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Think tmux, then aim... lower.
shpool is a service that enables session persistence by allowing the creation of named shell sessions owned by shpool so that the session is not lost if the connection drops. shpool can be thought of as a lighter weight alternative to tmux or GNU screen. While tmux and screen take over the whole terminal and provide window spitting and tiling features, shpool only provides persistent sessions. The biggest advantage of this approach is that shpool does not break native scrollback or copy-paste.
- [shpool - much preferred over tmux and screen @ Peter V. Mørch's Blog](https://www.morch.com/posts/2025-03-22-shpool/
Sheldon is a fast, configurable, command-line tool to manage your shell plugins.
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Bring your .bashrc, .vimrc, etc. with you when you ssh.
sshrc works just like ssh, but it also sources the ~/.sshrc on your local computer after logging in remotely.
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A safer way to run remote scripts.
Stop blindly piping to bash. vet lets you inspect remote scripts for changes, run them through a linter, and require your explicit approval before they can execute.
vet is a command-line tool that acts as a safety net for the risky curl | bash pattern. It lets you inspect, diff against previous versions, and lint remote scripts before asking for your explicit approval to execute. Promoting a safer, more transparent way to handle remote code execution.
Tweety is an integrated terminal for the Web browser.
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Python-powered shell.
Xonsh is a modern, full-featured and cross-platform python shell. The language is a superset of Python 3.6+ with additional shell primitives that you are used to from Bash and IPython. It works on all major systems including Linux, OSX, and Windows. Xonsh is meant for the daily use of experts and novices.
webhook is a lightweight incoming webhook server to run shell commands.
webhook is a lightweight configurable tool written in Go, that allows you to easily create HTTP endpoints (hooks) on your server, which you can use to execute configured commands. You can also pass data from the HTTP request (such as headers, payload or query variables) to your commands. webhook also allows you to specify rules which have to be satisfied in order for the hook to be triggered.
all your themes, everywhere. Color wheel. Style systems and smart build tooling for crafting high fidelity color schemes and easily using them in all your favorite apps. Originally based on the amazing work of Chris Kempson and his Base16 system.
Compile shell scripts to static binaries.
Bunster transforms your shell scripts into efficient, standalone binaries that are easy to distribute and deploy across platforms (only unix is supported at the moment).
Technically speaking, Bunster is a shell-to-Go Transpiler that generates Go source out of your scripts. Then, optionally uses the Go Toolchain to compile the code to an executable program.
Make Bash utilities usable in Fish shell. Bass makes it easy to use utilities written for Bash in fish shell.
Regular bash scripts can be used in fish shell just as scripts written in any language with proper shebang or explicitly using the interpreter (i.e. using bash script.sh). However, many utilities, such as virtualenv, modify the shell environment and need to be sourced, and therefore cannot be used in fish. Sometimes, counterparts (such as the excellent virtualfish) are created, but that's often not the case.
Not a theme, but a framework for building Tomorrow styled themes using a base of sixteen colours. Since August 2012, Base16 has provided a minimal set of guidelines that explain how to style syntax and how to build Base16 schemes and templates.
Pay Respects suggests fixes to wrong console commands by pressing F.
It's a command-not-found and thefuck replacement written in Rust.
Fly through your shell history. Great Scott!.
McFly replaces your default ctrl-r shell history search with an intelligent search engine that takes into account your working directory and the context of recently executed commands. McFly's suggestions are prioritized in real time with a small neural network.
A nix and nix-shell wrapper for shells other than bash.
nix develop and nix-shell use bash as the default shell, so nix-your-shell prints shell snippets you can source to use the shell you prefer inside of Nix shells.
Your Terminal Assistant.
BashSenpai is a command-line tool that utilizes the power of ChatGPT, bringing it straight to your terminal. You can ask questions and receive insightful responses related to shell scripting, making it an indispensable asset for both beginners and seasoned users alike.
Simple command-line snippet manager.
pet is a command-line snippet manager (inspired by memo).
it allows to save, tag, search, and execute command-line snippets.
thread-based email index, search and tagging.
Notmuch is a system for indexing, searching, reading, and tagging large collections of email messages in maildir or mh format. It uses the Xapian library to provide fast, full-text search with a convenient search syntax.
An open-source guide to help you write better command-line programs, taking traditional UNIX principles and updating them for the modern day.
fzf is a general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder.
It’s an interactive filter program for any kind of list; files, command history, processes, hostnames, bookmarks, git commits, etc. With its novel “fuzzy” matching algorithm, you can quickly type in patterns with omitted characters and still get the results you want.
🤖 CLI AI Assistant
A simple command-line AI assistant that translates natural language into shell commands. Supports all Windows and Unix-based systems (Linux, MacOS).
Real fucking shellcode encryptor & obfuscator tool.
Supernova is an open-source tool that empowers users to securely encrypt and/or obfuscate their raw shellcode.
OpenTelemetry command-line tool for sending events from shell scripts & similar environments.
otel-cli is a command-line tool for sending OpenTelemetry traces. It is written in Go and intended to be used in shell scripts and other places where the best option available for sending spans is executing another program.
1000+ DevOps Bash Scripts - AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, APIs, SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Hive, Impala, Kafka, Hadoop, Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, Azure DevOps, TeamCity, Spotify, MP3, LDAP, Code/Build Linting, pkg mgmt for Linux, Mac, Python, Perl, Ruby, NodeJS, Golang, Advanced dotfiles: .bashrc, .vimrc, .gitconfig, .screenrc, tmux..
Fast, Advanced Systems Engineering, Automation, APIs, shorter CLIs, etc.
Your AI-Powered Excalibur in Cloud. X bootstrap 1000+ tools and your scripts.
Lightweight POSIX script for managing tools (500+) and providing classic command extensions in an open-source environment.
This is a card game for teaching kids how to combine unix commands through pipes.
This game assumes the parent knows the basic unix commands: cat, grep, tail, head, wc, sort, uniq. The parent should show also show those commands in action the computer as well, if you do not have any UNIX system you can use jslinux in your browser.
The Logfile Navigator, lnav for short, is an advanced log file viewer for the small-scale.
A log file viewer for the terminal. Merge, tail, search, filter, and query log files with ease. No server. No setup. Still featureful.
OliveTin gives safe and simple access to predefined shell commands from a web interface.
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The Programming Language compiled to Bash. Write your scripts in a modern type-safe and runtime-safe programming language that handles many bugs and mistakes during compilation process.
A multi-shell completion library and binary.
Carapace-bin provides argument completion for multiple CLI commands , and works across multiple POSIX and non-POSIX shells.
Master the command line, in one page.
Fluency on the command line is a skill often neglected or considered arcane, but it improves your flexibility and productivity as an engineer in both obvious and subtle ways. This is a selection of notes and tips on using the command-line that we've found useful when working on Linux. Some tips are elementary, and some are fairly specific, sophisticated, or obscure. This page is not long, but if you can use and recall all the items here, you know a lot.
A handy shell script that enables you to write repeatable demos in a bash environment.
demo-magic.sh is a handy shell script that enables you to script repeatable demos in a bash environment so you don't have to type as you present. Rather than trying to type commands when presenting you simply script them and let demo-magic.sh run them for you.
SSH3: faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3.
SSH3 is a complete revisit of the SSH protocol, mapping its semantics on top of the HTTP mechanisms. In a nutshell, SSH3 uses QUIC+TLS1.3 for secure channel establishment and the HTTP Authorization mechanisms for user authentication.
Simple, Pythonic remote execution and deployment.
Fabric is a high level Python (2.7, 3.4+) library designed to execute shell commands remotely over SSH, yielding useful Python objects in return. It builds on top of Invoke (subprocess command execution and command-line features) and Paramiko (SSH protocol implementation), extending their APIs to complement one another and provide additional functionality.
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HookPhish is a Python script designed to aid in the detection of phishing websites. It performs various checks on suspected URLs to identify potential threats.
A highly customizable way to play chess in your terminal / command line. Play online (via Lichess.org) and offline against the Fairy-Stockfish engine. All Lichess variants are supported.
A new type of shell.
The goal of this project is to take the Unix philosophy of shells, where pipes connect simple commands together, and bring it to the modern style of development. Thus, rather than being either a shell, or a programming language, Nushell connects both by bringing a rich programming language and a full-featured shell together into one package.
A tool for glamorous shell scripts. Leverage the power of Bubbles and Lip Gloss in your scripts and aliases without writing any Go code!
Gum provides highly configurable, ready-to-use utilities to help you write useful shell scripts and dotfiles aliases with just a few lines of code.
cheat allows you to create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line. It was designed to help remind *nix system administrators of options for commands that they use frequently, but not frequently enough to remember.
local configuration manager.
Loco.sh is an Unix local configuration manager. It can install any package (apt, ppas, brew, snap, pip...), manage dotfiles, terminal styles, fonts, backgrounds, overlays, and execute custom scripts.
xxh share the local shell configuration with the remote SSH server. It
aims to bring the user shell through ssh without root access and system
installations.
hledger is fast, reliable, free, multicurrency double-entry accounting software that runs on unix, mac, windows, and the web. With it you can track money, investments, cryptocurrencies, time, or any other quantifiable commodity; with a future-proof plain text file format, version control for your changes, and without needing any cloud service or vendor.
YouPlot is a command line tool that draws plots on the terminal.
Carbonyl is a Chromium based browser built to run in a terminal. It supports pretty much all Web APIs including WebGL, WebGPU, audio and video playback, animations, etc..
musikcube is a fully functional terminal-based music player, library, and streaming audio server that runs natively on Windows, macOS, and Linux. it also runs well on a Raspberry Pi with a custom DAC (e.g. IQaudIO DAC+, HiFiBerry DAC+ and others), and can output 24bit/192k audio comfortably.
Terminal Music and Podcast Player written in Rust Listen to music and podcasts freely as both in freedom and free of charge!
Like jq, but for HTML. Uses CSS selectors to extract bits of content from HTML files.
Your CLI home video recorder 📼. Write terminal GIFs as code for integration testing and demoing your CLI tools.
A new type of shell.
- Pipelines to control any OS :Nu works on Linux, macOS, BSD, and Windows. Learn it once, then use it anywhere.
- Everything is data: Nu pipelines use structured data so you can safely select, filter, and sort the same way every time. Stop parsing strings and start solving problems.
- Powerful plugins: It's easy to extend Nu using a powerful plugin system.
A generic shell script compiler. Shc takes a script, which is specified on the command line and produces C source code. The generated source code is then compiled and linked to produce a stripped binary executable.
The compiled binary will still be dependent on the shell specified in the first line of the shell code (i.e shebang) (i.e. #!/bin/sh), thus shc does not create completely independent binaries.
unclutter your .profile. direnv is an extension for your shell. It augments existing shells with a new feature that can load and unload environment variables depending on the current directory.
Official-ish Fork of Shell In A Box. Shell In A Box implements a web server that can export arbitrary command line tools to a web based terminal emulator. This emulator is accessible to any JavaScript and CSS enabled web browser and does not require any additional browser plugins.
A package manager for shell scripts and functions.
Basher allows you to quickly install shell packages directly from github (or other sites). Instead of looking for specific install instructions for each package and messing with your path, basher will create a central location for all packages and manage their binaries for you.
A professional cross-platform SSH/Sftp/Shell/Telnet/Serial terminal. A Quicker and better SSH/Telnet/Serial/Shell/Sftp client for DevOps.
Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database, recording additional context for your commands. It also provides optional and fully encrypted synchronisation of your history between machines
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a game to learn (or teach) how to use standard commands in a Unix shell. Teaching first-year university students or high schoolers to use a Unix shell is not always the easiest or most entertaining of tasks. GameShell was devised as a tool to help students at the Université Savoie Mont Blanc to engage with a real shell, in a way that encourages learning while also having fun.
Iconic font aggregator, glyphs/icons collection, & fonts patcher. Nerd Fonts patches developer targeted fonts with a high number of glyphs (icons). Specifically to add a high number of extra glyphs from popular ‘iconic fonts’ such as Font Awesome, Devicons, Octicons, and others.
Remote terminal application that allows roaming, supports intermittent connectivity, and provides intelligent local echo and line editing of user keystrokes.