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
• 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.
• fzf - A command-line fuzzy finder
• 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
• 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
• 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
• thefuck - Fix common shell mistakes by using an easy to remember command
• tmux - Amazing terminal multiplexer
• up - Ascend directories by name or count, for bash and zsh.
• v - z for vim.
• wemux - Multi-User Tmux Made Easy
• z - z is the new j, yo

Customization

Custom prompts, color themes, etc.

• base16-shell - Base16 for Shells
• 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.

• 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

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
• cv - 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
• 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.
• 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)
• 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 - Bring http://choosealicense.com to 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.
• 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
• 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
• sedtris - Tetris in sed
• sed-scripts - Arkanoid and Sokoban written using sed

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
• dotfiler – Shell agnostic git based dotfiles package manager, written in Python.
• fresh - Keep your dotfiles fresh
• homeshick - Git dotfile synchronizer written in Bash
• vcsh - Config manager based on Git
• shundle - Plugin manager for shell scripts

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
• 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
• 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

• Bash Hackers Wiki
• Greg Wooledge's (aka "greycat") wiki. Specifically Bash Guide, Bash FAQ and Bash Pitfalls
• Google's Shell Style Guide
• The Linux Documentation Project: Bash Programming - Intro/How-to
• The Linux Documentation Project: Advanced Bash Scripting Guide
• WikiBooks: Bash Shell Scripting
• Use the Unofficial Bash Strict Mode (Unless You Looove Debugging)
• The Art of Command Line
• Learn Enough Command Line to Be Dangerous

Other Awesome Lists

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