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sindresorhus/cpy-cli

Copy files

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Updated: 2026-09-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-01-03
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

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Forks: 34
Commits: 47 commits
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BibleJS/BibleApp

:book: Bible.JS CLI client. Read the Holy Bible via the command line.

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JavaScript npm

Updated: 2021-04-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-04-06
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

341

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Forks: 21
Commits: 116 commits
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sindresorhus/del-cli

Delete files and directories

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JavaScript npm

Updated: 2026-09-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-12-06
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

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Forks: 23
Commits: 53 commits
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spirometaxas/periodic-table-cli

An interactive Periodic Table of Elements app for the console!

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JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#ascii-art #chemistry #cli #command-line #elements #javascript

Updated: 2025-08-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-05-02
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

309

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Forks: 17
Commits: 41 commits
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sindresorhus/npm-name-cli

Check whether a package or organization name is available on npm

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JavaScript npm

Updated: 2025-09-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-10-19
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

291

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Forks: 19
Commits: 47 commits
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zaaack/foy

A simple, light-weight, type-friendly and modern task runner for general purpose.

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TypeScript npm pnpm

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#async-await #build-scripts #build-system #build-tool #cli #grunt

Updated: 2026-07-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-12-04
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

291

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Forks: 16
Commits: 329 commits
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navig-me/telert

Command‑line and Python utility that alerts on command completion, code execution and system monitoring events

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Python pytest npm PEP 517

GitHub topics

#alert #cli #command-line #discord #email #fly-io

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2025-04-23
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

287

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Forks: 18
Commits: 171 commits
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bmf-san/ggc

A modern Git CLI tool with both traditional command-line and interactive incremental-search UI.

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Go Go modules npm

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#cli #developer-tools #git #go #golang #sdg-17

Updated: 2026-09-22
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2025-06-14
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

284

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Forks: 9
Commits: 1,011 commits
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IonicaBizau/idea

:bulb: A lightweight CLI tool and module for keeping ideas in a safe place quick and easy.

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JavaScript npm

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#hacktoberfest

Updated: 2025-02-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-01-15
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

280

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Forks: 14
Commits: 59 commits
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vishwanatharondekar/gitlab-cli

Create a merge request from command line in gitlab

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JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#cli #cli-utilities #cli-utility #command-line #command-line-tool #commandline

Updated: 2024-01-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-08-27
License: MIT
Issues: 5 open

267

stars

Forks: 45
Commits: 193 commits
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xxczaki/cash-cli

💰💰 Convert currency rates directly from your terminal!

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JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#cash-cli #cli #convert-currency-rates #currencies #currency #exchange

Updated: 2026-04-30
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-10-10
License: MIT
Issues: 16 open

267

stars

Forks: 19
Commits: 332 commits
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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

265

stars

Forks: 22
Commits: 68 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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shep-ai/shep

Ship features 10x faster. Built In Auto: Memory, K8S Agent & Security (SDD+SDLC) . 😇

AI dev

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TypeScript Electron Next.js React Tailwind CSS npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#agent-orchestration #agentic-ai #ai #ai-agents #ai-code-generation #ai-coding

Updated: 2026-09-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2026-02-01
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

255

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Forks: 56
Commits: 1,122 commits
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aweary/alder

A minimal implementation of the UNIX tree command with colors!

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JavaScript npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#command #terminal

Updated: 2017-06-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-01-24
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

249

stars

Forks: 15
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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sanity-io/groq-cli

Run GROQ in your command line

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JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#groq #json #json-api #json-parser #query-language #sanity-io

Updated: 2026-09-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-07-10
License: MIT
Issues: 14 open

237

stars

Forks: 14
Commits: 48 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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PabloLec/neoss

:heavy_check_mark: User-friendly and detailed socket statistics with a Terminal UI.

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TypeScript npm

GitHub topics

#blessed #command-line #connection #cybersecurity #educational #linux

Updated: 2026-09-30
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2021-08-11
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 13 open

232

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Forks: 4
Commits: 672 commits
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albinekb/open-pip-cli

📺 CLI for https://github.com/albinekb/open-pip - Open a movie url or path in macOS picture-in-picture

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JavaScript npm Yarn

Updated: 2022-12-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-03-28
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

216

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Forks: 11
Commits: 81 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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yeoman/yosay

Tell Yeoman what to say

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JavaScript npm

Updated: 2025-02-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-05-09
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 0 open

210

stars

Forks: 40
Commits: 78 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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kevva/brightness-cli

Change the screen brightness

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JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#brightness #brightness-level #cli #nodejs #screen-brightness

Updated: 2017-07-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-05-22
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

207

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Forks: 8
Commits: 42 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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xtyrrell/undollar

undollar eats the dollar sign in the command you just pasted into your terminal

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JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#command-line #convenience #copy-paste #copying #shameless #stackoverflow

Updated: 2018-09-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-12-24
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

207

stars

Forks: 5
Commits: 8 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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lordgiotto/google-font-installer

Download and install Google Web Fonts on your local machine. Both CLI and API available.

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JavaScript npm

Updated: 2023-04-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-02-07
License: MIT
Issues: 8 open

200

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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sindresorhus/npm-home

Open the npm page, Yarn page, or GitHub repo of a package

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JavaScript npm

Updated: 2024-07-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-01-12
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

199

stars

Forks: 8
Commits: 40 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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metadelta/mdlt

A command-line utility for quick math.

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JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#algebra #calculus #cas #cli #machine-learning #math

Updated: 2017-11-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-02-11
License: Unknown
Issues: 4 open

197

stars

Forks: 9
Commits: 15 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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sindresorhus/gzip-size-cli

Get the gzipped size of a file or stdin

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JavaScript npm

Updated: 2021-11-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-08-17
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

194

stars

Forks: 10
Commits: 24 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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lukechilds/htconvert

Convert .htaccess redirects to nginx.conf redirects

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JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#apache #cli #nginx #sysadmin

Updated: 2019-11-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-06-02
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

193

stars

Forks: 10
Commits: 48 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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343dev/optimizt

CLI image optimization tool

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JavaScript Vite npm

GitHub topics

#avif #gif #gif2webp #gifsicle #guetzli #image-compression

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-03-20
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

183

stars

Forks: 8
Commits: 647 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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sindresorhus/wallpaper-cli

Get or set the desktop wallpaper

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JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#cli #cli-app #desktop-wallpaper #javascript #linux #macos

Updated: 2025-09-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-10-07
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

181

stars

Forks: 17
Commits: 23 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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SamVerschueren/dev-time-cli

Get the current local time of a GitHub user.

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JavaScript npm

Updated: 2016-06-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-12-07
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

180

stars

Forks: 6
Commits: 25 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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omgimanerd/getnews.tech

A web server that fetches data from the News API and formats it for display in the terminal.

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JavaScript Express npm

GitHub topics

#article #cli #command-line #commandline-interface #curl #news

Updated: 2023-04-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-06-28
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 13 open

176

stars

Forks: 12
Commits: 98 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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mayankchd/movie

A CLI for getting information about movies and comparing two movies

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JavaScript npm

Updated: 2024-07-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-03-17
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

175

stars

Forks: 10
Commits: 17 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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resumx/resumx

Resume renderer for Claude Code.

AI dev

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TypeScript Next.js React Svelte Tailwind CSS npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#cv #cv-generator #markdown #resume #resume-generator #tailwindcss

Updated: 2026-06-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2026-01-26
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 6 open

174

stars

Forks: 22
Commits: 484 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jhotmann/node-rename-cli

A tool for renaming files quickly, especially multiple files at once.

Archived

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JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#cli #hacktoberfest #node #rename-files

Updated: 2023-01-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-03-03
License: MIT
Issues: 28 open

172

stars

Forks: 18
Commits: 185 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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pvarentsov/iola

🔄 iola: Command-line socket client with REST API.

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TypeScript NestJS npm

GitHub topics

#iola #socket-client #socketio-client #tcp-client #unix-socket-client #websocket-client

Updated: 2023-10-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-05-11
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

171

stars

Forks: 13
Commits: 508 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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clevercli/clevercli

ChatGPT powered CLI utilities. Easily add new prompt types in ~/.clevercli/

Archived

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TypeScript Vite npm

GitHub topics

#chatgpt #cli #gpt #gpt-3 #openai

Updated: 2026-03-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-03-07
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

165

stars

Forks: 6
Commits: 75 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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sindresorhus/get-port-cli

Get an available port

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JavaScript npm

Updated: 2026-09-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-10-26
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

163

stars

Forks: 15
Commits: 16 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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sindresorhus/sparkly-cli

Generate sparklines ▁▂▃▅▂▇

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JavaScript npm

Updated: 2021-11-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-12-06
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

157

stars

Forks: 5
Commits: 16 commits
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JPeer264/node-semantic-git-commit-cli

A CLI for semantic git commits

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JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#cli #commit #emoji #git #nodejs #semantic

Updated: 2023-02-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-03-13
License: MIT
Issues: 8 open

151

stars

Forks: 13
Commits: 241 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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thompsonemerson/moeda

:moneybag: :chart_with_upwards_trend: A foreign exchange rates and currency conversion using CLI

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JavaScript npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#cli #currency #currency-conversion #exchange #foreign-exchange-rates #moeda

Updated: 2023-06-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-10-29
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

150

stars

Forks: 23
Commits: 32 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ehmicky/unix-permissions

Swiss Army knife for Unix permissions

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JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#access-control #acl #chmod #cli #javascript #library

Updated: 2026-08-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-12-18
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 0 open

144

stars

Forks: 5
Commits: 2,035 commits
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eneserdogan/trino

Trino: Master your translations with command line!

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JavaScript npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#api #cli #cloud #google #shell #tool

Updated: 2022-12-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-03-16
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 2 open

144

stars

Forks: 11
Commits: 17 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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pycontribs/mk

mk ease contributing to any open source repository by exposing most common actions you can run. Inspired by make, tox and other cool tools!

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Python pytest npm PEP 517 uv

GitHub topics

#cli #git #mk #pep-621 #productivity #tox

Updated: 2026-10-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-06-07
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

142

stars

Forks: 12
Commits: 243 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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sindresorhus/empty-trash-cli

Empty the trash

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JavaScript npm

Updated: 2021-10-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-10-07
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

139

stars

Forks: 6
Commits: 14 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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jamesgeorge007/scaffold-static

Scaffolding utility for vanilla-js

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TypeScript npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#boilerplate-template #cli #commander #css-framework #css-frameworks #es6

Updated: 2023-01-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-11-28
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 9 open

130

stars

Forks: 15
Commits: 218 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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SamVerschueren/mobicon-cli

Mobile icon generator

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JavaScript npm

Updated: 2021-02-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-12-22
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

122

stars

Forks: 10
Commits: 16 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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silverwind/updates

CLI to update npm, uv, cargo, go, docker and actions dependencies

AI dev

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TypeScript Express React Vite Vue Cargo Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#bun #cargo #dependabot #dependencies #dependency-management #dependency-manager

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-12-03
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 5 open

110

stars

Forks: 9
Commits: 1,712 commits
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danyshaanan/cli-mandelbrot

:package: View the Mandelbrot set from your terminal

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JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#cli #mandelbrot #node #npm-package

Updated: 2019-03-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-17
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

106

stars

Forks: 2
Commits: 136 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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xxczaki/nasa-cli

🚀 Download NASA Picture of the Day from your terminal!

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JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#apod #nasa #nasa-apod #nasa-astronomy-picture #nasa-cli #nodejs

Updated: 2026-04-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-01-08
License: MIT
Issues: 16 open

105

stars

Forks: 11
Commits: 94 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

beatfreaker/text-meme-cli

Generate text meme

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JavaScript npm

Updated: 2017-04-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-12-19
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

102

stars

Forks: 6
Commits: 15 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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mahlquistj/octotype

A WIP TUI typing trainer inspired by monkeytype with a focus on customization

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Rust React Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#configurable #ratatui #rust #terminal-ui #tui #typing

Updated: 2026-09-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-03-06
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

102

stars

Forks: 2
Commits: 259 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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danyshaanan/osx-wifi-cli

:package: A cli for managing wifi connections on OSX

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JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#cli #npm-package #osx

Updated: 2020-02-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-02-26
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 11
Commits: 76 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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