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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

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.

AdvancedNewFile3 1 - Fast creation of files and directories in a recursive way. Inspired by the Vim plugin.
ag14k 1k - Super fast string search through a directory hierarchy
aliases63 8 - Contextual, dynamic, organized aliases for bash
aliasme25 1 - alias helper to change directory quickly
autoenv4k 208 - Directory-based environments
autojump3k 179 - A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line
bashhub385 27 - ☁️ Bash history in the cloud. Indexed and searchable.
bashmarks687 138 - Directory bookmarks for the shell
bd683 51 - Quickly go back to a parent directory
boilr504 27 - A blazingly fast CLI tool for creating projects from boilerplate templates.
boom1k 124 - Store links and snippets in the commandline
borg437 21 - A terminal based search engine for bash commands
Buku2k 168 - Powerful command-line bookmark manager
byobu - Text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer
commacd198 11 - A faster way to move around in Bash
desk2k 84 - A lightweight workspace manager for the shell
direnv2k 89 - An environment switcher for the shell, compare with autoenv
enhancd666 53 - 🚀 A next-generation cd command with an interactive filter
fasd1k 44 - Command-line productivity booster, offers quick access to files and directories
foxy2 0 - Plain text bookmarks for firefox and surf browsers.
fz79 3 - Seamless fuzzy tab completion for z
fzf12k 621 - A command-line fuzzy finder
googler3k 349 - Google Search, Google Site Search, Google News from the terminal
has6 2 - 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.
hhighlighter40 4 - Colorize words in a command output
hr1k 70 - for your terminal
hss85 5 - An interactive parallel ssh client featuring autocomplete and asynchronous execution
hstr772 61 - Bash History Suggest Box
jump333 25 - Jump helps you navigate your file system faster by learning your habits.
k558 51 - k is a Zsh script to make directory listings more readable, adding Git status, fileweight colors and rotting dates
k alias6 1 - 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)
marker654 26 - Bookmark your shell commands
modules - Environment manager for the shell (compare to direnv and autoenv)
nnn963 53 - File browser and disk usage analyzer with excellent desktop integration
parallel - Build and execute shell command lines from standard input in parallel
pathpicker4k 252 - 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.
percol2k 131 - Adds flavor of interactive filtering to the traditional pipe concept of UNIX shell
qfc467 15 - File-completion widget for Bash and Zsh
rg7k 325 - ripgrep is a line oriented search tool that combines the usability of The Silver Searcher with the raw speed of GNU grep
SHML105 8 - Style framework for the terminal (Shell Markup Language)
slugify48 7 - Command that converts filenames and directories to a web friendly format
sman127 12 - 🐛 A command-line snippet manager
spark4k 192 - ▁▂▃▅▂▇ in your shell
Shark - ▁▂▃▅ Sparkline Generator
sheet202 12 - Text snippets for the command line
spot - Tiny file search utility

snips21 4 - Commandline tool to manage snippets of code.

sshfs153 20 - A tool for mounting remote file systems over SSH
sshrc4k 152 - Bring your .bashrc, .vimrc, etc. with you when you SSH
sudocabulary83 20 - Learn English Vocabulary from your terminal
surfraw - browse specific site and search the web from your terminal without browser.
thefuck36k 2k - Fix common shell mistakes by using an easy to remember command
tldr117 16 - A fully-functional bash client for tldr, simplified and community-driven man pages
tmux - Amazing terminal multiplexer
up31 1 - Ascend directories by name or count; for bash, zsh, and fish.
v307 29 - z for vim.
wemux2k 67 - Multi-User Tmux Made Easy
z7k 708 - z is the new j, yo

Customization

Custom prompts, color themes, etc.

base16-builder196 41 - Base16-Builder
bash-full-of-colors13 6 - Powerful prompt with screen, tmux, git support and many more
bash-git-prompt3k 655 - An informative and fancy Bash prompt for Git users
bash-powerline108 17 - Powerline-style Bash prompt in pure Bash script
bashstrap2k 133 - A quick way to spruce up OSX terminal
bullet-train-oh-my-zsh-theme132 22 - 🚄 An oh-my-zsh shell theme based on the Powerline Vim plugin
emojify921 53 Emoji on the command line 😱
flatui-terminal-theme - Nicer colors for terminal
git-prompt297 95 - Bash prompt with Git, SVN and HG modules
gittify21 5 - A colorful Bash prompt + customized Git aliases
Gogh - Color Scheme927 101 - Color Scheme for Gnome Terminal
liquidprompt3k 395 - A full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh
mysql-colorize - Colorization for mysql comand-line client
oh-my-git3k 269 - An opinionated git prompt for bash and zsh
sexy-bash-prompt810 138 - Bash prompt with colors, Git statuses, and Git branches

For Developers

Command-line development, version control, and deployment.

bcal34 11 - Byte CALculator for storage conversions and calculations
bocker4k 358 - Docker implemented in 100 lines of bash
cloc3k 233 - Count Lines of Code
doclt - A command line interface to Digital Ocean
dokku5k 601 - Docker powered mini-Heroku. The smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seen.
getopts - CLI parser for fish
git-extra-commands218 20 - Many Git extra utilities. Churn, cut-branch, improved-merge and many more.
git-extras11k 913 - Git utilities -- repo summary, repl, changelog population, author commit percentages and more
git-open1k 130 - Type git open to open the GitHub page or website for a repository in your browser
git-semver111 13 - Git plugin for easing semantic versioning and changelog validation
git-sh592 43 - A customized Bash environment suitable for Git work
git-up2k 98 - Automatically rebase incoming changes instead of merging. Be polite!
hub12k 1k - hub helps you win at git.
mr539 107 - Multiple Repository management tool
overcommit2k 178 - A fully configurable and extendable Git hook manager
pre-commit - A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks
repren141 12 - Command-line search-and-replace and file-renaming swiss army knife
slap4k 185 - Sublime-like terminal-based text editor that runs on Node.js
shipit376 41 - Minimalistic SSH deployment
starring174 4 - Automatically star the npm-packages that you are using on GitHub.
tag434 20 - Instantly jump to your ag matches.

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
ccat2k 58 - ccat is the colorizing cat. It works similar to cat but displays content with syntax highlighting.
colorex - Displays files or sdtin with pretty colors for matched patterns.
progress909 84 - Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, ...
glances9k 752 - Glances an Eye on your system
goaccess5k 432 - GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems.
histstat30 13 - History for netstat
htop3k 343 - A ncurses based interactive process viewer which aims to be a better top
lnav - An advanced log file viewer for the small-scale
ls++243 28 - Colorized ls on steroids
lsp457 18 - An improved ls, with file descriptions in plain language and intelligent file grouping
mtr678 177 - The functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool.
ncdu - NCurses Disk Usage
powertop276 76 - Battery/Power usage and device stats monitoring command-line tool, with tune-up options.
procdog47 4 - Lightweight command-line control of long-lived processes like servers
quick-secure119 5 - Quickly secure and harden UNIX/Linux systems

Downloading and Serving

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

aria25k 655 - aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink
balls490 21 - Bash on Balls
bashttpd458 53 - A web server written in Bash
bitpocket632 46 - "DIY Dropbox" or "2-way directory (r)sync with proper deletion"
Dropbox-Uploader5k 863 - Dropbox Uploader is a Bash script which can be used to upload, download, list or delete files from Dropbox
httpie17k 1k - HTTPie is a command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement
ngincat63 4 - Tiny Bash HTTP server using netcat
resty2k 146 - Little command line REST client that you can use in pipelines
youtube-dl38k 8k - 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-Kitchen556 429 - A text-based kitchen for Android ROM customization. Uses shell scripts and works with Cygwin/OS X/Linux
Beets3k 589 - Music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger
cmus4k 511 - Cross-platform cli audio player.
gifgen104 4 - Simple high quality GIF encoding
image-scraper392 65 - A cool command line image scraper with a lot of features.
imgp133 9 - Blazing fast batch image resizer and rotator
jq9k 617 - Sed for json data. You can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data
mpv - Lets you play most audio and video formats (using ASCII characters) in the shell as well as in a GUI.
nehm25 4 - Console tool, which downloads, sets IDv3 tags and adds to your iTunes (if you use it) your SoundCloud likes in convenient way
PiCAST1k 279 - PiCAST turns your $35 Raspberry Pi in to a Chromecast like Device
sejda288 42 - Command line manipulation of PDF documents (split, merge, rotate, convert to jpg, extract text, etc)
xidel61 10 - 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.

ansiweather1k 133 - Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols
bashblog629 123 - A Bash script that handles blog posting
choosealicense-cli32 3 - Choose an OSS license from the comfort of your terminal
facebook-cli124 11 - Facebook command line tool
fanyi88 17 - Translate English to Chinese in terminal
geeknote899 152 - Command line evernote client
haxor-news2k 112 - Browse Hacker News like a haxor
hn-cli422 25 - Browse Hacker News from the comfort of your Terminal
iponmap115 6 - Draw point on world map using ip address
isitup24 2 - Check whether a website is up or down
jrnl2k 303 - A simple command line journal application that stores your journal in a plain text file
ledger2k 329 - Command line accounting
licen26 4 - Generate your license. Yet another lice, but implement with Jinja2 and docopt
moviemon - Everything about your movies within the command line.
pockyt177 10 - Read, Manage, and Automate your Pocket collection.
pushblast9 0 - Get PushBullet notifications when a shell program exits
pushbullet-bash199 55 - Bash interface to the PushBullet API
Reddit Terminal Viewer3k 188 - Browse Reddit from your terminal
SAWS4k 167 - A Supercharged AWS CLI
taskwarrior - A command-line TODO list manager
terjira310 12 - Command line power tool for Jira
transfer.sh — Quickly upload and share files from your shell
vl27 3 - URL link checker on text documents
wego5k 352 - Weather app for the terminal
whereami46 4 - Get your geolocation information from the CLI
wttr.in4k 229 - ⛅️ The right way to check the weather (curl wttr.in)

Games

All work and no play is a cruddy way to spend your day.

bash2048409 104 - Bash implementation of 2048 game
minesweeper4 1 - Bash implementation of minesweeper
nudoku60 8 - ncurses based sudoku game written in C
sedtris14 3 - Tetris in sed
sed-scripts8 1 - Arkanoid and Sokoban written using sed
tty-solitaire80 11 - Play solitaire in your terminal!

Shell Package Management

Tools for managing multiple shell configurations. For zsh-specific tools, see the Zsh section.

bash-it4k 1k - A community Bash framework
basher296 23 - A package manager for shell scripts
bpkg - JavaScript has npm, Ruby has Gems, Python has pip and now Shell has bpkg
dotdrop63 6 - Save your dotfiles once, deploy them everywhere
dotfiler134 33 – Shell agnostic git based dotfiles package manager, written in Python.
fresh841 99 - Keep your dotfiles fresh
homeshick1k 125 - Git dotfile synchronizer written in Bash
shundle - Plugin manager for shell scripts
vcsh1k 118 - 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

ansi100 8 - ANSI escape codes in pure bash - change text color, position the cursor, much more
assert.sh311 49 - Bash unit testing framework
bashful - A collection of libraries to simplify writing Bash scripts
bashmanager37 7 - mini bash framework for creating command line tools
bashwithnails3 2 - a Bash framework written just for fun with testing, dependency management & packaging
bats56 15 - Bash Automated Testing System
crash - Proper error handling, exceptions and try/catch for ZSH
Fishtape215 5 - TAP producer and test harness for fish
composure215 22 - Compose, document, version and organize your shell functions
dispatch34 2 - 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
mo131 25 - Mustache templates in pure bash
optparse87 23 - A BASH wrapper for getopts, for simple command line arguments.
rerun184 20 - A modular shell automation framework to organize your keeper scripts
revolver24 4 - A reusable progress spinner for shell scripts
semver_bash37 11 - Semantic Versioning in Bash
sh-semver8 1 - Semver tool for bash - finds versions matching to specified rules
shellcheck8k 472 - Static analysis tool for shell scripts
shellfire1k 48 - A repository of namespaced, composable shell (bash, sh and dash) function libraries
shpec308 32 - A shell testing framework
shutit - Automation framework based on bash and pexpect
sub1k 87 - A delicious way to organize programs
ts32 4 - A shell test script
urchin151 14 - An idiomatic shell testing framework that uses only shell commands
shunit2309 56 - A unit test framework for Bash scripts with a flavour of JUnit/PyUnit.
rebash20 1 - Scripting library/framework. Features: imports, exceptions, doc-tests ...
zunit - A powerful unit testing framework for ZSH

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