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Top 23 C++ Command Line Tool Projects
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There’s a tool called lnav that will parse logfiles into a temporary SQLite database and allows to analyse them using SQL features:
https://lnav.org/
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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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fccf
fccf: A command-line tool that quickly searches through C/C++ source code in a directory based on a search string and prints relevant code snippets that match the query.
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LangCommand
LangCommand is a local inference command-line tool that transforms natural language descriptions into shell commands.
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C++ Middleware Writer
The repo contains library code to support messaging and serialization. There are also two programs in the repo that are needed to use the CMW.
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sync-audio-tracks
Audio tracks synchronization command-line tool for video editors that don't support it
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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).
C++ Command Line Tool discussion
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Command Line Tool projects in C++? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | lnav | 8,724 |
| 2 | ledger | 5,539 |
| 3 | F3D | 3,441 |
| 4 | SendMIDI | 757 |
| 5 | osmium-tool | 560 |
| 6 | Reset-Windows-Update-Tool | 496 |
| 7 | rapidgzip | 405 |
| 8 | CommandTrayHost | 403 |
| 9 | fccf | 373 |
| 10 | hypergrep | 211 |
| 11 | zim-tools | 160 |
| 12 | run-hidden | 156 |
| 13 | wsay | 150 |
| 14 | LangCommand | 126 |
| 15 | indexed_bzip2 | 78 |
| 16 | C++ Middleware Writer | 73 |
| 17 | sync-audio-tracks | 68 |
| 18 | zswap-cli | 31 |
| 19 | qsort | 27 |
| 20 | CLIFp | 23 |
| 21 | inspexel | 21 |
| 22 | Unquery | 21 |
| 23 | sorcery-xtractobb | 12 |
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