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Top 23 C Command-line Projects
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fastfetch
A maintained, feature-rich and performance oriented, neofetch like system information tool.
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Project mention: Malicious Rust Crate Arrayref Runs a Build-Time Payload | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-08-20
Which is why I love C projects, even with all the footguns. You have libraries with nice API that lets you write software without being on a treadmill to update the code every few months.
[0] https://github.com/jarun/nnn/
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GoAccess
GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.
Project mention: GoAccess – open-source real-time log analyzer and interactive viewer | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-08-13 -
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kyanos
Kyanos is a networking analysis tool using eBPF. It can visualize the time packets spend in the kernel, capture requests/responses, makes troubleshooting more efficient.
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Project mention: Rooting, firmware analysis and persistent credentials of TP-Link TL-841N | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-08-02
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kew
Music for the Shell. kew is an immersive and fast music player that allows you to listen to music with privacy.
Project mention: Show HN: Kew, A distraction-free terminal music player, now on Windows | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-06-29 -
AppSignal
Monitoring that respects your time & budget. APM, error tracking, and dashboards for modern web apps. Ten-minute setup, transparent flat pricing, and support from engineers who actually use the product.
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smenu
smenu started as a lightweight and flexible terminal menu generator, but quickly evolved into a powerful and versatile CLI selection tool for interactive or scripting use.
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astroterm
A planetarium for your terminal! Explore stars, planets, constellations, and more, all rendered right in the command line—no telescope required. ✨🪐
Project mention: I Made Zig Compute 33M Satellite Positions in 3 Seconds. No GPU Required | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-21 -
Project mention: CliFM: The shell-like, command line terminal file manager | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-22
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yori
Yori is a CMD replacement shell that supports backquotes, job control, and improves tab completion, file matching, aliases, command history, and more.
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Project mention: Bfs: A breadth-first version of the Unix find command | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-02
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dateutils
nifty command line date and time utilities; fast date calculations and conversion in the shell
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bacnet-stack
BACnet Protocol Stack library provides a BACnet application layer, network layer and media access (MAC) layer communications services.
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gcc_termux
Gcc for termux with fortran scipy etc... Use apt for newest updates instructions in README.txt
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csvquote
Enables common unix utilities like cut, awk, wc, head to work correctly with csv data containing delimiters and newlines
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embedded-cli
Single-header CLI with history and autocompletion for embedded systems (like Arduino or STM32) (by funbiscuit)
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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CliFM: The shell-like, command line terminal file manager
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Bfs: A breadth-first version of the Unix find command
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Bfs: A breadth-first version of the Unix find command
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Bfs: A breadth-first version of the Unix find command
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Command-line projects in C? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | fastfetch | 24,514 |
| 2 | nnn | 21,860 |
| 3 | GoAccess | 20,909 |
| 4 | mdp | 5,268 |
| 5 | kyanos | 5,070 |
| 6 | tio | 3,151 |
| 7 | kew | 3,021 |
| 8 | smenu | 2,492 |
| 9 | astroterm | 2,035 |
| 10 | clifm | 1,722 |
| 11 | yori | 1,317 |
| 12 | bfs | 1,263 |
| 13 | bcal | 698 |
| 14 | 2048.c | 668 |
| 15 | dateutils | 663 |
| 16 | bacnet-stack | 592 |
| 17 | gcc_termux | 496 |
| 18 | facad | 470 |
| 19 | csvquote | 453 |
| 20 | embedded-cli | 379 |
| 21 | pqiv | 361 |
| 22 | nano-for-windows | 325 |
| 23 | mandown | 299 |
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