Essential Command Line Tools for Developers

• Task

  113 10,017 9.6 MDX

  A task runner / simpler Make alternative written in Go

  

Task Task is a task runner / build tool that aims to be simpler and easier to use than, for example, GNU Make. Installation | Documentation | Twitter | Mastodon | Discord

• micro-editor

  227 23,872 8.9 Go

  A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

To see more screenshots of micro, showcasing some of the default color schemes, see here.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  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.

  

• jq

  52 29,042 9.4 C

  Command-line JSON processor

  

Official Documentation: jqlang.github.io/jq

• eget

  13 747 4.7 Go

  Easily install prebuilt binaries from GitHub.

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• macports-www

  15 14 4.2 PHP

  The MacPorts website

  

gh is available via Homebrew, MacPorts, Conda, Spack, Webi, and as a…

• blobs

  1 0 10.0

• webi-installers

  8 1,526 9.6 Shell

  Primary and community-submitted packages for webinstall.dev

  

gh is available via Homebrew, MacPorts, Conda, Spack, Webi, and as a…

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• spack

  52 3,949 10.0 Python

  A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.

  

gh is available via Homebrew, MacPorts, Conda, Spack, Webi, and as a…

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• semver

  720 7,020 2.3

  Semantic Versioning Specification

  

Increases the major of the latest tag and prints it As per the Semver spec, it'll also clear the pre-release…

• the_silver_searcher

  59 25,720 0.0 C

  A code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster.

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• sd

  31 5,348 8.0 Rust

  Intuitive find & replace CLI (sed alternative)

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• HomeBrew

  1,281 39,373 10.0 Ruby

  🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

  

gh is available via Homebrew, MacPorts, Conda, Spack, Webi, and as a…

• bat

  195 46,497 9.5 Rust

  A cat(1) clone with wings.

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• batdoc

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A cat(1) clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration

• mods

  11 2,370 9.0 Go

  AI on the command line

  

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• LocalAI

  1 15,419 10.0 C++

  Discontinued :robot: The free, Open Source OpenAI alternative. Self-hosted, community-driven and local-first. Drop-in replacement for OpenAI running on consumer-grade hardware. No GPU required. Runs ggml, gguf, GPTQ, onnx, TF compatible models: llama, llama2, rwkv, whisper, vicuna, koala, cerebras, falcon, dolly, starcoder, and many others [Moved to: https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI] (by go-skynet)

LLM based AI is really good at interpreting the output of commands and returning the results in CLI friendly text formats like Markdown. Mods is a simple tool that makes it super easy to use AI on the command line and in your pipelines. Mods works with OpenAI and LocalAI

• glow

  60 14,718 6.9 Go

  Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! 💅🏻

  

To get started, install Mods and check out some of the examples below. Since Mods has built-in Markdown formatting, you may also want to grab Glow to give the output some pizzazz.

• cli

  253 35,387 9.7 Go

  GitHub’s official command line tool

  

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• cli.

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If you are a hubber and are interested in shipping new commands for the CLI, check out our doc on internal contributions.

• scc

  19 6,080 8.2 Go

  Sloc, Cloc and Code: scc is a very fast accurate code counter with complexity calculations and COCOMO estimates written in pure Go

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• go-formatter

  108 120,785 9.1 Go

  A curated list of awesome Go frameworks, libraries and software

• delta

  88 20,717 8.1 Rust

  A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, and grep output

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• act

  145 50,182 9.2 Go

  Run your GitHub Actions locally 🚀

  

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• svu

  4 490 7.3 Go

  Semantic Version Util

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• SaaSHub

  www.saashub.com sponsored

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

  

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