Awesome CLI Apps

A curated list of command line apps.

Inspired by the awesome list thing.

Table of Contents

• Entertainment
  • Video
• Web Development
• Database
• Productivity
• Utilities
• OS X
• Command Line Tools
• Data Manipulation
• Directory Navigation
• Git
• Terminal GIF Creation
• Text Manipulation
• Screensavers
• Graphics
• Resources
• Other

Entertainment

• cmus- Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.

• Instant-Music-Downloader - Instant Music Downloader

• pianobar- Pandora client

• TTYtter- Twitter client- (original)

• quote-cli- Get a random quote or the quote of the day in your CLI

Video

• youtube-dl- a small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a few more sites. You can install with brew install youtube-dl

Web Development

• bower-name-cli- Check whether a package name is available on bower

• caniuse-cmd- Searches caniuse.com about browser support of feature.

• is-up-cli- Check whether a website is up or down

• npm-name-cli- Check whether a package name is available on npm

• npm-user-cli- Get user info of a npm user

• pageres-cli- Capture website screenshots

• strip-css-comments-cli- Strip comments from CSS

• viewport-list-cli- Return a list of devices and their viewports

• surge - deploy directory to the web.

Database

• mycli- A Terminal Client for MySQL with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting.

Productivity

• AutoScreenshotUploader- Instantly capture and upload screenshot to imgur

• ffscreencast- ffmpeg screencast with video overlay and multi monitor support

• idea- A lightweight CLI tool and module for keeping ideas in a safe place quick and easy.

• imgur-uploader-cli- Upload images to imgur

• geeknote- Console client for Evernote.

• The Mutt E-Mail Client

• Timetrap- Simple command line timetracker

Utilities

• archive-type-cli- Detect the archive type of a Buffer/Uint8Array

• battery-level- Get current battery level

• brightness-cli- Change screen brightness- windows version

• empty-trash-cli- Empty the trash

• file-type-cli- Detect the file type of a file or stdin

• screensaver- Start the screensaver

• trash-cli- Move files and directories to the trash

• wallpaper-ci- Get or set the desktop wallpaper

• yank- Yank terminal output to clipboard

OS X

• bundle-id-cli- Get bundle identifier from a bundle name (OS X): Safari → com.apple.Safari

• bundle-name-cli- Get bundle name from a bundle identifier (OS X): com.apple.Safari → Safari

• lnfs-cli- Safely force create symlinks

• osx-version-cli- Get the OS X version of the current system

• osx-wifi-cli- A cli for managing wifi connections on OSX

Command Line Tools

• The Fuck- Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.

• happyfinder- (another) Fuzzy file finder for the command line

• tldr- Simplified and community-driven man pages

Data Manipulation

• jq- Command-line JSON processor http://stedolan.github.io/jq/

• underscore-cli- Command-line utility-belt for hacking JSON and Javascript.

Directory Navigation

• autojump- A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line- http://wiki.github.com/joelthelion/autojump/

• fasd- Command-line productivity booster, offers quick access to files and directories, inspired by autojump, z and v.

• j- semi clone of autojump (http://github.com/joelthelion/autojump) in shell/awk

• pm- The easy way to switch to your projects on the shell

• z- z is the new j, yo

Git

• CLI GitHub- 📺 A fancy GitHub client for command line.- http://ionicabizau.net/blog/15

• Gistup- Create a gist from terminal, then use git to update it.

• git commander- A git tool with a easy terminal interface.

• git-stats- 🍀 A GitHub-like contributions calendar, but locally, with all your git commits.

• hub- A command-line wrapper for git that makes you better at GitHub.

Terminal Gif Creation

• gifsicle- Create, manipulate, and optimize GIF images and animations

• ttygif- Convert terminal recordings to animated gifs

• ttygif- ttyrec to gif

• ttystudio- A terminal-to-gif recorder minus the headaches.

• asciinema- Terminal session recorder and the best companion of asciinema.org.

Text Manipulation

• parse-columns-cli- Parse text columns, like the output of unix commands. Returns JSON that you can manipulate with tools like jq or underscore-cli.

Screensavers

• cmatrix- show a scrolling 'Matrix' like screen- (original)

• pipes.sh

Graphics

• cli-mandelbrot- A cli for traversing the Mandelbrot fractal

• WOPR- A simple markup language for creating rich terminal reports, presentations and infographics

Other

• app-path-cli- Get the path to an app (OS X)

• Bible.Js CLI client- 📖 Bible.JS CLI client. Read the Holy Bible via the command line.

• birthday- Know when a friend's birthday is coming.

• cowsay and cowthink- You can install with homebrew

• detect-indent-cli- Detect the indentation of code

• find-up-cli- Find a file by walking up parent directories

• fortune

• fullname-cli- Get the fullname of the current user

• get-port-cli- Get an available port

• gzip-size-cli- Get the gzipped size of a file or stdin

• HASHA -cli- Hashing made simple. Get the hash of text or stdin.

• indent-string-cli- Indent each line in a string

• is-reachable-cli- Check if hostnames are reachable or not

• kill-tabs- Kill all Chrome tabs to improve performance, decrease battery usage, and save memory

• leven-cli- Measure the difference between two strings using the Levenshtein distance algorithm

• open-shortcut-cli- Open the URL from a web shortcut file in the browser

• pkg-dir-cli- Find the root directory of a npm package

• pretty-ms-cli- Convert milliseconds to a human readable string: 1337000000 → 15d 11h 23m 20s

• repeating-cli- Repeat a string - fast

• speed-test- Test your internet connection speed and ping using speedtest.net from the CLI

• shortcut-url-cli- Get the URL from a web shortcut file

• SpeedRead- A simple terminal-based open source Spritz-alike

• string-width-cli- Get the visual width of a string - the number of columns required to display it

• to-double-quotes- Convert matching single-quotes to double-quotes: I 'love' unicorns => I "love" unicorns

• to-single-quotes- Convert matching double-quotes to single-quotes: I "love" unicorns → I 'love' unicorns

• yosay

• gdb-dashboard- Modular visual interface for GDB in Python

• weather-cli- Check the weather for your city from your terminal

Resources

Some fine resources to write your own CLI App.

Node frameworks and packages

• meow - The most simple way to write small CLI modules including argument parsing.
• inquirer - A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces like checkboxes, radio buttons etc. with a simple but powerful API.
• Vorpal - Complete solution for creating interactive apps. Includes UI features from inquirer.

Node Command-line utilities

• Chalk - Beautiful API to have beautiful terminal string styling.
• log-symbols - Colored symbols to differentiate output messages with a blink of an eye.
• log-update – Useful for ASCII animation. For example loading indicators.

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