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Command-Line Productivity

Search, bookmarks, multiplexing, and other tools that make your terminal experience more productive.

ag - Super fast string search through a directory hierarchy
autoenv - Directory-based environments
autojump - A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line
bash-slugify - Command that converts filenames and directories to a web friendly format
bashmarks - Directory bookmarks for the shell

boom - Store links and snippets in the commandline

byobu - Text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer
commacd - A faster way to move around in Bash
fasd - Command-line productivity booster, offers quick access to files and directories
fzf - A command-line fuzzy finder
hhighlighter - Colorize words in a command output
hr - <hr /> for your terminal
hstr - Bash History Suggest Box
k - k is a Zsh script to make directory listings more readable, adding Git status, fileweight colors and rotting dates
marker - Bookmark your shell commands
parallel - Build and execute shell command lines from standard input in parallel
percol - Adds flavor of interactive filtering to the traditional pipe concept of UNIX shell
spark - ▁▂▃▅▂▇ in your shell
spot - Tiny file search utility

snips - Commandline tool to manage snippets of code.

sshfs - A tool for mounting remote file systems over SSH
sshrc - Bring your .bashrc, .vimrc, etc. with you when you SSH
thefuck - Fix common shell mistakes by using an easy to remember command
tmux - Amazing terminal multiplexer
v - z for vim.
wemux - Multi-User Tmux Made Easy
z - z is the new j, yo

Customization

Custom prompts, color themes, etc.

base16-shell - Base16 for Shells
bash-git-prompt - An informative and fancy Bash prompt for Git users
bash-powerline - Powerline-style Bash prompt in pure Bash script
bashstrap - A quick way to spruce up OSX terminal
flatui-terminal-theme - Nicer colors for terminal
git-prompt - Bash prompt with Git, SVN and HG modules
gittify - A colorful Bash prompt + customized Git aliases
Gogh - Color Scheme - Color Scheme for Gnome Terminal
liquidprompt - A full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh
mysql-colorize - Colorization for mysql comand-line client
oh-my-git - An opinionated git prompt for bash and zsh
sexy-bash-prompt - Bash prompt with colors, Git statuses, and Git branches

For Developers

Command-line development, version control, and deployment.

cloc - Count Lines of Code
dokku - Docker powered mini-Heroku in around 100 lines of Bash
git-extra-commands - Many Git extra utilities. Churn, cut-branch, improved-merge and many more.
git-extras - Git utilities -- repo summary, repl, changelog population, author commit percentages and more
git-open - Type git open to open the GitHub page or website for a repository in your browser
git-semver - Git plugin for easing semantic versioning and changelog validation
git-sh - A customized Bash environment suitable for Git work
git-up - Automatically rebase incoming changes instead of merging. Be polite!
mr - Multiple Repository management tool
overcommit - A fully configurable and extendable Git hook manager
pre-commit - A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks
repren - Command-line search-and-replace and file-renaming swiss army knife
slap - Sublime-like terminal-based text editor that runs on Node.js
shipit - Minimalistic SSH deployment

System Utilities

OS-related tools, including system administration, system debugging, and file and process management.

cv - Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, ...
htop - A ncurses based interactive process viewer which aims to be a better top
lsp - An improved ls, with file descriptions in plain language and intelligent file grouping
ncdu - NCurses Disk Usage
powertop - Battery/Power usage and device stats monitoring command-line tool, with tune-up options.
procdog - Lightweight command-line control of long-lived processes like servers
quick-secure - Quickly secure and harden UNIX/Linux systems

Downloading and Serving

Self-hosted, lightweight servers and networking tools written in shell scripts.

aria2 - aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink
balls - Bash on Balls
bashttpd - A web server written in Bash
bitpocket - "DIY Dropbox" or "2-way directory (r)sync with proper deletion"
Dropbox-Uploader - Dropbox Uploader is a Bash script which can be used to upload, download, list or delete files from Dropbox
httpie - HTTPie is a command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement
ngincat - Tiny Bash HTTP server using netcat
resty - Little command line REST client that you can use in pipelines
youtube-dl - Small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

Multimedia and File Formats

Tools for handling video and audio files.

adb-export - Export Android content providers to CSV format
Android-Kitchen - A text-based kitchen for Android ROM customization. Uses shell scripts and works with Cygwin/OS X/Linux
Beets - Music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger
image-scraper - A cool command line image scraper with a lot of features.
jq - Sed for json data. You can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data
PiCAST - PiCAST turns your $35 Raspberry Pi in to a Chromecast like Device
sejda - Command line manipulation of PDF documents (split, merge, rotate, convert to jpg, extract text, etc)
xmlstarlet - Old but powerful tool for command-line XML formatting, filtering, and manipulation.

Applications

Command line-based applications or command line access to existing services.

ansiweather - Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols
bashblog - A Bash script that handles blog posting
geeknote - Command line evernote client
jrnl - A simple command line journal application that stores your journal in a plain text file
ledger - Command line accounting
pushblast - Get PushBullet notifications when a shell program exits
pushbullet-bash - Bash interface to the PushBullet API
transfer.sh — Quickly upload and share files from your shell
wego - Weather app for the terminal

Games

All work and no play is a cruddy way to spend your day.

bash2048 - Bash implementation of 2048 game
minesweeper - Bash implementation of minesweeper
sedtris - Tetris in sed
sed-scripts - Arkanoid and Sokoban written using sed

Shell Package Management

Tools for managing multiple shell configurations.

antigen-hs - A replacement for antigen optimized for a low overhead when starting up the shell.
antibody - A faster and simpler replacement for antigen written in Go.
bash-it - A community Bash framework
basher - A package manager for shell scripts
bpkg - JavaScript has npm, Ruby has Gems, Python has pip and now Shell has bpkg
fresh - Keep your dotfiles fresh
homeshick - Git dotfile synchronizer written in Bash
oh-my-fish - Framework for managing your Fish shell configuration inspired by Oh My Zsh
Wahoo - All-purpose framework and decentralized package manager for the fishshell.
vcsh - Config manager based on Git

Shell Script Development

Tools for writing, improving, or organizing Bash or other shell scripts

bashful - A collection of libraries to simplify writing Bash scripts
bats - Bash Automated Testing System
composure - Compose, document, version and organize your shell functions
dispatch - A command line argument parser in 50 lines of portable shell script.
rerun - A modular shell automation framework to organize your keeper scripts
semver_bash - Semantic Versioning in Bash
shellcheck - Static analysis tool for shell scripts
shpec - A shell testing framework
sub - A delicious way to organize programs
ts - A shell test script
shunit2 - A unit test framework for Bash scripts with a flavour of JUnit/PyUnit.

Zsh

Tools and customizations specifically for Zsh.

awesome-zsh-plugins - A list of Zsh plugins usable with antigen, dotzsh, oh-my-zsh & prezto.
antigen - A plugin manager for Zsh, inspired by oh-my-zsh and vundle
dotzsh - dotzsh strives to be platform and version independent, some functionality may be lost when running under older versions of Zsh, but it should degrade cleanly and allow you to use the same setup on multiple machines of differing OS's without problems.
oh-my-zsh - A community-driven framework for managing your Zsh configuration
pretty-time-zsh - Convert seconds to a human readable string: 165392 → 1d 21h 56m 32s
powerline-zsh - Powerline for Zsh
prezto - The configuration framework for Zsh
pure - Pretty, minimal and fast Zsh prompt
zgen - A lightweight plugin manager for Zsh inspired by antigen, but optimized for speed when starting a new shell. Can load oh-my-zsh compatible plugins and themes.
zsh-autosuggestions - Fish-like autosuggestions for Zsh
zsh-dwim - Zsh do what I mean.
zsh-git-prompt - Informative Git prompt for Zsh
zsh-history-substring-search - An implementation of the Fish shell's history search feature for Zsh.
zshmarks - A port of Bashmarks (simple bookmarking plugin by Todd Werth) for oh-my-zsh
zsh-notify - Desktop notifications for long running commands in Zsh
zsh-prompt-powerline - A Zsh prompt based on the powerline font from the popular vim plugin
zsh-syntax-highlighting - Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh

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