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.

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Networking and Servers

Self-hosted, lightweight servers and networking tools written in shell scripts.

balls - Bash on Balls
bashblog - A Bash script that handles blog posting
bashttpd - A web server written in bash
bitpocket - "DIY Dropbox" or "2-way directory (r)sync with proper deletion"
dokku - Docker powered mini-Heroku in around 100 lines of Bash
Dropbox-Uploader - Dropbox Uploader is a BASH script which can be used to upload, download, list or delete files from Dropbox
ngincat - Tiny bash HTTP server using netcat
pushblast - Get PushBullet notifications when a shell program exits
pushbullet-bash - Bash interface to the PushBullet API
resty - Little command line REST client that you can use in pipelines

Customization

Custom prompts, color themes, etc.

awesome-zsh-plugins - A list of zsh plugins usable with antigen, dotzsh, oh-my-zsh & prezto.
base16-shell - Base16 for Shells
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
flatui-terminal-theme - Nicer colors for terminal
git-prompt - bash prompt with GIT, SVN and HG modules
liquidprompt - A full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh
powerline-zsh - Powerline for Zsh
pure - Pretty, minimal and fast ZSH prompt
sexy-bash-prompt - Bash prompt with colors, git statuses, and git branches
zsh-autosuggestions - Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh
zsh-git-prompt - Informative git prompt for zsh
zsh-prompt-powerline - A ZSH prompt based on the powerline font from the popular vim plugin
zsh-syntax-highlighting - Fish shell like syntax highlighting for zsh
zsh-history-substring-search - An implementation of the Fish shell's history search feature for zsh.

Package Management and Frameworks

Tools for managing multiple shell configurations.

antigen - A plugin manager for zsh, inspired by oh-my-zsh and vundle
antigen-hs - A replacement for antigen optimized for a low overhead when starting up the shell.
bash-it - A community bash framework
bpkg - JavaScript has npm, Ruby has Gems, Python has pip and now Shell has bpkg
dotzsh - dotzsh strives to be platform and version independent, some functionality may be lost when running under older versions of zsh, but it should degrade cleanly and allow you to use the same setup on multiple machines of differing OS's without problems.
fresh - Keep your dotfiles fresh
homeshick - git dotfile synchronizer written in bash
oh-my-fish - Framework for managing your fish shell configuration inspired by Oh My ZSH
oh-my-zsh - A community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration
prezto - The configuration framework for Zsh
vcsh - config manager based on Git

Writing and Testing Scripts

Boilerplate-like templates and systems to jump-start whatever script you are writing.

bashful - A collection of libraries to simplify writing bash scripts
bats - Bash Automated Testing System
composure - Compose, document, version and organize your shell functions
dispatch - A command line argument parser in 50 lines of portable shell script.
shpec - A shell testing framework
sub - a delicious way to organize programs
ts - a shell test script

Multimedia

Tools for handling video and audio files.

Beets - Music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger
PiCAST - PiCAST turns your $35 Raspberry Pi in to a Chromecast like Device

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

Utilities and Tools

Other various neat gizmos to make your terminal experience more enjoyable.

Android-Kitchen - A text-based kitchen for Android ROM customization. Uses shell scripts and works with Cygwin/OS X/Linux
ansiweather - Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols
autoenv - Directory-based environments
autojump - A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line
bash-slugify - Command that converts filenames and directories to a web friendly format
bashmarks - Directory bookmarks for the shell
byobu - Text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer
commacd - A faster way to move around in Bash
cv - Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, ...
fasd - Command-line productivity booster, offers quick access to files and directories
geeknote - Command line evernote client
git-extras - GIT utilities -- repo summary, repl, changelog population, author commit percentages and more
git-sh - A customized bash environment suitable for git work
quick-secure - Quickly secure and harden UNIX/Linux systems
hr - <hr /> for your terminal
hstr - BASH History Suggest Box
jrnl - A simple command line journal application that stores your journal in a plain text file
k - k is a zsh script to make directory listings more readable, adding git status, fileweight colors and rotting dates
ledger - Command line accounting
lsp - An improved ls, with file descriptions in plain language and intelligent file grouping
mr - Multiple Respository management tool
percol - Adds flavor of interactive filtering to the traditional pipe concept of UNIX shell
pretty-time-zsh - Convert seconds to a human readable string: 165392 → 1d 21h 56m 32s
sejda - Command line manipulation of PDF documents (split, merge, rotate, convert to jpg, extract text, etc)
semver_bash - Semantic Versioning in Bash
shellcheck - Static analysis tool for shell scripts
shipit - Minimalistic SSH deployment
slap - Sublime-like terminal-based text editor that runs on Node.js
spark - ▁▂▃▅▂▇ in your shell
spot - Tiny file search utility
sshrc - bring your .bashrc, .vimrc, etc. with you when you ssh
tmux - amazing terminal multiplexer
transfer.sh — Quickly upload and share files from your shell
v - z for vim.
wemux - Multi-User Tmux Made Easy
z - z is the new j, yo
zsh-dwim - ZSH Do what I mean.
zsh-notify - Desktop notifications for long running commands in zsh
zshmarks - A port of Bashmarks (simple bookmarking plugin by Todd Werth) for oh-my-zsh

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