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Top 23 Shell CLI Projects
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ohmyzsh
π A delightful community-driven (with 2,400+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.
Project mention: Brains. Bugs. Dopamine. how to trick yourself into loving code again | dev.to | 2025-06-19Oh My Zsh terminal themes, plugins, and custom prompts https://ohmyz.sh
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InfluxDB
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.tmux
Oh my tmux! My self-contained, pretty & versatile tmux configuration made with ππ©·ππ€β€οΈπ€
For a quick start with great customizations, check out this popular config: gpakosz/.tmux
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Project mention: Using Microsoft's New CLI Text Editor on Ubuntu | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-21
The term CLI has just come to mean "in a terminal" for a certain subculture, e.g. https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps
People do know the technical difference, it's just a shorthand
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Related tool:
https://github.com/pystardust/ani-cli
Has termux builds as well
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nb
CLI and local web plain text noteβtaking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + more, in a single portable script.
Repository: nb
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Project mention: I built a native Windows Todo app in pure C (278 KB, no frameworks) | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-11
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Fyi; I assume you already checked out fzf.fish ?
https://github.com/PatrickF1/fzf.fish
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Project mention: Systemd-pilot: Desktop application for managing systemd services | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-31
I'll visit again when on par with `sysz`[0] functionality.
[0]: https://github.com/joehillen/sysz
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chatGPT-shell-cli
Simple shell script to use OpenAI's ChatGPT and DALL-E from the terminal. No Python or JS required.
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arttime
arttime is a CLI application that blends beauty of ASCII / text art with functionality of clock / timer / pattern-based time manager in terminal β°
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TermuxArch
Experience the pleasure of the Linux command prompt in Android, Chromebook, Fire OS and Windows on smartphone, smartTV, tablet and wearable https://termuxarch.github.io/TermuxArch/ (by TermuxArch)
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Project mention: Show HN: Bash-my-AWS adds `bmai <missing command>` to generate functions | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-12
Surely a repo dedicated to bash would know not to use $@ without its quotes :-( https://github.com/bash-my-aws/bash-my-aws/blob/e5cdae316084...
Have they not heard of shellcheck?
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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 CLI projects in Shell? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | ohmyzsh | 179,279 |
| 2 | .tmux | 23,107 |
| 3 | awesome-cli-apps | 16,840 |
| 4 | prezto | 14,222 |
| 5 | m-cli | 9,754 |
| 6 | ani-cli | 9,456 |
| 7 | nb | 7,365 |
| 8 | todo.txt-cli | 5,809 |
| 9 | forgit | 4,713 |
| 10 | ytfzf | 3,924 |
| 11 | enhancd | 2,625 |
| 12 | fzf-fish-integration | 2,220 |
| 13 | c | 2,127 |
| 14 | tmux-xpanes | 2,018 |
| 15 | sysz | 1,671 |
| 16 | chatGPT-shell-cli | 1,212 |
| 17 | arttime | 1,103 |
| 18 | TermuxArch | 1,000 |
| 19 | bash-my-aws | 971 |
| 20 | awesome-k8s-tools | 955 |
| 21 | fontpreview | 953 |
| 22 | yt-x | 949 |
| 23 | g | 934 |
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