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sindresorhus/fkill-cli

Fabulously kill processes. Cross-platform.

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#cli #cli-app #cross-platform #fabulous #javascript #kill

Updated: 2025-11-09
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-06-20
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

7,008

stars

Forks: 222
Commits: 103 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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skim-rs/skim

Fuzzy Finder in rust!

AI dev

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#fuzzyfinder #rust #skim

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2016-05-29
History: 30 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

6,986

stars

Forks: 262
Commits: 1,758 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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magicmonty/bash-git-prompt

An informative and fancy bash prompt for Git users

Stack

Shell

Updated: 2026-09-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-12-04
History: 8 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 33 open

6,936

stars

Forks: 981
Commits: 705 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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joeyespo/grip

Preview GitHub README.md files locally before committing them.

Stack

Python Flask pytest pip

GitHub topics

#commandline-interface #flask #github #html #python #readme

Updated: 2024-07-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-11-17
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 125 open

6,826

stars

Forks: 438
Commits: 586 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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IonicaBizau/git-stats

🍀 Local git statistics including GitHub-like contributions calendars.

Stack

HTML npm

GitHub topics

#calendar #contributions-calendar #gitstats #hacktoberfest #statistics

Updated: 2025-11-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-01-25
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 5 open

6,599

stars

Forks: 187
Commits: 425 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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busyloop/lolcat

Rainbows and unicorns!

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#cli #essentials

Updated: 2024-03-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-08-10
History: 8 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 33 open

6,579

stars

Forks: 233
Commits: 77 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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sharkdp/pastel

A command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#cli #color-converter #color-space #colors #command-line #rust

Updated: 2026-05-01
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-06-02
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 40 open

6,515

stars

Forks: 135
Commits: 541 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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bats-core/bats-core

Bash Automated Testing System

Stack

Shell npm pip

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-12-28
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 128 open

6,315

stars

Forks: 496
Commits: 2,092 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

Byron/dua-cli

View disk space usage and delete unwanted data, fast.

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#cleaner #disk #disk-space #disk-space-analyzer #disk-usage #disk-usage-analyzer

Updated: 2026-09-22
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2019-05-29
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

6,295

stars

Forks: 170
Commits: 1,299 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

alexpasmantier/television

A very fast, portable and hackable fuzzy finder.

Stack

Rust React Cargo pnpm

GitHub topics

#cli #command-line-tool #fuzzy #fuzzy-finder #fuzzy-matching #fuzzy-search

Updated: 2026-09-19
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2024-09-15
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 78 open

6,280

stars

Forks: 184
Commits: 1,096 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

achannarasappa/ticker

Track stocks, crypto, and derivatives prices and positions in real time from your terminal

Stack

Go Cobra Go modules

GitHub topics

#bitcoin #crypto-trading #cryptocurrencies #derivatives #financial-markets #golang

Updated: 2026-06-28
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2020-12-27
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 34 open

6,245

stars

Forks: 345
Commits: 474 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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cmus/cmus

Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.

Stack

Updated: 2026-08-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2005-06-05
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 219 open

6,236

stars

Forks: 522
Commits: 2,379 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mixn/carbon-now-cli

🎨 Beautiful images of your code — from right inside your terminal.

Stack

TypeScript npm

GitHub topics

#cli #cli-app #cli-application #cli-command #cli-tool #cli-utilities

Updated: 2025-11-14
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-07-02
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 8 open

6,032

stars

Forks: 125
Commits: 640 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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Slackadays/Clipboard

😎🏖️🐬 Your new, 𝙧𝙞𝙙𝙤𝙣𝙠𝙪𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙡𝙮 smart clipboard manager

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#bash #cli #clipboard #clipboard-manager #cmd #collaborate

Updated: 2026-05-06
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2022-11-20
History: 14 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 26 open

5,917

stars

Forks: 176
Commits: 1,890 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mjswensen/themer

🎨 themer takes a set of colors and outputs themes for your apps (editors, terminals, wallpapers, and more).

Stack

TypeScript Svelte SvelteKit Vite npm

GitHub topics

#alfred #chrome #cmd #conemu #hacktoberfest #hyper

Updated: 2026-06-27
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-11-21
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 20 open

5,853

stars

Forks: 138
Commits: 1,772 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

santinic/how2

AI for the Command Line

Stack

JavaScript npm

Updated: 2023-03-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-02-13
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

5,770

stars

Forks: 151
Commits: 233 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

andmarti1424/sc-im

sc-im - Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised -- An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal

Stack

GitHub topics

#console #console-application #ncurses #spreadsheet #terminal #terminal-app

Updated: 2026-08-26
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-04-10
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 117 open

5,693

stars

Forks: 239
Commits: 1,572 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

eradman/entr

Run arbitrary commands when files change

Stack

GitHub topics

#inotify #kqueue #test-automation

Updated: 2026-06-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-04-07
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1 open

5,687

stars

Forks: 124
Commits: 601 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mifi/editly

Slick, declarative command line video editing & API

Stack

TypeScript npm

GitHub topics

#animations #cli #clips #command-line #editor #ffmpeg

Updated: 2025-05-12
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2020-04-15
History: 10 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 80 open

5,524

stars

Forks: 383
Commits: 430 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

donnemartin/saws

A supercharged AWS command line interface (CLI).

Stack

Python pytest pip

GitHub topics

#aws #aws-cli #cli #client #cloud #cloud-management

Updated: 2024-04-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-08-24
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 39 open

5,302

stars

Forks: 279
Commits: 1,037 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

visit1985/mdp

A command-line based markdown presentation tool.

Stack

GitHub topics

#command-line #markdown #presentation

Updated: 2026-09-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-08-10
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 7 open

5,282

stars

Forks: 264
Commits: 317 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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abishekvashok/cmatrix

Terminal based "The Matrix" like implementation

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#c #matrix #screensaver

Updated: 2024-08-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-06-23
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 83 open

5,249

stars

Forks: 546
Commits: 121 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

facebook/PathPicker

PathPicker accepts a wide range of input -- output from git commands, grep results, searches -- pretty much anything. After parsing the input, PathPicker presents you with a nice UI to select which files you're interested in. After that you can open them in your favorite editor or execute arbitrary commands.

Stack

Python pytest Poetry

Updated: 2024-09-05
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-05-01
History: 12 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 26 open

5,235

stars

Forks: 281
Commits: 700 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

emacs-mirror/emacs

Mirror of GNU Emacs

AI dev

Stack

Emacs Lisp

Updated: 2026-10-14
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 1985-04-18
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

5,221

stars

Forks: 1,414
Commits: 183,755 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

get-alex/alex

Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#alex #hacktoberfest2018 #linter #writing

Updated: 2024-11-27
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-08-15
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 28 open

5,103

stars

Forks: 216
Commits: 301 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

unhappychoice/gitlogue

A cinematic Git commit replay tool for the terminal, turning your Git history into a living, animated story.

Stack

Rust Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#cli #cli-tool #code-animation #commit-history #developer-tools #git

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2025-11-08
History: 8 history points
License: ISC
Issues: 10 open

5,081

stars

Forks: 118
Commits: 585 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

domcyrus/rustnet

Per-process network monitoring for your terminal with deep packet inspection. Cross-platform, sandboxed.

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#android #cli #command-line #dpi #ebpf #freebsd

Updated: 2026-09-05
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2025-04-27
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 18 open

4,993

stars

Forks: 230
Commits: 729 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

s3tools/s3cmd

Official s3cmd repo -- Command line tool for managing S3 compatible storage services (including Amazon S3 and CloudFront).

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#backup #cli #hacktoberfest #python #s3 #s3cmd

Updated: 2025-10-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-01-10
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 311 open

4,917

stars

Forks: 902
Commits: 1,944 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

clangen/musikcube

a cross-platform, terminal-based music player, audio engine, metadata indexer, and server in c++

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#alsa #audio-engine #audio-player #coreaudio #cross-platform #curses

Updated: 2026-03-23
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2008-03-18
History: 8 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 179 open

4,842

stars

Forks: 321
Commits: 3,739 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

sayanarijit/xplr

A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#cli #command-line #console #developer-tools #file-explorer #file-launcher

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2021-03-01
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

4,837

stars

Forks: 96
Commits: 961 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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