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Awesome Shell [![Awesome][awesome-badge]][awesome-link]

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-zsh]  [![Awesome][awesome-badge]][awesome-zsh]
• [Awesome Fish][awesome-fish] [![Awesome][awesome-badge]][awesome-fish]
• [Awesome Bash][awesome-bash] [![Awesome][awesome-badge]][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 rc shell
• fish - Smart and user-friendly command line shell
• ion - A modern system shell that features a simple, yet powerful, syntax. It is written entirely in Rust.
• ksh93 - Korn Shell
• mksh - MirBSD Korn Shell
• murex - A smarter shell and scripting environment with advanced features designed for usability, safety and productivity (eg smarter DevOps tooling)
• ngs - Fully featured scripting language created specifically for Ops. REPL is being developed.
• nushell - A modern shell written in Rust
• 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
• shell++ - Friendly and modern functional and object oriented shell script language
• 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
• 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.

• AdvancedNewFile - Fast creation of files and directories in a recursive way. Inspired by the Vim plugin.
• ag - Super fast string search through a directory hierarchy
• aliases - Contextual, dynamic, organized aliases for bash
• arttime - Beauty of text art meets functionality of clock, timer, pomodoro++ time manager
• autoenv - Directory-based environments.
• await - single binary that run list of commands in parallel and waits for their termination
• 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.
• bashhub - :cloud: Bash history in the cloud. Indexed and searchable.
• boilr - A blazingly fast CLI tool for creating projects from boilerplate templates.
• boom - Store links and snippets in the command line
• borg - A terminal based search engine for bash commands
• broot - A better way to navigate directories
• browsh - The modern text-based browser
• Buku - Powerful command-line bookmark manager
• byobu - Text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer
• cod — A completion daemon for shell that learns when you invoke --help commands
• CloudClip - Your own clipboard in the cloud, copy and paste text with gist between different systems
• ddgr - DuckDuckGo from the terminal
• desk - A lightweight workspace manager for the shell
• direnv - An environment switcher for the shell, compare with autoenv
• dnote - A simple command line notebook with multi-device sync and web interface
• eureka - :bulb: CLI tool to input and store your ideas without leaving the terminal
• fasd - Command-line productivity booster, offers quick access to files and directories
• fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.
• foxy - Plain text bookmarks for Firefox and surf browsers.
• fselect - Find files with SQL-like queries.
• funky - Extends functionality of shell functions making them more powerful and flexible.
• fz - Seamless fuzzy tab completion for z
• fzf - A command-line fuzzy finder
• gitmux - Show Git status in Tmux status bar
• googler - Google Search, Google Site Search, Google News from the terminal
• googlr - Command line tool that lets you search Google from your terminal.
• has - 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.
• navi - An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line
• hhighlighter - Colorize words in a command output
• hr - <hr /> for your terminal
• hss - An interactive parallel ssh client featuring autocomplete and asynchronous execution
• hstr - Bash History Suggest Box
• k - k is a Zsh script to make directory listings more readable, adding Git status, fileweight colors and rotting dates
• k alias - get kool aliases (and more) working with a simple one-liner
• lf - Terminal file manager written in Go, inspired by ranger
• lf.sh - Quickly search files with fewer typings and do many more (grepping, copying path to clipboard, etc)
• lowcharts - Draw low-resolution graphs in terminal
• Lmod - Lua-based Environment Modules that enhances Tcl-based modules while being backward compatible (compare to modules)
• loop - Write and control complex loops with as one-liners
• marker - Bookmark your shell commands
• mackup - Keep your application settings in sync (OS X/Linux)
• mcfly - Fly through your shell history. Great Scot!
• modules - Classical Tcl-based Environment Modules managing the shell environment (compare to Lmod, direnv, and autoenv)
• nnn - File browser and disk usage analyzer with excellent desktop integration
• 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.
• 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.
• pdd - Tiny date, time diff calculator with timers
• percol - Adds flavor of interactive filtering to the traditional pipe concept of UNIX shell
• q - Vim like macro registers for your Bash and Zsh Shell
• qfc - File-completion widget for Bash and Zsh
• resh - Contextual shell history for Zsh and Bash
• 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
• shell-history - Visualize your shell usage with Highcharts
• SHML - Style framework for the terminal (Shell Markup Language)
• slugify - Command that converts filenames and directories to a web friendly format
• sman - :bug: A command-line snippet manager
• spark - ▁▂▃▅▂▇ in your shell
• spark.fish - ▁▂▃▅ Sparkline Generator
• sheet - Text snippets for the command line
• spot - Tiny file search utility

• snips - Command line tool to manage snippets of code.

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

Directory Navigation

• aliasme - alias helper to change directory quickly
• autojump - A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line
• bashmarks - Directory bookmarks for the shell
• bd - Quickly go back to a parent directory
• commacd - A faster way to move around in Bash