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Top 23 C Shell Projects
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Git
Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches procedure for any of your improvements.
Project mention: Surviving Corporate HTTPS Interception: Life Behind Sangfor aTrust | dev.to | 2026-10-05GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 git ls-remote https://github.com/git/git HEAD 2>&1 | grep -i "issuer\|SSL certificate"
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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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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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So doom-ascii is sourcedoom, you Made a nodexwrapper https://github.com/wojciech-graj/doom-ascii
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tevr-asr-tool
State-of-the-art (ranked #1 Aug 2022) German Speech Recognition in 284 lines of C++. This is a 100% private 100% offline 100% free CLI tool.
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microshell
MicroShell is a lightweight pure C implementation of shell emulator dedicated for embedded bare-metal systems.
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https://github.com/ksh93/ksh
Last commit was 11 hours ago, still maintained.
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toot
a beep that really beeps - cross-platform command line tool to toot "tooot" - it's also a C C++ library (by vareille)
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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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Index
What are some of the best open-source Shell projects in C? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | Git | 63,784 |
| 2 | WindTerm | 32,159 |
| 3 | smenu | 2,494 |
| 4 | shc | 2,245 |
| 5 | clifm | 1,729 |
| 6 | lsh | 1,705 |
| 7 | catimg | 1,581 |
| 8 | ngs | 1,520 |
| 9 | yori | 1,317 |
| 10 | doom-ascii | 862 |
| 11 | CuteVirusCollection | 683 |
| 12 | DreamShell | 567 |
| 13 | ptSh | 538 |
| 14 | mrsh | 531 |
| 15 | oksh | 457 |
| 16 | tevr-asr-tool | 410 |
| 17 | pounce-keys | 390 |
| 18 | microshell | 364 |
| 19 | dgsh | 363 |
| 20 | ksh | 285 |
| 21 | Narthex | 211 |
| 22 | toot | 174 |
| 23 | UART_Terminal | 169 |
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