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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
  • Directory Navigation
• 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)
• elvish - Friendly, expressive shell features like anonymous functions and data structures
• es - The extensible shell, based on Plan 9's rc shell
• fish - Smart and user-friendly command line shell
• ion - A modern system shell that features a simple, yet powerful, syntax. It is written entirely in Rust.
• ksh93 - Korn Shell
• mksh - MirBSD Korn Shell
• nushell - A modern shell written in Rust
• oksh - Portable OpenBSD ksh
• osh - Bash compatible, with new/modern Unix shell language called Oil
• pdksh - Public domain Korn shell
• shell++ - Friendly and modern functional and object oriented shell script language
• shenv - Simple shell version management
• tcsh - C shell with file name completion and command line editing
• xonsh - Python-ish, BASHwards-looking shell language and command prompt
• yash - A POSIX-compliant command line shell with built-in support for completion and prediction based on command history
• zsh - Powerful shell with scripting language

Command-Line Productivity

Search, bookmarks, multiplexing, and other tools that make your terminal experience more productive.

• AdvancedNewFile - Fast creation of files and directories in a recursive way. Inspired by the Vim plugin.
• ag - Super fast string search through a directory hierarchy
• aliases - Contextual, dynamic, organized aliases for bash
• autoenv - Directory-based environments
• bashhub - ☁️ Bash history in the cloud. Indexed and searchable.
• boilr - A blazingly fast CLI tool for creating projects from boilerplate templates.
• boom - Store links and snippets in the command line
• borg - A terminal based search engine for bash commands
• browsh - The modern text-based browser
• Buku - Powerful command-line bookmark manager
• byobu - Text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer
• cod — A completion daemon for shell that learns when you invoke --help commands
• CloudClip - Your own clipboard in the cloud, copy and paste text with gist between different systems
• ddgr - DuckDuckGo from the terminal
• desk - A lightweight workspace manager for the shell
• direnv - An environment switcher for the shell, compare with autoenv
• dnote - A simple command line notebook with multi-device sync and web interface
• eureka - 💡 CLI tool to input and store your ideas without leaving the terminal
• fasd - Command-line productivity booster, offers quick access to files and directories
• fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.
• foxy - Plain text bookmarks for Firefox and surf browsers.
• fselect - Find files with SQL-like queries.
• funky - Extends functionality of shell functions making them more powerful and flexible.
• fz - Seamless fuzzy tab completion for z
• fzf - A command-line fuzzy finder
• gitmux - Show Git status in Tmux status bar
• googler - Google Search, Google Site Search, Google News from the terminal
• googlr - Command line tool that lets you search Google from your terminal.
• has - has helps you check presence of various command line tools and their versions on path
• how2 - how2 finds the simplest way to do something in a unix shell. It's like man, but you can query it in natural language.
• navi - An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line
• hhighlighter - Colorize words in a command output
• hr - <hr /> for your terminal
• hss - An interactive parallel ssh client featuring autocomplete and asynchronous execution
• 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
• lf.sh - Quickly search files with fewer typings and do many more (grepping, copying path to clipboard, etc)
• Lmod - Lua-based Environment Modules that enhances Tcl-based modules while being backward compatible (compare to modules)
• loop - Write and control complex loops with as one-liners
• marker - Bookmark your shell commands
• mackup - Keep your application settings in sync (OS X/Linux)
• mcfly - Fly through your shell history. Great Scot!
• modules - Classical Tcl-based Environment Modules managing the shell environment (compare to Lmod, direnv, and autoenv)
• nnn - File browser and disk usage analyzer with excellent desktop integration
• 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.
• pdd - Tiny date, time diff calculator with timers
• percol - Adds flavor of interactive filtering to the traditional pipe concept of UNIX shell
• q - Vim like macro registers for your Bash and Zsh Shell
• qfc - File-completion widget for Bash and Zsh
• resh - Contextual shell history for Zsh and Bash
• rg - ripgrep is a line oriented search tool that combines the usability of The Silver Searcher with the raw speed of GNU grep
• screen - GNU terminal multiplexer
• shell-history - Visualize your shell usage with Highcharts
• 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
• spark.fish - ▁▂▃▅ Sparkline Generator
• sheet - Text snippets for the command line
• spot - Tiny file search utility

• snips - Command line tool to manage snippets of code.

• sqlline - Shell for issuing SQL to relational databases via JDBC (multiline, completion, highlighting, dialect support)
• sshfs - A tool for mounting remote file systems over SSH
• sudocabulary - Learn English Vocabulary from your terminal
• surfraw - browse specific site and search the web from your terminal without browser.
• task-manager - Execute all your scripts with just two or three keystrokes.
• td-cli - A todo command line manager to organize and manage your todos across multiple projects.
• thefuck - Fix common shell mistakes by using an easy to remember command
• tldr - A fully-functional bash client for tldr, simplified and community-driven man pages
• tmux - Amazing terminal multiplexer
• undollar - undollar bites the dollar sign off the tip of the command you just pasted into your terminal
• usql - Universal command-line interface for SQL databases.
• v - z for vim.
• wemux - Multi-User Tmux Made Easy
• xiki - Makes the shell console more friendly and powerful
• xsv - a fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust
• xxh - Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through the SSH.

Directory Navigation

• aliasme - alias helper to change directory quickly
• autojump - A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line
• bashmarks - Directory bookmarks for the shell
• bd - Quickly go back to a parent directory
• commacd - A faster way to move around in Bash
• enhancd - 🚀 A next-generation cd command with an interactive filter
• goto - A shell utility for navigation to aliased directories supporting auto-completion
• jump - Jump helps you navigate your file system faster by learning your habits.
• lazy-cd - Simple bash commands for bookmarked navigation of the file system, complete with bash-completion.
• up - Ascend directories by name or count; for bash, zsh, and fish.
• z - z is the new j, yo
• z.lua - A new cd command that helps you navigate faster by learning your habits
• zoxide - A faster way to navigate your filesystem, written in Rust
• zpyi - Python in Zsh - Easy python scripting in shell

Customization

Custom prompts, color themes, etc.

• base16-builder - Base16-Builder
• 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
• geometry - A minimal ZSH theme where any function can be added to the left prompt or (async) right prompt on the fly.
• 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
• polyglot - An informative Git prompt that works in bash, zsh, ksh, mksh, pdksh, dash, and busybox sh
• powerlevel10k - Super flexible awesome powerline ZSH theme
• sexy-bash-prompt - Bash prompt with colors, Git statuses, and Git branches
• synth-shell - Greeter with a customizable status report and a fancy bash prompt

For Developers

Command-line development, version control, and deployment.

• ack - A grep-like search tool optimized for source code.
• add-gitignore - Interactive CLI that generates a .gitignore for your project based on your needs.
• bcal - Byte CALculator for storage conversions and calculations
• bitwise - Terminal based interactive bit manipulator in curses.
• bocker - Docker implemented in 100 lines of bash
• cloc - Count Lines of Code
• doclt - A command line interface to Digital Ocean
• dokku - Docker powered mini-Heroku. The smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seen.
• getopts.fish - CLI parser for fish
• forgit - Utility tool for git taking advantage of fuzzy finder fzf.
• 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-quick-stats - Git quick statistics is a simple and efficient way to access various statistics in git repository.
• git-semver - Git plugin for easing semantic versioning and changelog validation
• git-sh - A customized Bash environment suitable for Git work
• hub - hub helps you win at git.
• licins - Insert commented software licenses into source code.
• mkdkr - Makefile + Docker = CI Pipeline
• 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
• rebound - Instantly browse Stack Overflow results in your terminal when you get a compiler error
• 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
• starring - Automatically star the npm-packages that you are using on GitHub.
• tag - Instantly jump to your ag matches.
• wipe-modules - A little agent that removes the node_modules folder of non-active projects

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
• bat - A cat clone with wings
• bmon - Real-time network bandwidth monitor and rate estimator with human-friendly visual output
• catcli - The command line catalog tool for your offline data
• ccat - ccat is the colorizing cat. It works similar to cat but displays content with syntax highlighting.
• exa - A modern version of ls.
• progress - Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, and more...
• stronghold - Easily configure MacOS security settings from the terminal.
• 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.
• hblock - Hosts-file based adblocker
• 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
• logdissect - CLI utility and Python API for analyzing log files and other data.
• ls++ - Colorized ls on steroids
• lsp - An improved ls, with file descriptions in plain language and intelligent file grouping
• maza - Local ad blocker. Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating system.
• mtr - The functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool.
• ncdu - NCurses Disk Usage
• nmtui - Text User Interface for controlling NetworkManager
• 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
• rng - Copy range of lines from file or stdin to stdout.
• wifi-wand - a Ruby command line application for managing WiFi on MacOS (install by gem install wifi-wand)
• xiringuito - SSH-based "VPN for poors"

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
• bashhub-server - Private cloud shell history. Open source server for bashhub
• 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
• HTTPLab - The interactive web server, let you inspect HTTP requests and forge responses.
• ngincat - Tiny Bash HTTP server using netcat
• resty - Little command line REST client that you can use in pipelines
• shell2http - HTTP-server to execute shell commands. Designed for development, prototyping or remote control
• vesper - 🍸Vesper is a HTTP framework for Bash/Unix Shell
• 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.
• dasel - Query and update data structures using selectors from the command line. Comparable to jq / yq but supports JSON, YAML, TOML and XML with zero runtime dependencies.
• fx - Command-line JSON processing tool by anononymus JavaScript functions
• gifgen - Simple high quality GIF encoding
• image-scraper - A cool command line image scraper with a lot of features.
• imgp - Blazing fast batch image resizer and rotator
• jo - A small utility to create JSON objects from command-line arguments.
• jq - Sed for json data. You can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data
• korkut - Quick and simple image processing at the command line.
• mpv - 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)
• visidata - A terminal spreadsheet multitool for exploring and arranging data (csv/json/xml/xls/yaml/etc)
• xidel - Cli tool to filter, map and create HTML/XML/JSON data with (Turing-complete) XPath and XQuery.
• 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
• awless - A powerful, innovative and small surface CLI to manage AWS.
• bashblog - A Bash script that handles blog posting
• carbon-now-cli - 🎨 Beautiful images of your code — from right inside your terminal.
• choosealicense-cli - Choose an OSS license from the comfort of your terminal
• cointop - The fastest and most interactive terminal based UI application for tracking cryptocurrencies
• dstask - Single binary terminal-based TODO manager with git-based sync + markdown notes per task
• editly - Command line video editor
• facebook-cli - Facebook command line tool
• fanyi - Translate English to Chinese in terminal
• gcalcli - Google Calendar command line interface
• 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
• kanban.bash - commandline asciii kanban board for minimalist productivity bash hackers (csv-based)
• ledger - Command line accounting
• licen - Generate your license. Yet another lice, but implement with Jinja2 and docopt
• md2png - Convert markdown to PNG image
• moviemon - Everything about your movies within the command line.
• nomino - Batch rename utility using regex, sort and map file options.
• pockyt - Read, Manage, and Automate your Pocket collection.
• pushblast - Get PushBullet notifications when a shell program exits
• pushbullet-bash - Bash interface to the PushBullet API
• ranger - A console file manager with VI key bindings.
• Reddit Terminal Viewer - Browse Reddit from your terminal
• SAWS - A Supercharged AWS CLI
• taskbook - Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat
• taskwarrior - A command-line TODO list manager
• terjira - Command line power tool for Jira
• transfer.sh — Quickly upload and share files from your shell
• vl - URL link checker on text documents
• wego - Weather app for the terminal
• whales - A tool to automatically dockerize your applications
• whereami - Get your geolocation information from the CLI
• wttr.in - ⛅ The right way to check the weather (curl wttr.in)

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
• nudoku - ncurses based sudoku game written in C
• piu-piu - Horizontal scroller game in bash with multiplayer mode!
• sedtris - Tetris in sed
• sed-scripts - Arkanoid and Sokoban written using sed
• SHTAP - Reusable text adventure engine for Bash 4
• 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 - A community Bash framework
• basher - A package manager for shell scripts
• bashing - Smashing Bash into Pieces
• bpkg - JavaScript has npm, Ruby has Gems, Python has pip and now Shell has bpkg
• dotdrop - Save your dotfiles once, deploy them everywhere
• dotfiler – Shell agnostic git based dotfiles package manager, written in Python.
• fresh - Keep your dotfiles fresh
• homeshick - Git dotfile synchronizer written in Bash
• shallow-backup - Easily create lightweight documentation of installed packages, dotfiles, and more
• shundle - Plugin manager for shell scripts
• vcsh - Config manager based on Git
• 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 - 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
• Bashlets - A modular extensible toolbox for Bash
• bashmanager - mini bash framework for creating command line tools
• bashwithnails - a Bash framework written just for fun with testing, dependency management & packaging
• bash-language-server - LSP-based Bash language server
• bats - Bash Automated Testing System
• crash - Proper error handling, exceptions and try/catch for ZSH
• critic.sh - Dead simple testing framework for Bash with coverage reporting
• esh - A simple templating engine based on shell, implemented in ~290 lines of POSIX shell and awk.
• 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
• phases - Minimally invasive bash preprocessor, select sections of your script to run
• powscript - bash transpiler written in bash (coffeescript for bash)
• semver_bash - Semantic Versioning in Bash
• 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
• shellspec - A full-featured BDD unit testing framework for dash, bash, ksh, zsh and all POSIX shells
• shpec - A shell testing framework
• shutit - Automation framework based on bash and pexpect
• sub - A delicious way to organize programs
• ts - A shell test script
• urchin - An idiomatic shell testing framework that uses only shell commands
• 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 Official Reference Manual
• 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
• A guide to learn bash

Other Awesome Lists

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

See also

• awesome-cli-apps
• awesome-fish
• awesome-zsh
• terminals-are-sexy