * [Shark](https://github.com/fisherman/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 * [sudocabulary](https://github.com/badarsh2/Sudocabulary) - Learn English Vocabulary from your terminal * [surfraw](http://surfraw.alioth.debian.org/) - browse specific site and search the web from your terminal without browser. * [thefuck](https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck) - Fix common shell mistakes by using an easy to remember command * [tldr](https://github.com/raylee/tldr) - A fully-functional bash client for tldr, simplified and community-driven man pages * [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-full-of-colors](https://github.com/slomkowski/bash-full-of-colors) - Powerful prompt with screen, tmux, git support and many more * [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.zsh) - :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/zpm-zsh/mysql-colorize) - 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/fisherman/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 * [starring](https://github.com/ritz078/starring) - Automatically star the npm-packages that you are using on GitHub. ## System Utilities *OS-related tools, including system administration, system debugging, and file and process management.* * [atop](https://www.atoptool.nl) - ASCII full-screen performance monitor that is capable of reporting the activity of all processes * [progress](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. * [histstat](https://github.com/vesche/histstat) - History for netstat * [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 * [ls++](https://github.com/trapd00r/ls--) - Colorized ls on steroids * [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/aria2/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/jakubroztocil/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. * [gifgen](https://github.com/lukechilds/gifgen) - Simple high quality GIF encoding * [image-scraper](https://github.com/sananth12/ImageScraper) - A cool command line image scraper with a lot of features. * [imgp](https://github.com/jarun/imgp) - Blazing fast batch image resizer and rotator * [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. * [nehm](https://github.com/bogem/nehm) - Console tool, which downloads, sets IDv3 tags and adds to your iTunes (if you use it) your SoundCloud likes in convenient way * [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) * [xidel](https://github.com/benibela/xidel/) - Cli tool to filter, map and create HTML/XML/JSON data with (Turing-complete) XPath and XQuery. * [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) - Choose an OSS license from the comfort of 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 * [haxor-news](https://github.com/donnemartin/haxor-news) - Browse Hacker News like a haxor * [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. * [pockyt](https://github.com/arvindch/pockyt) - Read, Manage, and Automate your [Pocket](https://getpocket.com) collection. * [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 * [Reddit Terminal Viewer](https://github.com/michael-lazar/rtv) - Browse Reddit from your terminal * [SAWS](https://github.com/donnemartin/saws) - A Supercharged AWS CLI * [taskwarrior](https://taskwarrior.org/) - A command-line TODO list manager * [terjira](https://github.com/keepcosmos/terjira) - Command line power tool for Jira * [transfer.sh](https://transfer.sh/) — Quickly upload and share files from your shell * [vl](https://github.com/ellisonleao/vl) - URL link checker on text documents * [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 * [nudoku](https://github.com/jubalh/nudoku) - ncurses based sudoku game written in C * [sedtris](https://github.com/uuner/sedtris) - Tetris in sed * [sed-scripts](https://github.com/aureliojargas/sed-scripts) - Arkanoid and Sokoban written using sed * [tty-solitaire](https://github.com/mpereira/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](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 * [shundle](https://github.com/chilicuil/shundle) - Plugin manager for shell scripts * [vcsh](https://github.com/RichiH/vcsh) - Config manager based on Git * [yadm](https://thelocehiliosan.github.io/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](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 * [bashwithnails](https://github.com/mindaugasbarysas/bashwithnails) - a Bash framework written just for fun with testing, dependency management & packaging * [bats](https://github.com/sstephenson/bats) - Bash Automated Testing System * [crash](https://github.com/molovo/crash) - Proper error handling, exceptions and try/catch for ZSH * [Fishtape](https://github.com/fisherman/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. * [is.sh](https://github.com/qzb/is.sh) - An alternative for builtin test command, it will make your "if" statements pretty * [lumberjack](https://github.com/molovo/lumberjack) - A logging interface for shell scripts * [mo](https://github.com/tests-always-included/mo) - Mustache templates in pure bash * [optparse](https://github.com/nk412/optparse) - A BASH wrapper for getopts, for simple command line arguments. * [rerun](https://github.com/rerun/rerun) - A modular shell automation framework to organize your keeper scripts * [revolver](https://github.com/molovo/revolver) - A reusable progress spinner for shell scripts * [semver_bash](https://github.com/cloudflare/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](https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck) - Static analysis tool for shell scripts * [shellfire](https://github.com/shellfire-dev/shellfire) - A repository of namespaced, composable shell (bash, sh and dash) function libraries * [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. * [rebash](https://github.com/jandob/rebash) - Scripting library/framework. Features: imports, exceptions, doc-tests ... * [zunit](https://github.com/molovo/zunit) - A powerful unit testing framework for ZSH # 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.github.io/styleguide/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) * [Learn Enough Command Line to Be Dangerous](https://www.learnenough.com/command-line-tutorial) * [A guide to learn bash](https://github.com/Idnan/bash-guide) # 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). ### See also * [awesome-fish][awesome-fish] * [awesome-zsh][awesome-zsh] * [terminals-are-sexy](https://github.com/k4m4/terminals-are-sexy) [awesome-badge]: https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/d7305f38d29fed78fa85652e3a63e154dd8e8829/media/badge.svg [awesome-fish]: https://github.com/jbucaran/awesome-fish [awesome-link]: https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome [awesome-zsh]: https://github.com/unixorn/awesome-zsh-plugins