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🖥 📊 🕹 🛠 A curated list of command line apps

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tw93/Mole

🐹 Keep your Mac and PC clean, light, and running like new. Fast open-source CLI, plus native Mac and Windows apps.

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Shell Go modules

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#analyzer #appcleaner #clean #cleaner #cleanmymac #command-line

Updated: 2026-10-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-09-23
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 7 open

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Forks: 2,501
Commits: 3,637 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +806 +1.2%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +120 +3.4%

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tj/git-extras

GIT utilities -- repo summary, repl, changelog population, author commit percentages and more

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#git

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-08-04
License: MIT
Issues: 93 open

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Forks: 1,228
Commits: 1,856 commits
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rupa/z

z - jump around

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Shell

Updated: 2024-06-19
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2009-06-19
License: WTFPL
Issues: 108 open

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Forks: 1,174
Commits: 217 commits
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xwmx/nb

CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + more, in a single portable script.

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Shell Bundler Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#archiving #bash #bookmark-manager #bookmarks #cli #command-line

Updated: 2026-08-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-11-13
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 153 open

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Forks: 255
Commits: 7,852 commits
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nilbuild/git-standup

Recall what you or your team did on the last working day

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Shell npm

GitHub topics

#agile #git #git- #git-addons #git-standup #meeting

Updated: 2025-07-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-04-09
License: MIT
Issues: 24 open

7,853

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Forks: 321
Commits: 156 commits
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magicmonty/bash-git-prompt

An informative and fancy bash prompt for Git users

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Updated: 2026-09-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-12-04
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 33 open

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Forks: 981
Commits: 705 commits
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bats-core/bats-core

Bash Automated Testing System

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Shell npm pip

GitHub topics

#bash #bats #junit #shell #tap #testing

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-12-28
License: MIT
Issues: 128 open

6,315

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Forks: 496
Commits: 2,092 commits
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sobolevn/git-secret

:busts_in_silhouette: A bash-tool to store your private data inside a git repository.

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Shell Bundler

GitHub topics

#encryption #git #git-addons #git-secret #gpg #secret-management

Updated: 2026-09-28
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-12-20
License: MIT
Issues: 153 open

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Forks: 213
Commits: 1,029 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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pipeseroni/pipes.sh

Animated pipes terminal screensaver

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Shell

GitHub topics

#bash #pipes-sh #pipeseroni #terminal-screensaver

Updated: 2024-08-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-02-01
License: MIT
Issues: 14 open

3,033

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Forks: 82
Commits: 137 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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cytopia/ffscreencast

ffscreencast - ffmpeg screencast/desktop-recording with video overlay and multi monitor support

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Shell Composer

GitHub topics

#camera-overlay #ffmpeg #ffmpeg-command #ffmpeg-wrapper #screen-recorder #screencast

Updated: 2024-07-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-09-29
License: MIT
Issues: 20 open

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Forks: 76
Commits: 115 commits
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shellspec/shellspec

A full-featured BDD unit testing framework for bash, ksh, zsh, dash and all POSIX shells

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#bash #bdd #coverage #dash #kcov #ksh

Updated: 2025-11-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-02-05
License: MIT
Issues: 111 open

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Forks: 79
Commits: 1,976 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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poetaman/arttime

arttime is a CLI application that blends beauty of ASCII / text art with functionality of clock / timer / pattern-based time manager in terminal ⏰

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#ansi #ansi-art #ascii #ascii-art #cli #clock

Updated: 2026-08-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-05-20
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 6 open

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Forks: 26
Commits: 531 commits
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ivanilves/xiringuito

SSH-based "VPN for poors"

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#access #aws #bastion-host #network #security #ssh

Updated: 2021-12-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-02-04
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 8 open

1,159

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Forks: 46
Commits: 151 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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coderofsalvation/kanban.bash

commandline asciii kanban board for minimalist productivity hackers & managers (csv-based) #scriptable #nestable #statistics #singlefile #shellscript #issuetracker #git

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Shell

GitHub topics

#cli #kanban #nestedkanban #scriptable #terminal

Updated: 2026-07-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-04-17
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 6 open

959

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Forks: 61
Commits: 125 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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iridakos/goto

Alias and navigate to directories with tab completion in Linux

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GitHub topics

#aliases #bash #directories #linux #productivity #registered-aliases

Updated: 2024-07-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-03-04
License: MIT
Issues: 16 open

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Forks: 63
Commits: 151 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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kdabir/has

✅ checks presence of various command line tools and their versions on the path

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#bash #check #cli #commands #hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest2021

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-02-20
License: MIT
Issues: 14 open

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Forks: 59
Commits: 156 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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labbots/google-drive-upload

Bash scripts to upload files to google drive

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GitHub topics

#bash #bash-script #bash-utilities #drive-uploader #google-drive #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2024-04-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-03-15
License: MIT
Issues: 18 open

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Forks: 138
Commits: 246 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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johannjhang/fz.sh

Cli shell plugin, the missing fuzzy tab completion feature for the z jump around command.

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#autocompletion #autojump #bash #bash-completion #cd #completion

Updated: 2024-02-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-03-18
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 9 open

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stars

Forks: 28
Commits: 61 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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lukechilds/gifgen

Simple high quality GIF encoding

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#encoding-gifs #ffmpeg #gif

Updated: 2023-01-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-07-03
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

565

stars

Forks: 29
Commits: 42 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Akianonymus/gdrive-downloader

Download a gdrive folder or file easily, shell ftw.

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#bash #cli-tool #gdrive #gdrive-downloader #hacktoberfest #posix

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-01-24
License: Unlicense
Issues: 0 open

367

stars

Forks: 38
Commits: 128 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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bntzio/wipe-modules

🗑️ Easily remove the node_modules folder of non-active projects

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Shell npm

GitHub topics

#bash #cleanup #cron #cron-jobs #hacktoberfest #javascript

Updated: 2023-01-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-05-03
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

360

stars

Forks: 6
Commits: 37 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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yne/dzr

deezer.com Player (CLI & VSCode)

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Shell npm

GitHub topics

#android #cli #deezer #homebrew #linux #lyrics

Updated: 2026-03-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-04-06
License: Unlicense
Issues: 3 open

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Forks: 22
Commits: 68 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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Angelmmiguel/pm

The easy way to switch between your projects on ZSH

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Shell

GitHub topics

#jump #manager #projects #script #switch #zsh

Updated: 2021-04-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-07-12
License: MIT
Issues: 8 open

205

stars

Forks: 17
Commits: 51 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rockymadden/somafm-cli

:musical_note: Listen to SomaFM in your terminal via pure bash

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Shell

GitHub topics

#ambient #cli #downtempo #groove-salad #indie #jazz

Updated: 2024-06-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-03-26
License: Unknown
Issues: 9 open

164

stars

Forks: 13
Commits: 52 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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gmt4/mpvc

Music player in POSIX-sh using mpv from the shell/fzf + extras/goodies 🎧📡🔊

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Shell

GitHub topics

#bsd #cli #fzf #lofi #macos #media-player

Updated: 2026-09-20
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2016-01-13
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

159

stars

Forks: 0
Commits: 2,743 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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jtaylortech/journalot

Minimal journaling CLI for developers. Git-backed, terminal-native, zero friction. Just type `journal` and start writing.

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GitHub topics

#bash #cli #daily-journal #developer-tools #git #journaling

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-06-22
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 5
Commits: 56 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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pandastrike/yaml-cli

A simple CLI for querying and updating YAML files

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Shell npm

Updated: 2021-01-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-02-28
License: ISC
Issues: 24 open

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Forks: 5
Commits: 27 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Default branch: master
Last pushed: 2026-10-12
GitHub updated: 2026-10-17
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