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Awesome Command Line Apps

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A curated list of useful command line apps, in celebration of the TUI.

“Knowledge brings fear” (Mars University Mission Statement)

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Automation

  • Ansible - Automate deployment, configuration, and upgrading.
  • fswatch - Cross-platform file change monitor with multiple backends.
  • rocinante - Lightweight configuration management software for FreeBSD.

Backup

  • Amanda - Open Source Network Backup for Linux, Windows, UNIX and OS X.
  • Attic - Deduplicating backup program written in Python.
  • Bacula - Manage backups, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds.
  • BorgBackup - Significantly improved fork of Attic.
  • duply - Easily create GPG encrypted, compressed backups of any data almost anywhere.
  • mysqldump-secure - Secure mysqldump script with encryption, compression, logging, blacklisting and Nagios monitoring integration.
  • Restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program.

Benchmarking

  • hyperfine - Benchmark commands through the command line.
  • loadtest - Runs a load test on the selected HTTP URL.
  • pv - Monitor the progress of data through a pipeline.
  • siege - HTTP load testing and benchmarking utility.

Cloud Services

  • awless - Mighty command-line interface for Amazon Web Services.
  • awscli - Official Amazon AWS command-line interface.
  • cadaver - WebDAV client for Unix.
  • google-drive-upload - Upload and sync files to Google Drive.

Compression

  • archivemount - FUSE filesystem using libarchive to mount archives.
  • dtrx - Takes all the hassle out of extracting archives.

Content Creation

  • GitBook - Library and cmd utility to generate GitBooks.

Conversion

  • binchunker - Converts a CD image in a ".bin/.cue" format (sometimes ".raw/.cue") to a set of .iso and .cdr tracks.
  • Echo - Convert HTML tables to JSON/CSVs.
  • Pandoc - Universal document converter.

Databases

  • LiteCLI - SQLite client with auto-completion.
  • mycli - Command-line interface for MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona with auto-completion and syntax highlighting.
  • pgcli - Command-line interface for Postgres with auto-completion and syntax highlighting.
  • usql - Universal command-line interface for SQL databases.

Data Processing

  • datamash - Perform basic numeric, textual and statistical operations on textual data files.
  • edcount - Estimate distinct count of values from standard input.
  • hq - Powerful command-line tool for slicing & dicing HTML.
  • jq - Lightweight and flexible JSON processor.
  • Miller - Like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON.
  • pup - Parsing HTML at the command line.
  • tq - Perform a lookup by CSS selector on an HTML input.
  • xq - Like jq, but for XML and XPath.

Developer

  • bat - Go implement CLI, cURL-like tool for humans.
  • bcal - Byte calculator for storage conversions and calculations.
  • bitwise - Interactive bit manipulator in curses.
  • caniuse-cmd - All the power of caniuse.com with none of the GUI.
  • clog - Conventional changelog for the rest of us.
  • Cookiecutter - Creates projects from cookiecutters (project templates).
  • Critical - Extract & inline critical-path CSS in HTML pages.
  • diff-so-fancy - Better, highly readable diffs.
  • git-filter-repo - Quickly rewrite git repository history (filter-branch replacement).
  • grex - Generate regular expressions from user-provided test cases.
  • Grunt - The JavaScript Task Runner.
  • gulp - Automate and enhance your build workflow.
  • how2 - Stack Overflow from the terminal.
  • howdoi - Instant coding answers via the command line.
  • http-prompt - Interactive HTTP client featuring autocomplete and syntax highlighting, built on HTTPie and prompt_toolkit.
  • HTTPie - User-friendly cURL replacement featuring intuitive UI, JSON support, syntax highlighting, wget-like downloads, extensions, etc.
  • penthouse - Critical path CSS generator.
  • Publoy - Command line tool to deploy your static web apps via Dropbox.
  • Rebound - Instantly fetch Stack Overflow results when you get a compiler error.
  • saws - Supercharged AWS command-line interface.
  • shellcheck - Static analysis tool for shell scripts.
  • sift - Fast and powerful open source alternative to grep.
  • tokei - Quickly display statistics about your code like number of files, total lines, comments and blanks, grouped by language.
  • Yarn - Deterministic, secure alternative to npm.

Dotfile Management

  • dotdrop - Save your dotfiles once, deploy them everywhere.
  • homeshick - Git dotfiles synchronizer written in Bash.
  • yadm - Yet Another Dotfiles Manager.

Download Utilities

  • aria2 - Lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source command-line download utility.
  • peerflix - Streaming torrent client for node.js.

Email

  • abook - Text-based address book program designed to use with mutt mail client.
  • aerc - A pretty good email client.
  • Alpine - Fast, easy to use email client.
  • IMAPdedup - IMAP message de-duplicator.
  • imapsync - IMAP synchronisation, sync, copy or migration tool.
  • isync - Synchronize Maildir and IMAP4 mailboxes both ways.
  • mu - Set of tools to deal with Maildirs and message files, minimal Notmuch alternative.
  • Mutt - All mail clients suck, this one just sucks less.
  • Notmuch - Fast, global-search and tag-based email system.
  • OfflineIMAP - Two-way sync your e-mail mailboxes as a local Maildir.
  • piler - Email archiving solution, a viable alternative to commercial products.
  • Sup - Curses threads-with-tags style email client.
  • Terjira - Command line power tool for Jira.

Encryption

  • EncFS - Provides an encrypted filesystem in user-space.
  • GnuPG - Complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard as defined by RFC4880 (also known as PGP).

Filesystem Management

  • dust - More intuitive version of 'du'.
  • FDUPES - Identify or delete duplicate files residing within specified directories.
  • Midnight Commander - Feature-rich visual file manager.
  • Ncdu - Disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface.
  • nnn - Fast, minimal and extensible file manager.
  • ranger - Minimalistic visual file manager featuring curses interface with vi key bindings.
  • vifm - ncurses based file manager with vi like keybindings/modes/options/commands/configuration, which also borrows some useful ideas from mutt.
  • zfsnap - Rolling ZFS snapshots the easy way.

FTP

  • CurlFtpFS - Filesystem for accessing FTP hosts based on FUSE and libcurl.
  • LFTP - Sophisticated ftp/http client, and a file transfer program supporting a number of network protocols.
  • NcFTP - Set of free application programs implementing the File Transfer Protocol (FTP).

Games

  • Angband - Free, single-player dungeon exploration game.
  • Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - Roguelike set in a post-apocalyptic world.
  • Curse of War - Fast-paced real-time action strategy game.
  • dopewars - Deal in drugs on the streets of New York, amassing a huge fortune and paying off the loan shark, while avoiding the ever-annoying police.
  • Frotz - Interpreter for Infocom games and other Z-machine games.
  • Nethack - Single player dungeon exploration game that runs on a wide variety of computer systems.
  • vitetris - Tetris clone.

IRC

  • BitlBee - IRC to other chat networks gateway.
  • Irssi - The client of the future.
  • WeeChat - Fast, light and extensible chat client.

Media

  • abcde - A Better CD Encoder.
  • AtomicParsely - Reads, parses and sets metadata into MPEG-4 files.
  • Audiogrep - Creates audio supercuts.
  • Beets - The music geek's media organizer.
  • cmus - Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.
  • FFmpeg - Records, converts and streams audio and video.
  • Gifsicle - Creates, edits, and gets information about GIF images and animations.
  • HandBrakeCLI - Converts video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.
  • Legofy - Makes images look like they were built out of Lego.
  • MediaInfo - Convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files.
  • MKVToolNix - Set of tools to create, alter and inspect Matroska files under Linux, other Unices and Windows.
  • mopidy - Self-hosted MPD daemon that connects to Spotify and Soundcloud.
  • moviemon - Everything about your movies within the command-line.
  • mp3fs - FUSE-based transcoding filesystem from FLAC to MP3.
  • mp4v2 - Library and tools to provide functions to read, create, and modify mp4 files.
  • mpg123 - Fast console MPEG Audio Player and decoder library.
  • mpv - Free, open source, and cross-platform media player.
  • musikcube - Fully functional terminal-based music player, library, and streaming audio server.
  • ncmpcpp - NCurses based MPD client.
  • OptiPNG - PNG optimizer that recompresses image files to a smaller size, without losing any information.
  • Pngcrush - Optimizer for PNG (Portable Network Graphics) files.
  • Shellpic - Display images inline in the shell, ASCII-art is so 2013.
  • subdownloader - Downloading subtitles for one or more files is just a command away.
  • ttystudio - Terminal-to-gif recorder minus the headaches.
  • Video Transcoding Scripts - Utilities to transcode, inspect and convert videos.
  • Videogrep - Automatic supercuts with Python.
  • youtube-dl - Download videos from YouTube.com and a few more sites.

Miscellaneous

  • ansiweather - Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols.
  • cointop - Interactive cryptocurrency tracking.
  • FIGlet - Program for making large letters out of ordinary text.
  • license - Create LICENSEs from the command-line.
  • pockyt - Composable Pocket client for the terminal.
  • wego - Weather client for the terminal.
  • wttr.in - Console-based weather forecasts.

Networking

  • aggregate6 - IPv4 and IPv6 prefix aggregation tool.
  • bandwhich - Displays current network utilization by process, connection and remote IP or hostname.
  • Bandwidth Monitor NG - Small and simple live network and disk IO bandwidth monitor.
  • Blucat - netcat for Bluetooth.
  • gping - Ping, but with a graph.
  • httping - Like 'ping' but for http requests.
  • iftop - Display bandwidth usage on an interface.
  • ipdb - Tools for IP based Geo-blocking and Geo-routing.
  • localtunnel - Exposes your localhost to the world for easy testing and sharing.
  • mtr - Combines the functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool.
  • Netcat - Networking utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using the TCP/IP protocol.
  • Nethogs - Linux 'net top' tool.
  • ngrep - grep as a network packet analyzer.
  • nmap - Network discovery and security auditing utility.
  • rs-aggregate - Drop-in replacement for aggregate6, upwards of 100x faster.
  • vnStat - Console-based network traffic monitor for Linux and BSD that keeps a log of network traffic for the selected interface(s).

Presentation

  • termui - Cross-platform, easy-to-compile, and fully-customizable terminal dashboard.
  • WOPR - Simple markup language for creating rich terminal reports, presentations and infographics.

Productivity

  • doing - Keeping track of what you’re doing and tracking what you’ve done.
  • idea - Lightweight CLI tool and module for keeping ideas in a safe place quick and easy.
  • ledger - Powerful, double-entry accounting system that is accessed from the UNIX command-line.
  • MapSCII - OpenStreetMap client, renders an explorable Braille & ASCII world map.
  • pdfgrep - Command-line utility to search text in PDF files.
  • pin-cushion - Simple, maintained command-line interface to the Pinboard.in API.
  • Remind - Sophisticated calendar and alarm program.
  • SC-IM - ncurses-based spreadsheet application.
  • Taskwarrior - Manage your Todo list.
  • Timetrap - Simple timetracker.
  • Watson - Elegant time tracking.
  • woof - Simple one-off HTTP file sharing.

RSS

  • newsbeuter - The Mutt of RSS feed readers.
  • rss2email - Get news from RSS feeds in email.
  • rsstail - Monitors a single RSS feed and emits only new entries.

Searching

  • fd - fd is a simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'.
  • fselect - 'find' replacement with SQL-like syntax.
  • fzf - A general-purpose fuzzy finder.
  • ripgrep - Recursively search directories for a regex pattern extremely fast.
  • sd - Intuitive find-and-replace alternative to 'sed'.
  • The Silver Searcher - Blazingly fast tool for searching code.

Security

  • acme.sh - Pure Unix shell script implementing ACME client protocol, for Let's Encrypt.
  • Aircrack-ng - 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking program that can recover keys once enough data packets have been captured.
  • Let's Encrypt - Free, automated and open Certificate Authority.
  • pass - The standard Unix password manager.

Shells

  • fish - Finally, a command line shell for the 90s.
  • Fisher - Package manager for the fish shell.
  • oksh - Portable OpenBSD ksh, based on the Public Domain Korn Shell (pdksh).

SSH

  • autossh - Automatically restart SSH sessions and tunnels.
  • sshfs - Locally mount a remote folder via SSH.
  • storm - Manage your SSH connections.

System

  • ApacheTop - Curses-based top-like display for Apache information, including requests per second, bytes per second, most popular URLs, etc.
  • bottom - Graphical process/system monitor with a customizable interface and multitude of features.
  • bpytop - Resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes.
  • doas - A port of OpenBSD's doas which runs on FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, and illumos.
  • dstat - Versatile replacement for vmstat, iostat, netstat and ifstat.
  • htop - Interactive process viewer.
  • iotop - Find out what's stressing and increasing load on your hard disks.
  • maybe - See what a program does before deciding whether you really want it to happen.
  • neofetch - Fast, highly customizable system info script.
  • netboot.xyz - Boot multiple Operating System installers or utilities over the network from a single menu.
  • procs - Modern replacement for 'ps'.
  • screenFetch - Fetches system/theme information in terminal for desktop screenshots.

Terminal

  • angle-grinder - Slice and dice logs, allows to parse, aggregate, sum, average, min/max, percentile, and sort data.
  • asciinema - Record terminal sessions and share them on the web.
  • autojump - 'cd' command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line.
  • bat - 'cat' clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration.
  • bgrep - Like grep but for binary strings.
  • byobu - Text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer.
  • ccat - Colorizing the 'cat' command.
  • cheat - Create and view interactive cheatsheets.
  • Clipboard - Cut, copy, and paste files, folders, and raw data across all platforms.
  • desk - Lightweight workspace manager for the shell.
  • dit - Dotfile manager that hooks into Git.
  • entr - Run arbitrary commands when files change.
  • exa - Modern version of 'ls'.
  • fundle - Minimalist package manager for dish shell.
  • LNAV - Advanced log file viewer for the small-scale that understands your log files.
  • Marker - The terminal command palette.
  • mtm - Perhaps the smallest useful terminal multiplexer in the world.
  • MultiTail - Monitor logfiles and command output in multiple windows in a terminal, colorize, filter and merge.
  • PathPicker - After parsing the output from a command, PathPicker presents you with a nice UI to select which files you're interested in.
  • pick - Fuzzy select anything.
  • SCREEN - "Window manager" for the console and terminals.
  • Starship - Minimal, blazing-fast and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell.
  • tealdeer - Very fast implementation of 'tldr'.
  • tmux - Terminal multiplexer.
  • yank - Yank terminal output to clipboard.
  • z - Tracks your most used directories, based on "frecency".
  • zoxide - Similar to 'z' but a standalone binary, therefore shell-independent.

Text Editors

  • Diakonos - Linux editor for the masses.
  • Emacs - Extensible, customizable text editor.
  • Kakoune - Modal editor with multiple selections and orthogonal design.
  • Micro - Modern and intuitive text editor.
  • Neovim - Modern version of the Vim editor with many advanced features.
  • Vim - Advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set.
  • Vis - Highly efficient text editor.

Version Control

  • Bazaar - Easily manage source code on Windows, Ubuntu, GNU/Linux, and Mac OS X.
  • fossil - Simple, high-reliability, distributed SCM with integrated bug tracking, wiki, forum, and technotes.
  • Git - Git is a free and open source distributed version control system.
  • gitfs - Version controlled file system.
  • grv - ncurses based text-mode Git repository browser.
  • Mercurial - Free, distributed source control management tool.
  • tig - ncurses based text-mode interface for Git.

VPN

  • OpenVPN - Full-featured open source SSL VPN solution.
  • racoon - Internet Key Exchange (IKE) daemon for automatically keying IPsec connections.
  • strongSwan - Open Source IPsec for Linux.

World Wide Web

  • browsh - A fully interactive, real-time and modern browser rendered to TTY.
  • ELinks - Advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web (HTTP/FTP/..) browser.
  • GoAccess - Real-time visual web log analyzer and interactive viewer.
  • googler - Google Search, Google Site Search, Google News from the terminal.
  • pageres - Capture screenshots of websites in various resolutions.

BSD

  • ezjail - Jail administration framework.
  • iocage - Convenient, lightweight & easy container management for BSD jails.
  • pkgsrc - Portable package build system.
  • poudriere - Port/package build and test system.

Linux

  • aptly - Swiss army knife for Debian repository management.
  • btrfs - Copy-on-write file system for Linux aimed at implementing advanced features while focusing on fault tolerance, repair and easy administration.
  • deborphan - Finds packages installed on your Debian system that have no other packages depending on them.
  • IPTraf - Network statistics utility for Linux.

macOS

  • Fink - The full world of Unix Open Source software for Darwin.
  • Homebrew - The missing package manager for OS X.
  • itunes-remote - Control iTunes via CLI.
  • MacPorts - Compile, install and upgrade either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software.
  • mas - Mac App Store command line interface.
  • Night Shift Shell Utility - Simple shell utility to control the macOS Night Shift feature.
  • reminders-cli - Simple interface for interacting with Reminders.
  • tag - Manipulate tags on files and query for files with those tags.
  • XLD - Tool to decode/convert/play various lossless audio files.

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