Top 11 Java Command-line Projects

picocli

29 4,698 8.6 Java

Picocli is a modern framework for building powerful, user-friendly, GraalVM-enabled command line apps with ease. It supports colors, autocompletion, subcommands, and more. In 1 source file so apps can include as source & avoid adding a dependency. Written in Java, usable from Groovy, Kotlin, Scala, etc.

Project mention: GraalVM for JDK 21 is here | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-19

Picocli allows using a compiler annotation processor to generate classes at compile time instead [0].
[0]: https://github.com/remkop/picocli/blob/main/picocli-codegen/...
joal

2 538 6.3 Java

An open source command line RatioMaster with an optional WebUI.
WorkOS

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The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
jmxterm

1 505 1.9 Java

Interactive command line JMX client
airline

0 125 6.5 Java

Java annotation-based framework for parsing Git like command line structures with deep extensibility (by rvesse)
BatchPDFSign

1 42 1.7 Java

CLI Command line tool to digital signature of PDF files with PKCS12 certificate. You can find the executable in the releases.
dvt

4 12 4.9 Java

DeV Tools - Swiss Army Knife of command line utilities
commandhunt

6 12 3.6 Java

Find, Build, Store, Copy & Share Commands!
InfluxDB

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words

14 9 4.2 Java

A set of word-based puzzle games for the CLI while you wait for the build to run (by ludovicianul)

Project mention: Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-06

Starting from Wordle, I've created some additional word-based games that can be played in the terminal: https://github.com/ludovicianul/words
tommy

6 8 1.8 Java

Tommy is Apache Tomcat, bundled as a single executable jar.
DirCrypt

1 3 3.0 Java

Command Line Utility for Encrypting Folders
sea-eagle

1 0 8.1 Java

Command line tools for AWS Athena

Project mention: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use? | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-12

Since moving from GCP BigQuery to AWS Athena, I missed having something for Athena similar in functionality to the BigQuery bq command line tool.
Made this quickly, and then a python version based on awswrangler for work (not open source, unfortunately).
https://github.com/heuermh/sea-eagle

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). The latest post mention was on 2024-04-06.