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Awesome Command Line Utilities

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CSV

  • xsv - Fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust.
  • csvdiff - Fast diff tool for comparing csv files.
  • sc-im - ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal.

File system

  • modd - Flexible tool for responding to filesystem changes.
  • reflex - Run a command when files change.

Fun

  • primitive - reproducing images with geometric primitives.

Games

  • love - Framework to make 2D games in Lua.

Git

  • fac - Easy-to-use CUI for fixing git conflicts.
  • git - The stupid content tracker.
  • hub - Wrapper around Git to extend it with features.
  • tig - Text-mode interface for git.

Go

  • dep - Go dependency management tool.
  • go - Manage go source code.
  • playgo - Send .go file to the Go Playground.
  • richgo - Enrich go test outputs with text decorations.

Java

  • ant - Java based make tool.
  • java-repl - Read Eval Print Loop for Java.

Lua

  • lua - Lua interpreter.
  • luajit - Just-in-time compiler for the lua language.

macOS

  • asr - Apple Software Restore; copy volumes (e.g. from disk images).
  • defaults - Access user's defaults.
  • do-not-disturb - Control the macOS Do Not Disturb feature.
  • kexstat - Display status of loaded kernel extensions.
  • m-cli - Swiss Army Knife for macOS.
  • PlistBuddy - Read and write values to plists.
  • softwareupdate - System software update tool.
  • iStats - Mac stats.
  • mas - Command line interface for the Mac App Store.
  • time
  • switchaudio-osx - Change the audio source for Mac OS X from the command line.
  • displayplacer - macOS command line utility to configure multi-display resolutions and arrangements. Essentially XRandR for macOS.

Networking

  • Catflap - Creates a listening TCP socket and passes its FD to a child process.
  • curlie - Power of curl, the ease of use of httpie.
  • sshfs - Network filesystem client to connect to SSH servers.
  • telnet - User interface to the TELNET protocol.
  • bandwhich - CLI utility for displaying current network utilization by process, connection and remote IP/hostname.
  • httpie - Modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era.
  • http-prompt - Interactive command-line HTTP and API testing tool built on top of HTTPie with autocomplete, syntax highlighting, and more.

Nix

  • nix-env - Manipulate or query Nix user environments.
  • nix-shell - Start an interactive shell based on a Nix expression.
  • nox - Tools to make nix nicer to use.

Package managers

  • brew - Package manager for macOS.
  • npm - Package manager for javascript.
  • yarn - Package manager for javascript.

Productivity

  • eureka - CLI tool to input and store your ideas without leaving the terminal.

Python

  • livepython - Visually trace python code in real-time.
  • rq - Simple job queues for Python.
  • tg - Telegram terminal client.
  • visa-cli - Visa Requirements terminal interface.

Ruby

  • rbenv - Groom your app’s Ruby environment.
  • ruby-build - Compile and install Ruby.

Rust

Static website engines

  • hugo - Static site generator written in go.
  • jekyll - Static site generator written in ruby.

Text editors

  • kakoune - Modal editor with multi selections.
  • micro - Modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor.
  • emacs - Extendable/customizable text editor.
  • neovim - Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability.
  • vim - Modal text editor.

Web

  • create-react-app - Create React apps with no build configuration.
  • preact - Create preact app.
  • up - Deploy infinitely scalable serverless apps, apis, and sites in seconds to AWS.
  • urlsup - CLI to validate URLs in files.

Other

  • zenith - Sort of like top or htop but with zoom-able charts, network, and disk usage.
  • grcov - Collects and aggregates code coverage information for multiple source files.
  • wtf - Personal information dashboard for your terminal.
  • navi - Interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line.
  • zoxide - cd command that learns your habits.
  • pastefile - Create a file that contains the contents from the clipboard.
  • ran - Simple static web server written in Go.
  • watchexec - Executes commands in response to file modifications.
  • procs - Modern replacement for ps written in Rust.
  • termdash - Terminal based dashboard.
  • yq - Portable command-line YAML processor.
  • squeeze - Enables to extract rich information from any text (raw, JSON, HTML, YAML, etc).
  • amber - Code search / replace tool.
  • Pueue - Daemon for managing long running shell commands.
  • mmv - Rename multiple files using your $EDITOR.
  • jq - Command-line JSON processor. (Mastering JQ)
  • jq in Go - Pure Go implementation of jq.
  • faq - Format Agnostic jQ.
  • gomi - Trash can in CLI.
  • jql - Easy JSON Query Processor with a Lispy syntax in Go.
  • linkchecker - Check links in web documents or full websites.
  • brok - Find broken links in text documents. (HN)
  • broot - New way to see and navigate directory trees.
  • chars - Display names and codes for various ASCII (and unicode) characters / code points.
  • diskus - Minimal, fast alternative to du -sh.
  • glow - Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz.
  • dtool - Collection of development tools.
  • uni - Query the Unicode database from the commandline, with good support for emojis.
  • viu - Command-line application to view images from the terminal written in Rust.
  • tealdeer - Very fast implementation of tldr in Rust.
  • xcp - Extended cp.
  • pazi - Fast autojump helper.
  • cbf - Build custom CLI apps with only a json or yaml file.
  • rga - Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz, etc.
  • hunter - Ranger-like file browser written in rust.
  • ytop - TUI system monitor written in Rust.
  • noti - Monitor a process and trigger a notification.
  • red - Terminal log analysis tools.
  • ffsend - Easily and securely share files from the command line. A fully featured Firefox Send client.
  • adns - Advanced, easy to use, asynchronous-capable DNS client library and utilities.
  • advancecomp - Collection of recompression utilities for your .ZIP archives, .PNG snapshots, .MNG video clips and .GZ files.
  • ag - Recursively search for pattern.
  • Antibody - Fastest shell plugin manager.
  • aria2A - Lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility.
  • asciinema - Terminal session recorder.
  • asdf - Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more.
  • aspcud - Solver for package dependencies.
  • automake - Automatically create Makefile.in's from Makefile.am's.
  • basename - Strip directory and suffix from filenames.
  • bash - GNU Bourne-Again SHell.
  • camlp4 - Software system for writing extensible parsers for programming languages.
  • ccat - Colorizing cat.
  • chroma - General purpose syntax highlighter in pure Go.
  • chrome-cli - Control Google Chrome from the command line.
  • cmake - Cross-platform makefile generator.
  • cowyo - Feature rich wiki webserver for minimalists.
  • croc - Easily get things from one computer to another.
  • ctop - Container metric viewer.
  • curl - Transfer a URL.
  • direnv - Unclutter your .profile.
  • dirname - Strip last component from file name.
  • docker - Self-sufficient runtime for containers.
  • entr - Run arbitrary commands when files change. (Article) (Code)
  • eisd - Execute your favorite command in SubDirectories.
  • fasd - Quick access to files and directories.
  • fd - Simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'.
  • ffmpeg - Video converter.
  • fkill - Kill processes.
  • friendly-find - Usable replacement for find.
  • fzf - Command-line fuzzy finder.
  • fzy - Better fuzzy finder.
  • gdbm - Library of database functions that use extensible hashing and work similar to the standard UNIX dbm.
  • gifski - GIF encoder. Squeezes maximum possible quality from the awful GIF format.
  • goaccess - Real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in nix systems or through your browser.
  • gotty - Share your terminal as a web application.
  • GraphicsMagick - Swiss army knife of image processing.
  • hask-replace - Command-line tool to rename modules in Haskell projects.
  • hexyl - Command-line hex viewer.
  • htttpie - HTTP client.
  • hyperfine - Command-line benchmarking tool.
  • temci - Advanced benchmarking tool written in Python 3 that supports setting up an environment for benchmarking and the generation of visually appealing reports.
  • imgur-screenshot - Take screenshot selection, upload to Imgur. + more cool things.
  • jq - Lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor.
  • jump - Helps you navigate faster by learning your habits.
  • just - Handy way to save and run project-specific commands.
  • kubectl - Kubernetes cluster manager.
  • less - Free, open-source file pager.
  • license-up - Create a license quickly for a given name.
  • LicGD - Open source code library for the dynamic creation of images by programmers.
  • loc - Count lines of code quickly.
  • mackup - Keep your application settings in sync (OS X/Linux).
  • make - GNU make utility to maintain groups of programs.
  • massren - Easily rename multiple files using your text editor.
  • mediumexporter - Export medium.com articles to markdown.
  • moreutils - Growing collection of the unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago when unix was young.
  • mycli - Terminal Client for MySQL with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting.
  • ncdu - Disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface.
  • neofetch - Displays information about your operating system, software and hardware in an aesthetic and visually pleasing way.
  • ninja - Small build system with a focus on speed.
  • nm - Display name list (symbol table).
  • nmap - Network mapper.
  • pgcli - Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
  • pkg - Package your node.js project into an executable.
  • pngquant - Command-line utility and a library for lossy compression of PNG images.
  • pspg - Postgres Pager.
  • pv - Pipe Viewer.
  • rclone - Rsync for cloud storage.
  • rename - Renames files according to modification rules specified on the command line.
  • scipy - Open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering.
  • scons - Software construction tool.
  • skim - Fuzzy Finder in rust.
  • snallygaster - Tool to scan for secret files on HTTP servers.
  • spark - Sparklines for your shell.
  • spotify-ripper - Rip Spotify URIs to MP3 files.
  • static-docs - General-purpose library, purpose-built commands for various domains.
  • stow - Symlink farm manager program.
  • svgcleaner - Clean up your SVG files from the unnecessary data.
  • tar - Manipulate tape archives.
  • tin-summer - Find build artifacts that are taking up disk space.
  • tokei - Display statistics about your code. (Reddit)
  • visidata - Terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data.
  • vsce - Publish VS Code extensions.
  • warp - Secure and simple terminal sharing.
  • weather - Weather via the command line.
  • wego - Weather app for the terminal.
  • wifi-password - Get wifi pass.
  • you-get - Dumb downloader that scrapes the web.
  • dust - More intuitive version of du in rust.
  • mdcat - cat for Markdown.
  • exa - Replacement for ls written in Rust.
  • sd - Intuitive find & replace CLI.
  • ack - Grep-like text finder.
  • alias - Define or display aliases.
  • apropos - Search the manual page names and descriptions.
  • awk - Pattern-directed scanning and processing language.
  • bc - Arbitrary precision calculator language.
  • cat - Concatenate and print files.
  • cd - Change Directory.
  • chmod - Change file mode bits.
  • cp - Copy files and directories.
  • cron - Daemon to execute scheduled commands.
  • cut - Cut out selected portions of each line of a file.
  • diff - Compare files line by line.
  • echo - Write arguments to the standard output.
  • env - Set environment and execute command, or print environment.
  • file - Determine file type.
  • find - Walk a file hierarchy.
  • gnuplot - Generate two and three dimensional plots of data.
  • grep - File pattern searcher.
  • head - Output the first part of files.
  • jobs - Display status of jobs in the current session.
  • join - Join lines of two files on a common field.
  • kill - Send a signal to a process.
  • killall - Kill processes by name.
  • ln - Create symbolic links.
  • ls - List directory contents.
  • lsof - List open files.
  • man - Open manual pages.
  • mv - Move (rename) files.
  • nice - Execute a utility with an altered scheduling priority.
  • nohup - Run a command immune to hangups, with output to a non-tty.
  • paste - Merge lines of files.
  • rm - Remove directory entries.
  • rmdir - Remove empty directories.
  • scp - Secure copy (remote file copy program).
  • screen - Screen manager.
  • sed - Stream editor.
  • set - Set or unset options and positional parameters.
  • sort - Put the lines of a text file in alphanumeric order.
  • split - Split a file into pieces.
  • ssh - Remote login.
  • strings - Print the strings of printable characters in files.
  • tail - Output the last part of files.
  • top - Display and update sorted information about processes.
  • touch - Change file timestamps.
  • tr - Translate or delete characters.
  • tree - List contents of directories in a tree-like format.
  • type - Describe a command.
  • uniq - Report or omit repeated lines.
  • uptime - Tell how long the system has been running.
  • wc - Print newline, word, and byte counts for each file.
  • whoami - Print effective userid.
  • whois - Client for the whois directory service.
  • habitctl - Minimalist command line tool you can use to track and examine your habits.
  • jwt-cli - Super fast CLI tool to decode and encode JWTs built in Rust.
  • rtss - Relative TimeStamps for Stuff.
  • jc - Serializes the output of popular gnu linux command line tools and file types to structured JSON output. This allows piping of output to tools like jq.
  • psrecord - Record the CPU and memory activity of a process.
  • bottom - Cross-platform graphical process/system monitor with a customizable interface and a multitude of features.
  • undent - Unindent text/code.
  • misspell - Correct commonly misspelled English words in source files.
  • rargs - Kind of xargs + awk with pattern-matching support.
  • dupe-krill - Fast file deduplicator.
  • fcat - Cat implementation in Rust. Only works on Linux.
  • lorem - Python lorem ipsum generator.
  • miller - Like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON.
  • kickstart - Scaffolding tool to get new projects up and running quickly.
  • scc - Very fast accurate code counter with complexity calculations and COCOMO estimates.
  • gf - Wrapper around grep, to help you grep for things.
  • godu - Simple golang utility helping to discover large files/folders.
  • now - Develop. Preview. Ship.
  • nomino - Batch rename utility for developers.
  • hex - Futuristic take on hexdump, made in Rust.
  • url-parser - Command-line URL parser, written in Go.
  • luneta - Interactive filter that can be easily composed within any script.
  • spin - Simple scaffolding tool.
  • as-tree - Print a list of paths as a tree of paths.
  • wifi-password - Quickly share Wi-Fi connection info.
  • delta - Syntax-highlighter for git and diff output.
  • fzz - Allows you to change the input of a single command interactively.
  • angle-grinder - Slice and dice logs on the command line.
  • github-stats - Command-line tool to get the total traffic statistics of your GitHub repositories.
  • map - Map lines from stdin to commands.
  • JQL - JSON Query Language CLI tool built with Rust.
  • jiq - jid on jq - interactive JSON query tool using jq expressions.
  • ijq - Interactive jq tool. Like jqplay for the command line.
  • rex - Command line playground for regular expressions.
  • PWatch - Process Watcher.
  • Rdfind - Command line tool that finds duplicate files.
  • bfs - Breadth-first search for your files.
  • Choose - Human-friendly and fast alternative to awk and cut. (HN)
  • yj - Convert YAML <=> TOML <=> JSON <=> HCL.
  • buku - Browser-independent bookmark manager.
  • twf - Standalone tree view file explorer, inspired by fzf.
  • hostblock - Simple terminal interface for blocking websites via the /etc/hosts file.
  • ugrep - Ultra fast grep with interactive query UI.
  • sad - CLI search and replace. Show you a nice diff of proposed changes before you commit them.
  • wfh - Continuously watches your local directories and rsync them against a remote host.
  • drep - Grep with dynamic reloadable filter expressions. This allows filtering stream of logs/lines, while changing filters on the fly.
  • teip - Select partial standard input and replace with the result of another command.
  • Got - Simple and fast concurrent downloader.
  • duf - Disk Usage/Free Utility.
  • espanso - Cross-platform Text Expander written in Rust.
  • huniq - Command line utility to remove duplicates from the given input. Note that huniq does not sort the input, it just removes duplicates.
  • RustScan - Modern Port Scanner.
  • nat - Complete replacement for the 'ls' command.
  • csvq - SQL-like query language for csv.
  • gping - Ping, but with a graph.
  • FClones - Efficient Duplicate File Finder.
  • googler - Google from the terminal.
  • Proji - Powerful cross-platform CLI project templating tool.
  • dasel - Allows you to query and modify data structures using selector strings.
  • McFly - Fly through your shell history.
  • pbgopy - Copy and paste between devices.
  • prism - RTMP stream recaster / splitter.
  • menyoki - Screen{shot,cast} and perform ImageOps on the command line. (Web)
  • projen - Define and maintain complex project configuration through code.
  • lsd - Next gen ls command.
  • ls-lint - Extremely fast directory and filename linter - Bring some structure to your project directories. (Docs)
  • lychee - Fast, async, resource-friendly link checker written in Rust.
  • vgrep - User-friendly pager for grep.
  • urlhunter - Recon tool that allows searching on URLs that are exposed via shortener services.
  • rip - Safe and ergonomic alternative to rm.
  • Orderly - Tool that provides ordered and controlled start, stop, restart and cleanup of a group of processes.
  • Ruplacer - Find and replace text in source files.
  • Graphtage - Semantic diff utility and library for tree-like files such as JSON, JSON5, XML, HTML, YAML, and CSV.

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