Shell Command-line utilities

Open-source Shell projects categorized as Command-line utilities

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Command-line utilities
  1. nvm

    Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions

    Project mention: Life is too short for a slow terminal | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-06-08

    This wasn't an option for us because as an org we used their recommended hook (1) to automatically change node versions when switching directories, but it effectively undoes the lazy loading.

    With mise you get the behaviour of automatically switching when you change directories effectively for free.

    1. https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm#zsh

  2. SaaSHub

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1 nvm 93,676

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