productivity,h-m-m,,https://github.com/nadrad/h-m-m,"h-m-m (pronounced like the interjection ""hmm"") is a simple, fast, keyboard-centric terminal-based tool for working with mind maps."
networking,ipcalc,http://jodies.de/ipcalc,,"""ipcalc takes an IP address and netmask and calculates the resulting broadcast, network, Cisco wildcard mask, and host range."" "
networking,ipcalc,http://jodies.de/ipcalc,https://github.com/kjokjo/ipcalc,"""ipcalc takes an IP address and netmask and calculates the resulting broadcast, network, Cisco wildcard mask, and host range."" "
networking,PSSH,https://code.google.com/archive/p/parallel-ssh/,,"PSSH provides parallel versions of OpenSSH and related tools. Included are pssh, pscp, prsync, pnuke, and pslurp. The project includes psshlib which can be used within custom applications."
networking,rtop,http://www.rtop-monitor.org/,,"rtop is a simple, agent-less, remote server monitoring tool that works over plain SSH. Written in golang, it does not need any software to be installed on the server that you want to monitor. It works by establishing an SSH session, and running commands on the remote server to collect system metrics."
networking,rtop,http://www.rtop-monitor.org/,https://github.com/rapidloop/rtop,"rtop is a simple, agent-less, remote server monitoring tool that works over plain SSH. Written in golang, it does not need any software to be installed on the server that you want to monitor. It works by establishing an SSH session, and running commands on the remote server to collect system metrics."
networking,geoiplookup,,https://github.com/maxmind/geoip-api-c,a little application to find geographical and network information of an IP address based no the geoip C API.
networking,quickserve,,https://github.com/charliesome/quickserve,"Quickserve is a very simple HTTP server written in Python that is intended for quickly sharing files on an ad-hoc basis. Aside from opening a port in your firewall if you have one, quickserve requires no set-up and should work with no hassle."
text-search,ack,http://beyondgrep.com/,,"A tool like `grep` optimized for programmers; written in Perl, it speeds up searches thanks to skipping non interesting directories, such as `.git`."
text-search,ack,http://beyondgrep.com/,https://github.com/beyondgrep/ack3,"A tool like `grep` optimized for programmers; written in Perl, it speeds up searches thanks to skipping non interesting directories, such as `.git`."
text-search,ag,,https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher,"(The silver searcher) is a text search utility targeted to source code; it skips versioning systems data directories; it is inspired by `ack`, but faster."
text-search,paragrep,http://software.clapper.org/paragrep/,,Greps regular expressions in a text file(s) and prints out the paragraphs containing those expressions; a paragraph is defined as a block of text delimited by an empty or blank line; fully customizable via command line parameters.
text-search,sift,https://sift-tool.org/,,"Fast and powerful open source alternative to grep; it targets flexibility and performance: can be as fast as ""regular"" grep and allows to specify complex expressions to find text."
text-search,paragrep,http://software.clapper.org/paragrep/,https://github.com/bmc/paragrep,Greps regular expressions in a text file(s) and prints out the paragraphs containing those expressions; a paragraph is defined as a block of text delimited by an empty or blank line; fully customizable via command line parameters.
text-search,sift,https://sift-tool.org/,https://github.com/svent/sift,"Fast and powerful open source alternative to grep; it targets flexibility and performance: can be as fast as ""regular"" grep and allows to specify complex expressions to find text."
text-processing,ccat,,https://github.com/jingweno/ccat,A `cat` command with colorized output.
text-processing,fzf,,https://github.com/junegunn/fzf,(FuZzy Finder) is a general-purpose command-line finder with fuzzy search/filter capabilities; good integration with `vim`.
text-processing,grc,,https://github.com/pengwynn/grc,(Generic Colouriser) can be configured to parse a given text stream and to colorize it according to regexp written in configuration files; different patterns can be associated to file types.
data-management,jq,https://stedolan.github.io/jq/,https://github.com/stedolan/jq,"(JSON Query?) is sed-like processor for JSON data; can be used to process JSON files and data streams and perform operations such as those allowed by `cat`, `sed`, `grep` and `awk` on regular text files."
text-processing,percol,,https://github.com/mooz/percol,"A Python script that ""1) receives input lines from `stdin` or a file, 2) lists the input lines and waits for input that filter/select the line(s), 3) outputs the selected line(s) to `stdout`""; can be used to add interactivity to many regular shell commands."
text-processing,pick,,https://github.com/calleerlandsson/pick,Utility that allows users to choose one option from a set of choices using an interface with fuzzy search functionality.
data-management,q,http://harelba.github.io/q/,,"Executes SQL-like queries on CSVs/TSVs tabular data files; each tabular file is treated as a database table; support to all SQL constructs (`WHERE`, `GROUP BY`, `JOIN`)."
font,FIGlet,http://www.figlet.org/,,"Not exactly a font manager, but a nice program for making large letters out of ordinary text; an astonishing number of different fonts is available."
font,toilet,http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/toilet,,"A program that tries to improve `FIGlet`; can load FIGlet fonts; supports Unicode input and output, colour fonts and output, and various output formats, including HTML, IRC and ANSI; uses `libcaca` to produce nice textual effects."
editors,Emacs,https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/,,One of the godfathers of text editors; free long-standing software project; tons of extensions and funcionalities; the biggest drawback (my taste): it needs [E-Lisp](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/eintr.html) for being programmed.
editors,jed,http://www.jedsoft.org/jed/index.html,,A text editor with a drop-down menu facility that make it especially user-friendly.
editors,joe,http://joe-editor.sourceforge.net/,,(Joe's Own Editor) is a compact text editor written in C; a detailed list of features and missing ones is explicitly reported in the website; this editor is mentioned in several web sources for its capability in handling large files.
editors,nano,https://www.nano-editor.org/,,"Easy to use, lightweigth text editor; no complex keybindings to remember."
data-management,q,http://harelba.github.io/q/,https://github.com/harelba/q,"Executes SQL-like queries on CSVs/TSVs tabular data files; each tabular file is treated as a database table; support to all SQL constructs (`WHERE`, `GROUP BY`, `JOIN`)."
font,FIGlet,http://www.figlet.org/,https://github.com/cmatsuoka/figlet,"Not exactly a font manager, but a nice program for making large letters out of ordinary text; an astonishing number of different fonts is available."
font,toilet,http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/toilet,https://github.com/cacalabs/toilet,"A program that tries to improve `FIGlet`; can load FIGlet fonts; supports Unicode input and output, colour fonts and output, and various output formats, including HTML, IRC and ANSI; uses `libcaca` to produce nice textual effects."
editors,Emacs,https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/,http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git,One of the godfathers of text editors; free long-standing software project; tons of extensions and funcionalities; the biggest drawback (my taste): it needs [E-Lisp](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/eintr.html) for being programmed.
editors,jed,http://www.jedsoft.org/jed/index.html,https://github.com/jedsoft/jed,A text editor with a drop-down menu facility that make it especially user-friendly.
editors,joe,http://joe-editor.sourceforge.net/,https://sourceforge.net/projects/joe-editor/,(Joe's Own Editor) is a compact text editor written in C; a detailed list of features and missing ones is explicitly reported in the website; this editor is mentioned in several web sources for its capability in handling large files.
editors,nano,https://www.nano-editor.org/,https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/nano.git/log/,"Easy to use, lightweigth text editor; no complex keybindings to remember."
editors,micro,,https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/,"A terminal-based text editor written in Go that aims to be easy to use and intuitive, while also taking advantage of the full capabilities of modern terminals."
editors,neovim,https://neovim.io/,https://github.com/neovim/neovim,"A work in progress attempt to improve [vim](http://www.vim.org/), dropping older/unused OS compatibility, improving the codebase readability, modularity and maintainability; it has chances to become the next choice of vim users."
editors,slap,,https://github.com/slap-editor/slap,Text editor inspired by [Sublime Text](https://www.sublimetext.com/) written in NodeJS; extedable in Javascript.
editors,vai,,https://github.com/stefanoborini/vai,"A text editor similar to `vim` written in Python; many feature are nicely replicated, some are still missing; however, the advantage of this implementation is its simplicity, maintainability and extensibility, thanks to the Python implementation."
editors,vim,http://www.vim.org/,,Historically one of the preferred text editors; behavior based on editing modes; plenty of plugins and tips to address every possible editing problem.
editors,vim,http://www.vim.org/,https://github.com/vim/vim,Historically one of the preferred text editors; behavior based on editing modes; plenty of plugins and tips to address every possible editing problem.
editors,vis,,https://github.com/martanne/vis,"""a modern, legacy free, simple yet efficient vim-like editor"", and more: ""The intention is not to be bug for bug compatible with vim, instead a similar editing experience should be provided. The goal could thus be summarized as 80% of vim's features implemented in roughly 1% of the code""; the editor is scriptable in LUA and supports editing large files."
editors,WordGrinder,https://cowlark.com/wordgrinder/,,"From the website: ""WordGrinder is a word processor for processing words. It is not WYSIWYG. It is not point and click. It is not a desktop publisher. It is not a text editor. It does not do fonts and it barely does styles. What it does do is words. It's designed for writing text. It gets out of your way and lets you type."" "
editors,WordGrinder,https://cowlark.com/wordgrinder/,https://github.com/davidgiven/wordgrinder,"From the website: ""WordGrinder is a word processor for processing words. It is not WYSIWYG. It is not point and click. It is not a desktop publisher. It is not a text editor. It does not do fonts and it barely does styles. What it does do is words. It's designed for writing text. It gets out of your way and lets you type."" "
terminal,byobu,http://byobu.co/,,"A text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer; it features enhanced profiles, convenient keybindings, configuration utilities, and toggle-able system status notifications; compatible with `screen` and `tmux`."
terminal,screen,https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/,,"Terminal multiplexer that split a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells."
terminal,Tmate,https://tmate.io/,,"A fork of tmux that allows to share the terminal with other users. AFAIK, it connects to a centralized server to establish the connection. Someone may see this inconvenient for privacy issues."
terminal,screen,https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/,https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/screen.git,"Terminal multiplexer that split a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells."
terminal,Tmate,https://tmate.io/,https://github.com/tmate-io/tmate,"A fork of tmux that allows to share the terminal with other users. AFAIK, it connects to a centralized server to establish the connection. Someone may see this inconvenient for privacy issues."
terminal,tmux,https://tmux.github.io/,https://github.com/tmux/tmux,"Terminal multiplexer; born to improve `screen`; client-server architecture, `vi` and `emacs` key-bindings, search in window feature and many more."
terminal,warp,,https://github.com/spolu/warp,Secure and simple terminal sharing.
monitor,bpytop,,https://github.com/aristocratos/bpytop,Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor with a nice interface.
file-handling,cv,,https://github.com/Xfennec/progress,"(Coreutils Progress Viewer) ""looks for coreutils basic commands (`cp`, `mv`, `dd`, `tar`, `gzip/gunzip`, `cat`, etc.) currently running on your system and displays the percentage of copied data. It can also show estimated time and throughput""."
monitor,glances,https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/,https://github.com/nicolargo/glances,"A comprehensive and detailed system monitoring tool; monitored parameters include: CPU, memory, load, process list, network interfaces, disk I/O, sensors, filesystems, docker, system info, uptime."
utility,GoTTY,,https://github.com/yudai/gotty,"A program to turn CLI tools into web applications; basically, it runs a command and starts a server so that the output can be displayed in a web page."
monitor,inxi,http://smxi.org/docs/inxi.htm,,"A comprehensive system information script; provides information about CPU, graphics, audio and network devices, drives and partitions, sensors; implemented as a Bash script."
monitor,iotop,http://guichaz.free.fr/iotop/,,"""A Python program with a top like UI used to show of behalf of which process is the I/O going on""."
monitor,htop,http://hisham.hm/htop/,,"An interactive process viewer for Unix; improves the UI of `top`, by adding real-time meters and colors."
monitor,multitail,https://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/,,A command to open multiple log files in a single terminal window and monitor them in real-time.
monitor,ngrep,http://ngrep.sourceforge.net/,,"(Network grep) applies the `grep` logic to the network layer, allowing to match regular expressions against data payloads of packets; it recognizes IPv4/6, TCP, UDP, ICMPv4/6, IGMP and Raw across Ethernet, PPP, SLIP, FDDI, Token Ring and null interfaces."
monitor,inxi,http://smxi.org/docs/inxi.htm,https://github.com/smxi/inxi,"A comprehensive system information script; provides information about CPU, graphics, audio and network devices, drives and partitions, sensors; implemented as a Bash script."
monitor,iotop,http://guichaz.free.fr/iotop/,https://repo.or.cz/w/iotop.git,"""A Python program with a top like UI used to show of behalf of which process is the I/O going on""."
monitor,htop,http://hisham.hm/htop/,https://github.com/htop-dev/htop,"An interactive process viewer for Unix; improves the UI of `top`, by adding real-time meters and colors."
monitor,multitail,https://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/,https://github.com/folkertvanheusden/multitail,A command to open multiple log files in a single terminal window and monitor them in real-time.
monitor,ngrep,http://ngrep.sourceforge.net/,https://github.com/jpr5/ngrep/,"(Network grep) applies the `grep` logic to the network layer, allowing to match regular expressions against data payloads of packets; it recognizes IPv4/6, TCP, UDP, ICMPv4/6, IGMP and Raw across Ethernet, PPP, SLIP, FDDI, Token Ring and null interfaces."
file-handling,progress,,https://github.com/Xfennec/progress,"A tool to monitor the progress of common Coreutils command-line tools (`cp`, `mv`, `dd`, `tar`, `rsync`, etc.); it uses an ncurses interface to display the percentage of data copied; it works by reading from system files and retrieving the necessary information for the estimation."
monitor,powertop,https://01.org/powertop,,A `top`-like utility to monitor the sources of power consumption; allows to turn on/off many components; quite useful to track possible power-related issues.
monitor,powertop,https://01.org/powertop,https://github.com/fenrus75/powertop,A `top`-like utility to monitor the sources of power consumption; allows to turn on/off many components; quite useful to track possible power-related issues.
monitor,sysdig,https://www.sysdig.org/,,"Sysdig captures system calls and events from the Linux kernel. You can save, filter, and analyze the data with our CLI or our desktop app. Think of sysdig as strace + tcpdump + htop + iftop + lsof + wireshark for your entire system."
monitor,smem,https://www.selenic.com/smem/,,"Python program that reports memory usage; it can report the ""proportional set size"" (PSS), a meaningful representation of the amount of memory used by libraries and applications in a virtual memory system; it has built-in chart generation."
monitor,smem,https://www.selenic.com/smem/,https://selenic.com/repo/smem,"Python program that reports memory usage; it can report the ""proportional set size"" (PSS), a meaningful representation of the amount of memory used by libraries and applications in a virtual memory system; it has built-in chart generation."
monitor,top,http://www.unixtop.org/,,The classical Unix utility that provides a rolling display of top cpu using processes.
monitor,watch,http://www.linfo.org/watch.html,,"Periodically runs a command in the console while temporarily clearing the screen content; it makes it easy to check differences between the output of two subsequent commands; it provides ""diff"" functionality to highlight the changing characters between outputs."
monitor,wtf,,https://github.com/wtfutil/wtf,The personal information dashboard for your terminal.
shells,Bash,https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/,,(Bourne Again SHell) The most widespread system shell to date.
shells,Fish,https://fishshell.com/,,"""A command line shell for the 90s""; focused on user-friendliness, with powerful autosuggestions, colors, ""sane scripting"" (w.r.t. to Bash)."
shells,Zsh,http://www.zsh.org/,,Alternative shell designed for interactive use.
system,conspy,http://conspy.sourceforge.net/,,"""Conspy allows a (possibly remote) user to see what is displayed on a Linux virtual console, and send keystrokes to it."" "
system,lshw,http://www.ezix.org/project/wiki/HardwareLiSter,,"A small tool to provide detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version and speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc."
shells,Bash,https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/,https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git,(Bourne Again SHell) The most widespread system shell to date.
shells,Fish,https://fishshell.com/,https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell,"""A command line shell for the 90s""; focused on user-friendliness, with powerful autosuggestions, colors, ""sane scripting"" (w.r.t. to Bash)."
shells,Zsh,http://www.zsh.org/,https://sourceforge.net/p/zsh/code/ci/master/tree/,Alternative shell designed for interactive use.
system,conspy,http://conspy.sourceforge.net/,https://sourceforge.net/p/conspy/code/ci/default/tree/,"""Conspy allows a (possibly remote) user to see what is displayed on a Linux virtual console, and send keystrokes to it."" "
system,lshw,http://www.ezix.org/project/wiki/HardwareLiSter,https://ezix.org/src/pkg/lshw,"A small tool to provide detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version and speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc."
system,Ntfy,,https://github.com/dschep/ntfy,Cross-platform Python utility that enables you to automatically get desktop notifications on demand or when long running commands complete. It can as well send push notifications to your phone once a particular command completes.
system,task-spooler,http://vicerveza.homeunix.net/~viric/soft/ts/,,"A Unix batch system that can be used to add the Linux commands to the queue and execute them one after the other in numerical order (ascending order, to be precise). This can be very useful when you have to run a lots of commands, but you don't want to waste time waiting for one command to finish and run the next command. You can queue it all up and Task Spooler will execute them one by one. In the mean time, you can do other activities."
monitor,ttyload,http://www.daveltd.com/src/util/ttyload/,,ttyload is a lightweight utility which is intended to offer a color-coded graph of load averages over time on Linux and other Unix-like systems. It enables a graphical tracking of system load average in a terminal (“tty“).
monitor,ttyload,http://www.daveltd.com/src/util/ttyload/,https://github.com/lindes/ttyload,ttyload is a lightweight utility which is intended to offer a color-coded graph of load averages over time on Linux and other Unix-like systems. It enables a graphical tracking of system load average in a terminal (“tty“).
system,hstr,,https://github.com/dvorka/hstr,A tool for managing the history; powerful visual search and execution of previous commands; history editing capabilities.
system,parallel,https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/,,A shell tool from GNU for executing jobs in parallel using one or more computers; it can split the input and pipe it into commands in parallel.
system,parallel,https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/,https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parallel.git,A shell tool from GNU for executing jobs in parallel using one or more computers; it can split the input and pipe it into commands in parallel.
security,cipher,,https://github.com/ash-shell/cipher,An Ash module that makes it easy to perform aes-256-cbc encryption for files and directories.
security,hashcat,https://hashcat.net/hashcat/,,"A robust and efficient password cracking tool that can help you recover lost passwords, audit password security, benchmark, or just figure out what data is stored in a hash."
security,hashcat,https://hashcat.net/hashcat/,https://github.com/hashcat/hashcat,"A robust and efficient password cracking tool that can help you recover lost passwords, audit password security, benchmark, or just figure out what data is stored in a hash."
security,encfs,http://www.arg0.net/#!encfs/c1awt,,Encrypted filesystem in user-space based on [FUSE](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/FUSE); mounts an encrypted directory into a clear one.
security,LUKS,https://guardianproject.info/code/luks/,,"Hard disk encryption tool; it stores all setup information in the partition header, enabling easy data transport or migration."
security,LUKS,https://guardianproject.info/code/luks/,https://github.com/guardianproject/luks/wiki,"Hard disk encryption tool; it stores all setup information in the partition header, enabling easy data transport or migration."
password-manager,safe.sh,,https://github.com/windowsrefund/safe,"Pure Bash script to manage secure archives; simple and clean; uses [gnugpg](https://gnupg.org/) for encryption/decryption, thus can leverage tools like [GPG Agent](https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/Invoking-GPG_002dAGENT.html)."
password-manager,titan,https://www.byteptr.com/titan/,,"Password management belongs to the command line, deep into the Unix heartland, the shell. Titan is written in C and is available under the MIT license."
office,trino,,https://github.com/eneserdogan/trino,Quick and easy translation of words and phrases entered in the command line.
office,Teapot,https://www.syntax-k.de/projekte/teapot/,,"Compact ncurses-based spreadsheet with original syntax, 3D-style and built-in functions."
office,sc-im,,https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im,"Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised -- An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal. It is rich in functionalities, but the syntax of functions and other details are different from the common spreadsheets such as Excel and Calc, making difficult to ""re-cycle"" existing knowledge on these programs to work proficiently with sc-im. Neverthless, a nice piece of software."""
office,tpp,http://www.ngolde.de/tpp.html,,(text presentation program) a ncurses Ruby program that allows to produce nice text-based presentation with simple markup language.
office,tpp,http://www.ngolde.de/tpp.html,https://github.com/Kerrick/tpp,(text presentation program) a ncurses Ruby program that allows to produce nice text-based presentation with simple markup language.
organizers,gcalcli,,https://github.com/insanum/gcalcli,"CLI to access Google Calendars; allows to do the main tasks: create, delete, and list events."
organizers,khal,,https://github.com/pimutils/khal,"CLI and terminal calendar program, able to synchronize with CalDAV servers through [vdirsyncer](https://github.com/pimutils/vdirsyncer)."
organizers,ppl addressbook,http://ppladdressbook.org/,,"``ppl`` is free software made out of other free software. It's built on top of Ruby and Git, and the completely free vcard address book format."
note-taking,kb,,https://github.com/gnebbia/kb,A minimalist knowledge base manager.
organizers,khard,,https://github.com/lucc/khard,Console carddav client written in Pyhton.
todo-manager,iKog,https://sites.google.com/site/henspace/ikog/,,"A fully-featured task manager incapsulated within a Python script (just carry around the script to retain all the TODOs). When the script is run, a Python shell is opened, where task-related commands can be entered (ADD, LIST, etc.); a pity that commands are uppercase, which requires the annoying use of the Shift key."
todo-manager,Yokadi,https://yokadi.github.io/,,Project-based todo manager: every task must be specified with a mandatory project indication. Tasks are stored within a SQLlite DB. Written in Python.
organizers,Org mode,http://orgmode.org/,,"Super-powerful [Emacs](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) plugin to manage outlines with associated timestamps, priorities, labels, etc.; available views grouped by time (agenda), tags, etc.; plain text storage format."
organizers,pal,http://palcal.sourceforge.net/,,"Calendar program for Unix/Linux systems that can keep track of events; custom, plain text storage format; interesting and fully functional."
todo-manager,Yokadi,https://yokadi.github.io/,https://github.com/agateau/yokadi,Project-based todo manager: every task must be specified with a mandatory project indication. Tasks are stored within a SQLlite DB. Written in Python.
organizers,Org mode,http://orgmode.org/,https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git,"Super-powerful [Emacs](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) plugin to manage outlines with associated timestamps, priorities, labels, etc.; available views grouped by time (agenda), tags, etc.; plain text storage format."
organizers,pal,http://palcal.sourceforge.net/,https://sourceforge.net/p/palcal/code/HEAD/tree/,"Calendar program for Unix/Linux systems that can keep track of events; custom, plain text storage format; interesting and fully functional."
organizers,Remind,https://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind,,"Calendar program with possibility to set complex rules to define events; custom, powerful text-based storage format."
todo-manager,TaskWarrior,https://taskwarrior.org/,,Todo manager with advanced features; dedicated synchronization server available; many plugins and related tools; healthy software project.
todo-manager,todo.txt,http://todotxt.org/,,Minimalistic todo manager that uses a simple plain text file to keep track of items; implemented as a shell script.
todo-manager,TaskWarrior,https://taskwarrior.org/,https://github.com/GothenburgBitFactory/taskwarrior,Todo manager with advanced features; dedicated synchronization server available; many plugins and related tools; healthy software project.
todo-manager,todo.txt,http://todotxt.org/,https://github.com/todotxt/todo.txt-cli,Minimalistic todo manager that uses a simple plain text file to keep track of items; implemented as a shell script.
todo-manager,todolist,http://todolist.site/,,"A minimal clone of [Wunderlist](https://www.wunderlist.com/), with 30% of its features. GTD oriented. It stores the task list in a hidden JSON file in the home directory, making it easy to backup or share them."
todo-manager,TuDu,https://code.meskio.net/tudu/,,"A comand line interface to manage hierarchical todos. Each task has a title, a long text description, a deadline (tudu warns you when the date is close), and a scheduled date. There are categories and priorities."
todo-manager,TuDu,https://code.meskio.net/tudu/,https://github.com/meskio/tudu,"A comand line interface to manage hierarchical todos. Each task has a title, a long text description, a deadline (tudu warns you when the date is close), and a scheduled date. There are categories and priorities."
organizers,Wyrd,http://freecode.com/projects/wyrd/,,Curses front-end for [Remind](https://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind) written in OCaml with vertically scrollable time table.
productivity,arbtt,http://arbtt.nomeata.de/,,"(automatic, rule-based time tracker) runs in background, collecting information regarding open windows, focussed ones, etc.; it can be configured to display statistics on the collected data, e.g., figuring out the time spent on one specific window."
productivity,ledger,http://ledger-cli.org/,,"A powerful, double-entry accounting system from the command-line; it uses a simple yet powerful text syntax to specify the items to account."
calc,Qalculate,https://qalculate.github.io/,,"Multi-purpose calculator with customizable functions, units, arbitrary precision, plotting (it includes a GUI)."
productivity,Translate Shell,https://www.soimort.org/translate-shell/,,"Command-line translator using Google Translate, Bing Translator, Yandex.Translate, etc."
viewers,cacaview,http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca,,"A library and a program to display JPG, PNG, GIF or BMP images in the terminal using ASCII characters."
productivity,arbtt,http://arbtt.nomeata.de/,https://github.com/nomeata/arbtt,"(automatic, rule-based time tracker) runs in background, collecting information regarding open windows, focussed ones, etc.; it can be configured to display statistics on the collected data, e.g., figuring out the time spent on one specific window."
productivity,ledger,http://ledger-cli.org/,https://github.com/ledger/ledger,"A powerful, double-entry accounting system from the command-line; it uses a simple yet powerful text syntax to specify the items to account."
calc,Qalculate,https://qalculate.github.io/,https://github.com/Qalculate/libqalculate,"Multi-purpose calculator with customizable functions, units, arbitrary precision, plotting (it includes a GUI)."
productivity,Translate Shell,https://www.soimort.org/translate-shell/,https://github.com/soimort/translate-shell,"Command-line translator using Google Translate, Bing Translator, Yandex.Translate, etc."
viewers,cacaview,http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca,https://github.com/cacalabs/libcaca,"A library and a program to display JPG, PNG, GIF or BMP images in the terminal using ASCII characters."
viewers,glow,,https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow,"Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz!"
viewers,feh,https://feh.finalrewind.org/,,"""X11 image viewer aimed mostly at console users"" (cit.); with no fancy GUI, it is controlled via commandline arguments and configurable key/mouse actions."
viewers,feh,https://feh.finalrewind.org/,https://git.finalrewind.org/feh,"""X11 image viewer aimed mostly at console users"" (cit.); with no fancy GUI, it is controlled via commandline arguments and configurable key/mouse actions."
viewers,Terminal Markdown Viewer,,https://github.com/axiros/terminal_markdown_viewer,Python based Markdown viewer for the terminal.
viewers,mupdf,http://mupdf.com/,,Lightweight graphical PDF visualizer; strong key-based control; fast and accurate rendering.
viewers,mupdf,http://mupdf.com/,http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git,Lightweight graphical PDF visualizer; strong key-based control; fast and accurate rendering.
viewers,mplayer,http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html,,One of the most popular video/audio players around; plays most audio and video formats (using ASCII characters) in the shell; provides a GUI for graphical visualization.
viewers,mpv,https://mpv.io/,,"A cross-platform media player with many features such as frame timing, MKV chapters and subtitles. It is a responsive video player with minimal layout customizable with themes. A good alternative media player to VLC since it can handle almost all the media formats as VLC, but using much less resources."
music,ncmpcpp,https://rybczak.net/ncmpcpp/,,"NCurses Music Player Client (Plus Plus) - featureful ncurses based MPD client inspired by ncmpc. Relevant features: tag editor, playlist editor, easy to use search engine, media library, music visualizer, ability to fetch artist info from [last.fm](https://www.last.fm/), new display mode, alternative user interface, ability to browse and add files from outside of MPD music directory."
music,espeak,http://espeak.sourceforge.net/,,A compact open source software speech synthesizer for English and other languages.
music,Alsamixer,http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Main_Page,,ALSA mixer with curses interfaces.
music,cmus,https://cmus.github.io/,,A fast and lightweight audio player with configurable keybindings and playlist support.
viewers,mpv,https://mpv.io/,https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/,"A cross-platform media player with many features such as frame timing, MKV chapters and subtitles. It is a responsive video player with minimal layout customizable with themes. A good alternative media player to VLC since it can handle almost all the media formats as VLC, but using much less resources."
music,ncmpcpp,https://rybczak.net/ncmpcpp/,https://github.com/ncmpcpp/ncmpcpp,"NCurses Music Player Client (Plus Plus) - featureful ncurses based MPD client inspired by ncmpc. Relevant features: tag editor, playlist editor, easy to use search engine, media library, music visualizer, ability to fetch artist info from [last.fm](https://www.last.fm/), new display mode, alternative user interface, ability to browse and add files from outside of MPD music directory."
music,espeak,http://espeak.sourceforge.net/,https://sourceforge.net/p/espeak/code/HEAD/tree/,A compact open source software speech synthesizer for English and other languages.
music,Alsamixer,http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Main_Page,https://github.com/alsa-project,ALSA mixer with curses interfaces.
music,cmus,https://cmus.github.io/,https://github.com/cmus/cmus,A fast and lightweight audio player with configurable keybindings and playlist support.
music,MOC,https://moc.daper.net/,,(music on console) is a powerful and easy to use console audio player; user interface a la Midnight Commander; plenty of features; fully controllable from the keyboard.
music,mpg123,http://mpg123.org/,,"Quick `mp3` sound file player; no visual interface, just a command-line audio file player for `mp3` files."
music,mpg123,http://mpg123.org/,https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpg123/,"Quick `mp3` sound file player; no visual interface, just a command-line audio file player for `mp3` files."
music,mps-youtube,,https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube,"A curses player for music tracks from Youtube; it allows to search for songs and playlists; it downloads the video, extracts the audio track and plays it; handles local playlists and many configuration parameters."
music,ogg123,https://www.xiph.org/downloads/,,"Quick `ogg` sound file player; no visual interface, just a command-line audio file player for the free and open `ogg` file format."
graphics,ImageMagick,http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php,,"Software suite to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images; it handles many file formats (including PDF and SVG) and provides processing tools to ""resize, flip, mirror, rotate, distort, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves""."
music,ogg123,https://www.xiph.org/downloads/,https://gitlab.xiph.org/xiph,"Quick `ogg` sound file player; no visual interface, just a command-line audio file player for the free and open `ogg` file format."
graphics,ImageMagick,http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php,https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick,"Software suite to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images; it handles many file formats (including PDF and SVG) and provides processing tools to ""resize, flip, mirror, rotate, distort, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves""."
graphics,scrot,,https://github.com/dreamer/scrot,A simple CLI tool to capture screenshots.
git,git,https://git-scm.com/,,The winner across all the existing file versioning tools; distributed versioning; fully controllable from the command-line; plenty of configuration and usage options; behind a number of related project that leverage git as backend.
git,git-annex,https://git-annex.branchable.com/,,"Manages files with `git`, without checking the file contents into git; very useful to manage large/binary files."
git,git,https://git-scm.com/,https://github.com/git/git,The winner across all the existing file versioning tools; distributed versioning; fully controllable from the command-line; plenty of configuration and usage options; behind a number of related project that leverage git as backend.
git,git-annex,https://git-annex.branchable.com/,http://source.git-annex.branchable.com/?p=source.git,"Manages files with `git`, without checking the file contents into git; very useful to manage large/binary files."
git,git-stats,,https://github.com/IonicaBizau/git-stats,Local git statistics including GitHub-like contributions calendars.
versioning,Mercurial,https://www.mercurial-scm.org/,,"Free, distributed source control management tool."
versioning,Mercurial,https://www.mercurial-scm.org/,https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg,"Free, distributed source control management tool."
git,tig,,https://github.com/jonas/tig,"An ncurses-based text-mode interface for `git` that can act as a repository browser, but can also assist in staging changes for commit at chunk level."
file-system,sshfs,,https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs,Locally mount a remote file-system through SSH and access files and directory as they would be on the local machine.
file-system,TMSU,http://tmsu.org/,,A tool for tagging files; it provides a simple command line tool for applying tags and a virtual filesystem so that you can get a tag-based view of your files from within any other program.
file-system,TMSU,http://tmsu.org/,https://github.com/oniony/TMSU,A tool for tagging files; it provides a simple command line tool for applying tags and a virtual filesystem so that you can get a tag-based view of your files from within any other program.
file-manager,lfm,https://inigo.katxi.org/devel/lfm/,,"(Last File Manager) is a file manager written in Python; it comes with lots of features, including 1-pane or 2-pane view, files filters and bookmarks, tree view, virtual file-systems to open compressed archives, search in files, customizable keybindings and themes."
file-manager,Midnight Commander,http://www.midnight-commander.org/,,"a visual file manager, full-screen text mode application that allows you to copy, move and delete files and whole directory trees and search for files; includes an internal viewer and editor."
file-manager,Midnight Commander,http://www.midnight-commander.org/,https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc,"a visual file manager, full-screen text mode application that allows you to copy, move and delete files and whole directory trees and search for files; includes an internal viewer and editor."
file-manager,ncursesFM,,https://github.com/FedeDP/ncursesFM,File manager written in C; rather complete in terms of features; especially lightweight and responsive.
file-manager,ranger,https://ranger.github.io/,,Console file manager with vi key bindings; curses interface with a view on the directory hierarchy; comes with a file launcher that automatically determines which program to use for opening a given file type.
file-manager,vifm,https://vifm.info/,,"""ncurses based file manager with vi like keybindings/modes/options/commands/configuration, which also borrows some useful ideas from mutt"" (cit.)."
conversion,catdoc,http://www.wagner.pp.ru/~vitus/software/catdoc/,,Command line converter from Microsoft Word to plain text; output is sent to the standard output.
conversion,Pandoc,http://pandoc.org/,,"Universal document file converter; handles input output from/to a number of formats: HTML, PDF, LaTeX, docx, odt, AsciiDoc, Markdown, Textile, just to mention a few; the quality of conversion strongly depends on the combination of input/output formats."
conversion,xls2csv,http://www.wagner.pp.ru/~vitus/software/catdoc/,,Command line converter from Excel to CSV file format.
file-manager,ranger,https://ranger.github.io/,https://github.com/ranger/ranger,Console file manager with vi key bindings; curses interface with a view on the directory hierarchy; comes with a file launcher that automatically determines which program to use for opening a given file type.
file-manager,vifm,https://vifm.info/,https://github.com/vifm/vifm,"""ncurses based file manager with vi like keybindings/modes/options/commands/configuration, which also borrows some useful ideas from mutt"" (cit.)."
conversion,catdoc,http://www.wagner.pp.ru/~vitus/software/catdoc/,http://www.wagner.pp.ru/gitweb/?p=oss/catdoc.git,Command line converter from Microsoft Word to plain text; output is sent to the standard output.
conversion,Pandoc,http://pandoc.org/,https://github.com/jgm/pandoc,"Universal document file converter; handles input output from/to a number of formats: HTML, PDF, LaTeX, docx, odt, AsciiDoc, Markdown, Textile, just to mention a few; the quality of conversion strongly depends on the combination of input/output formats."
conversion,xls2csv,http://www.wagner.pp.ru/~vitus/software/catdoc/,http://www.wagner.pp.ru/gitweb/?p=oss/catdoc.git,Command line converter from Excel to CSV file format.
backup,borg,,https://github.com/borgbackup,Encrypted backups with a clean and simple interface; easy to use and set up; possibility to mount the backup archive with FUSE and inspect it as a regular file system.
backup,duplicity,http://duplicity.nongnu.org/,,"Creates GPG encrypted, compressed backups; client-side encryption allows to upload the backup onto untrusted servers."
backup,Duply,http://duply.net/,,Simplifies the use of [duplicity](http://duplicity.nongnu.org/) by keeping clean configuration files to automate the backup.
backup,duplicity,http://duplicity.nongnu.org/,https://gitlab.com/duplicity/duplicity,"Creates GPG encrypted, compressed backups; client-side encryption allows to upload the backup onto untrusted servers."
backup,Duply,http://duply.net/,https://sourceforge.net/projects/ftplicity/,Simplifies the use of [duplicity](http://duplicity.nongnu.org/) by keeping clean configuration files to automate the backup.
backup,paperbackup,,https://github.com/intra2net/paperbackup,Create a pdf with barcodes to backup text files on paper.
transfer,rclone,https://rclone.org/,,Rclone manages file synchronization on cloud storage.
transfer,Unison,https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/,,"File synchronizer. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other."
transfer,rclone,https://rclone.org/,https://github.com/rclone/rclone,Rclone manages file synchronization on cloud storage.
transfer,Unison,https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/,https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison,"File synchronizer. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other."
backup,Zaloha.sh,,https://github.com/Fitus/Zaloha.sh,Shellscript for synchronization of files and directories.
disk-analyzer,ncdu,https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu,,"""A disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface. It is designed to find space hogs on a remote server where you don't have an entire graphical setup available."""
disk-analyzer,ncdu,https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu,https://code.blicky.net/yorhel/ncdu/,"""A disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface. It is designed to find space hogs on a remote server where you don't have an entire graphical setup available."""
file-handling,classifier,,https://github.com/bhrigu123/classifier,"Organize files in your current directory, by classifying them into folders of music, pdfs, images, etc."
file-handling,detox,http://detox.sourceforge.net/,,A utility designed to easily clean up filenames; it replaces characters like spaces with standard equivalents; it also replace UTF-8 or Latin-1 (or CP 1252) characters with more handy ones.
file-handling,dtrx,https://brettcsmith.org/2007/dtrx/,,"(Do The Right eXtraction) aims at taking ""all the hassle out of extracting archives""; allows to use one command to extract archives in different formats, recursive extraction (files into file) and extracts files into dedicated directories."
file-handling,exa,https://the.exa.website/,,"Replacement for 'ls' written in Rust, with colors and several additional ""views""."
file-handling,detox,http://detox.sourceforge.net/,https://sourceforge.net/projects/detox/,A utility designed to easily clean up filenames; it replaces characters like spaces with standard equivalents; it also replace UTF-8 or Latin-1 (or CP 1252) characters with more handy ones.
file-handling,dtrx,https://brettcsmith.org/2007/dtrx/,https://github.com/dtrx-py/dtrx,"(Do The Right eXtraction) aims at taking ""all the hassle out of extracting archives""; allows to use one command to extract archives in different formats, recursive extraction (files into file) and extracts files into dedicated directories."
file-handling,exa,https://the.exa.website/,https://github.com/ogham/exa,"Replacement for 'ls' written in Rust, with colors and several additional ""views""."
file-handling,lsd,,https://github.com/Peltoche/lsd,"This project is a rewrite of GNU ls with lot of added features like colors, icons, tree-view, more formatting options etc. The project is heavily inspired by the super colorls project."
cd,fasd,,https://github.com/clvv/fasd,"A Commandline Tool That Offers Quick Access to Files and Directories. It offers quick access to files and directories for POSIX shells. It is inspired by tools like autojump, z and v. Fasd keeps track of files and directories you have accessed, so that you can quickly reference them in the command line."
file-handling,fd,,https://github.com/sharkdp/fd,"A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find. Written in Rust."
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file-handling,rmlint,,https://github.com/sahib/rmlint/,A tool to recursively scan a directory tree looking for duplicate and broken files; it outputs statistics and save the list of files in JSON format; it produce a shell script that can be inspected before running it to delete the desire files.
file-handling,gcp,,https://github.com/petronny/gcp,"`gcp` (Goffi’s cp) is an advanced file copier tool, heavily inspired from the traditional `cp` command utility, but with some additional features: Displays the copy progress indicator, with estimated time, current file speed; logs of all actions; resume of interrupted copy processes."
file-manager,nnn,,https://github.com/jarun/nnn,"""The missing terminal file browser for X"". Provides only directory traversal and file visualization. No delete/move operations are supported."
file-handling,PathPicker,https://facebook.github.io/PathPicker/,,A tool from Facebook that parses the output from a command and presents a UI to select files and directories; can be used to apply a command of a interactively selected files or to move across directories.
file-handling,tree,http://mama.indstate.edu/users/ice/tree/,,"""Recursive directory listing command that produces a depth indented listing of files""."
funny,asciiacquarium,http://www.robobunny.com/projects/asciiquarium/html/,,Enjoy the mysteries of the sea from the safety of your own terminal!
funny,cmatrix,http://www.asty.org/cmatrix/,,ncurses program that display the scrolling lines found in the movie `The matrix`.
file-handling,PathPicker,https://facebook.github.io/PathPicker/,https://github.com/facebook/pathpicker/,A tool from Facebook that parses the output from a command and presents a UI to select files and directories; can be used to apply a command of a interactively selected files or to move across directories.
file-handling,tree,http://mama.indstate.edu/users/ice/tree/,https://gitlab.com/OldManProgrammer/unix-tree,"""Recursive directory listing command that produces a depth indented listing of files""."
funny,asciiacquarium,http://www.robobunny.com/projects/asciiquarium/html/,https://github.com/rgoring/asciiquarium,Enjoy the mysteries of the sea from the safety of your own terminal!
funny,cmatrix,http://www.asty.org/cmatrix/,https://github.com/abishekvashok/cmatrix,ncurses program that display the scrolling lines found in the movie `The matrix`.
funny,cowsay,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowsay,https://github.com/tnalpgge/rank-amateur-cowsay,A program that generates a ASCII art of a cow with a bubble containing the specified message (I provide the Wikipedia link since at the moment the link to the author's homepage results to be unreachable).
funny,cowthink,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowsay,,"Same as `cowsay`, but uses a ""think"" bubble instead of a speech bubble."
funny,fortune,http://software.clapper.org/fortune/,,Generates random messages feched from a quotation database.
funny,Steam Locomotive,http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/displays-animations-when-accidentally-you-type-sl-instead-of-ls.html,,A steam locomotive traverses the screen from right to left if `sl` is typed instead of `ls`.
funny,cowthink,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowsay,https://github.com/tnalpgge/rank-amateur-cowsay,"Same as `cowsay`, but uses a ""think"" bubble instead of a speech bubble."
funny,fortune,http://software.clapper.org/fortune/,https://github.com/bmc/fortune,Generates random messages feched from a quotation database.
funny,Steam Locomotive,http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/displays-animations-when-accidentally-you-type-sl-instead-of-ls.html,https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl,A steam locomotive traverses the screen from right to left if `sl` is typed instead of `ls`.
funny,ternimal,,https://github.com/p-e-w/ternimal,Simulate a lifeform in the terminal.
games,StarWars vision,,,See Star Wars in ASCII with ``telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl``.
games,bastet,http://fph.altervista.org/prog/bastet.html,,(Bastard Tetris) implements the classical Tetris but with a logic to generate the next block which maximizes the difficulty for the player.
games,Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead,https://cataclysmdda.org/,,Open source turn-based survival RPG development project.
games,bastet,http://fph.altervista.org/prog/bastet.html,https://github.com/fph/bastet/,(Bastard Tetris) implements the classical Tetris but with a logic to generate the next block which maximizes the difficulty for the player.
games,Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead,https://cataclysmdda.org/,https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA,Open source turn-based survival RPG development project.
games,Dwarf fortress,http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/,,A fantasy game using ASCII art graphical representation of the game environment; it features a rich environment with many options and possibilities.
games,freesweep,http://www.upl.cs.wisc.edu/~hartmann/sweep/,,"A Minesweeper clone for the terminal which allows you to configure settings such as table rows and columns up to 1024x1024!), percentage of bombs, colors and also has a highscores table."
games,Nethack,http://nethack.org/,,Single player rogue-like dungeon exploration game.
games,Oldrunner,http://culot.org/public/Code/oldrunner.html,,Character-based remake of Lode Runner; includes all the original 150 levels.
games,Slash'EM,http://slashem.sourceforge.net/,,"Rogue-like game derived from `nethack` offering extra features, monsters, and items; includes a GUI version."
games,Typespeed,http://typespeed.sourceforge.net/,,"Type words that are flying by from left to right as fast as you can; features different word sets, e.g., UNIX commands, English words, Non-English words."
webdev,Hugo,https://gohugo.io/,,The world’s fastest framework for building websites.
webdev,Metalsmith,http://www.metalsmith.io/,,An extremely simple static site generator; all functionalities are provided by plugins that can be combined and chained; written and extendable in Javascript.
webdev,nanoc,http://nanoc.ws/,,Static site generator written in Ruby; extremely powerful and customizable; support many formats to generate HTML content.
webdev,siege,https://www.joedog.org/siege-home/,,An http load testing and benchmarking utility designed to let web developers stress their code.
webdev,Tsung,http://tsung.erlang-projects.org/,,"A multi-protocol distributed load testing tool that can be used to stress HTTP, WebDAV, SOAP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, LDAP and Jabber/XMPP servers."
games,Nethack,http://nethack.org/,https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack,Single player rogue-like dungeon exploration game.
games,Oldrunner,http://culot.org/public/Code/oldrunner.html,https://github.com/culot/oldrunner,Character-based remake of Lode Runner; includes all the original 150 levels.
games,Slash'EM,http://slashem.sourceforge.net/,https://sourceforge.net/projects/slashem/,"Rogue-like game derived from `nethack` offering extra features, monsters, and items; includes a GUI version."
games,Typespeed,http://typespeed.sourceforge.net/,https://sourceforge.net/projects/typespeed/,"Type words that are flying by from left to right as fast as you can; features different word sets, e.g., UNIX commands, English words, Non-English words."
webdev,Hugo,https://gohugo.io/,https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo,The world’s fastest framework for building websites.
webdev,Metalsmith,http://www.metalsmith.io/,https://github.com/metalsmith/metalsmith,An extremely simple static site generator; all functionalities are provided by plugins that can be combined and chained; written and extendable in Javascript.
webdev,nanoc,http://nanoc.ws/,https://github.com/nanoc/nanoc,Static site generator written in Ruby; extremely powerful and customizable; support many formats to generate HTML content.
webdev,siege,https://www.joedog.org/siege-home/,https://github.com/JoeDog/siege,An http load testing and benchmarking utility designed to let web developers stress their code.
webdev,Tsung,http://tsung.erlang-projects.org/,https://github.com/processone/tsung,"A multi-protocol distributed load testing tool that can be used to stress HTTP, WebDAV, SOAP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, LDAP and Jabber/XMPP servers."
browser,Links,http://www.jikos.cz/~mikulas/links//,,A textual Web browser with tables and frames.
browser,Elinks,http://elinks.cz/,,"""Advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web browser""; started as a fork of `Links`; it supports background download with queueing, some support from CSS, text box editing in external text editor."
browser,Elinks,http://elinks.cz/,https://repo.or.cz/w/elinks.git,"""Advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web browser""; started as a fork of `Links`; it supports background download with queueing, some support from CSS, text box editing in external text editor."
browser,Lynx,http://lynx.invisible-island.net/,,A highly configurable text-based web browser; one of the oldest CLI browser I'm aware of.
browser,w3m,http://w3m.sourceforge.net/,,A text-based web browser as well as a pager like `less`; it can be used as a text formatting tool which typesets HTML into plain text.
browser,w3m,http://w3m.sourceforge.net/,https://sourceforge.net/projects/w3m/,A text-based web browser as well as a pager like `less`; it can be used as a text formatting tool which typesets HTML into plain text.
email,Newsbeuter,http://newsbeuter.org/,,"""The Mutt of RSS Feed Readers"": Newsbeuter is an open-source RSS/Atom feed reader for text terminals. Has great configurability and vast number of features, making it a slick and fast feed reader that can be completely controlled via keyboard."
email,alpine,http://www.washington.edu/alpine/,,"Mail client which aims at being ""fast, easy to use email client that is suitable for both the inexperienced email user as well as for the most demanding of power users""."
email,alot,,https://github.com/pazz/alot,MUA written in Python using the [NotMuch](https://notmuchmail.org/) backend; MailDir format support.
email,mbsync,http://isync.sourceforge.net/mbsync.html,,Mailboxes synchronization tool; allows to download email locally; MailDir format supported.
email,Mutt,http://www.mutt.org/,,"Mail client with tons of features, customization chances, support for IMAP, POP3, multiple storage formats."
email,Mutt,http://www.mutt.org/,https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt,"Mail client with tons of features, customization chances, support for IMAP, POP3, multiple storage formats."
email,sup,http://sup-heliotrope.github.io/,https://github.com/sup-heliotrope/sup,"MUA written in Ruby; specifically developed for accounts with ""a lot of emails""; nice thread-based presentation."
transfer,aria2,,https://github.com/aria2/aria2,"Lightweight and easy-to-use download utility; it supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent, Metalink and multiple sources; cross-platform."
transfer,croc,,https://github.com/schollz/croc,Easily and securely send things from one computer to another.
transfer,curl,https://curl.haxx.se/,,A tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax; supports a lot of protocols.
transfer,Deluge,http://deluge-torrent.org/,,"A lightweight, Free Software, cross-platform BitTorrent client; a terminal curses interface, web interface and command line client can connect to a running daemon to manage torrent downloads."
transfer,lftp,https://lftp.yar.ru/,,"""Sophisticated ftp/http client, and a file transfer program supporting a number of network protocols""; support for bookmarks and mirroring features."
transfer,curl,https://curl.haxx.se/,https://github.com/curl/curl,A tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax; supports a lot of protocols.
transfer,Deluge,http://deluge-torrent.org/,https://git.deluge-torrent.org/deluge,"A lightweight, Free Software, cross-platform BitTorrent client; a terminal curses interface, web interface and command line client can connect to a running daemon to manage torrent downloads."
transfer,lftp,https://lftp.yar.ru/,https://github.com/lavv17/lftp,"""Sophisticated ftp/http client, and a file transfer program supporting a number of network protocols""; support for bookmarks and mirroring features."
transfer,Magic Wormhole,,https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole,The program allows transfer arbitrary-sized files and directories (or short pieces of text) from one computer to another The two endpoints are identified by using identical human-readable codes.
transfer,OnionShare,https://onionshare.org/,,"""An open source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share a file of any size."" "
transfer,qrcp,https://www.linuxuprising.com/2020/07/qrcp-transfer-files-between-desktop-and.html,,Transfer Files Between Desktop And Mobile Devices Over Wi-Fi By Scanning A QR Code.
transfer,rsync,https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/rsync.html,,Mirror directories across networked machines; handles diffs/changed files; works across SSH; plenty of parameters.
transfer,OnionShare,https://onionshare.org/,https://github.com/onionshare/onionshare,"""An open source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share a file of any size."" "
transfer,qrcp,https://www.linuxuprising.com/2020/07/qrcp-transfer-files-between-desktop-and.html,https://github.com/claudiodangelis/qrcp,Transfer Files Between Desktop And Mobile Devices Over Wi-Fi By Scanning A QR Code.
transfer,rsync,https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/rsync.html,https://github.com/WayneD/rsync,Mirror directories across networked machines; handles diffs/changed files; works across SSH; plenty of parameters.
transfer,sitecopy,http://www.manyfish.co.uk/sitecopy/,,Synchronizes a local copy of a website with a remote copy on a server; does not use SSH/`scp` but FTP for file copy; useful when the remote server does not support secure copy.
transfer,stftp,http://stftp.sourceforge.net/,,"(simple terminal FTP) aims to be a ""easy-to-use and unbloated client for the UNIX (and UNIX-like) console""."
transfer,Woof,http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/woof.html,,(Web Offer One File) sets up an HTTP webserver to serve files from a given local directory; all the users connected to the network can see and download the files.
transfer,stftp,http://stftp.sourceforge.net/,https://sourceforge.net/projects/stftp/,"(simple terminal FTP) aims to be a ""easy-to-use and unbloated client for the UNIX (and UNIX-like) console""."
transfer,Woof,http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/woof.html,https://github.com/simon-budig/woof/,(Web Offer One File) sets up an HTTP webserver to serve files from a given local directory; all the users connected to the network can see and download the files.
transfer,youtube-dl,,http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/,Downloads videos from [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/) and some other sites; useful for automated bulk downloads.
chat,finch,http://www.pidgin.im/,,"IM program supporting many protocols, including Yahoo!, AIM, IRC, or WLM; comes with the `Pidgin` project."
chat,irssi,http://www.irssi.org,,"The most popular IRC client for the command-line; a flexible program, with many options and supporting many protocols."
chat,irssi,http://www.irssi.org,https://github.com/irssi/irssi,"The most popular IRC client for the command-line; a flexible program, with many options and supporting many protocols."
chat,RainbowStream,http://www.rainbowstream.org/,,Twitter client for the terminal; allows almost all the operations that can be done from GUI and Web clients.
chat,WeeChat,http://weechat.org/,,"A ""fast, light and extensible chat client""."
chat,WeeChat,http://weechat.org/,https://github.com/weechat/weechat,"A ""fast, light and extensible chat client""."
chat,ssh-chat,,https://github.com/shazow/ssh-chat,"Custom SSH server written in Go. Instead of a shell, you get a chat prompt."
organizers,goobook,,https://gitlab.com/goobook/goobook,The purpose of GooBook is to make it possible to use your Google Contacts from the command-line and from MUAs such as Mutt. It can be used from Mutt the same way as abook.
utility,dasht,http://sunaku.github.io/dasht/man/man0/README.html,,"Search API docs offline, in your terminal or browser."
utility,dasht,http://sunaku.github.io/dasht/man/man0/README.html,https://github.com/sunaku/dasht,"Search API docs offline, in your terminal or browser."
online,arch-wiki,,https://github.com/deadhead420/arch-wiki,Search the Arch Wiki anywhere from the command line.
online,googler,,https://github.com/jarun/googler,"Google Search, Google Site Search, Google News from the terminal."
text-processing,lolcat,,https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat,Ruby Gem to colorize the output of the cat command.
@ -203,13 +203,13 @@ calc,pdd,,https://github.com/jarun/pdd,"Tiny date, time diff calculator."
utility,powerline,,https://github.com/powerline/powerline,"Powerline is a statusline plugin for vim, and provides statuslines and prompts for several other applications, including zsh, bash, tmux, IPython, Awesome and Qtile."
online,socli,,https://github.com/gautamkrishnar/socli,Stack overflow command line client written in Python. Search and browse stack overflow without leaving the terminal
utility,termsaver,http://termsaver.brunobraga.net/,,"termsaver to enjoy fancy ASCII screensavers like matrix, clock, starwars, and a couple of not-safe-for-work screens."
utility,dateutils,http://www.fresse.org/dateutils/,,Dateutils are a bunch of tools that revolve around fiddling with dates and times in the command line with a strong focus on use cases that arise when dealing with large amounts of financial data.
data-management,VisiData,https://www.visidata.org/,,"Interactive multitool for tabular data. It combines the clarity of a spreadsheet, the efficiency of the terminal, and the power of Python, into a lightweight utility which can handle millions of rows with ease."
utility,dateutils,http://www.fresse.org/dateutils/,https://github.com/hroptatyr/dateutils,Dateutils are a bunch of tools that revolve around fiddling with dates and times in the command line with a strong focus on use cases that arise when dealing with large amounts of financial data.
data-management,VisiData,https://www.visidata.org/,https://github.com/saulpw/visidata,"Interactive multitool for tabular data. It combines the clarity of a spreadsheet, the efficiency of the terminal, and the power of Python, into a lightweight utility which can handle millions of rows with ease."
data-management,csvkit,,https://github.com/wireservice/csvkit,"A suite of command-line tools for converting to and working with CSV, the king of tabular file formats."
programming,gdb-dashboard,,https://github.com/cyrus-and/gdb-dashboard,Modular visual interface for GDB in Python.
password-manager,hide,,https://github.com/whatl3y/hide,AES-256 bit encrypted password manager with all encrypted passwords stored locally on your machine
password-manager,gopass,https://www.gopass.pw/,,gopass is a rewrite of the pass password manager in Go with the aim of making it cross-platform and adding additional features. The target audience are professional developers and sysadmins (and especially teams of those) who are well versed with a command line interface.
password-manager,pass,https://www.passwordstore.org/,,"With pass, each password lives inside of a gpg encrypted file whose filename is the title of the website or resource that requires the password. These encrypted files may be organized into meaningful folder hierarchies, copied from computer to computer, and, in general, manipulated using standard command line file management utilities."
password-manager,gopass,https://www.gopass.pw/,https://github.com/gopasspw/gopass,gopass is a rewrite of the pass password manager in Go with the aim of making it cross-platform and adding additional features. The target audience are professional developers and sysadmins (and especially teams of those) who are well versed with a command line interface.
password-manager,pass,https://www.passwordstore.org/,https://git.zx2c4.com/password-store/,"With pass, each password lives inside of a gpg encrypted file whose filename is the title of the website or resource that requires the password. These encrypted files may be organized into meaningful folder hierarchies, copied from computer to computer, and, in general, manipulated using standard command line file management utilities."
password-manager,dpg,,https://github.com/62726164/dpg,"The Deterministic Password Generator - Generates passwords based on a master password and the indication of the website/service/username, without the need of storing anything."
transfer,yt-splitter,,https://github.com/redsolver/yt-splitter,Downloads and splits audio tracks from a YouTube video according to the chapters/tracks. Useful for compilations or full album uploads.
backup,bupstash,,https://github.com/andrewchambers/bupstash,Easy and efficient encrypted backups.
password-manager,kpcli,http://kpcli.sourceforge.net/,,A command line interface for KeePass.
password-manager,kpcli,http://kpcli.sourceforge.net/,https://sourceforge.net/projects/kpcli/,A command line interface for KeePass.
data-management,GNU Recutils,https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/manual/,,"Set of tools and libraries to access human-editable, text-based databases called recfiles."
games,terminal_board_games,,https://github.com/salt-die/terminally_bored_terminal_board_games,Board games for the terminal.
games,minesweeper,,https://github.com/gazpachoking/minesweeper,Cross-platform terminal based minesweeper.
games,Terminal Phase,https://dustycloud.org/blog/terminal-phase-1.0/,,A space shooter game you can play in your terminal.
cd,broot,https://dystroy.org/broot/,,"A new way to navigate directory trees on linux, made in rust."
calc,Nota,https://kary.us/nota/,,Terminal calculator with rich notation.
games,Terminal Phase,https://dustycloud.org/blog/terminal-phase-1.0/,https://gitlab.com/dustyweb/terminal-phase,A space shooter game you can play in your terminal.
cd,broot,https://dystroy.org/broot/,https://github.com/Canop/broot,"A new way to navigate directory trees on linux, made in rust."
calc,Nota,https://kary.us/nota/,https://github.com/pouyakary/Nota,Terminal calculator with rich notation.
editors,vy,,https://github.com/vyapp/vy,A vim-like in python made from scratch.
office,conrad,,https://github.com/vinayak-mehta/conrad,Track conferences and meetups.
note-taking,dn,,https://github.com/tomlockwood/dn,Daily notes command line tool.
git,onefetch,,https://github.com/o2sh/onefetch,Git repository summary on your terminal.
data-management,jtc,,https://github.com/ldn-softdev/jtc,JSON manipulation and transformation.
email,NeoMutt,https://neomutt.org/,,Patched and up-to-dated mutt fork.
email,NeoMutt,https://neomutt.org/,https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt,Patched and up-to-dated mutt fork.
utility,kmdr-cli,,https://github.com/ediardo/kmdr-cli#supported-programs,The CLI tool for explaining commands from your terminal.
utility,Starship,https://starship.rs/,,The cross-shell prompt for astronauts.
todo-manager,todotxt-machine,https://pypi.org/project/todotxt-machine/,,Interfacce for todo.txt.
utility,Starship,https://starship.rs/,https://github.com/starship/starship,The cross-shell prompt for astronauts.
todo-manager,todotxt-machine,https://pypi.org/project/todotxt-machine/,https://github.com/AnthonyDiGirolamo/todotxt-machine,Interfacce for todo.txt.
games,usolitaire,,https://github.com/eliasdorneles/usolitaire,Solitaire in your terminal.
file-manager,rnr,,https://github.com/bugnano/rnr,The RNR File Manager (RNR's Not Ranger) is a text based file manager that combines the best features ofMidnight CommanderandRanger.
funny,cbonsai,,https://gitlab.com/jallbrit/cbonsai,"A bonsai tree generator, written in C using ncurses. It intelligently creates, colors, and positions a bonsai tree."
@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ transfer,ytfzf,,https://github.com/pystardust/ytfzf,A POSIX script that helps yo
data-management,Graphtage,,https://github.com/trailofbits/graphtage,"Graphtage is a commandline utility andunderlying libraryfor semantically comparing and merging tree-like structures, such as JSON, XML, HTML, YAML, plist, and CSS files."
productivity,tuxi,,https://github.com/Bugswriter/tuxi,A CLI tool that scrapes Google search results and SERPs that provides instant and concise answers.
music,Siren,https://www.kariliq.nl/siren/,,Siren is a text-based audio player for UNIX-like operating systems.
music,Siren,https://www.kariliq.nl/siren/,https://www.kariliq.nl/git/siren/,Siren is a text-based audio player for UNIX-like operating systems.
office,Ticker,,https://github.com/achannarasappa/ticker,Terminal stock watcher and stock position tracker.
transfer,xh,,https://github.com/ducaale/xh,xh is a friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests. It reimplements as much as possible ofHTTPie'sexcellent design.
git,git-peek,,https://github.com/Jarred-Sumner/git-peek,git peekis the fastest way to open a remote git repository in your local text editor.
@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ disk-analyzer,gdu,,https://github.com/dundee/gdu,"Pretty fast disk usage analyze
music,kord,,https://github.com/synestematic/kord,A python framework that provides programmers with a simple api for the creation of music-based applications.
graphics,imgcat,,https://github.com/trashhalo/imgcat,Tool to output images in the terminal. Built withbubbletea.
science,bib.awk,,https://github.com/huijunchen9260/bib.awk,Bibliography manager written in awk.
programming,rr,https://rr-project.org/,,"Debug the recording, deterministically, as many times as you want."
programming,rr,https://rr-project.org/,https://github.com/rr-debugger/rr,"Debug the recording, deterministically, as many times as you want."
programming,nbterm,,https://github.com/davidbrochart/nbterm,Jupyter Notebooks in the terminal.
transfer,qr-filetransfer,,https://github.com/sdushantha/qr-filetransfer,Transfer files over WiFi between your computer and your smartphone from the terminal.
science,element,,https://github.com/gennaro-tedesco/element,Periodic table on the command line.
@ -306,27 +306,27 @@ utility,eg,,https://github.com/srsudar/eg,Useful examples at the command line.
viewers,mdt,,https://github.com/robolab-pavia/mdt,MarkDown in the Terminal. A markdown viewer with themes defined by JSON files and interactive mode to open links and word-wrapping adaptable to the terminal width.
organizers,buku,,https://github.com/jarun/buku,A powerful bookmark manager written in Python3 and SQLite3.
graphics,imgp,,https://github.com/jarun/imgp,"A command line image resizer and rotator for JPEG and PNG images. It can resize (or thumbnail) and rotate thousands of images in a go, at lightning speed, while saving significantly on storage."
backup,zbackup,http://zbackup.org/,,"A globally-deduplicating backup tool, based on the ideas found inrsync."
transfer,Transmission,https://transmissionbt.com/,,"Fast, easy and free bittorrent client."
backup,zbackup,http://zbackup.org/,https://github.com/zbackup/zbackup,"A globally-deduplicating backup tool, based on the ideas found inrsync."
transfer,Transmission,https://transmissionbt.com/,https://github.com/transmission/transmission,"Fast, easy and free bittorrent client."
transfer,rtorrent,,https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent,"Bittorrent client uses ncurses and is ideal for use with tmux, screen or dtach."
terminal,dtach,,https://github.com/crigler/dtach,A program written in C that emulates the detach feature of screen.
file-handling,vidir,,https://github.com/trapd00r/vidir,vidir allows editing of the contents of a directory in a text editor.
security,Firejail,https://firejail.wordpress.com/,,A SUID program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted applications using Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf.
editors,Kakoune,http://kakoune.org/,,"Modal editor, faster as in less keystrokes,multiple selections, orthogonal design."
security,Firejail,https://firejail.wordpress.com/,https://github.com/netblue30/firejail,A SUID program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted applications using Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf.
editors,Kakoune,http://kakoune.org/,https://github.com/mawww/kakoune,"Modal editor, faster as in less keystrokes,multiple selections, orthogonal design."
online,ddgr,,https://github.com/jarun/ddgr,A command line utility to search DuckDuckGo (html version) from the terminal.
games,chs,,https://github.com/nickzuber/chs,Play chess against the Stockfish engine in your terminal.
file-manager,clifm,,https://github.com/leo-arch/clifm,"A CLI-based, shell-like, and non-curses terminal file manager written in C: simple, fast, extensible, and lightweight as hell."
email,nmail,,https://github.com/d99kris/nmail,nmail is a console-based email client for Linux and macOS with a user interface similar to alpine / pine.
chat,matterhorn,,https://github.com/matterhorn-chat/matterhorn,A terminal client for the Mattermost chat system.
organizers,calcurse,https://calcurse.org/,,"A calendar and scheduling application for the command line. It helps keep track of events, appointments and everyday tasks."
organizers,calcurse,https://calcurse.org/,https://git.calcurse.org/calcurse.git/,"A calendar and scheduling application for the command line. It helps keep track of events, appointments and everyday tasks."
music,castero,,https://github.com/xgi/castero,A TUI podcast client for the terminal.
security,GnuPG,https://gnupg.org/,,GnuPG is a complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard as defined byRFC4880(also known asPGP).
security,GnuPG,https://gnupg.org/,https://dev.gnupg.org/source/gnupg/repository/master/,GnuPG is a complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard as defined byRFC4880(also known asPGP).
chat,tiny,,https://github.com/osa1/tiny,tiny is an IRC client written in Rust.
note-taking,Standard Unix Notes,,https://github.com/Standard-Unix-Notes/unix-notes,GPG Encrypted Notes/Notebook manager for BSD/Linux.
monitor,below,,https://github.com/facebookincubator/below,A time traveling resource monitor for modern Linux systems
monitor,lfs,,https://github.com/Canop/lfs,A thing to get information on your mounted disks
webdev,ain,,https://github.com/jonaslu/ain,An HTTP API client for the terminal.
conversion,BaFi,https://mmalcek.github.io/bafi/,,"Universal JSON, BSON, YAML, CSV, XML translator to ANY format using templates."
conversion,BaFi,https://mmalcek.github.io/bafi/,https://github.com/mmalcek/bafi,"Universal JSON, BSON, YAML, CSV, XML translator to ANY format using templates."
git,gitui,,https://github.com/extrawurst/gitui,GitUI provides you with the comfort of a git GUI but right in your terminal
games,rpg-cli,,https://github.com/facundoolano/rpg-cli,Your filesystem as a dungeon!
@ -335,17 +335,17 @@ note-taking,jnrl,,https://github.com/maebert/jrnl,Collect your thoughts and note
viewers,tabview,,https://github.com/TabViewer/tabview,Python curses command line CSV and tabular data viewer.
versioning,Bazaar,http://bazaar.canonical.com/en/,,"Multiplatform version control system supporting diffferent workflows; it is part of the GNU Project, and it is free software sponsored by Canonical."
git,grv,,https://github.com/rgburke/grv,"Git Repository Viewer - A terminal based interface for viewing Git repositories. It allows refs, commits and diffs to be viewed, searched and filtered."
versioning,fossil,https://fossil-scm.org/,,"A simple, high-reliability, distributed software configuration management system with these advanced features: project management, built-in web interface, friendly self-hosting, simple networking, all-in-one standalone executable, and much more."
versioning,fossil,https://fossil-scm.org/,https://github.com/drhsqlite/fossil-mirror,"A simple, high-reliability, distributed software configuration management system with these advanced features: project management, built-in web interface, friendly self-hosting, simple networking, all-in-one standalone executable, and much more."
editors,Diakonos,,https://github.com/Pistos/diakonos,A powerful editor with “standard” keybindings and several advanced features; written in Ruby.
utility,yank,,https://github.com/mptre/yank,Reads input from stdin and display a selection interface that allows a field to be selected and copied to the clipboard.
terminal,mtm,,https://github.com/deadpixi/mtm,"Micro Terminal Multiplexer - Simple but usable, stable and minimalistic terminal multiplexer."
text-processing,sd,,https://github.com/chmln/sd,s[earch] & d[isplace] - An intuitive find & replace CLI; a possible replacement for sed.
productivity,Watson,,https://github.com/TailorDev/Watson,Time tracking CLI to know how much time you are spending on your projects. It can generate nice reports for clients.
data-management,WOPR,,https://github.com/yaronn/wopr,"A simple markup language for creating rich terminal reports, presentations and infographic."
games,Angband,https://rephial.org/,,"Angband is a free, single-player dungeon exploration game."
games,Angband,https://rephial.org/,https://github.com/angband/angband,"Angband is a free, single-player dungeon exploration game."
programming,grex,,https://github.com/pemistahl/grex,A command-line tool for generating regular expressions from user-provided test cases.
browser,Amfora,,https://github.com/makeworld-the-better-one/amfora,Amfora aims to be the best looking Gemini client with the most features. It does not support Gopher or other non-Web protocols.
browser,Bombadillo,https://bombadillo.colorfield.space/,,"A non-web browser, designed for a growing list of protocols operating outside of the web. Currently supports Gemini, Finger and Gopher."
browser,Bombadillo,https://bombadillo.colorfield.space/,https://tildegit.org/sloum/Bombadillo,"A non-web browser, designed for a growing list of protocols operating outside of the web. Currently supports Gemini, Finger and Gopher."
file-handling,pycp,,https://github.com/dmerejkowsky/pycp,cp and mv with a progressbar.
calc,bcal,,https://github.com/jarun/bcal,"Byte CALculator - A REPL CLI utility for storage expression evaluation, SI/IEC conversion, byte address calculation, base conversion and LBA/CHS calculation."
password-manager,cpass,,https://github.com/OliverLew/cpass,Another console UI for pass.
@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ graphics,inklayers,,https://github.com/toolleeo/inklayers,A command line program
programming,pvcheck,,https://github.com/claudio-unipv/pvcheck,"A tool to apply automated testing to programs that produce textual output. The format of the output is very specific, making pvcheck suitable to test programming quizzes."
cd,Jmp,,https://github.com/gholmes829/Jmp,Change directory with smart searching of the path specified through regex.
cd,llama,,https://github.com/antonmedv/llama,Minimalistic file opener and directory changer focused on fuzzy searching the path.
git,Soft Serve,,https://github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve,Self-hostable Git server for the command line. One distinguished feature is the possibility to create new repositories with a push.
text-processing,deadlink,,https://github.com/nschloe/deadlink,Parses text files for HTTP URLs and checks if they are still valid. Good to use on markdown documentation files.
cd,SmartCd,,https://github.com/CodesOfRishi/smartcd,"A cd command with improved usability features, which can remember your recently visited directory paths and, search and directly traverse to sub-directories and as well as parent directories, all with Fuzzy searching."
programming,temci,,https://github.com/parttimenerd/temci,Advanced benchmarking tool written in Python 3 that supports setting up an environment for benchmarking and the generation of visually appealing reports.
utility,just,,https://github.com/casey/just,Handy way to save and run project-specific commands.
@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ file-handling,FClones,,https://github.com/pkolaczk/fclones,Efficient Duplicate F
data-management,dasel,,https://github.com/TomWright/dasel,Allows you to query and modify data structures using selector strings.
transfer,pbgopy,,https://github.com/nakabonne/pbgopy,Copy and paste between devices.
data-management,gnuplot,https://www.explainshell.com/explain/1/gnuplot,,Generate two and three dimensional plots of data.
data-management,gnuplot,https://www.explainshell.com/explain/1/gnuplot,https://github.com/idank/explainshell,Generate two and three dimensional plots of data.
office,conan,,https://github.com/mirage/conan,Find clue about the type of the file.
networking,xxh,,https://github.com/xxh/xxh,Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through the ssh.
browser,browsh,https://www.brow.sh/,,"It renders anything that a modern browser can; HTML5, CSS3, JS, video and even WebGL. Its main purpose is to be run on a remote server and accessed via SSH/Mosh or the in-browser HTML service in order to significantly reduce bandwidth and thus both increase browsing speeds and decrease bandwidth costs."
viewers,jless,https://pauljuliusmartinez.github.io/,,"Command-line JSON viewer designed for reading, exploring, and searching through JSON data."
browser,browsh,https://www.brow.sh/,https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh,"It renders anything that a modern browser can; HTML5, CSS3, JS, video and even WebGL. Its main purpose is to be run on a remote server and accessed via SSH/Mosh or the in-browser HTML service in order to significantly reduce bandwidth and thus both increase browsing speeds and decrease bandwidth costs."
viewers,jless,https://pauljuliusmartinez.github.io/,https://github.com/PaulJuliusMartinez/jless,"Command-line JSON viewer designed for reading, exploring, and searching through JSON data."
viewers,bat,,https://github.com/sharkdp/bat,Acatclone with syntax highlighting and Git integration.
data-management,osmf,,https://github.com/codesoap/osmf,OpenStreetMap find - A simple command line tool to explore OSM data.
viewers,haxor-news,,https://github.com/donnemartin/haxor-news,Browse Hacker News like a haxor: A Hacker News command line interface (CLI).
@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ git,gh-f,,https://github.com/gennaro-tedesco/gh-f,"The ultimate, compact and sna
git,stargazer,,https://github.com/gennaro-tedesco/stargazer,Github stats from the command line.
webdev,http-tanker,,https://github.com/PierreKieffer/http-tanker,"Terminal application used for API testing; easily create, manage and execute http requests from the terminal."
system,Bevel,,https://github.com/NorfairKing/bevel,Command line history in an SQLite database for effective re-use.
data-management,zq,https://zed.brimdata.io/docs/commands/zq/,,Processor for JSON data with stateful operators and a syntax that is more consistent w.r.t. jq (as claimed by the authors).
data-management,zq,https://zed.brimdata.io/docs/commands/zq/,https://github.com/brimdata/zed,Processor for JSON data with stateful operators and a syntax that is more consistent w.r.t. jq (as claimed by the authors).
transfer,Mabel,,https://github.com/smmr-software/mabel,"Deriving its name from the Hebrew word ""מבול,"" meaning flood, deluge, or (loosely) torrent, Mabel is a fancy BitTorrent client for the terminal."
text-processing,tuc,,https://github.com/riquito/tuc,"You want tocuton more than just a character, perhaps using negative indexes or format the selected fields as you want... Maybe you want to cut on lines (ever needed to drop first and last line?)... That's wheretuccan help."
games,sku,,https://github.com/fedeztk/sku,Simple TUI written in go to play sudoku in the terminal.
@ -509,7 +509,7 @@ system,brightnessctl,,https://github.com/Hummer12007/brightnessctl,"Read and con
note-taking,sncli,,https://github.com/insanum/sncli,A Python application that gives you access to your Simplenote account via the command line.
note-taking,dnote,,https://github.com/dnote/dnote,A simple command line notebook for the terminal. It also offers a seamless multi-device sync and a web interface.
note-taking,Geeknote,,https://github.com/jeffkowalski/geeknote,"A command line client for Evernote that can be use on Linux, FreeBSD and OS X."
note-taking,Terminal velocity,https://vhp.github.io/terminal_velocity/,,"A fast, cross-platform note-taking application for the UNIX terminal."
note-taking,Terminal velocity,https://vhp.github.io/terminal_velocity/,https://github.com/vhp/terminal_velocity,"A fast, cross-platform note-taking application for the UNIX terminal."
science,Pubs,,https://github.com/pubs/pubs,Pubs organizes your scientific papers together with their bibliographic data and provides command line access to basic and advanced manipulation of your library.
data-management,IRedis,,https://github.com/laixintao/iredis,Interactive Redis: A Cli for Redis with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting.
data-management,mycli,,https://github.com/dbcli/mycli,A command line client for MySQL that can do auto-completion and syntax highlighting.
@ -521,10 +521,10 @@ music,dzr,,https://github.com/yne/dzr,"Command Line deezer.com Player for Linux,
music,beets,,https://github.com/beetbox/beets,"Beets is the media library management system for obsessive music geeks: catalogs your collection, automatically improving its metadata as it goes."
music,musikcube,,https://github.com/clangen/musikcube,"A cross-platform, terminal-based audio engine, library, player and server written in C++."
multimedia,Editly,,https://github.com/mifi/editly,A tool and framework for declarative NLE (non-linear video editing) using Node.js and ffmpeg.
multimedia,ffmpeg,https://ffmpeg.org/,,The Swiss knife of video editing from the command line.
multimedia,ffmpeg,https://ffmpeg.org/,https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg,The Swiss knife of video editing from the command line.
productivity,Taskell,,https://github.com/smallhadroncollider/taskell,A CLI kanban board/task manager for Mac and Linux.
shells,xonsh,https://xon.sh/,,The xonsh shell lets you easily mix Python and shell commands in a powerful and simplified approach to the command line.
productivity,hledger,https://hledger.org/,,"A is fast, reliable, free, multicurrency double-entry accounting software to track money, investments, cryptocurrencies, time, or any other quantifiable commodity; uses a future-proof plain text file format."
shells,xonsh,https://xon.sh/,https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh,The xonsh shell lets you easily mix Python and shell commands in a powerful and simplified approach to the command line.
productivity,hledger,https://hledger.org/,https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger,"A is fast, reliable, free, multicurrency double-entry accounting software to track money, investments, cryptocurrencies, time, or any other quantifiable commodity; uses a future-proof plain text file format."
git,fzf-git.sh,,https://github.com/junegunn/fzf-git.sh,"bash and zsh key bindings for Git objects, powered by fzf."
conversion,simtex,,https://github.com/iaacornus/simtex,"simtex (simplified LaTeX) allows you to convert your markdown or text lectures into LaTeX file with one command, configured with simple .json file."
file-handling,ff,,https://github.com/akymos/ff,"ff is a command-line tool to manage favorite folders, creating an alias, to be used via shell directly with the cd command."
transfer,Transgression TUI,,https://github.com/PanAeon/transg-tui,A remote TUI client for the Transmission bittorrent program.
text-processing,pdf-diff,,https://github.com/serhack/pdf-diff,A tool for visualizing differences between two pdf files. Mainly dedicated to editors that usually spends a lot of hours on several pdf.
graphics,kakikun,,https://github.com/file-acomplaint/kakikun,"Kakikun is a tool to paint, draw and create ASCII art in your terminal using unicode characters."
graphics,Aewan,http://aewan.sourceforge.net/,,Aewan is a multi-layered ASCII graphics/animation editor. It produces stand-alone cat-able ASCII art files and an easy-to-parse format for integration into terminal applications.
graphics,jp2a,https://csl.name/jp2a/,,Command-line tool that converts images to ASCII art in the Linux terminal.
graphics,LinuxLogo,https://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxlogo/,,Display the Linux distribution logo in ASCII format.
text-processing,pv,http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml,,The pv command is used to monitor the progress of data through pipe.
graphics,Aewan,http://aewan.sourceforge.net/,https://sourceforge.net/projects/aewan/,Aewan is a multi-layered ASCII graphics/animation editor. It produces stand-alone cat-able ASCII art files and an easy-to-parse format for integration into terminal applications.
graphics,jp2a,https://csl.name/jp2a/,https://sourceforge.net/projects/jp2a/,Command-line tool that converts images to ASCII art in the Linux terminal.
graphics,LinuxLogo,https://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxlogo/,https://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxlogo/,Display the Linux distribution logo in ASCII format.
text-processing,pv,http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml,https://github.com/a-j-wood/pv,The pv command is used to monitor the progress of data through pipe.
networking,TStream,,https://github.com/qnkhuat/tstream,"Live streaming from the terminal. Requires the connection to a central server, from which the streaming is dispatched."
todo-manager,tsk,,https://github.com/kakengloh/tsk,"Terminal task management app with an emphasis on simplicity, efficiency and ease of use."
monitor,The Logfile Navigator,https://lnav.org/,,An advanced and colorful log file viewer with TUI interface.
monitor,The Logfile Navigator,https://lnav.org/,https://github.com/tstack/lnav,An advanced and colorful log file viewer with TUI interface.
data-management,gojq,,https://github.com/itchyny/gojq,Pure Go implementation of jq.
science,pt.sh,,https://github.com/alexeytal/pt.sh,CLI periodic table with search and many properties.
terminal,Zellij,,https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij,"A workspace aimed at developers, ops-oriented people and anyone who loves the terminal. At its core, it is a terminal multiplexer."
@ -551,10 +551,10 @@ music,Tera,,https://github.com/shinokada/tera,"Terminal Radio: an easy-to-use CL
games,sssnake,,https://github.com/AngelJumbo/sssnake,(Smart and sexy snake) The classic snake game for the terminal that can plays itself and be use like a screensaver.
system,Devbox,,https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox,Devbox is a command-line tool that lets you easily create isolated shells and containers by defining the list of packages required by the environment.
git,gh-stars,,https://github.com/aymanbagabas/gh-stars,A GitHub CLI extension to show repository stargazers.
browser,asuka,https://git.sr.ht/~julienxx/asuka,,A Gemini Project client written in Rust with NCurses.
browser,asuka,https://git.sr.ht/~julienxx/asuka,https://git.sr.ht/~julienxx/asuka,A Gemini Project client written in Rust with NCurses.
browser,Gremlin,,https://github.com/actuday6418/gremlin,Gemini browser for the terminal.
browser,min,,https://github.com/a-h/min,"A Gemini browser with Vim style keyboard navigation, client certificate support and history and bookmarks saved in TSV files."
browser,Telescope,https://telescope.omarpolo.com/,,Gemini client with UI that is strongly inspired from Emacs and W3M.
browser,Telescope,https://telescope.omarpolo.com/,https://github.com/omar-polo/telescope,Gemini client with UI that is strongly inspired from Emacs and W3M.
browser,gplaces,,https://github.com/dimkr/gplaces,Simple but powerful terminal Gemini client.
browser,Romulus,,https://github.com/LukeEmmet/Romulus,"A cross platform Gemini console client in C# with a simple user interface, interactive menus and mouse support."
email,pymailgen,,https://github.com/toolleeo/pymailgen,"Starting from the content of a CSV file and a template text file, pymailgen generates a list of emails to be sent out using a command-line SMTP client."
@ -575,7 +575,7 @@ text-processing,rare,,https://github.com/zix99/rare,"Realtime regex-extraction a
online,Awesome CLI,,https://github.com/umutphp/awesome-cli,Awesome CLI is a simple command line tool to give you a fancy command line interface to dive into Awesome lists.
password-manager,Bitwarden CLI,https://bitwarden.com/help/cli/,,"Command-line interface for Bitwarden, a multi-platform password manager targeted to companies and enterprises."
password-manager,Bitwarden CLI,https://bitwarden.com/help/cli/,https://github.com/bitwarden/cli,"Command-line interface for Bitwarden, a multi-platform password manager targeted to companies and enterprises."
text-processing,choose,,https://github.com/jagprog5/choose,NCurses based token selector with a nice terminal user interface for selecting tokens. Selecting a line from the bash history is only one of its use cases.
multimedia,invidtui,,https://github.com/darkhz/invidtui,"Invidious TUI client, which fetches data from invidious instances and displays a user interface in the terminal, and allows for selecting and playing Youtube audio and video."
networking,redive,,https://github.com/neelkarma/redive,Trace URL redirections in the terminal.
@ -583,18 +583,18 @@ utility,Cloudcash,,https://github.com/mrusme/cloudcash,"Check your cloud spendin
networking,bluetuith,,https://github.com/darkhz/bluetuith,"A TUI-based Bluetooth connection manager, which can interact with Bluetooth adapters and devices. It aims to be a replacement to most Bluetooth managers, like blueman."
file-handling,Brash,,https://github.com/zakariagatter/brash,CLI Trash Manager in Pure Bash.
transfer,torrentCLI,,https://github.com/amogusussy/torrentCLI,Get torrents from the Terminal.
shells,Spaceship,https://spaceship-prompt.sh/,,"Minimalistic, powerful and extremely customizable Zsh prompt."
shells,Spaceship,https://spaceship-prompt.sh/,https://github.com/spaceship-prompt/spaceship-prompt,"Minimalistic, powerful and extremely customizable Zsh prompt."
programming,cloc,,https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc,"Tool for counting blank lines, comment lines, and physical lines of source code in many programming languages."
programming,Tokei,,https://github.com/XAMPPRocky/tokei,"Tokei is a program that displays statistics about your code. Tokei will show the number of files, total lines within those files and code, comments, and blanks grouped by language."
programming,scc,,https://github.com/boyter/scc,"Sloc Cloc and Code (scc) is a codebase statistics counter. Goal is to be the fastest code counter possible, but also perform COCOMO calculation like sloccount and to estimate code complexity similar to cyclomatic complexity calculators. In short one tool to rule them all."
programming,Cppcheck,http://cppcheck.net/,,Static analysis tool for C/C++ code providing unique code analysis to detect bugs and focuses on detecting undefined behaviour and dangerous coding constructs.
programming,Frama-C,https://frama-c.com/,,Open-source extensible and collaborative platform dedicated to source-code analysis of C software. Frama-C can assist from the navigation through unfamiliar projects up to the certification of critical software.
programming,Cppcheck,http://cppcheck.net/,https://github.com/danmar/cppcheck/,Static analysis tool for C/C++ code providing unique code analysis to detect bugs and focuses on detecting undefined behaviour and dangerous coding constructs.
programming,Frama-C,https://frama-c.com/,https://git.frama-c.com/pub/frama-c/,Open-source extensible and collaborative platform dedicated to source-code analysis of C software. Frama-C can assist from the navigation through unfamiliar projects up to the certification of critical software.
games,terdle,,https://github.com/neelkarma/terdle,Wordle implemented in Rust.
music,MusicPlayerPlus,,https://github.com/doctorfree/MusicPlayerPlus,"Featureful ncurses based MPD client inspired by ncmpc with integration for Beets, spectrum visualization,Bandcamp/Soundcloud, asciimatics, cantata, and more."
system,ContainerSSH,,https://github.com/ContainerSSH/ContainerSSH,An SSH Server that Launches Containers in Kubernetes and Docker on demand.
funny,Limoji,,https://github.com/GEROGIANNIS/Limoji,Limoji is an open source tool that makes it easy to choose between hundreds of cool ASCII emoticons and share them with your friends.
games,Minesweeper Game,,https://github.com/omerkarabacak/minesweeper,A small command line Minesweeper Game.
editors,Tilde,https://os.ghalkes.nl/tilde/,,"Tilde is a text editor that provides an intuitive interface for people accustomed to GUI environments, usual shortcuts for common operation, a traditional menu bar, etc."
editors,Tilde,https://os.ghalkes.nl/tilde/,https://github.com/gphalkes/tilde,"Tilde is a text editor that provides an intuitive interface for people accustomed to GUI environments, usual shortcuts for common operation, a traditional menu bar, etc."
music,spotify-player,,https://github.com/aome510/spotify-player,"spotify-player is a fast, easy to use, and configurable terminal music player having feature parity with the official Spotify application."
git,git-remote-aws,,https://github.com/nathants/git-remote-aws,Management of encrypted git hosting.
transfer,Stig,,https://github.com/rndusr/stig,Stig is a client application to connect and control the BitTorrent Transmission client app.
@ -614,7 +614,7 @@ utility,mkdesk,,https://gitlab.com/mr-draxs/mkdesk,A program/command to create .
todo-manager,t,,https://github.com/sjl/t,"A command-line todo list manager for people that want to finish tasks, not organize them."
todo-manager,topydo,,https://github.com/topydo/topydo,"A powerful todo list application for the console, using the todo.txt format."
todo-manager,Ultralist,https://ultralist.io/,https://github.com/ultralist/ultralist,"A simple, powerful, open source task management system for the command line."
todo-manager,devtodo,https://swapoff.org/devtodo.html,,"A hierarchical command-line task manager, with data storage in JSON format."
todo-manager,devtodo,https://swapoff.org/devtodo.html,https://github.com/droundy/goopt,"A hierarchical command-line task manager, with data storage in JSON format."
security,cream,https://z3bra.org/cream/,https://git.z3bra.org/cream/files.html,"Encrypt and decrypt streams of data with only a master password. The key is derivated from the password + salt combo, and used to encrypt data byte per byte."
organizers,remint,,https://sr.ht/~mlaparie/remint/,A simple terminal UI wrapper for D. Skoll's Remind calendar program
email,tmpmail,,https://github.com/sdushantha/tmpmail,A command line utility written in POSIX sh that allows you to create a temporary email address and receive emails to the temporary email address.
@ -662,4 +662,3 @@ git,gita,,https://github.com/nosarthur/gita,A command-line tool to manage multip
games,anonymine,https://oskog97.com/projects/anonymine/,https://gitlab.com/oskog97/anonymine/,Curses mode minesweeper without guessing and other original features.
games,greed,http://www.catb.org/~esr/greed/,https://gitlab.com/esr/greed,A game of consumption. Eat as much as you can before munching yourself into a corner.
system,Mxflow-cli,,https://github.com/metaory/mxflow-cli,"A modern, general purpose CLI task runner with human readable yaml config file"
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category
name
homepage
git
description
2
productivity
h-m-m
https://github.com/nadrad/h-m-m
h-m-m (pronounced like the interjection "hmm") is a simple, fast, keyboard-centric terminal-based tool for working with mind maps.
3
networking
ipcalc
http://jodies.de/ipcalc
https://github.com/kjokjo/ipcalc
"ipcalc takes an IP address and netmask and calculates the resulting broadcast, network, Cisco wildcard mask, and host range."
4
networking
PSSH
https://code.google.com/archive/p/parallel-ssh/
PSSH provides parallel versions of OpenSSH and related tools. Included are pssh, pscp, prsync, pnuke, and pslurp. The project includes psshlib which can be used within custom applications.
5
networking
rtop
http://www.rtop-monitor.org/
https://github.com/rapidloop/rtop
rtop is a simple, agent-less, remote server monitoring tool that works over plain SSH. Written in golang, it does not need any software to be installed on the server that you want to monitor. It works by establishing an SSH session, and running commands on the remote server to collect system metrics.
6
networking
geoiplookup
https://github.com/maxmind/geoip-api-c
a little application to find geographical and network information of an IP address based no the geoip C API.
7
networking
quickserve
https://github.com/charliesome/quickserve
Quickserve is a very simple HTTP server written in Python that is intended for quickly sharing files on an ad-hoc basis. Aside from opening a port in your firewall if you have one, quickserve requires no set-up and should work with no hassle.
8
text-search
ack
http://beyondgrep.com/
https://github.com/beyondgrep/ack3
A tool like `grep` optimized for programmers; written in Perl, it speeds up searches thanks to skipping non interesting directories, such as `.git`.
9
text-search
ag
https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
(The silver searcher) is a text search utility targeted to source code; it skips versioning systems data directories; it is inspired by `ack`, but faster.
10
text-search
paragrep
http://software.clapper.org/paragrep/
https://github.com/bmc/paragrep
Greps regular expressions in a text file(s) and prints out the paragraphs containing those expressions; a paragraph is defined as a block of text delimited by an empty or blank line; fully customizable via command line parameters.
11
text-search
sift
https://sift-tool.org/
https://github.com/svent/sift
Fast and powerful open source alternative to grep; it targets flexibility and performance: can be as fast as "regular" grep and allows to specify complex expressions to find text.
12
text-processing
ccat
https://github.com/jingweno/ccat
A `cat` command with colorized output.
13
text-processing
fzf
https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
(FuZzy Finder) is a general-purpose command-line finder with fuzzy search/filter capabilities; good integration with `vim`.
14
text-processing
grc
https://github.com/pengwynn/grc
(Generic Colouriser) can be configured to parse a given text stream and to colorize it according to regexp written in configuration files; different patterns can be associated to file types.
15
data-management
jq
https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
https://github.com/stedolan/jq
(JSON Query?) is sed-like processor for JSON data; can be used to process JSON files and data streams and perform operations such as those allowed by `cat`, `sed`, `grep` and `awk` on regular text files.
16
text-processing
percol
https://github.com/mooz/percol
A Python script that "1) receives input lines from `stdin` or a file, 2) lists the input lines and waits for input that filter/select the line(s), 3) outputs the selected line(s) to `stdout`"; can be used to add interactivity to many regular shell commands.
17
text-processing
pick
https://github.com/calleerlandsson/pick
Utility that allows users to choose one option from a set of choices using an interface with fuzzy search functionality.
18
data-management
q
http://harelba.github.io/q/
https://github.com/harelba/q
Executes SQL-like queries on CSVs/TSVs tabular data files; each tabular file is treated as a database table; support to all SQL constructs (`WHERE`, `GROUP BY`, `JOIN`).
19
font
FIGlet
http://www.figlet.org/
https://github.com/cmatsuoka/figlet
Not exactly a font manager, but a nice program for making large letters out of ordinary text; an astonishing number of different fonts is available.
20
font
toilet
http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/toilet
https://github.com/cacalabs/toilet
A program that tries to improve `FIGlet`; can load FIGlet fonts; supports Unicode input and output, colour fonts and output, and various output formats, including HTML, IRC and ANSI; uses `libcaca` to produce nice textual effects.
21
editors
Emacs
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
One of the godfathers of text editors; free long-standing software project; tons of extensions and funcionalities; the biggest drawback (my taste): it needs [E-Lisp](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/eintr.html) for being programmed.
22
editors
jed
http://www.jedsoft.org/jed/index.html
https://github.com/jedsoft/jed
A text editor with a drop-down menu facility that make it especially user-friendly.
23
editors
joe
http://joe-editor.sourceforge.net/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/joe-editor/
(Joe's Own Editor) is a compact text editor written in C; a detailed list of features and missing ones is explicitly reported in the website; this editor is mentioned in several web sources for its capability in handling large files.
24
editors
nano
https://www.nano-editor.org/
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/nano.git/log/
Easy to use, lightweigth text editor; no complex keybindings to remember.
25
editors
micro
https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/
A terminal-based text editor written in Go that aims to be easy to use and intuitive, while also taking advantage of the full capabilities of modern terminals.
26
editors
neovim
https://neovim.io/
https://github.com/neovim/neovim
A work in progress attempt to improve [vim](http://www.vim.org/), dropping older/unused OS compatibility, improving the codebase readability, modularity and maintainability; it has chances to become the next choice of vim users.
27
editors
slap
https://github.com/slap-editor/slap
Text editor inspired by [Sublime Text](https://www.sublimetext.com/) written in NodeJS; extedable in Javascript.
28
editors
vai
https://github.com/stefanoborini/vai
A text editor similar to `vim` written in Python; many feature are nicely replicated, some are still missing; however, the advantage of this implementation is its simplicity, maintainability and extensibility, thanks to the Python implementation.
29
editors
vim
http://www.vim.org/
https://github.com/vim/vim
Historically one of the preferred text editors; behavior based on editing modes; plenty of plugins and tips to address every possible editing problem.
30
editors
vis
https://github.com/martanne/vis
"a modern, legacy free, simple yet efficient vim-like editor", and more: "The intention is not to be bug for bug compatible with vim, instead a similar editing experience should be provided. The goal could thus be summarized as 80% of vim's features implemented in roughly 1% of the code"; the editor is scriptable in LUA and supports editing large files.
31
editors
WordGrinder
https://cowlark.com/wordgrinder/
https://github.com/davidgiven/wordgrinder
From the website: "WordGrinder is a word processor for processing words. It is not WYSIWYG. It is not point and click. It is not a desktop publisher. It is not a text editor. It does not do fonts and it barely does styles. What it does do is words. It's designed for writing text. It gets out of your way and lets you type."
32
terminal
byobu
http://byobu.co/
A text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer; it features enhanced profiles, convenient keybindings, configuration utilities, and toggle-able system status notifications; compatible with `screen` and `tmux`.
33
terminal
screen
https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/screen.git
Terminal multiplexer that split a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells.
34
terminal
Tmate
https://tmate.io/
https://github.com/tmate-io/tmate
A fork of tmux that allows to share the terminal with other users. AFAIK, it connects to a centralized server to establish the connection. Someone may see this inconvenient for privacy issues.
35
terminal
tmux
https://tmux.github.io/
https://github.com/tmux/tmux
Terminal multiplexer; born to improve `screen`; client-server architecture, `vi` and `emacs` key-bindings, search in window feature and many more.
36
terminal
warp
https://github.com/spolu/warp
Secure and simple terminal sharing.
37
monitor
bpytop
https://github.com/aristocratos/bpytop
Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor with a nice interface.
38
file-handling
cv
https://github.com/Xfennec/progress
(Coreutils Progress Viewer) "looks for coreutils basic commands (`cp`, `mv`, `dd`, `tar`, `gzip/gunzip`, `cat`, etc.) currently running on your system and displays the percentage of copied data. It can also show estimated time and throughput".
39
monitor
glances
https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/
https://github.com/nicolargo/glances
A comprehensive and detailed system monitoring tool; monitored parameters include: CPU, memory, load, process list, network interfaces, disk I/O, sensors, filesystems, docker, system info, uptime.
40
utility
GoTTY
https://github.com/yudai/gotty
A program to turn CLI tools into web applications; basically, it runs a command and starts a server so that the output can be displayed in a web page.
41
monitor
inxi
http://smxi.org/docs/inxi.htm
https://github.com/smxi/inxi
A comprehensive system information script; provides information about CPU, graphics, audio and network devices, drives and partitions, sensors; implemented as a Bash script.
42
monitor
iotop
http://guichaz.free.fr/iotop/
https://repo.or.cz/w/iotop.git
"A Python program with a top like UI used to show of behalf of which process is the I/O going on".
43
monitor
htop
http://hisham.hm/htop/
https://github.com/htop-dev/htop
An interactive process viewer for Unix; improves the UI of `top`, by adding real-time meters and colors.
44
monitor
multitail
https://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/
https://github.com/folkertvanheusden/multitail
A command to open multiple log files in a single terminal window and monitor them in real-time.
45
monitor
ngrep
http://ngrep.sourceforge.net/
https://github.com/jpr5/ngrep/
(Network grep) applies the `grep` logic to the network layer, allowing to match regular expressions against data payloads of packets; it recognizes IPv4/6, TCP, UDP, ICMPv4/6, IGMP and Raw across Ethernet, PPP, SLIP, FDDI, Token Ring and null interfaces.
46
file-handling
progress
https://github.com/Xfennec/progress
A tool to monitor the progress of common Coreutils command-line tools (`cp`, `mv`, `dd`, `tar`, `rsync`, etc.); it uses an ncurses interface to display the percentage of data copied; it works by reading from system files and retrieving the necessary information for the estimation.
47
monitor
powertop
https://01.org/powertop
https://github.com/fenrus75/powertop
A `top`-like utility to monitor the sources of power consumption; allows to turn on/off many components; quite useful to track possible power-related issues.
48
monitor
sysdig
https://www.sysdig.org/
Sysdig captures system calls and events from the Linux kernel. You can save, filter, and analyze the data with our CLI or our desktop app. Think of sysdig as strace + tcpdump + htop + iftop + lsof + wireshark for your entire system.
49
monitor
smem
https://www.selenic.com/smem/
https://selenic.com/repo/smem
Python program that reports memory usage; it can report the "proportional set size" (PSS), a meaningful representation of the amount of memory used by libraries and applications in a virtual memory system; it has built-in chart generation.
50
monitor
top
http://www.unixtop.org/
The classical Unix utility that provides a rolling display of top cpu using processes.
51
monitor
watch
http://www.linfo.org/watch.html
Periodically runs a command in the console while temporarily clearing the screen content; it makes it easy to check differences between the output of two subsequent commands; it provides "diff" functionality to highlight the changing characters between outputs.
52
monitor
wtf
https://github.com/wtfutil/wtf
The personal information dashboard for your terminal.
53
shells
Bash
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git
(Bourne Again SHell) The most widespread system shell to date.
54
shells
Fish
https://fishshell.com/
https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell
"A command line shell for the 90s"; focused on user-friendliness, with powerful autosuggestions, colors, "sane scripting" (w.r.t. to Bash).
"Conspy allows a (possibly remote) user to see what is displayed on a Linux virtual console, and send keystrokes to it."
57
system
lshw
http://www.ezix.org/project/wiki/HardwareLiSter
https://ezix.org/src/pkg/lshw
A small tool to provide detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version and speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc.
58
system
Ntfy
https://github.com/dschep/ntfy
Cross-platform Python utility that enables you to automatically get desktop notifications on demand or when long running commands complete. It can as well send push notifications to your phone once a particular command completes.
59
system
task-spooler
http://vicerveza.homeunix.net/~viric/soft/ts/
A Unix batch system that can be used to add the Linux commands to the queue and execute them one after the other in numerical order (ascending order, to be precise). This can be very useful when you have to run a lots of commands, but you don't want to waste time waiting for one command to finish and run the next command. You can queue it all up and Task Spooler will execute them one by one. In the mean time, you can do other activities.
60
monitor
ttyload
http://www.daveltd.com/src/util/ttyload/
https://github.com/lindes/ttyload
ttyload is a lightweight utility which is intended to offer a color-coded graph of load averages over time on Linux and other Unix-like systems. It enables a graphical tracking of system load average in a terminal (“tty“).
61
system
hstr
https://github.com/dvorka/hstr
A tool for managing the history; powerful visual search and execution of previous commands; history editing capabilities.
62
system
parallel
https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parallel.git
A shell tool from GNU for executing jobs in parallel using one or more computers; it can split the input and pipe it into commands in parallel.
63
security
cipher
https://github.com/ash-shell/cipher
An Ash module that makes it easy to perform aes-256-cbc encryption for files and directories.
64
security
hashcat
https://hashcat.net/hashcat/
https://github.com/hashcat/hashcat
A robust and efficient password cracking tool that can help you recover lost passwords, audit password security, benchmark, or just figure out what data is stored in a hash.
65
security
encfs
http://www.arg0.net/#!encfs/c1awt
Encrypted filesystem in user-space based on [FUSE](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/FUSE); mounts an encrypted directory into a clear one.
66
security
LUKS
https://guardianproject.info/code/luks/
https://github.com/guardianproject/luks/wiki
Hard disk encryption tool; it stores all setup information in the partition header, enabling easy data transport or migration.
67
password-manager
safe.sh
https://github.com/windowsrefund/safe
Pure Bash script to manage secure archives; simple and clean; uses [gnugpg](https://gnupg.org/) for encryption/decryption, thus can leverage tools like [GPG Agent](https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/Invoking-GPG_002dAGENT.html).
68
password-manager
titan
https://www.byteptr.com/titan/
Password management belongs to the command line, deep into the Unix heartland, the shell. Titan is written in C and is available under the MIT license.
69
office
trino
https://github.com/eneserdogan/trino
Quick and easy translation of words and phrases entered in the command line.
70
office
Teapot
https://www.syntax-k.de/projekte/teapot/
Compact ncurses-based spreadsheet with original syntax, 3D-style and built-in functions.
71
office
sc-im
https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im
Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised -- An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal. It is rich in functionalities, but the syntax of functions and other details are different from the common spreadsheets such as Excel and Calc, making difficult to "re-cycle" existing knowledge on these programs to work proficiently with sc-im. Neverthless, a nice piece of software."
72
office
tpp
http://www.ngolde.de/tpp.html
https://github.com/Kerrick/tpp
(text presentation program) a ncurses Ruby program that allows to produce nice text-based presentation with simple markup language.
73
organizers
gcalcli
https://github.com/insanum/gcalcli
CLI to access Google Calendars; allows to do the main tasks: create, delete, and list events.
74
organizers
khal
https://github.com/pimutils/khal
CLI and terminal calendar program, able to synchronize with CalDAV servers through [vdirsyncer](https://github.com/pimutils/vdirsyncer).
75
organizers
ppl addressbook
http://ppladdressbook.org/
``ppl`` is free software made out of other free software. It's built on top of Ruby and Git, and the completely free vcard address book format.
76
note-taking
kb
https://github.com/gnebbia/kb
A minimalist knowledge base manager.
77
organizers
khard
https://github.com/lucc/khard
Console carddav client written in Pyhton.
78
todo-manager
iKog
https://sites.google.com/site/henspace/ikog/
A fully-featured task manager incapsulated within a Python script (just carry around the script to retain all the TODOs). When the script is run, a Python shell is opened, where task-related commands can be entered (ADD, LIST, etc.); a pity that commands are uppercase, which requires the annoying use of the Shift key.
79
todo-manager
Yokadi
https://yokadi.github.io/
https://github.com/agateau/yokadi
Project-based todo manager: every task must be specified with a mandatory project indication. Tasks are stored within a SQLlite DB. Written in Python.
Super-powerful [Emacs](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) plugin to manage outlines with associated timestamps, priorities, labels, etc.; available views grouped by time (agenda), tags, etc.; plain text storage format.
81
organizers
pal
http://palcal.sourceforge.net/
https://sourceforge.net/p/palcal/code/HEAD/tree/
Calendar program for Unix/Linux systems that can keep track of events; custom, plain text storage format; interesting and fully functional.
82
organizers
Remind
https://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind
Calendar program with possibility to set complex rules to define events; custom, powerful text-based storage format.
Todo manager with advanced features; dedicated synchronization server available; many plugins and related tools; healthy software project.
84
todo-manager
todo.txt
http://todotxt.org/
https://github.com/todotxt/todo.txt-cli
Minimalistic todo manager that uses a simple plain text file to keep track of items; implemented as a shell script.
85
todo-manager
todolist
http://todolist.site/
A minimal clone of [Wunderlist](https://www.wunderlist.com/), with 30% of its features. GTD oriented. It stores the task list in a hidden JSON file in the home directory, making it easy to backup or share them.
86
todo-manager
TuDu
https://code.meskio.net/tudu/
https://github.com/meskio/tudu
A comand line interface to manage hierarchical todos. Each task has a title, a long text description, a deadline (tudu warns you when the date is close), and a scheduled date. There are categories and priorities.
87
organizers
Wyrd
http://freecode.com/projects/wyrd/
Curses front-end for [Remind](https://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind) written in OCaml with vertically scrollable time table.
88
productivity
arbtt
http://arbtt.nomeata.de/
https://github.com/nomeata/arbtt
(automatic, rule-based time tracker) runs in background, collecting information regarding open windows, focussed ones, etc.; it can be configured to display statistics on the collected data, e.g., figuring out the time spent on one specific window.
89
productivity
ledger
http://ledger-cli.org/
https://github.com/ledger/ledger
A powerful, double-entry accounting system from the command-line; it uses a simple yet powerful text syntax to specify the items to account.
90
calc
Qalculate
https://qalculate.github.io/
https://github.com/Qalculate/libqalculate
Multi-purpose calculator with customizable functions, units, arbitrary precision, plotting (it includes a GUI).
91
productivity
Translate Shell
https://www.soimort.org/translate-shell/
https://github.com/soimort/translate-shell
Command-line translator using Google Translate, Bing Translator, Yandex.Translate, etc.
92
viewers
cacaview
http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca
https://github.com/cacalabs/libcaca
A library and a program to display JPG, PNG, GIF or BMP images in the terminal using ASCII characters.
93
viewers
glow
https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow
Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz!
94
viewers
feh
https://feh.finalrewind.org/
https://git.finalrewind.org/feh
"X11 image viewer aimed mostly at console users" (cit.); with no fancy GUI, it is controlled via commandline arguments and configurable key/mouse actions.
Lightweight graphical PDF visualizer; strong key-based control; fast and accurate rendering.
97
viewers
mplayer
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html
One of the most popular video/audio players around; plays most audio and video formats (using ASCII characters) in the shell; provides a GUI for graphical visualization.
98
viewers
mpv
https://mpv.io/
https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/
A cross-platform media player with many features such as frame timing, MKV chapters and subtitles. It is a responsive video player with minimal layout customizable with themes. A good alternative media player to VLC since it can handle almost all the media formats as VLC, but using much less resources.
NCurses Music Player Client (Plus Plus) - featureful ncurses based MPD client inspired by ncmpc. Relevant features: tag editor, playlist editor, easy to use search engine, media library, music visualizer, ability to fetch artist info from [last.fm](https://www.last.fm/), new display mode, alternative user interface, ability to browse and add files from outside of MPD music directory.
101
music
espeak
http://espeak.sourceforge.net/
https://sourceforge.net/p/espeak/code/HEAD/tree/
A compact open source software speech synthesizer for English and other languages.
A fast and lightweight audio player with configurable keybindings and playlist support.
104
music
MOC
https://moc.daper.net/
(music on console) is a powerful and easy to use console audio player; user interface a la Midnight Commander; plenty of features; fully controllable from the keyboard.
105
music
mpg123
http://mpg123.org/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpg123/
Quick `mp3` sound file player; no visual interface, just a command-line audio file player for `mp3` files.
106
music
mps-youtube
https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube
A curses player for music tracks from Youtube; it allows to search for songs and playlists; it downloads the video, extracts the audio track and plays it; handles local playlists and many configuration parameters.
107
music
ogg123
https://www.xiph.org/downloads/
https://gitlab.xiph.org/xiph
Quick `ogg` sound file player; no visual interface, just a command-line audio file player for the free and open `ogg` file format.
108
graphics
ImageMagick
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php
https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick
Software suite to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images; it handles many file formats (including PDF and SVG) and provides processing tools to "resize, flip, mirror, rotate, distort, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves".
109
graphics
scrot
https://github.com/dreamer/scrot
A simple CLI tool to capture screenshots.
110
git
git
https://git-scm.com/
https://github.com/git/git
The winner across all the existing file versioning tools; distributed versioning; fully controllable from the command-line; plenty of configuration and usage options; behind a number of related project that leverage git as backend.
Manages files with `git`, without checking the file contents into git; very useful to manage large/binary files.
112
git
git-stats
https://github.com/IonicaBizau/git-stats
Local git statistics including GitHub-like contributions calendars.
113
versioning
Mercurial
https://www.mercurial-scm.org/
https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg
Free, distributed source control management tool.
114
git
tig
https://github.com/jonas/tig
An ncurses-based text-mode interface for `git` that can act as a repository browser, but can also assist in staging changes for commit at chunk level.
115
file-system
sshfs
https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs
Locally mount a remote file-system through SSH and access files and directory as they would be on the local machine.
116
file-system
TMSU
http://tmsu.org/
https://github.com/oniony/TMSU
A tool for tagging files; it provides a simple command line tool for applying tags and a virtual filesystem so that you can get a tag-based view of your files from within any other program.
117
file-manager
lfm
https://inigo.katxi.org/devel/lfm/
(Last File Manager) is a file manager written in Python; it comes with lots of features, including 1-pane or 2-pane view, files filters and bookmarks, tree view, virtual file-systems to open compressed archives, search in files, customizable keybindings and themes.
118
file-manager
Midnight Commander
http://www.midnight-commander.org/
https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc
a visual file manager, full-screen text mode application that allows you to copy, move and delete files and whole directory trees and search for files; includes an internal viewer and editor.
119
file-manager
ncursesFM
https://github.com/FedeDP/ncursesFM
File manager written in C; rather complete in terms of features; especially lightweight and responsive.
120
file-manager
ranger
https://ranger.github.io/
https://github.com/ranger/ranger
Console file manager with vi key bindings; curses interface with a view on the directory hierarchy; comes with a file launcher that automatically determines which program to use for opening a given file type.
121
file-manager
vifm
https://vifm.info/
https://github.com/vifm/vifm
"ncurses based file manager with vi like keybindings/modes/options/commands/configuration, which also borrows some useful ideas from mutt" (cit.).
122
conversion
catdoc
http://www.wagner.pp.ru/~vitus/software/catdoc/
http://www.wagner.pp.ru/gitweb/?p=oss/catdoc.git
Command line converter from Microsoft Word to plain text; output is sent to the standard output.
123
conversion
Pandoc
http://pandoc.org/
https://github.com/jgm/pandoc
Universal document file converter; handles input output from/to a number of formats: HTML, PDF, LaTeX, docx, odt, AsciiDoc, Markdown, Textile, just to mention a few; the quality of conversion strongly depends on the combination of input/output formats.
124
conversion
xls2csv
http://www.wagner.pp.ru/~vitus/software/catdoc/
http://www.wagner.pp.ru/gitweb/?p=oss/catdoc.git
Command line converter from Excel to CSV file format.
125
backup
borg
https://github.com/borgbackup
Encrypted backups with a clean and simple interface; easy to use and set up; possibility to mount the backup archive with FUSE and inspect it as a regular file system.
126
backup
duplicity
http://duplicity.nongnu.org/
https://gitlab.com/duplicity/duplicity
Creates GPG encrypted, compressed backups; client-side encryption allows to upload the backup onto untrusted servers.
127
backup
Duply
http://duply.net/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ftplicity/
Simplifies the use of [duplicity](http://duplicity.nongnu.org/) by keeping clean configuration files to automate the backup.
128
backup
paperbackup
https://github.com/intra2net/paperbackup
Create a pdf with barcodes to backup text files on paper.
129
transfer
rclone
https://rclone.org/
https://github.com/rclone/rclone
Rclone manages file synchronization on cloud storage.
130
transfer
Unison
https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison
File synchronizer. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other.
131
backup
Zaloha.sh
https://github.com/Fitus/Zaloha.sh
Shellscript for synchronization of files and directories.
132
disk-analyzer
ncdu
https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu
https://code.blicky.net/yorhel/ncdu/
"A disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface. It is designed to find space hogs on a remote server where you don't have an entire graphical setup available."
133
file-handling
classifier
https://github.com/bhrigu123/classifier
Organize files in your current directory, by classifying them into folders of music, pdfs, images, etc.
134
file-handling
detox
http://detox.sourceforge.net/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/detox/
A utility designed to easily clean up filenames; it replaces characters like spaces with standard equivalents; it also replace UTF-8 or Latin-1 (or CP 1252) characters with more handy ones.
135
file-handling
dtrx
https://brettcsmith.org/2007/dtrx/
https://github.com/dtrx-py/dtrx
(Do The Right eXtraction) aims at taking "all the hassle out of extracting archives"; allows to use one command to extract archives in different formats, recursive extraction (files into file) and extracts files into dedicated directories.
136
file-handling
exa
https://the.exa.website/
https://github.com/ogham/exa
Replacement for 'ls' written in Rust, with colors and several additional "views".
137
file-handling
lsd
https://github.com/Peltoche/lsd
This project is a rewrite of GNU ls with lot of added features like colors, icons, tree-view, more formatting options etc. The project is heavily inspired by the super colorls project.
138
cd
fasd
https://github.com/clvv/fasd
A Commandline Tool That Offers Quick Access to Files and Directories. It offers quick access to files and directories for POSIX shells. It is inspired by tools like autojump, z and v. Fasd keeps track of files and directories you have accessed, so that you can quickly reference them in the command line.
139
file-handling
fd
https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find. Written in Rust.
142
file-handling
rmlint
https://github.com/sahib/rmlint/
A tool to recursively scan a directory tree looking for duplicate and broken files; it outputs statistics and save the list of files in JSON format; it produce a shell script that can be inspected before running it to delete the desire files.
143
file-handling
gcp
https://github.com/petronny/gcp
`gcp` (Goffi’s cp) is an advanced file copier tool, heavily inspired from the traditional `cp` command utility, but with some additional features: Displays the copy progress indicator, with estimated time, current file speed; logs of all actions; resume of interrupted copy processes.
144
file-manager
nnn
https://github.com/jarun/nnn
"The missing terminal file browser for X". Provides only directory traversal and file visualization. No delete/move operations are supported.
145
file-handling
PathPicker
https://facebook.github.io/PathPicker/
https://github.com/facebook/pathpicker/
A tool from Facebook that parses the output from a command and presents a UI to select files and directories; can be used to apply a command of a interactively selected files or to move across directories.
146
file-handling
tree
http://mama.indstate.edu/users/ice/tree/
https://gitlab.com/OldManProgrammer/unix-tree
"Recursive directory listing command that produces a depth indented listing of files".
Enjoy the mysteries of the sea from the safety of your own terminal!
148
funny
cmatrix
http://www.asty.org/cmatrix/
https://github.com/abishekvashok/cmatrix
ncurses program that display the scrolling lines found in the movie `The matrix`.
149
funny
cowsay
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowsay
https://github.com/tnalpgge/rank-amateur-cowsay
A program that generates a ASCII art of a cow with a bubble containing the specified message (I provide the Wikipedia link since at the moment the link to the author's homepage results to be unreachable).
150
funny
cowthink
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowsay
https://github.com/tnalpgge/rank-amateur-cowsay
Same as `cowsay`, but uses a "think" bubble instead of a speech bubble.
151
funny
fortune
http://software.clapper.org/fortune/
https://github.com/bmc/fortune
Generates random messages feched from a quotation database.
A steam locomotive traverses the screen from right to left if `sl` is typed instead of `ls`.
153
funny
ternimal
https://github.com/p-e-w/ternimal
Simulate a lifeform in the terminal.
154
games
StarWars vision
See Star Wars in ASCII with ``telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl``.
155
games
bastet
http://fph.altervista.org/prog/bastet.html
https://github.com/fph/bastet/
(Bastard Tetris) implements the classical Tetris but with a logic to generate the next block which maximizes the difficulty for the player.
156
games
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
https://cataclysmdda.org/
https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA
Open source turn-based survival RPG development project.
157
games
Dwarf fortress
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/
A fantasy game using ASCII art graphical representation of the game environment; it features a rich environment with many options and possibilities.
158
games
freesweep
http://www.upl.cs.wisc.edu/~hartmann/sweep/
A Minesweeper clone for the terminal which allows you to configure settings such as table rows and columns up to 1024x1024!), percentage of bombs, colors and also has a highscores table.
159
games
Nethack
http://nethack.org/
https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack
Single player rogue-like dungeon exploration game.
160
games
Oldrunner
http://culot.org/public/Code/oldrunner.html
https://github.com/culot/oldrunner
Character-based remake of Lode Runner; includes all the original 150 levels.
161
games
Slash'EM
http://slashem.sourceforge.net/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/slashem/
Rogue-like game derived from `nethack` offering extra features, monsters, and items; includes a GUI version.
162
games
Typespeed
http://typespeed.sourceforge.net/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/typespeed/
Type words that are flying by from left to right as fast as you can; features different word sets, e.g., UNIX commands, English words, Non-English words.
163
webdev
Hugo
https://gohugo.io/
https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo
The world’s fastest framework for building websites.
164
webdev
Metalsmith
http://www.metalsmith.io/
https://github.com/metalsmith/metalsmith
An extremely simple static site generator; all functionalities are provided by plugins that can be combined and chained; written and extendable in Javascript.
165
webdev
nanoc
http://nanoc.ws/
https://github.com/nanoc/nanoc
Static site generator written in Ruby; extremely powerful and customizable; support many formats to generate HTML content.
166
webdev
siege
https://www.joedog.org/siege-home/
https://github.com/JoeDog/siege
An http load testing and benchmarking utility designed to let web developers stress their code.
167
webdev
Tsung
http://tsung.erlang-projects.org/
https://github.com/processone/tsung
A multi-protocol distributed load testing tool that can be used to stress HTTP, WebDAV, SOAP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, LDAP and Jabber/XMPP servers.
168
browser
Links
http://www.jikos.cz/~mikulas/links//
A textual Web browser with tables and frames.
169
browser
Elinks
http://elinks.cz/
https://repo.or.cz/w/elinks.git
"Advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web browser"; started as a fork of `Links`; it supports background download with queueing, some support from CSS, text box editing in external text editor.
170
browser
Lynx
http://lynx.invisible-island.net/
A highly configurable text-based web browser; one of the oldest CLI browser I'm aware of.
171
browser
w3m
http://w3m.sourceforge.net/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/w3m/
A text-based web browser as well as a pager like `less`; it can be used as a text formatting tool which typesets HTML into plain text.
172
email
Newsbeuter
http://newsbeuter.org/
"The Mutt of RSS Feed Readers": Newsbeuter is an open-source RSS/Atom feed reader for text terminals. Has great configurability and vast number of features, making it a slick and fast feed reader that can be completely controlled via keyboard.
173
email
alpine
http://www.washington.edu/alpine/
Mail client which aims at being "fast, easy to use email client that is suitable for both the inexperienced email user as well as for the most demanding of power users".
174
email
alot
https://github.com/pazz/alot
MUA written in Python using the [NotMuch](https://notmuchmail.org/) backend; MailDir format support.
175
email
mbsync
http://isync.sourceforge.net/mbsync.html
Mailboxes synchronization tool; allows to download email locally; MailDir format supported.
176
email
Mutt
http://www.mutt.org/
https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt
Mail client with tons of features, customization chances, support for IMAP, POP3, multiple storage formats.
177
email
sup
http://sup-heliotrope.github.io/
https://github.com/sup-heliotrope/sup
MUA written in Ruby; specifically developed for accounts with "a lot of emails"; nice thread-based presentation.
178
transfer
aria2
https://github.com/aria2/aria2
Lightweight and easy-to-use download utility; it supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent, Metalink and multiple sources; cross-platform.
179
transfer
croc
https://github.com/schollz/croc
Easily and securely send things from one computer to another.
180
transfer
curl
https://curl.haxx.se/
https://github.com/curl/curl
A tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax; supports a lot of protocols.
181
transfer
Deluge
http://deluge-torrent.org/
https://git.deluge-torrent.org/deluge
A lightweight, Free Software, cross-platform BitTorrent client; a terminal curses interface, web interface and command line client can connect to a running daemon to manage torrent downloads.
182
transfer
lftp
https://lftp.yar.ru/
https://github.com/lavv17/lftp
"Sophisticated ftp/http client, and a file transfer program supporting a number of network protocols"; support for bookmarks and mirroring features.
183
transfer
Magic Wormhole
https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole
The program allows transfer arbitrary-sized files and directories (or short pieces of text) from one computer to another The two endpoints are identified by using identical human-readable codes.
184
transfer
OnionShare
https://onionshare.org/
https://github.com/onionshare/onionshare
"An open source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share a file of any size."
Transfer Files Between Desktop And Mobile Devices Over Wi-Fi By Scanning A QR Code.
186
transfer
rsync
https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/rsync.html
https://github.com/WayneD/rsync
Mirror directories across networked machines; handles diffs/changed files; works across SSH; plenty of parameters.
187
transfer
sitecopy
http://www.manyfish.co.uk/sitecopy/
Synchronizes a local copy of a website with a remote copy on a server; does not use SSH/`scp` but FTP for file copy; useful when the remote server does not support secure copy.
188
transfer
stftp
http://stftp.sourceforge.net/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/stftp/
(simple terminal FTP) aims to be a "easy-to-use and unbloated client for the UNIX (and UNIX-like) console".
189
transfer
Woof
http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/woof.html
https://github.com/simon-budig/woof/
(Web Offer One File) sets up an HTTP webserver to serve files from a given local directory; all the users connected to the network can see and download the files.
190
transfer
youtube-dl
http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
Downloads videos from [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/) and some other sites; useful for automated bulk downloads.
191
chat
finch
http://www.pidgin.im/
IM program supporting many protocols, including Yahoo!, AIM, IRC, or WLM; comes with the `Pidgin` project.
192
chat
irssi
http://www.irssi.org
https://github.com/irssi/irssi
The most popular IRC client for the command-line; a flexible program, with many options and supporting many protocols.
193
chat
RainbowStream
http://www.rainbowstream.org/
Twitter client for the terminal; allows almost all the operations that can be done from GUI and Web clients.
194
chat
WeeChat
http://weechat.org/
https://github.com/weechat/weechat
A "fast, light and extensible chat client".
195
chat
ssh-chat
https://github.com/shazow/ssh-chat
Custom SSH server written in Go. Instead of a shell, you get a chat prompt.
196
organizers
goobook
https://gitlab.com/goobook/goobook
The purpose of GooBook is to make it possible to use your Google Contacts from the command-line and from MUAs such as Mutt. It can be used from Mutt the same way as abook.
Search API docs offline, in your terminal or browser.
198
online
arch-wiki
https://github.com/deadhead420/arch-wiki
Search the Arch Wiki anywhere from the command line.
199
online
googler
https://github.com/jarun/googler
Google Search, Google Site Search, Google News from the terminal.
200
text-processing
lolcat
https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat
Ruby Gem to colorize the output of the cat command.
203
utility
powerline
https://github.com/powerline/powerline
Powerline is a statusline plugin for vim, and provides statuslines and prompts for several other applications, including zsh, bash, tmux, IPython, Awesome and Qtile.
204
online
socli
https://github.com/gautamkrishnar/socli
Stack overflow command line client written in Python. Search and browse stack overflow without leaving the terminal
205
utility
termsaver
http://termsaver.brunobraga.net/
termsaver to enjoy fancy ASCII screensavers like matrix, clock, starwars, and a couple of not-safe-for-work screens.
206
utility
dateutils
http://www.fresse.org/dateutils/
https://github.com/hroptatyr/dateutils
Dateutils are a bunch of tools that revolve around fiddling with dates and times in the command line with a strong focus on use cases that arise when dealing with large amounts of financial data.
207
data-management
VisiData
https://www.visidata.org/
https://github.com/saulpw/visidata
Interactive multitool for tabular data. It combines the clarity of a spreadsheet, the efficiency of the terminal, and the power of Python, into a lightweight utility which can handle millions of rows with ease.
208
data-management
csvkit
https://github.com/wireservice/csvkit
A suite of command-line tools for converting to and working with CSV, the king of tabular file formats.
209
programming
gdb-dashboard
https://github.com/cyrus-and/gdb-dashboard
Modular visual interface for GDB in Python.
210
password-manager
hide
https://github.com/whatl3y/hide
AES-256 bit encrypted password manager with all encrypted passwords stored locally on your machine
211
password-manager
gopass
https://www.gopass.pw/
https://github.com/gopasspw/gopass
gopass is a rewrite of the pass password manager in Go with the aim of making it cross-platform and adding additional features. The target audience are professional developers and sysadmins (and especially teams of those) who are well versed with a command line interface.
212
password-manager
pass
https://www.passwordstore.org/
https://git.zx2c4.com/password-store/
With pass, each password lives inside of a gpg encrypted file whose filename is the title of the website or resource that requires the password. These encrypted files may be organized into meaningful folder hierarchies, copied from computer to computer, and, in general, manipulated using standard command line file management utilities.
213
password-manager
dpg
https://github.com/62726164/dpg
The Deterministic Password Generator - Generates passwords based on a master password and the indication of the website/service/username, without the need of storing anything.
214
transfer
yt-splitter
https://github.com/redsolver/yt-splitter
Downloads and splits audio tracks from a YouTube video according to the chapters/tracks. Useful for compilations or full album uploads.
215
backup
bupstash
https://github.com/andrewchambers/bupstash
Easy and efficient encrypted backups.
225
note-taking
posce
https://github.com/posce/posce
A note-taking toolkit for your command line.
226
disk-analyzer
dutree
https://github.com/nachoparker/dutree
A tool to analyze file system usage written in Rust.
227
text-processing
ydiff
https://github.com/ymattw/ydiff
View colored, incremental diff.
228
password-manager
kpcli
http://kpcli.sourceforge.net/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/kpcli/
A command line interface for KeePass.
229
data-management
GNU Recutils
https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/manual/
Set of tools and libraries to access human-editable, text-based databases called recfiles.
The RNR File Manager (RNR's Not Ranger) is a text based file manager that combines the best features of Midnight Commander and Ranger.
279
funny
cbonsai
https://gitlab.com/jallbrit/cbonsai
A bonsai tree generator, written in C using ncurses. It intelligently creates, colors, and positions a bonsai tree.
282
data-management
Graphtage
https://github.com/trailofbits/graphtage
Graphtage is a commandline utility and underlying library for semantically comparing and merging tree-like structures, such as JSON, XML, HTML, YAML, plist, and CSS files.
283
disk-analyzer
duf
https://github.com/muesli/duf
Disk Usage/Free Utility.
284
productivity
tuxi
https://github.com/Bugswriter/tuxi
A CLI tool that scrapes Google search results and SERPs that provides instant and concise answers.
285
music
Siren
https://www.kariliq.nl/siren/
https://www.kariliq.nl/git/siren/
Siren is a text-based audio player for UNIX-like operating systems.
286
office
Ticker
https://github.com/achannarasappa/ticker
Terminal stock watcher and stock position tracker.
287
transfer
xh
https://github.com/ducaale/xh
xh is a friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests. It reimplements as much as possible of HTTPie's excellent design.
288
git
git-peek
https://github.com/Jarred-Sumner/git-peek
git peek is the fastest way to open a remote git repository in your local text editor.
291
music
kord
https://github.com/synestematic/kord
A python framework that provides programmers with a simple api for the creation of music-based applications.
292
graphics
imgcat
https://github.com/trashhalo/imgcat
Tool to output images in the terminal. Built with bubbletea.
293
science
bib.awk
https://github.com/huijunchen9260/bib.awk
Bibliography manager written in awk.
294
programming
rr
https://rr-project.org/
https://github.com/rr-debugger/rr
Debug the recording, deterministically, as many times as you want.
295
programming
nbterm
https://github.com/davidbrochart/nbterm
Jupyter Notebooks in the terminal.
296
transfer
qr-filetransfer
https://github.com/sdushantha/qr-filetransfer
Transfer files over WiFi between your computer and your smartphone from the terminal.
297
science
element
https://github.com/gennaro-tedesco/element
Periodic table on the command line.
306
viewers
mdt
https://github.com/robolab-pavia/mdt
MarkDown in the Terminal. A markdown viewer with themes defined by JSON files and interactive mode to open links and word-wrapping adaptable to the terminal width.
307
organizers
buku
https://github.com/jarun/buku
A powerful bookmark manager written in Python3 and SQLite3.
308
graphics
imgp
https://github.com/jarun/imgp
A command line image resizer and rotator for JPEG and PNG images. It can resize (or thumbnail) and rotate thousands of images in a go, at lightning speed, while saving significantly on storage.
309
backup
zbackup
http://zbackup.org/
https://github.com/zbackup/zbackup
A globally-deduplicating backup tool, based on the ideas found in rsync.
310
transfer
Transmission
https://transmissionbt.com/
https://github.com/transmission/transmission
Fast, easy and free bittorrent client.
311
transfer
rtorrent
https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent
Bittorrent client uses ncurses and is ideal for use with tmux, screen or dtach.
312
terminal
dtach
https://github.com/crigler/dtach
A program written in C that emulates the detach feature of screen.
313
file-handling
vidir
https://github.com/trapd00r/vidir
vidir allows editing of the contents of a directory in a text editor.
314
security
Firejail
https://firejail.wordpress.com/
https://github.com/netblue30/firejail
A SUID program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted applications using Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf.
315
editors
Kakoune
http://kakoune.org/
https://github.com/mawww/kakoune
Modal editor, faster as in less keystrokes, multiple selections, orthogonal design.
316
online
ddgr
https://github.com/jarun/ddgr
A command line utility to search DuckDuckGo (html version) from the terminal.
317
games
chs
https://github.com/nickzuber/chs
Play chess against the Stockfish engine in your terminal.
318
file-manager
clifm
https://github.com/leo-arch/clifm
A CLI-based, shell-like, and non-curses terminal file manager written in C: simple, fast, extensible, and lightweight as hell.
319
email
nmail
https://github.com/d99kris/nmail
nmail is a console-based email client for Linux and macOS with a user interface similar to alpine / pine.
320
chat
matterhorn
https://github.com/matterhorn-chat/matterhorn
A terminal client for the Mattermost chat system.
321
organizers
calcurse
https://calcurse.org/
https://git.calcurse.org/calcurse.git/
A calendar and scheduling application for the command line. It helps keep track of events, appointments and everyday tasks.
GnuPG is a complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard as defined by RFC4880 (also known as PGP).
324
chat
tiny
https://github.com/osa1/tiny
tiny is an IRC client written in Rust.
325
note-taking
Standard Unix Notes
https://github.com/Standard-Unix-Notes/unix-notes
GPG Encrypted Notes/Notebook manager for BSD/Linux.
326
monitor
below
https://github.com/facebookincubator/below
A time traveling resource monitor for modern Linux systems
327
monitor
lfs
https://github.com/Canop/lfs
A thing to get information on your mounted disks
328
webdev
ain
https://github.com/jonaslu/ain
An HTTP API client for the terminal.
329
conversion
BaFi
https://mmalcek.github.io/bafi/
https://github.com/mmalcek/bafi
Universal JSON, BSON, YAML, CSV, XML translator to ANY format using templates.
330
text-processing
hck
https://github.com/sstadick/hck
A sharp cut clone.
331
git
gitui
https://github.com/extrawurst/gitui
GitUI provides you with the comfort of a git GUI but right in your terminal
332
games
rpg-cli
https://github.com/facundoolano/rpg-cli
Your filesystem as a dungeon!
335
viewers
tabview
https://github.com/TabViewer/tabview
Python curses command line CSV and tabular data viewer.
336
versioning
Bazaar
http://bazaar.canonical.com/en/
Multiplatform version control system supporting diffferent workflows; it is part of the GNU Project, and it is free software sponsored by Canonical.
337
git
grv
https://github.com/rgburke/grv
Git Repository Viewer - A terminal based interface for viewing Git repositories. It allows refs, commits and diffs to be viewed, searched and filtered.
338
versioning
fossil
https://fossil-scm.org/
https://github.com/drhsqlite/fossil-mirror
A simple, high-reliability, distributed software configuration management system with these advanced features: project management, built-in web interface, friendly self-hosting, simple networking, all-in-one standalone executable, and much more.
339
editors
Diakonos
https://github.com/Pistos/diakonos
A powerful editor with “standard” keybindings and several advanced features; written in Ruby.
340
utility
yank
https://github.com/mptre/yank
Reads input from stdin and display a selection interface that allows a field to be selected and copied to the clipboard.
341
terminal
mtm
https://github.com/deadpixi/mtm
Micro Terminal Multiplexer - Simple but usable, stable and minimalistic terminal multiplexer.
342
text-processing
sd
https://github.com/chmln/sd
s[earch] & d[isplace] - An intuitive find & replace CLI; a possible replacement for sed.
343
productivity
Watson
https://github.com/TailorDev/Watson
Time tracking CLI to know how much time you are spending on your projects. It can generate nice reports for clients.
344
data-management
WOPR
https://github.com/yaronn/wopr
A simple markup language for creating rich terminal reports, presentations and infographic.
345
games
Angband
https://rephial.org/
https://github.com/angband/angband
Angband is a free, single-player dungeon exploration game.
346
programming
grex
https://github.com/pemistahl/grex
A command-line tool for generating regular expressions from user-provided test cases.
Amfora aims to be the best looking Gemini client with the most features. It does not support Gopher or other non-Web protocols.
348
browser
Bombadillo
https://bombadillo.colorfield.space/
https://tildegit.org/sloum/Bombadillo
A non-web browser, designed for a growing list of protocols operating outside of the web. Currently supports Gemini, Finger and Gopher.
349
file-handling
pycp
https://github.com/dmerejkowsky/pycp
cp and mv with a progressbar.
350
calc
bcal
https://github.com/jarun/bcal
Byte CALculator - A REPL CLI utility for storage expression evaluation, SI/IEC conversion, byte address calculation, base conversion and LBA/CHS calculation.
351
password-manager
cpass
https://github.com/OliverLew/cpass
Another console UI for pass.
359
programming
pvcheck
https://github.com/claudio-unipv/pvcheck
A tool to apply automated testing to programs that produce textual output. The format of the output is very specific, making pvcheck suitable to test programming quizzes.
360
cd
Jmp
https://github.com/gholmes829/Jmp
Change directory with smart searching of the path specified through regex.
361
cd
llama
https://github.com/antonmedv/llama
Minimalistic file opener and directory changer focused on fuzzy searching the path.
362
git
Gitea
https://gitea.com/
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea
Single binary self-hosted Git service.
363
git
Soft Serve
https://github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve
Self-hostable Git server for the command line. One distinguished feature is the possibility to create new repositories with a push.
364
text-processing
deadlink
https://github.com/nschloe/deadlink
Parses text files for HTTP URLs and checks if they are still valid. Good to use on markdown documentation files.
365
cd
SmartCd
https://github.com/CodesOfRishi/smartcd
A cd command with improved usability features, which can remember your recently visited directory paths and, search and directly traverse to sub-directories and as well as parent directories, all with Fuzzy searching.
387
monitor
ytop
https://github.com/cjbassi/ytop
TUI system monitor written in Rust.
388
monitor
noti
https://github.com/variadico/noti
Monitor a process and trigger a notification.
389
productivity
cowyo
https://github.com/schollz/cowyo
Feature rich wiki webserver for minimalists.
390
system
docker
https://docs.docker.com/
https://github.com/docker/docs
Self-sufficient runtime for containers.
391
file-handling
friendly-find
https://github.com/sjl/friendly-find
Usable replacement for find.
392
text-processing
fzy
https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy
Better fuzzy finder.
393
graphics
GraphicsMagick
http://www.graphicsmagick.org/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/graphicsmagick/
Swiss army knife of image processing.
394
viewers
hexyl
https://github.com/sharkdp/hexyl
Command-line hex viewer.
395
programming
temci
https://github.com/parttimenerd/temci
Advanced benchmarking tool written in Python 3 that supports setting up an environment for benchmarking and the generation of visually appealing reports.
396
utility
just
https://github.com/casey/just
Handy way to save and run project-specific commands.
418
data-management
dasel
https://github.com/TomWright/dasel
Allows you to query and modify data structures using selector strings.
Test internet connection speed and ping using speedtest.net.
449
backup
shallow-backup
https://github.com/alichtman/shallow-backup
Git integrated backup tool.
450
office
mdp
https://github.com/visit1985/mdp
A command-line based markdown presentation tool.
451
office
sent
https://tools.suckless.org/sent/
https://git.suckless.org/sent/log.html
Simple plaintext presentation tool.
452
note-taking
eureka
https://github.com/simeg/eureka
Store your ideas without leaving the terminal.
453
todo-manager
taskell
https://github.com/smallhadroncollider/taskell
Interactive kanban board/task manager.
454
todo-manager
taskbook
https://github.com/klaussinani/taskbook
Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat.
455
science
papis
https://github.com/alejandrogallo/papis
Extensible document and bibliography manager.
456
chat
tuir
https://gitlab.com/ajak/tuir
Reddit TUI
457
networking
xxh
https://github.com/xxh/xxh
Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through the ssh.
458
browser
browsh
https://www.brow.sh/
https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh
It renders anything that a modern browser can; HTML5, CSS3, JS, video and even WebGL. Its main purpose is to be run on a remote server and accessed via SSH/Mosh or the in-browser HTML service in order to significantly reduce bandwidth and thus both increase browsing speeds and decrease bandwidth costs.
459
viewers
jless
https://pauljuliusmartinez.github.io/
https://github.com/PaulJuliusMartinez/jless
Command-line JSON viewer designed for reading, exploring, and searching through JSON data.
460
viewers
bat
https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
A cat clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration.
461
data-management
osmf
https://github.com/codesoap/osmf
OpenStreetMap find - A simple command line tool to explore OSM data.
462
viewers
haxor-news
https://github.com/donnemartin/haxor-news
Browse Hacker News like a haxor: A Hacker News command line interface (CLI).
477
git
stargazer
https://github.com/gennaro-tedesco/stargazer
Github stats from the command line.
478
webdev
http-tanker
https://github.com/PierreKieffer/http-tanker
Terminal application used for API testing; easily create, manage and execute http requests from the terminal.
479
system
Bevel
https://github.com/NorfairKing/bevel
Command line history in an SQLite database for effective re-use.
480
data-management
zq
https://zed.brimdata.io/docs/commands/zq/
https://github.com/brimdata/zed
Processor for JSON data with stateful operators and a syntax that is more consistent w.r.t. jq (as claimed by the authors).
481
transfer
Mabel
https://github.com/smmr-software/mabel
Deriving its name from the Hebrew word "מבול," meaning flood, deluge, or (loosely) torrent, Mabel is a fancy BitTorrent client for the terminal.
482
text-processing
tuc
https://github.com/riquito/tuc
You want to cut on more than just a character, perhaps using negative indexes or format the selected fields as you want... Maybe you want to cut on lines (ever needed to drop first and last line?)... That's where tuc can help.
483
games
sku
https://github.com/fedeztk/sku
Simple TUI written in go to play sudoku in the terminal.
509
note-taking
sncli
https://github.com/insanum/sncli
A Python application that gives you access to your Simplenote account via the command line.
510
note-taking
dnote
https://github.com/dnote/dnote
A simple command line notebook for the terminal. It also offers a seamless multi-device sync and a web interface.
511
note-taking
Geeknote
https://github.com/jeffkowalski/geeknote
A command line client for Evernote that can be use on Linux, FreeBSD and OS X.
512
note-taking
Terminal velocity
https://vhp.github.io/terminal_velocity/
https://github.com/vhp/terminal_velocity
A fast, cross-platform note-taking application for the UNIX terminal.
513
science
Pubs
https://github.com/pubs/pubs
Pubs organizes your scientific papers together with their bibliographic data and provides command line access to basic and advanced manipulation of your library.
514
data-management
IRedis
https://github.com/laixintao/iredis
Interactive Redis: A Cli for Redis with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting.
515
data-management
mycli
https://github.com/dbcli/mycli
A command line client for MySQL that can do auto-completion and syntax highlighting.
521
music
beets
https://github.com/beetbox/beets
Beets is the media library management system for obsessive music geeks: catalogs your collection, automatically improving its metadata as it goes.
522
music
musikcube
https://github.com/clangen/musikcube
A cross-platform, terminal-based audio engine, library, player and server written in C++.
523
multimedia
Editly
https://github.com/mifi/editly
A tool and framework for declarative NLE (non-linear video editing) using Node.js and ffmpeg.
524
multimedia
ffmpeg
https://ffmpeg.org/
https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg
The Swiss knife of video editing from the command line.
525
productivity
Taskell
https://github.com/smallhadroncollider/taskell
A CLI kanban board/task manager for Mac and Linux.
526
shells
xonsh
https://xon.sh/
https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh
The xonsh shell lets you easily mix Python and shell commands in a powerful and simplified approach to the command line.
527
productivity
hledger
https://hledger.org/
https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger
A is fast, reliable, free, multicurrency double-entry accounting software to track money, investments, cryptocurrencies, time, or any other quantifiable commodity; uses a future-proof plain text file format.
528
git
fzf-git.sh
https://github.com/junegunn/fzf-git.sh
bash and zsh key bindings for Git objects, powered by fzf.
529
conversion
simtex
https://github.com/iaacornus/simtex
simtex (simplified LaTeX) allows you to convert your markdown or text lectures into LaTeX file with one command, configured with simple .json file.
530
file-handling
ff
https://github.com/akymos/ff
ff is a command-line tool to manage favorite folders, creating an alias, to be used via shell directly with the cd command.
534
transfer
Transgression TUI
https://github.com/PanAeon/transg-tui
A remote TUI client for the Transmission bittorrent program.
535
text-processing
pdf-diff
https://github.com/serhack/pdf-diff
A tool for visualizing differences between two pdf files. Mainly dedicated to editors that usually spends a lot of hours on several pdf.
536
graphics
kakikun
https://github.com/file-acomplaint/kakikun
Kakikun is a tool to paint, draw and create ASCII art in your terminal using unicode characters.
537
graphics
Aewan
http://aewan.sourceforge.net/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/aewan/
Aewan is a multi-layered ASCII graphics/animation editor. It produces stand-alone cat-able ASCII art files and an easy-to-parse format for integration into terminal applications.
538
graphics
jp2a
https://csl.name/jp2a/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/jp2a/
Command-line tool that converts images to ASCII art in the Linux terminal.
539
graphics
LinuxLogo
https://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxlogo/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxlogo/
Display the Linux distribution logo in ASCII format.
540
text-processing
pv
http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml
https://github.com/a-j-wood/pv
The pv command is used to monitor the progress of data through pipe.
541
networking
TStream
https://github.com/qnkhuat/tstream
Live streaming from the terminal. Requires the connection to a central server, from which the streaming is dispatched.
542
todo-manager
tsk
https://github.com/kakengloh/tsk
Terminal task management app with an emphasis on simplicity, efficiency and ease of use.
543
monitor
The Logfile Navigator
https://lnav.org/
https://github.com/tstack/lnav
An advanced and colorful log file viewer with TUI interface.
544
data-management
gojq
https://github.com/itchyny/gojq
Pure Go implementation of jq.
545
science
pt.sh
https://github.com/alexeytal/pt.sh
CLI periodic table with search and many properties.
546
terminal
Zellij
https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij
A workspace aimed at developers, ops-oriented people and anyone who loves the terminal. At its core, it is a terminal multiplexer.
551
games
sssnake
https://github.com/AngelJumbo/sssnake
(Smart and sexy snake) The classic snake game for the terminal that can plays itself and be use like a screensaver.
552
system
Devbox
https://github.com/jetpack-io/devbox
Devbox is a command-line tool that lets you easily create isolated shells and containers by defining the list of packages required by the environment.
553
git
gh-stars
https://github.com/aymanbagabas/gh-stars
A GitHub CLI extension to show repository stargazers.
554
browser
asuka
https://git.sr.ht/~julienxx/asuka
https://git.sr.ht/~julienxx/asuka
A Gemini Project client written in Rust with NCurses.
555
browser
Gremlin
https://github.com/actuday6418/gremlin
Gemini browser for the terminal.
556
browser
min
https://github.com/a-h/min
A Gemini browser with Vim style keyboard navigation, client certificate support and history and bookmarks saved in TSV files.
557
browser
Telescope
https://telescope.omarpolo.com/
https://github.com/omar-polo/telescope
Gemini client with UI that is strongly inspired from Emacs and W3M.
558
browser
gplaces
https://github.com/dimkr/gplaces
Simple but powerful terminal Gemini client.
559
browser
Romulus
https://github.com/LukeEmmet/Romulus
A cross platform Gemini console client in C# with a simple user interface, interactive menus and mouse support.
560
email
pymailgen
https://github.com/toolleeo/pymailgen
Starting from the content of a CSV file and a template text file, pymailgen generates a list of emails to be sent out using a command-line SMTP client.
575
online
Awesome CLI
https://github.com/umutphp/awesome-cli
Awesome CLI is a simple command line tool to give you a fancy command line interface to dive into Awesome lists.
576
utility
ora
https://github.com/sindresorhus/ora
Elegant terminal spinner.
577
monitor
hyperfine
https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine
A command-line benchmarking tool.
578
password-manager
Bitwarden CLI
https://bitwarden.com/help/cli/
https://github.com/bitwarden/cli
Command-line interface for Bitwarden, a multi-platform password manager targeted to companies and enterprises.
579
text-processing
choose
https://github.com/jagprog5/choose
NCurses based token selector with a nice terminal user interface for selecting tokens. Selecting a line from the bash history is only one of its use cases.
580
multimedia
invidtui
https://github.com/darkhz/invidtui
Invidious TUI client, which fetches data from invidious instances and displays a user interface in the terminal, and allows for selecting and playing Youtube audio and video.
581
networking
redive
https://github.com/neelkarma/redive
Trace URL redirections in the terminal.
583
networking
bluetuith
https://github.com/darkhz/bluetuith
A TUI-based Bluetooth connection manager, which can interact with Bluetooth adapters and devices. It aims to be a replacement to most Bluetooth managers, like blueman.
Minimalistic, powerful and extremely customizable Zsh prompt.
587
programming
cloc
https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc
Tool for counting blank lines, comment lines, and physical lines of source code in many programming languages.
588
programming
Tokei
https://github.com/XAMPPRocky/tokei
Tokei is a program that displays statistics about your code. Tokei will show the number of files, total lines within those files and code, comments, and blanks grouped by language.
589
programming
scc
https://github.com/boyter/scc
Sloc Cloc and Code (scc) is a codebase statistics counter. Goal is to be the fastest code counter possible, but also perform COCOMO calculation like sloccount and to estimate code complexity similar to cyclomatic complexity calculators. In short one tool to rule them all.
590
programming
Cppcheck
http://cppcheck.net/
https://github.com/danmar/cppcheck/
Static analysis tool for C/C++ code providing unique code analysis to detect bugs and focuses on detecting undefined behaviour and dangerous coding constructs.
591
programming
Frama-C
https://frama-c.com/
https://git.frama-c.com/pub/frama-c/
Open-source extensible and collaborative platform dedicated to source-code analysis of C software. Frama-C can assist from the navigation through unfamiliar projects up to the certification of critical software.
592
games
terdle
https://github.com/neelkarma/terdle
Wordle implemented in Rust.
593
music
MusicPlayerPlus
https://github.com/doctorfree/MusicPlayerPlus
Featureful ncurses based MPD client inspired by ncmpc with integration for Beets, spectrum visualization,Bandcamp/Soundcloud, asciimatics, cantata, and more.
594
system
ContainerSSH
https://github.com/ContainerSSH/ContainerSSH
An SSH Server that Launches Containers in Kubernetes and Docker on demand.
595
funny
Limoji
https://github.com/GEROGIANNIS/Limoji
Limoji is an open source tool that makes it easy to choose between hundreds of cool ASCII emoticons and share them with your friends.
596
games
Minesweeper Game
https://github.com/omerkarabacak/minesweeper
A small command line Minesweeper Game.
597
editors
Tilde
https://os.ghalkes.nl/tilde/
https://github.com/gphalkes/tilde
Tilde is a text editor that provides an intuitive interface for people accustomed to GUI environments, usual shortcuts for common operation, a traditional menu bar, etc.
598
music
spotify-player
https://github.com/aome510/spotify-player
spotify-player is a fast, easy to use, and configurable terminal music player having feature parity with the official Spotify application.
599
git
git-remote-aws
https://github.com/nathants/git-remote-aws
Management of encrypted git hosting.
600
transfer
Stig
https://github.com/rndusr/stig
Stig is a client application to connect and control the BitTorrent Transmission client app.
614
todo-manager
t
https://github.com/sjl/t
A command-line todo list manager for people that want to finish tasks, not organize them.
615
todo-manager
topydo
https://github.com/topydo/topydo
A powerful todo list application for the console, using the todo.txt format.
616
todo-manager
Ultralist
https://ultralist.io/
https://github.com/ultralist/ultralist
A simple, powerful, open source task management system for the command line.
617
todo-manager
devtodo
https://swapoff.org/devtodo.html
https://github.com/droundy/goopt
A hierarchical command-line task manager, with data storage in JSON format.
618
security
cream
https://z3bra.org/cream/
https://git.z3bra.org/cream/files.html
Encrypt and decrypt streams of data with only a master password. The key is derivated from the password + salt combo, and used to encrypt data byte per byte.
619
organizers
remint
https://sr.ht/~mlaparie/remint/
A simple terminal UI wrapper for D. Skoll's Remind calendar program
620
email
tmpmail
https://github.com/sdushantha/tmpmail
A command line utility written in POSIX sh that allows you to create a temporary email address and receive emails to the temporary email address.
662
games
anonymine
https://oskog97.com/projects/anonymine/
https://gitlab.com/oskog97/anonymine/
Curses mode minesweeper without guessing and other original features.
663
games
greed
http://www.catb.org/~esr/greed/
https://gitlab.com/esr/greed
A game of consumption. Eat as much as you can before munching yourself into a corner.
664
system
Mxflow-cli
https://github.com/metaory/mxflow-cli
A modern, general purpose CLI task runner with human readable yaml config file