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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
• Awesome Bash
• 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    317⭐     37🍴 rc) shell
• 🌎 fish - Smart and user-friendly command line shell
•   1640⭐    142🍴 ion) - A modern system shell that features a simple, yet powerful, syntax. It is written entirely in Rust.
•    604⭐    173🍴 ksh93) - Korn Shell
•    235⭐     43🍴 mksh) - MirBSD Korn Shell
•   1871⭐     38🍴 murex) - A smarter shell and scripting environment with advanced features designed for usability, safety and productivity (eg smarter DevOps tooling)
•   1518⭐     49🍴 ngs) - Fully featured scripting language created specifically for Ops. REPL is being developed.
•  39081⭐   2105🍴 nushell) - A modern shell written in Rust
•    432⭐     46🍴 oksh) - Portable OpenBSD ksh
• 🌎 osh - Bash compatible, with new/modern Unix shell language called Oil
• 🌎 pdksh - Public domain Korn shell
• 🌎 powershell a cross-platform task automation and configuration management framework, consisting of a command-line shell and scripting language
•    172⭐     10🍴 shell++) - Friendly and modern functional and object oriented shell script language
•     48⭐      3🍴 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
•    523⭐     44🍴 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.

•    292⭐      8🍴 AdvancedNewFile) - Fast creation of files and directories in a recursive way. Inspired by the Vim plugin.
•  27107⭐   1439🍴 ag) - Super fast string search through a directory hierarchy
•    623⭐     36🍴 aliases) - Contextual, dynamic, organized aliases for bash
•   1317⭐     24🍴 arttime) - Beauty of text art meets functionality of clock, timer, pomodoro++ time manager
•   6026⭐    268🍴 autoenv) - Directory-based environments.
•    255⭐      9🍴 await) - single binary that run list of commands in parallel and waits for their termination
•    827⭐     44🍴 bartib) - A simple timetracker for the command line. It saves a log of all tracked activities as a plaintext file and allows you to create flexible reports.
•   1302⭐     87🍴 bashhub) - ☁️ Bash history in the cloud. Indexed and searchable.
•   1759⭐    117🍴 boilr) - A blazingly fast CLI tool for creating projects from boilerplate templates.
•   1319⭐    116🍴 boom) - Store links and snippets in the command line
•   1610⭐     56🍴 borg) - A terminal based search engine for bash commands
•  12610⭐    286🍴 broot) - A better way to navigate directories
•  18742⭐    470🍴 browsh) - The modern text-based browser
•   7109⭐    315🍴 Buku) - Powerful command-line bookmark manager
• 🌎 byobu - Text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer
•    546⭐     22🍴 cod) — A completion daemon for shell that learns when you invoke --help commands
•     84⭐      8🍴 CloudClip) - Your own clipboard in the cloud, copy and paste text with gist between different systems
•   3289⭐    158🍴 ddgr) - DuckDuckGo from the terminal
•   2570⭐    112🍴 desk) - A lightweight workspace manager for the shell
•  14976⭐    777🍴 direnv) - An environment switcher for the shell, compare with autoenv
•   3026⭐    122🍴 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
•   5915⭐    235🍴 fasd) - Command-line productivity booster, offers quick access to files and directories
•  42610⭐   1041🍴 fd) - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.
•     45⭐      3🍴 foxy) - Plain text bookmarks for Firefox and surf browsers.
•   4419⭐     90🍴 fselect) - Find files with SQL-like queries.
•    669⭐     19🍴 funky) - Extends functionality of shell functions making them more powerful and flexible.
•    571⭐     29🍴 fz) - Seamless fuzzy tab completion for z
•  79637⭐   2785🍴 fzf) - A command-line fuzzy finder
•    777⭐     27🍴 gitmux) - Show Git status in Tmux status bar
•   6190⭐    534🍴 googler) - Google Search, Google Site Search, Google News from the terminal
•     50⭐      5🍴 googlr) - Command line tool that lets you search Google from your terminal.
•    806⭐     58🍴 has) - has helps you check presence of various command line tools and their versions on path
•   5777⭐    154🍴 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.
•  17036⭐    547🍴 navi) - An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line
•    493⭐     58🍴 hhighlighter) - Colorize words in a command output
•   1300⭐     62🍴 hr) - <hr /> for your terminal
•    379⭐     24🍴 hss) - An interactive parallel ssh client featuring autocomplete and asynchronous execution
•   4444⭐    238🍴 hstr) - Bash History Suggest Box
•   1814⭐    127🍴 k) - k is a Zsh script to make directory listings more readable, adding Git status, fileweight colors and rotting dates
•     25⭐      5🍴 k alias) - get kool aliases (and more) working with a simple one-liner
•   9220⭐    366🍴 lf) - Terminal file manager written in Go, inspired by ranger
•     44⭐      3🍴 lf.sh) - Quickly search files with fewer typings and do many more (grepping, copying path to clipboard, etc)
•    248⭐      5🍴 lowcharts) - Draw low-resolution graphs in terminal
• 🌎 Lmod - Lua-based Environment Modules that enhances Tcl-based modules while being backward compatible (compare to modules)
•    692⭐     27🍴 loop) - Write and control complex loops with as one-liners
•   2089⭐    107🍴 marker) - Bookmark your shell commands
•      ?⭐      ?🍴 mackup) - Keep your application settings in sync (OS X/Linux)
•   7696⭐    197🍴 mcfly) - Fly through your shell history. Great Scot!
• modules - Classical Tcl-based Environment Modules managing the shell environment (compare to Lmod, direnv, and autoenv)
•  21496⭐    803🍴 nnn) - File browser and disk usage analyzer with excellent desktop integration
•    102⭐      7🍴 ok-sh) - Do you work on many different projects? And in each project, are there commands you use that are specific to that project? You need a .ok file.
• 🌎 parallel - Build and execute shell command lines from standard input in parallel
• 🌎 pass - Manage passwords from the command line with GPG encryption and optional git integration.
•   5224⭐    280🍴 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.
•    405⭐     20🍴 pdd) - Tiny date, time diff calculator with timers
•   3329⭐    144🍴 percol) - Adds flavor of interactive filtering to the traditional pipe concept of UNIX shell
•     70⭐      7🍴 q) - Vim like macro registers for your Bash and Zsh Shell
•    582⭐     22🍴 qfc) - File-completion widget for Bash and Zsh
•   1051⭐     21🍴 resh) - Contextual shell history for Zsh and Bash
•  62679⭐   2503🍴 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
•    114⭐      0🍴 shell-history) - Visualize your shell usage with Highcharts
•    453⭐     14🍴 SHML) - Style framework for the terminal (Shell Markup Language)
•    317⭐     31🍴 slugify) - Command that converts filenames and directories to a web friendly format
•    302⭐     22🍴 sman) - 🐛 A command-line snippet manager
•   6059⭐    288🍴 spark) - ▁▂▃▅▂▇ in your shell
•    375⭐      6🍴 spark.fish) - ▁▂▃▅ Sparkline Generator
•    270⭐     11🍴 sheet) - Text snippets for the command line
•    955⭐     41🍴 spot) - Tiny file search utility

•     85⭐      5🍴 snips) - Command line tool to manage snippets of code.

•    656⭐    150🍴 sqlline) - Shell for issuing SQL to relational databases via JDBC (multiline, completion, highlighting, dialect support)
•   1204⭐    127🍴 sshfs) - A tool for mounting remote file systems over SSH
•    162⭐     21🍴 sudocabulary) - Learn English Vocabulary from your terminal
• 🌎 surfraw - browse specific site and search the web from your terminal without browser.
•     23⭐      2🍴 task-manager) - Execute all your scripts with just two or three keystrokes.
•    212⭐     11🍴 td-cli) - A todo command line manager to organize and manage your todos across multiple projects.
•   1797⭐     38🍴 tere) - A faster alternative to cd + ls
•  96610⭐   3924🍴 thefuck) - Fix common shell mistakes by using an easy to remember command
•    737⭐     49🍴 tldr) - A fully-functional bash client for tldr, simplified and community-driven man pages
• 🌎 tmux - Amazing terminal multiplexer
•    201⭐      5🍴 undollar) - undollar bites the dollar sign off the tip of the command you just pasted into your terminal
•   9922⭐    387🍴 usql) - Universal command-line interface for SQL databases.
•    462⭐     40🍴 v) - z for vim.
•   3672⭐    142🍴 wemux) - Multi-User Tmux Made Easy
•   3756⭐    207🍴 xiki) - Makes the shell console more friendly and powerful
•   4736⭐     90🍴 xplr) - A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer
•  10756⭐    329🍴 xsv) - a fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust
•   5976⭐    118🍴 xxh) - Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through the SSH.

Directory Navigation

•    122⭐     10🍴 aliasme) - alias helper to change directory quickly
•  16900⭐    709🍴 autojump) - A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line
•   1964⭐    293🍴 bashmarks) - Directory bookmarks for the shell
•    928⭐     67🍴 bd) - Quickly go back to a parent directory
•    371⭐     21🍴 commacd) - A faster way to move around in Bash
•   2693⭐    112🍴 enhancd) - 🚀 A next-generation cd command with an interactive filter
•    903⭐     64🍴 goto) - A shell utility for navigation to aliased directories supporting auto-completion
•   1919⭐     60🍴 jump) - Jump helps you navigate your file system faster by learning your habits.
•     24⭐      1🍴 lazy-cd) - Simple bash commands for bookmarked navigation of the file system, complete with bash-completion.
•    183⭐     10🍴 up) - Ascend directories by name or count; for bash, zsh, and fish.
•  16978⭐   1179🍴 z) - z is the new j, yo
•   3131⭐    145🍴 z.lua) - A new cd command that helps you navigate faster by learning your habits
•  35817⭐    798🍴 zoxide) - A faster way to navigate your filesystem, written in Rust
•    113⭐      5🍴 zpyi) - Python in Zsh - Easy python scripting in shell

Customization

Custom prompts, color themes, etc.

•    172⭐     32🍴 aphrodite-terminal-theme) — Minimalistic Aphrodite theme (prompt) for sexy terminals that works in bash, fish and zsh
•    454⭐     41🍴 base16-builder) - Base16-Builder
•    196⭐     43🍴 bash-full-of-colors) - Powerful prompt with screen, tmux, git support and many more
•   6911⭐    995🍴 bash-git-prompt) - An informative and fancy Bash prompt for Git users
•    907⭐    168🍴 bash-powerline) - Powerline-style Bash prompt in pure Bash script
•   1560⭐    121🍴 bashstrap) - A quick way to spruce up OSX terminal
•   2847⭐    376🍴 bullet-train-oh-my-zsh-theme) - 🚄 An oh-my-zsh shell theme based on the Powerline Vim plugin
•   1585⭐     69🍴 emojify) Emoji on the command line 😱
• 🌎 flatui-terminal-theme - Nicer colors for terminal
•    988⭐     94🍴 geometry) - A minimal ZSH theme where any function can be added to the left prompt or (async) right prompt on the fly.
•    328⭐     97🍴 git-prompt) - Bash prompt with Git, SVN and HG modules
•     79⭐      6🍴 gittify) - A colorful Bash prompt + customized Git aliases
•  10203⭐    630🍴 Gogh - Color Scheme) - Color Scheme for Gnome Terminal
•   4645⭐    420🍴 liquidprompt) - A full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh
•    107⭐     10🍴 mysql-colorize) - Colorization for mysql comand-line client
•   3710⭐    280🍴 oh-my-git) - An opinionated git prompt for bash and zsh
• 🌎 oh-my-posh - Prompt theme engine for any shell and platform written in go.
•    193⭐     15🍴 polyglot) - An informative Git prompt that works in bash, zsh, ksh, mksh, pdksh, oksh, dash, yash, busybox sh, and osh
•  53830⭐   2406🍴 powerlevel10k) - Super flexible awesome powerline ZSH theme
•   1153⭐    152🍴 sexy-bash-prompt) - Bash prompt with colors, Git statuses, and Git branches
• 🌎 starship - Fast, customisable, cross-shell prompt written in rust
•   1130⭐    239🍴 synth-shell) - Greeter with a customizable status report and a fancy bash prompt

For Developers

Command-line development, version control, and deployment.

• 🌎 1Password SSH Agent - Authenticate Git and SSH workflows with biometric unlock using 1Password
• 🌎 ack - A grep-like search tool optimized for source code.
•    718⭐     16🍴 add-gitignore) - Interactive CLI that generates a .gitignore for your project based on your needs.
•    688⭐     41🍴 bcal) - Byte CALculator for storage conversions and calculations
•    713⭐     30🍴 bitwise) - Terminal based interactive bit manipulator in curses.
•  12638⭐    757🍴 bocker) - Docker implemented in 100 lines of bash
•  22916⭐   1104🍴 cloc) - Count Lines of Code
•     47⭐      3🍴 doclt) - A command line interface to Digital Ocean
•  31874⭐   2028🍴 dokku) - Docker powered mini-Heroku. The smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seen.
•   4966⭐    156🍴 forgit) - Utility tool for git taking advantage of fuzzy finder fzf.
•   1146⭐     94🍴 git-extra-commands) - Many Git extra utilities. Churn, cut-branch, improved-merge and many more.
•  18026⭐   1220🍴 git-extras) - Git utilities -- repo summary, repl, changelog population, author commit percentages and more
•   3424⭐    261🍴 git-open) - Type git open to open the GitHub page or website for a repository in your browser
•   6965⭐    280🍴 git-quick-stats) - Git quick statistics is a simple and efficient way to access various statistics in git repository.
•    394⭐     45🍴 git-semver) - Git plugin for easing semantic versioning and changelog validation
•    747⭐     86🍴 git-sh) - A customized Bash environment suitable for Git work
•   1847⭐     87🍴 gita) - A command-line tool to manage multiple git repos.
•  22941⭐   2217🍴 hub) - hub helps you win at git.
•  32989⭐    769🍴 just) - Task runner for saving and running project-specific commands.
•     22⭐      2🍴 licins) - Insert commented software licenses into source code.
•    381⭐     22🍴 mkdkr) - Makefile + Docker = CI Pipeline
• 🌎 mr - Multiple Repository management tool
•    712⭐     13🍴 nve) - Run any command on specific Node.js versions.
•   3997⭐    281🍴 overcommit) - A fully configurable and extendable Git hook manager
• 🌎 pre-commit - A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks
•   4125⭐    384🍴 rebound) - Instantly browse Stack Overflow results in your terminal when you get a compiler error
•    371⭐     39🍴 repren) - Command-line search-and-replace and file-renaming swiss army knife
•   6184⭐    221🍴 slap) - Sublime-like terminal-based text editor that runs on Node.js
•    567⭐     37🍴 shipit) - Minimalistic SSH deployment
•    155⭐      6🍴 starring) - Automatically star the npm-packages that you are using on GitHub.
•    611⭐     30🍴 tag) - Instantly jump to your ag matches.
• 🌎 trunk - Blazingly fast meta code checker and formatter
•     65⭐     13🍴 vmn) - git-based automatic versioning and state recovery solution agnostic to language or architecture
•    356⭐      6🍴 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
•  58375⭐   1532🍴 bat) - A cat clone with wings
•   1365⭐    109🍴 bmon) - Real-time network bandwidth monitor and rate estimator with human-friendly visual output
•  31726⭐    983🍴 btop) - Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor
•    198⭐     18🍴 catcli) - The command line catalog tool for your offline data
•   3205⭐    123🍴 ccat) - ccat is the colorizing cat. It works similar to cat but displays content with syntax highlighting.
•  24420⭐    658🍴 exa) - A modern version of ls.
•   8831⭐    313🍴 progress) - Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, and more...
•   1177⭐    262🍴 stronghold) - Easily configure MacOS security settings from the terminal.
•  32296⭐   1724🍴 glances) - Glances an Eye on your system
•  20436⭐   1173🍴 goaccess) - GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems.
•   1935⭐    111🍴 hblock) - Hosts-file based adblocker
•     99⭐     18🍴 histstat) - History for netstat
•   5932⭐    576🍴 htop) - A ncurses based interactive process viewer which aims to be a better top
• 🌎 lnav - An advanced log file viewer for the small-scale
•    158⭐     23🍴 logdissect) - CLI utility and Python API for analyzing log files and other data.
•    513⭐     47🍴 ls++) - Colorized ls on steroids
•  15903⭐    498🍴 lsd) - LSDeluxe, rewrite of GNU ls with lot of added features like colors, icons, tree-view and more formatting options.
•    531⭐     12🍴 lsp) - An improved ls, with file descriptions in plain language and intelligent file grouping
•   1866⭐     71🍴 maza) - Local ad blocker. Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating system.
•   3207⭐    367🍴 mtr) - The functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool.
• 🌎 ncdu - NCurses Disk Usage
•    488⭐    203🍴 nmtui) - Text User Interface for controlling NetworkManager
•   1294⭐    140🍴 powertop) - Battery/Power usage and device stats monitoring command-line tool, with tune-up options.
•   1270⭐     77🍴 prettyping) - Making the output of ping prettier, more colorful, more compact, and easier to read.
•     78⭐      7🍴 procdog) - Lightweight command-line control of long-lived processes like servers
•    426⭐     50🍴 quick-secure) - Quickly secure and harden UNIX/Linux systems
•     34⭐      1🍴 rng) - Copy range of lines from file or stdin to stdout.
•   2031⭐     79🍴 tiptop) - Graphical command-line system monitor.
•     76⭐      7🍴 wifi-wand) - a Ruby command line application for managing WiFi on MacOS (install by gem install wifi-wand)
•   1154⭐     47🍴 xiringuito) - SSH-based "VPN for poors"

Downloading and Serving

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

•  40673⭐   3843🍴 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
•    869⭐     37🍴 balls) - Bash on Balls
•   1551⭐    202🍴 bashttpd) - A web server written in Bash
•    317⭐     25🍴 bashhub-server) - Private cloud shell history. Open source server for bashhub
•   1034⭐     78🍴 bitpocket) - "DIY Dropbox" or "2-way directory (r)sync with proper deletion"
•   6612⭐   1057🍴 Dropbox-Uploader) - Dropbox Uploader is a Bash script which can be used to upload, download, list or delete files from Dropbox
•  37954⭐   3911🍴 httpie) - HTTPie is a command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement
•   4174⭐    123🍴 HTTPLab) - The interactive web server, let you inspect HTTP requests and forge responses.
•    623⭐     33🍴 Kapow!) - If you can script it, you can HTTP it.
•    183⭐     11🍴 ngincat) - Tiny Bash HTTP server using netcat
•   2654⭐    141🍴 resty) - Little command line REST client that you can use in pipelines
•   1484⭐    145🍴 shell2http) - HTTP-server to execute shell commands. Designed for development, prototyping or remote control
•    140⭐     13🍴 tshare) - File sharing from commandline.
•    212⭐      8🍴 vesper) - 🍸Vesper is a HTTP framework for Bash/Unix Shell
•   7749⭐    124🍴 xh) - Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests
• 157730⭐  13014🍴 yt-dlp) - Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

Multimedia and File Formats

Tools for handling video and audio files.

•    116⭐     15🍴 adb-export) - Export Android content providers to CSV format
•   1069⭐    588🍴 Android-Kitchen) - A text-based kitchen for Android ROM customization. Uses shell scripts and works with Cygwin/OS X/Linux
•  15002⭐   2005🍴 Beets) - Music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger
•   6113⭐    512🍴 cmus) - Cross-platform cli audio player.
•   7915⭐    166🍴 dasel) - Query and update data structures using selectors from the command line. Comparable to  34487⭐   1769🍴 jq) /   2926⭐     84🍴 yq) but supports JSON, YAML, TOML and XML with zero runtime dependencies.
•    251⭐     20🍴 dzr) - Cross-platform Deezer.com audio player.
•  20417⭐    479🍴 fx) - Command-line JSON processing tool by anononymus JavaScript functions
•    566⭐     30🍴 gifgen) - Simple high quality GIF encoding
•    778⭐    103🍴 image-scraper) - A cool command line image scraper with a lot of features.
•   1088⭐     54🍴 imgp) - Blazing fast batch image resizer and rotator
•   8580⭐    239🍴 jc) - Convert command output, file-types, and common strings to JSON or YAML for easier use in scripts.
•   4871⭐    160🍴 jo) - A small utility to create JSON objects from command-line arguments.
•  34487⭐   1769🍴 jq) - Sed for json data. You can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data
•    384⭐     14🍴 korkut) - Quick and simple image processing at the command line.
•    476⭐     14🍴 library) - Create SQLITE databases for folders of music, video, images, or online media. Play and track media like Plex but a CLI-only interface with many sorting options.
• 🌎 mpv - Lets you play most audio and video formats (using ASCII characters) in the shell as well as in a GUI.
•     86⭐      7🍴 nehm) - Console tool, which downloads, sets IDv3 tags and adds to your iTunes (if you use it) your SoundCloud likes in convenient way
•   1797⭐    264🍴 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)
•   9031⭐    343🍴 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.
•  15258⭐    762🍴 yq) - yq is a portable command-line YAML processor

Applications

Command line-based applications or command line access to existing services.

•   1939⭐    145🍴 ansiweather) - Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols
•   4974⭐    258🍴 awless) - A powerful, innovative and small surface CLI to manage AWS.
•   1769⭐    238🍴 bashblog) - A Bash script that handles blog posting
•   6012⭐    126🍴 carbon-now-cli) - 🎨 Beautiful images of your code — from right inside your terminal.
•     78⭐      3🍴 choosealicense-cli) - Choose an OSS license from the comfort of your terminal
•   4387⭐    354🍴 cointop) - The fastest and most interactive terminal based UI application for tracking cryptocurrencies
•   1157⭐     64🍴 dstask) - Single binary terminal-based TODO manager with git-based sync + markdown notes per task
•   5381⭐    367🍴 editly) - Command line video editor
•    400⭐     36🍴 facebook-cli) - Facebook command line tool
•   1536⭐    145🍴 fanyi) - Translate English to Chinese in terminal
•   3694⭐    334🍴 gcalcli) - Google Calendar command line interface
•   2095⭐    328🍴 geeknote) - Command line evernote client
•   4089⭐    167🍴 haxor-news) - Browse Hacker News like a haxor
•    468⭐     18🍴 hn-cli) - Browse Hacker News from the comfort of your Terminal
•    332⭐     23🍴 iponmap) - Draw point on world map using ip address
•     68⭐      2🍴 isitup) - Check whether a website is up or down
•   7210⭐    548🍴 jrnl) - A simple command line journal application that stores your journal in a plain text file
•    941⭐     61🍴 kanban.bash) - commandline asciii kanban board for minimalist productivity bash hackers (csv-based)
•   5912⭐    538🍴 ledger) - Command line accounting
•     39⭐      4🍴 licen) - Generate your license. Yet another lice, but implement with Jinja2 and docopt
•     38⭐      1🍴 md2png) - Convert markdown to PNG image
•    226⭐     20🍴 moviemon) - Everything about your movies within the command line.
•    710⭐     24🍴 nomino) - Batch rename utility using regex, sort and map file options.
•    591⭐     26🍴 pcalc) - Calculator made for programmers working with multiple number representations, sizes, and overall close to the bits.
•    501⭐     34🍴 pockyt) - Read, Manage, and Automate your 🌎 Pocket collection.
•     99⭐      8🍴 pushblast) - Get PushBullet notifications when a shell program exits
•    236⭐     42🍴 pushbullet-bash) - Bash interface to the PushBullet API
•  17139⭐    927🍴 ranger) - A console file manager with VI key bindings.
•   4641⭐    281🍴 Reddit Terminal Viewer) - Browse Reddit from your terminal
•   5306⭐    281🍴 SAWS) - A Supercharged AWS CLI
•   9306⭐    394🍴 taskbook) - Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat
• 🌎 taskwarrior - A command-line TODO list manager
•    902⭐     35🍴 terjira) - Command line power tool for Jira
•   6053⭐    327🍴 ticker) — Terminal stock ticker with live updates and position tracking
•     29⭐      3🍴 vl) - URL link checker on text documents
•   8426⭐    504🍴 wego) - Weather app for the terminal
•    392⭐     19🍴 whales) - A tool to automatically dockerize your applications
•    172⭐     11🍴 whereami) - Get your geolocation information from the CLI
•  29383⭐   1226🍴 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.

•    911⭐    201🍴 bash2048) - Bash implementation of 2048 game
•     67⭐     27🍴 minesweeper) - Bash implementation of minesweeper
•    371⭐     67🍴 nudoku) - ncurses based sudoku game written in C
•    745⭐     36🍴 piu-piu) - Horizontal scroller game in bash with multiplayer mode!
•    567⭐     43🍴 sedtris) - Tetris in sed
•     45⭐      5🍴 sed-scripts) - Arkanoid and Sokoban written using sed
• 🌎 SHTAP - Reusable text adventure engine for Bash 4
•    343⭐     37🍴 tty-solitaire) - Play solitaire in your terminal!

Shell Package Management

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

•  15029⭐   2308🍴 bash-it) - A community Bash framework
•   1279⭐     78🍴 basher) - A package manager for shell scripts
•     83⭐      9🍴 bashing) - Smashing Bash into Pieces
• 🌎 bpkg - JavaScript has npm, Ruby has Gems, Python has pip and now Shell has bpkg
•   1907⭐    109🍴 dotdrop) - Save your dotfiles once, deploy them everywhere
•    250⭐     32🍴 dotfiler) – Shell agnostic git based dotfiles package manager, written in Python.
•   1218⭐     86🍴 fresh) - Keep your dotfiles fresh
•   2187⭐    149🍴 homeshick) - Git dotfile synchronizer written in Bash
•   1320⭐    265🍴 shallow-backup) - Easily create lightweight documentation of installed packages, dotfiles, and more
•     84⭐      4🍴 shundle) - Plugin manager for shell scripts
•   2256⭐    127🍴 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

•    805⭐     59🍴 ansi) - ANSI escape codes in pure bash - change text color, position the cursor, much more
•    492⭐     56🍴 assert.sh) - Bash unit testing framework
•    292⭐     23🍴 bashew) - bash script creator - from small stand-alone script to complex projects with CI/CD and testing
•    620⭐     65🍴 bashful) - A collection of libraries to simplify writing Bash scripts
•     81⭐      3🍴 Bashlets) - A modular extensible toolbox for Bash
• 🌎 bashly - Bash command line framework and CLI generator
•    101⭐     11🍴 bashmanager) - mini bash framework for creating command line tools
•     34⭐      4🍴 bashwithnails) - a Bash framework written just for fun with testing, dependency management & packaging
•   2675⭐    143🍴 bash-language-server) - 🌎 LSP-based Bash language server
•    149⭐     15🍴 bash-modules) - functions for developing with unofficial strict mode enabled.
•   5989⭐    478🍴 bats) - Bash Automated Testing System
•    344⭐     29🍴 composure) - Compose, document, version and organize your shell functions
•     69⭐      4🍴 crash) - Proper error handling, exceptions and try/catch for ZSH
•    456⭐     11🍴 critic.sh) - Dead simple testing framework for Bash with coverage reporting
•     87⭐      4🍴 dispatch) - A command line argument parser in 50 lines of portable shell script.
•    235⭐     18🍴 esh) - A simple templating engine based on shell, implemented in ~290 lines of POSIX shell and awk.
•    379⭐     20🍴 Fishtape) - TAP producer and test harness for fish
•    510⭐     32🍴 getoptions) - An elegant option parser for shell scripts (sh, bash and all POSIX shells)
•    236⭐      6🍴 getopts.fish) - CLI parser for fish
•    174⭐     11🍴 is.sh) - An alternative for builtin test command, it will make your "if" statements pretty
•     46⭐      3🍴 lumberjack) - A logging interface for shell scripts
•    602⭐     69🍴 mo) - Mustache templates in pure bash
•    164⭐     31🍴 optparse) - A BASH wrapper for getopts, for simple command line arguments.
•    462⭐     60🍴 rerun) - A modular shell automation framework to organize your keeper scripts
•    160⭐     23🍴 revolver) - A reusable progress spinner for shell scripts
•     15⭐      1🍴 phases) - Minimally invasive bash preprocessor, select sections of your script to run
•    168⭐     13🍴 powscript) - bash transpiler written in bash (coffeescript for bash)
•    268⭐     56🍴 semver_bash) - Semantic Versioning in Bash
•     29⭐      7🍴 sh-semver) - Semver tool for bash - finds versions matching to specified rules
•  39294⭐   1910🍴 shellcheck) - Static analysis tool for shell scripts
•   1225⭐     49🍴 shellfire) - A repository of namespaced, composable shell (bash, sh and dash) function libraries
•   1362⭐     77🍴 shellspec) - A full-featured BDD unit testing framework for dash, bash, ksh, zsh and all POSIX shells
•   8682⭐    393🍴 shfmt) - A shell parser, formatter, and interpreter with bash support; includes shfmt
•    386⭐     25🍴 shpec) - A shell testing framework
• 🌎 shutit - Automation framework based on bash and pexpect
•   1761⭐    145🍴 sub) - A delicious way to organize programs
•     62⭐      9🍴 ts) - A shell test script
•      ?⭐      ?🍴 urchin) - An idiomatic shell testing framework that uses only shell commands
•   1728⭐    201🍴 shunit2) - A unit test framework for Bash scripts with a flavour of JUnit/PyUnit.
•     79⭐     10🍴 rebash) - Scripting library/framework. Features: imports, exceptions, doc-tests ...
•    223⭐     26🍴 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)
• 160728⭐  14804🍴 The Art of Command Line)
• 🌎 Learn Enough Command Line to Be Dangerous
•  12259⭐   1045🍴 A guide to learn bash)
• 🌎 Shell Field Guide

Other Awesome Lists

Other amazingly awesome lists can be found in   3130⭐    289🍴 awesome-awesome) and  33372⭐   3589🍴 awesome-awesomeness).

See also

•  19362⭐   1262🍴 awesome-cli-apps)
• awesome-fish
• awesome-zsh
• awesome-bash
•  12954⭐    642🍴 terminals-are-sexy)

Source

 36799⭐   2500🍴 alebcay/awesome-shell)