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Top 23 C++ Command-line Projects
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Windows Terminal
The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!
Microsoft Terminal
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Go to the Cmder download page
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winget-cli
WinGet is the Windows Package Manager. This project includes a CLI (Command Line Interface), PowerShell modules, and a COM (Component Object Model) API (Application Programming Interface).
Project mention: Kaspersky exposes hidden malware on GitHub stealing personal data | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-03Winget seems to finally do something similar for Windows: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli
Although the "repo" is a list of manifest files that include download sources on GitHub and Sourceforge (and maybe others). So even if there is an approval process it seems to be quite vulnerable to including malware.
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rhubarb-lip-sync
Rhubarb Lip Sync is a command-line tool that automatically creates 2D mouth animation from voice recordings. You can use it for characters in computer games, in animated cartoons, or in any other project that requires animating mouths based on existing recordings.
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clipp
easy to use, powerful & expressive command line argument parsing for modern C++ / single header / usage & doc generation
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Parallel compression (pigz [0]) and decompression (rapidgzip [1]), for one. When you're dealing with multi-TB files, this is a big deal.
[0]: https://github.com/madler/pigz
[1]: https://github.com/mxmlnkn/rapidgzip
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LangCommand
LangCommand is a local inference command-line tool that transforms natural language descriptions into shell commands.
Project mention: Show HN: CLI to transform language into shell commands | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-11-11 -
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SaaSHub
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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 Command-line projects in C++? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Windows Terminal | 97,788 |
| 2 | cmder | 26,332 |
| 3 | winget-cli | 24,109 |
| 4 | ConEmu | 8,746 |
| 5 | ESP32Marauder | 7,393 |
| 6 | Clipboard | 5,153 |
| 7 | vtm | 2,996 |
| 8 | sqlcheck | 2,451 |
| 9 | rhubarb-lip-sync | 2,021 |
| 10 | FarManager | 1,908 |
| 11 | rang | 1,529 |
| 12 | Argh! | 1,363 |
| 13 | clipp | 1,244 |
| 14 | SendMIDI | 751 |
| 15 | Lyra | 511 |
| 16 | structopt | 489 |
| 17 | rapidgzip | 402 |
| 18 | CommandTrayHost | 399 |
| 19 | argumentum | 198 |
| 20 | sysfex | 156 |
| 21 | run-hidden | 155 |
| 22 | LangCommand | 126 |
| 23 | chalet | 118 |
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