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Awesome CLI Apps 
A curated list of command line apps.
Inspired by the awesome list thing.
Table of Contents
- Entertainment
- Web Development
- Database
- Productivity
- Utilities
- OS X
- Command Line Tools
- Data Manipulation
- Directory Navigation
- Git
- Images
- Text Manipulation
- Screensavers
- Graphics
- Resources
- String Manipulation
- Directories
- Other
Entertainment
- cmus - Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.
- Instant-Music-Downloader - Instant Music Downloader
- itunes-remote - It’s about listening to music without leaving the terminal. OS X only.
- 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
- doing - A command line tool for keeping track of what you’re doing and tracking what you’ve done.
- 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.
- ledger - Powerful, double-entry accounting system that is accessed from the UNIX command-line.
- The Mutt E-Mail Client
- Taskwarrior - Free and Open Source Software that manages your TODO list from your command line.
- 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
- file-type-cli - Detect the file type of a file or stdin
- screensaver - Start the screensaver
- wallpaper-ci - Get or set the desktop wallpaper
- yank - Yank terminal output to clipboard
- trash-cli - Move files and directories to the trash
- empty-trash-cli - Empty the trash
- trashss - ( only) Trash screenshots on desktop.
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
- PathPicker - After parsing the output from a command, PathPicker presents you with a nice UI to select which files you're interested in.
- 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- https://github.com/wting/autojump/wiki
- fasd - Command-line productivity booster, offers quick access to files and directories, inspired by autojump, z and v.
- j - semi clone of autojump (https://github.com/wting/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.
Images
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.
SVG
- SVGO- SVG Optimizer is a Nodejs-based tool for optimizing SVG vector graphics files.
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
Graphics
- cli-mandelbrot - A cli for traversing the Mandelbrot fractal
- WOPR - A simple markup language for creating rich terminal reports, presentations and infographics
- sparkly-cli - Generate sparklines ▁▂▃▅▂▇.
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.
String Manipulation
- indent-string-cli - Indent each line in a string
- pretty-ms-cli - Convert milliseconds to a human readable string: 1337000000 → 15d 11h 23m 20s
- repeating-cli - Repeat a string - fast
- string-width-cli - Get the visual width of a string - the number of columns required to display it
- find-versions-cli - Find semver versions in a string: unicorn v1.2.3 → 1.2.3
Files
- strip-json-comments-cli - Strip comments from JSON. Lets you use comments in your JSON files!
Directories
- find-up-cli - Find a file by walking up parent directories
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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
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