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cooklang/cookcli

Recipe Management CLI + embedded web-server in one binary

AI dev

Stack

Rust Axum Tailwind CSS Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#cooklang

Updated: 2026-09-18
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2021-03-13
History: 11 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 32 open

1,389

stars

Forks: 112
Commits: 1,028 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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 ⏰

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-08-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-05-20
History: 10 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 6 open

1,386

stars

Forks: 26
Commits: 531 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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LargeModGames/spotatui

A fast, standalone terminal music player in Rust: native Spotify streaming plus local, Subsonic, radio, Qobuz and Youtube sources

AI dev

Stack

Rust Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#audio-visualization #cli #lyrics #mpris #multimedia #music

Updated: 2026-09-22
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2019-08-16
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 35 open

1,377

stars

Forks: 234
Commits: 2,643 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

webtorrent/webtorrent-cli

WebTorrent, the streaming torrent client. For the command line.

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#bittorrent #cli #javascript #nodejs #p2p #streaming

Updated: 2026-08-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-01-25
History: 11 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 16 open

1,371

stars

Forks: 152
Commits: 621 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

alichtman/shallow-backup

Git-integrated backup tool for macOS and Linux devs.

AI dev

Stack

Python pytest pip Pipenv

GitHub topics

#backup #backup-script #backup-utility #linux-backup #mac-backup-script

Updated: 2026-03-21
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2018-03-25
History: 13 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 23 open

1,335

stars

Forks: 266
Commits: 468 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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mingrammer/flog

:tophat: A fake log generator for common log formats

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#apache #faker #generator #log #syslog

Updated: 2025-06-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-10-12
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 32 open

1,334

stars

Forks: 143
Commits: 139 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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erkin/ponysay

Pony rewrite of cowsay.

Stack

Pony pip

Updated: 2024-08-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-02-26
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 79 open

1,321

stars

Forks: 95
Commits: 2,452 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ttscoff/doing

No description.

Stack

Ruby Bundler Go modules npm

Updated: 2026-07-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-03-15
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

1,296

stars

Forks: 94
Commits: 1,354 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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lasantosr/intelli-shell

Like IntelliSense, but for shells

AI dev

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#autocomplete #bash #bookmark #cli #command-line #fish

Updated: 2026-07-26
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2023-01-20
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 6 open

1,289

stars

Forks: 23
Commits: 159 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

arunsupe/semantic-grep

grep for words with similar meaning to the query

Stack

Go Go modules

Updated: 2024-08-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2024-07-26
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

1,247

stars

Forks: 29
Commits: 87 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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chaqchase/lla

blazing fast `ls` replacement with superpowers

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#cli #ls #replacement #rust #terminal

Updated: 2026-08-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-07-31
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

1,223

stars

Forks: 25
Commits: 618 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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dduan/tre

Tree command, improved.

Stack

Rust Cargo

Updated: 2024-09-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-02-10
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 23 open

1,223

stars

Forks: 30
Commits: 190 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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wustho/epy

CLI Ebook (epub2, epub3, fb2, mobi) Reader

Stack

Python pytest Poetry

Updated: 2024-03-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-10-23
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 72 open

1,220

stars

Forks: 74
Commits: 290 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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alichtman/stronghold

Easily configure macOS security settings from the terminal.

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#command-line #command-line-tool #hardening #macos #macos-setup #osx

Updated: 2025-02-24
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2018-03-17
History: 15 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 10 open

1,192

stars

Forks: 263
Commits: 144 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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jaebradley/uber-cli

🚗Uber, at your fingertips

Archived

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#command-line-tool #uber

Updated: 2020-06-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-12-21
History: 8 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 24 open

1,184

stars

Forks: 42
Commits: 282 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-deploy

Old (2022) proof of concept: Zero-Config CLI to Deploy Static Websites to IPFS

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#cli #deploying #dnslink #ipfs #need-maintainer #pinning

Updated: 2025-05-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-02-13
History: 11 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 32 open

1,168

stars

Forks: 117
Commits: 302 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ivanilves/xiringuito

SSH-based "VPN for poors"

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

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

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

1,159

stars

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

GitHub

sibprogrammer/xq

Command-line XML and HTML beautifier and content extractor

Stack

Go Cobra Go modules

GitHub topics

#cli #formatter #golang #html #syntax-highlighting #terminal

Updated: 2026-09-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-11-06
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 10 open

1,158

stars

Forks: 38
Commits: 421 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

Owloops/updo

Uptime monitoring CLI tool with alerting and advanced settings

Stack

Go Cobra Go modules

GitHub topics

#cli #monitoring #termui

Updated: 2026-05-26
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2023-12-26
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

1,134

stars

Forks: 62
Commits: 163 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

golbin/git-commander

A git tool with an easy terminal interface.

Stack

JavaScript npm

Updated: 2015-08-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-07-05
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 19 open

1,119

stars

Forks: 59
Commits: 77 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

jarun/imgp

:camera_flash: Fast batch image resizer and rotator

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#cli #command-line #console #image-compression #image-manipulation #image-optimization

Updated: 2026-08-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-08-08
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 0 open

1,090

stars

Forks: 53
Commits: 298 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

theZiz/aha

Ansi HTML Adapter

Stack

Updated: 2023-08-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-05-08
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 24 open

1,086

stars

Forks: 91
Commits: 181 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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harehare/mq

A jq-like Markdown query language for command-line processing

AI dev

Stack

Rust Axum React Vite Cargo Gradle npm

GitHub topics

#cli #html-to-markdown #interpreter #jq #language-server #markdown

Updated: 2026-09-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2025-02-24
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 15 open

1,034

stars

Forks: 22
Commits: 6,870 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

updatecli/updatecli

A Declarative Update Policy Engine

Stack

Go Cobra Flask gRPC Go pytest Cargo Go modules Maven

GitHub topics

#continuous-updates #dependency-manager #devops #gitops #good-first-issue #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-10-06
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2020-01-25
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 123 open

995

stars

Forks: 154
Commits: 3,106 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

humblepenguinn/envio

A secure command-line tool for managing environment variables

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#cli #enviorment-variables #rust

Updated: 2026-06-23
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-03-20
History: 11 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 14 open

993

stars

Forks: 20
Commits: 303 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

MidnightCommander/mc

Midnight Commander's repository

Stack

GitHub topics

#c #console #file-manager #midnight-commander #terminal-based

Updated: 2026-09-28
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 1997-01-01
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 701 open

993

stars

Forks: 112
Commits: 17,006 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

pls-rs/pls

pls is a prettier and powerful ls(1) for the pros.

Stack

Rust Astro Svelte Vite Cargo npm PEP 517

GitHub topics

#cli #ls #rust #terminal

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-06-30
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 16 open

968

stars

Forks: 34
Commits: 545 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

asheshgoplani/agent-deck

Terminal session manager for AI coding agents. One TUI for Claude, Gemini, OpenCode, Codex, and more.

AI dev

Stack

Go gRPC Go Vite Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#ai-agent #ai-agents #ai-coding-assistant #aider #bubble-tea #claude-code

Updated: 2026-09-27
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2025-12-03
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

965

stars

Forks: 174
Commits: 4,082 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

coderofsalvation/kanban.bash

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

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#cli #kanban #nestedkanban #scriptable #terminal

Updated: 2026-07-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-04-17
History: 8 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 6 open

959

stars

Forks: 61
Commits: 125 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

Hakky54/certificate-ripper

🔐 A CLI tool to extract server certificates

Stack

Java Maven

GitHub topics

#certificate #graal-native #graalvm #graalvm-native-image #homebrew #homebrew-tap

Updated: 2026-09-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-03-28
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 0 open

927

stars

Forks: 77
Commits: 358 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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