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💥 A curated list of Terminal frameworks, plugins & resources for CLI lovers.

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Terminals Are Sexy Awesome

A curated list of Terminal frameworks, plugins & resources for CLI lovers.

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Shells

Sexy frameworks, plugins and resources for your sexy shell.

  • Base Shells
    • bash - GNU Project's shell (Bourne Again SHell).
    • zsh - Powerful shell with scripting language.
    • fish - Smart and user-friendly command line shell.
    • xonsh - Python-ish, BASHwards-looking shell language and command prompt.
    • PowerShell - Automation and configuration tool/framework that is optimized for dealing with structured data.
    • Ammonite-Shell - An object shell with a Scala-like scripting language.
  • ZSH
    • oh-my-zsh - Delightful community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration.
    • prezto - Configuration framework for Zsh.
    • zsh-syntax-highlighting - Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh.
    • antigen - Plugin manager for zsh, inspired by oh-my-zsh and vundle.
    • slimzsh - Small, usable configuration for ZSH.
    • antibody - Faster and simpler antigen written in Golang.
    • pure - Pretty, minimal and fast ZSH prompt.
    • powerlevel9k - Super flexible awesome powerline ZSH theme.
    • liquidprompt - Full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh.
    • dotzsh - Community driven framework for zsh.
    • zgen - Lightweight and simple plugin manager for ZSH.
    • zplug - Next-generation plugin manager for zsh.
    • zunit - Powerful unit testing framework for ZSH.
    • zshdb - ZSH debugger.
    • zsh-quickstart-kit - Simple zsh quickstart for using zsh and zgen.
    • zsh-autosuggestions - Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh.
    • alf - Out of this world super fast and configurable framework for zsh.
    • ant-zsh - Tiny and lightweight ZSH configuration environment for special customization needs.
    • pumice - Lightweight plugin manager for zsh.
    • zeesh - Cross-platform Zsh framework.
    • zilsh - Zsh config system that aims to appeal more to power-users and follow the simplistic approach of vim-pathogen.
    • zim - Zsh configuration framework with blazing speed and modular extensions.
    • zoppo - Crippled configuration framework for Zsh.
    • zpm - Plugin manager for zsh similar to vim-plug.
    • ztanesh - Aims to improve your UNIX command line experience and productivity with the the configuration provided by the ztanesh project.
    • zulu - Total environment manager for ZSH 5+.
    • zsh-pony - Covers customizing ZSH without a framework.
  • Bash
    • bash-sensible - Attempt at saner Bash defaults.
    • bash-powerline - Powerline-style Bash prompt in pure Bash script.
    • bashtrap - Quick way to spruce up OSX terminal.
    • liquidprompt - Full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh.
    • hstr - Bash History Suggest Box.
    • aliases - Contextual, dynamic, organized aliases for the bash shell.
    • bash-it - Collection of community Bash commands and scripts.
  • Git
    • git-prompt - Bash prompt with Git, SVN and HG modules.
    • gittify - Colorful Bash prompt + customized Git aliases.
    • oh-my-git - Opinionated git prompt for bash and zsh.
    • bash-git-prompt - Informative and fancy Bash prompt for Git users.
    • sexy-bash-prompt - Bash prompt with colors, Git statuses, and Git branches.
    • git-sh - Customized Bash environment suitable for Git work.
    • git-radar - Heads up display for git
    • git-extra-commands - Collection of useful extra commands for git
  • Fish

Terminal Emulation Applications

Sexy 3rd party terminal emulation applications.

  • iTerm2 - Terminal emulator for macOS that does amazing things.
  • ConEmu - Customizable Windows terminal with tabs, splits, quake-style and more.
  • PuTTY - SSH and telnet client, developed originally by Simon Tatham for the Windows platform.
  • KiTTY - Fork from version 0.67 of PuTTY, the best telnet / SSH client in the world.
  • Terminator - The robot future of terminals.
  • Konsole - Terminal emulator for the K Desktop Environment.
  • MacTerm - Powerful replacement for macOS Terminal.
  • xterm - Terminal emulator for the X Window System.
  • Hyper - Terminal built on web technologies.
  • ZOC - SSH/Telnet Client and Terminal Emulator for macOS and Windows.
  • Upterm - Terminal emulator for the 21st century.
  • TotalTerminal - System-wide terminal available on a hot-key.
  • Go2Shell - Opens a terminal window to the current directory in Finder.
  • Cathode - Vintage terminal for macOS.
  • Alacritty - Cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator.
  • Termite - Keyboard-centric terminal, aimed at use within a tiling window manager.
  • Cmder - Lovely console emulator package for Windows.
  • ConsoleZ - Windows console window enhancement. It is a fork of Console project.
  • Mosh - Remote terminal application that allows roaming and supports intermittent connectivity.
  • Tilix - Advanced GTK3 tiling terminal emulator that follows the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines.
  • Tilda - A Gtk based drop down terminal for Linux and Unix

Package Managers

Sexy package managers for your macOS, Linux & Windows CLIs.

  • Universal
    • guix - Functional package manager for installed software packages and versions.
    • nix - Powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible.
    • pip - Package management system used to install and manage software packages written in Python.
    • npmjs - Package manager for JavaScript.
    • duo - Next-generation package manager for the front-end.
    • basher - Package manager for shell scripts.
    • bpkg - JavaScript has npm, Ruby has Gems, Python has pip and now Shell has bpkg.
    • rubygems - The Ruby community’s gem hosting service.
    • composer - Composer is a package manager for PHP.
    • yarn - New package and dependency manager for javascript.
  • macOS
    • homebrew - Missing package manager for macOS.
    • fink - Wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and macOS.
    • macports - Package managemer that simplifies the installation of software on the macOS and Darwin operating systems.
  • Linux
    • linuxbrew - The Homebrew package manager for Linux.
    • pkgin - Aimed at being an apt / yum like tool for managing pkgsrc binary packages.
  • FreeBSD
    • pkg - Package management tool for FreeBSD.
  • Windows
    • oneget - PackageManagement (aka OneGet) is a package manager for Windows.
    • chocolatey - Package manager for Windows.
    • cygwin - Linux-like environment for Windows making it possible to port software running on POSIX systems to Windows.
    • ninite - Install and Update All Your Programs at Once.
    • ruckzuck - Software Package Manager for Windows, a quick way to install and update Software.
    • wpkg - Automated software deployment, upgrade and removal program for Windows.
    • scoop - Package manager for Windows.
    • babun - Preconfigured cygwin with an advance package manager - pact.

Text Editors

Sexy text editors for your Command Line Interface.

  • vim - Extensively configurable, cross-platform and highly efficient text editor.
    • SpaceVim - Community-driven vim distribution.
    • neovim - Literally the future of vim.
  • emacs - Cross-platform text-editor that has both command-line and graphical user interface.
    • spacemacs - Community-driven emacs distribution.
  • nano - Text editor for Unix-like computing systems or operating environments using a command line interface.
  • micro - Modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor.
  • jed - Freely available text editor for Unix, VMS, MSDOS, OS/2, BeOS, QNX, and win9X/NT platforms.
  • kakoune - Modal editor with multiple selections and orthogonal design.
  • vis - Highly efficient text editor.
  • slap - Sublime-like terminal-based text editor.

Tools and Plugins

Sexy Applications for your Command Line Interface.

  • haxor-news - Browse Hacker News like a haxor.
  • reddit terminal viewer - Browse Reddit from your terminal.
  • taskwarrior - Command-line TODO list manager.
  • transfer.sh - Quickly upload and share files from your shell.
  • whereami - Get your geolocation information from the CLI.
  • howdoi - Instant code answers and examples from the command line
  • htop - Cool looking and interactive process viewer 'replacement' for the top command.
  • lolcat - Rainbows and unicorns!
  • ack - Tool like grep, optimized for programmers.
  • the_silver_searcher - Code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster.
  • lunchy - Friendly wrapper for launchctl.
  • bro - Examples for command line programs.
  • tldr - Simplified and community-driven man pages.
  • tmux - Terminal multiplexer.
  • ranger - Console file manager with vi key bindings.
  • googler - Search Google from your terminal.
  • jq.node - Command-line JSON/string processor, JavaScript and Lodash in your shell.
  • screenfetch - Fetches system/theme information in terminal for Linux desktop screenshots.
  • neofetch - Fetches system/theme information in terminal for Linux desktop screenshots. Alternative to screenfetch.
  • jrnl - Simple command line journal application that stores your journal in a plain text file.
  • tig - Text mode interface for git.
  • vifm - Console file manager with vi key bindings and some ideas from mutt.
  • byobu - Byobu is an open source text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer.
  • autojump - cd command that learns
  • fzf - Command-line fuzzy finder.
  • wttr.in - The right way to check the weather.
  • getnews.tech - Checking the latest news headlines from various news outlets on the web.
  • hub - Command-line wrapper for git that makes working with GitHub easy.
  • exa - Replacement for 'ls' written in Rust.
  • homebrew-cask - CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries.
  • mps-youtube - Terminal based YouTube player and downloader
  • colorls - Beautify the terminal's ls command, with color and font-awesome icons.
  • buku - command-line bookmark manager.
  • youtube-dl - download videos from YouTube
  • wal - generate and change colorschemes on the fly.
  • streamlink - CLI for extracting streams from various websites to a video player of your choosing.

Communication

Sexy Tools for communicating through the Command Line Interface.

  • irssi - Self proclaimed client of the future and my favorite IRC client.
  • bitchx - Feature-rich and highly configurable, terminal based IRC client based on ircII.
  • centerim - Terminal based, multi-protocol Instant Messaging client with support for IRC.
  • weechat - Fast, light and extensible chat client.
  • epic - IRC client that has been under active development for 20+ years in 5 generations.
  • Slackadaisical - Simple Slack client for the CLI.
  • go-jira - Simple jira command line client in Go.

Community

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Other Sexy Lists

Here are some more sexy lists.

  • Awesome
    • awesome-devenv - Curated list of delightful Bash scripts and resources.
    • awesome-sysadmin - Curated list of amazingly awesome open source sysadmin resources.
    • awesome-zsh-plugins - Collection of ZSH frameworks, plugins & themes inspired by the various awesome list collections out there.
    • awesome-emacs - A community driven list of useful Emacs packages, libraries and others.
  • Misc

Contributing

Your contributions are always welcome! Please take a look at our contribution guidelines and code of conduct first.

Pull requests might be kept open if I haven't decided whether additions are sexy enough.