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fastfetch-cli/fastfetch

A maintained, feature-rich and performance oriented, neofetch like system information tool.

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#bsdfetch #command-line #fastfetch #fetch #flashfetch #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-09-05
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2021-02-18
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 83 open

24,533

stars

Forks: 876
Commits: 7,791 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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semantic-release/semantic-release

📦🚀 Fully automated version management and package publishing

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#automation #changelog #package #publish #release #release-automation

Updated: 2026-10-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-06-13
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 403 open

24,082

stars

Forks: 1,809
Commits: 2,228 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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eza-community/eza

A modern alternative to ls

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#color #command-line #files #hacktoberfest #icons #ls

Updated: 2026-08-06
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2014-05-03
History: 8 history points
License: EUPL-1.2
Issues: 454 open

23,318

stars

Forks: 525
Commits: 3,372 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ipfs/ipfs

Peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol

GitHub topics

#ipfs #ipfs-protocol #ipfs-web #ipld #js-ipfs #multiformats

Updated: 2025-05-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-12-04
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 8 open

23,060

stars

Forks: 1,536
Commits: 412 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mislav/hub

A command-line tool that makes git easier to use with GitHub.

Stack

Go Sinatra Bundler Go modules

GitHub topics

#git #github-api #go #homebrew #pull-request

Updated: 2024-02-02
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2009-12-05
History: 15 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 296 open

22,953

stars

Forks: 2,223
Commits: 3,337 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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svg/svgo

SVG Optimizer for Node.js and CLI. ⚙️

Stack

JavaScript Vite pnpm

GitHub topics

#cli #hacktoberfest #javascript #minification #nodejs #optimization

Updated: 2026-08-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-08-22
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 275 open

22,713

stars

Forks: 1,478
Commits: 1,648 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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gitui-org/gitui

Blazing 💥 fast terminal-ui for git written in rust 🦀

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#async #bash #command-line-interface #command-line-tool #git #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-10-06
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2020-03-15
History: 32 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 347 open

22,553

stars

Forks: 782
Commits: 2,633 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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localtunnel/localtunnel

expose yourself

Stack

JavaScript npm Yarn

Updated: 2025-08-29
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2012-06-18
History: 11 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 167 open

22,492

stars

Forks: 1,568
Commits: 169 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

jarun/nnn

n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager

Stack

GitHub topics

#android #batch-rename #c #cli #command-line #developer-tools

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2014-10-07
History: 9 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 1 open

22,058

stars

Forks: 825
Commits: 4,688 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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antonmedv/fx

Terminal JSON viewer & processor

Stack

Go Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#cli #command-line #json #tui

Updated: 2026-08-26
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2018-01-25
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 32 open

20,630

stars

Forks: 489
Commits: 792 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

yudai/gotty

Share your terminal as a web application

Stack

Go npm

GitHub topics

#browser #go #javascript #terminal #tty #typescript

Updated: 2024-08-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-08-16
History: 17 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 159 open

19,551

stars

Forks: 1,404
Commits: 230 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: -2 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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tj/git-extras

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

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#git

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-08-04
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 93 open

18,118

stars

Forks: 1,228
Commits: 1,856 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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asciinema/asciinema

Terminal session recorder, streamer and player 📹

Stack

Rust Axum Cargo

GitHub topics

#asciicast #asciinema #cli #recording #rustlang #streaming

Updated: 2026-08-14
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-11-21
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 12 open

17,873

stars

Forks: 1,045
Commits: 1,713 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

bcicen/ctop

Top-like interface for container metrics

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#command-line #commandline #containers #docker #monitoring #runc

Updated: 2024-07-08
Lists: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2016-11-06
History: 10 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 120 open

17,845

stars

Forks: 590
Commits: 628 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +2 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

denisidoro/navi

An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#bash #cheatsheets #cli #command-line #rust #shell

Updated: 2026-09-20
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-09-20
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 111 open

17,636

stars

Forks: 568
Commits: 1,096 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ranger/ranger

A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console

Stack

Python pytest pip

GitHub topics

#console #file-launcher #file-manager #file-preview #vim

Updated: 2026-09-09
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2009-11-16
History: 10 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 898 open

17,423

stars

Forks: 939
Commits: 5,319 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

rupa/z

z - jump around

Stack

Shell

Updated: 2024-06-19
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2009-06-19
History: 11 history points
License: WTFPL
Issues: 108 open

17,059

stars

Forks: 1,174
Commits: 217 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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wting/autojump

A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line

Stack

Python

GitHub topics

#autojump #command-line-tool #filesystem #python

Updated: 2025-02-27
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2008-04-21
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 232 open

16,959

stars

Forks: 708
Commits: 845 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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lsd-rs/lsd

The next gen ls command

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#color #hacktoberfest #icons #ls #nerd-fonts #rust

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2018-11-12
History: 11 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 210 open

16,240

stars

Forks: 513
Commits: 1,119 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ast-grep/ast-grep

⚡A CLI tool for code structural search, lint and rewriting. Written in Rust

AI dev

Stack

Rust pytest Cargo npm PEP 517

GitHub topics

#ast #babel #codemod #codereview #command-line #command-line-tool

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2022-07-01
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 69 open

16,002

stars

Forks: 457
Commits: 4,353 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

beetbox/beets

music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger

AI dev

Stack

Python Flask pytest pip uv

GitHub topics

#cli #hacktoberfest #music #music-library #musicbrainz #python

Updated: 2026-10-13
Lists: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2008-05-14
History: 13 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 692 open

15,790

stars

Forks: 2,151
Commits: 15,506 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +12 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

muesli/duf

Disk Usage/Free Utility - a better 'df' alternative

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#cli #df #disk-space #disk-usage #filesystem #freebsd

Updated: 2026-01-13
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2020-09-20
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 81 open

15,301

stars

Forks: 466
Commits: 281 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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tomnomnom/gron

Make JSON greppable!

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#cli #json

Updated: 2025-05-31
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2012-09-08
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 51 open

14,524

stars

Forks: 341
Commits: 223 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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sivel/speedtest-cli

Command line interface for testing internet bandwidth using speedtest.net

Archived

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#python #python-library #python-script #speedtest

Updated: 2024-07-20
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-09-10
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: Disabled

14,056

stars

Forks: 1,913
Commits: 299 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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sshuttle/sshuttle

Transparent proxy server that works as a poor man's VPN. Forwards over ssh. Doesn't require admin. Works with Linux and MacOS. Supports DNS tunneling.

Stack

Python pytest pip uv

Updated: 2026-10-13
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2010-05-01
History: 9 history points
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: 204 open

13,604

stars

Forks: 795
Commits: 1,393 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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dbcli/pgcli

Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting

Stack

Python pytest PEP 517

GitHub topics

#database #postgres #postgresql #psql #python

Updated: 2026-10-12
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2014-10-12
History: 13 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 48 open

13,415

stars

Forks: 610
Commits: 2,459 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

jonas/tig

Text-mode interface for git

Stack

GitHub topics

#c #git #ncurses #tui

Updated: 2026-09-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2006-04-10
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 231 open

13,343

stars

Forks: 668
Commits: 2,921 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Canop/broot

A new way to see and navigate directory trees

AI dev

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#balanced-bfs-descent #command-line #command-line-tool #fuzzy-search #rust #tree

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2018-11-15
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 100 open

12,961

stars

Forks: 317
Commits: 2,117 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

bootandy/dust

A more intuitive version of du in rust

Stack

Rust Cargo

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2018-03-12
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 10 open

12,325

stars

Forks: 294
Commits: 633 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

cyrus-and/gdb-dashboard

Modular visual interface for GDB in Python

Stack

Python

GitHub topics

#ansi #assembly #console #dashboard #dashboard-styles #debugger

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-09-09
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 19 open

12,255

stars

Forks: 818
Commits: 416 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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