Go Unix

Open-source Go projects categorized as Unix

Top 23 Go Unix Projects

  1. fzf

    :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

    Project mention: Useful CLI tools | dev.to | 2025-04-22

    fzf is a command-line fuzzy finder that makes navigating through files, commands, and processes much easier. It's kind of like ctrl + P on vscode, but for your terminal

  2. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

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  3. elvish

    Powerful scripting language & versatile interactive shell

    Project mention: I'm Publishing Matanuska BASIC's ADRs | dev.to | 2024-12-13

    But these fantasy consoles are aimed largely at the classic BASIC use case of writing simple games. My interest, meanwhile, is in replacing my shell. I want a BASIC that can be a useful, productive stand-in for bash. In this sense, I'm actually more influenced by new-school shells like nushell, elvish and PowerShell.

  4. jobber

    An alternative to cron, with sophisticated status-reporting and error-handling (by dshearer)

  5. oh

    A new Unix shell.

  6. goridge

    🧙 High-performance PHP-to-Golang IPC/RPC bridge

  7. Immortal

    â­• A *nix cross-platform (OS agnostic) supervisor

    Project mention: Immortal: A *Nix cross-platform supervisor | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-21
  8. xdg-go

    Go implementation of the XDG Base Directory Specification and XDG user directories

  9. CodeRabbit

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  10. gomanagedocker

    TUI tool to manage your docker images, containers and volumes 🚀

    Project mention: Docker Desktop Alternative | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-20

    I saw this, I think posted here the other day, looked interesting. https://github.com/ajayd-san/gomanagedocker

    A TUI alternative.

  11. orbiton

    Snappy and configuration-free little text editor/IDE for the terminal. Suitable for writing git commit messages, editing Markdown, config files, source code, man pages and for quick edit-format-compile cycles when programming. Has syntax highlighting, jump-to-error, rainbow parentheses, macros, cut/paste portals and a simple gdb front-end.

    Project mention: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2025) | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-23

    A self-contained little web server that supports Lua, HTTP/3, PostgreSQL and all sorts of different things:

    https://github.com/xyproto/algernon

    A snappy and configuration-free little editor/IDE for the terminal:

    https://github.com/xyproto/orbiton

    Also a game, a book and an album, but those are unreleased long-term projects.

  12. cnquery

    open source, cloud-native, graph-based asset inventory

  13. nami

    A clean and tidy decentralized package manager. (by txthinking)

  14. twf

    Standalone tree view file explorer, inspired by fzf.

  15. cmd

    A simple package to execute shell commands on linux, windows and osx (by commander-cli)

  16. ugm

    A terminal based UNIX user and group browser

  17. zfswatcher

    ZFS pool monitoring and notification daemon

  18. irccat

    cat to IRC

    Project mention: Ircpipe – Netcat for IRC | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-08-24
  19. fil

    :yum: Unix file command written in Go

  20. fstabfmt

    :dagger: Format /etc/fstab files automatically

  21. ctc

    Console Text Colors - The non-invasive cross-platform terminal color library does not need to modify the Print method

  22. aegis

    Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Windows debugging detection library. With support for C and Go. (by rafael-santiago)

  23. watchhttp

    🌺 Run command periodically and expose latest STDOUT as HTTP endpoint

  24. spofi

    Spotify controls in rofi.

  25. ytools

    Use YouTube from your terminal

  26. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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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 Unix projects in Go? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 fzf 69,645
2 elvish 5,917
3 jobber 1,393
4 oh 1,372
5 goridge 1,269
6 Immortal 817
7 xdg-go 801
8 gomanagedocker 583
9 orbiton 544
10 cnquery 347
11 nami 330
12 twf 273
13 cmd 156
14 ugm 141
15 zfswatcher 117
16 irccat 116
17 fil 112
18 fstabfmt 72
19 ctc 47
20 aegis 42
21 watchhttp 34
22 spofi 31
23 ytools 28

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