Awesome

Awesome CLI

A curated list of command line interfaces, or command line tools.

Inspired by the awesome list thing.

Entertainment

• pianobar- Pandora client

• TTYtter- Twitter client- (original)

Web Development

• caniuse-cmd- Caniuse command line tool

• pageres-cli- Capture website screenshots

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

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

Database

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

Productivity

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

• geeknote- Console client for Evernote.

• The Mutt E-Mail Client

• Timetrap- Simple command line timetracker

Utilities

• brightness-cli- Change screen brightness- windows version

• empty-trash-cli- Empty the trash

• wallpaper-ci- Get or set the desktop wallpaper

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

• 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- :tv: 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- :four_leaf_clover: A GitHub-like contributions calendar, but locally, with all your git commits.

Terminal Gif Creation

• ttygif- Convert terminal recordings to animated gifs

• ttygif- ttyrec to gif

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

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

Other

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

• Bible.Js CLI client- :book: 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

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

• HASA -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

• 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