Essential Command Line Tools for Developers

1. Task

   1 125 12,734 9.6 Go

   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

2. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

   

3. micro-editor

   2 231 26,083 9.3 Go

   A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

   

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

4. jq

   3 81 31,729 8.8 C

   Command-line JSON processor

   

   Official Documentation: jqlang.github.io/jq

5. eget

   4 15 1,229 5.7 Go

   Easily install prebuilt binaries from GitHub.

   

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6. macports-www

   5 18 16 6.4 PHP

   The MacPorts website

   

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

7. blobs

   6 1 0 10.0

   

8. webi-installers

   7 8 2,292 8.8 Shell

   Primary and community-submitted packages for webinstall.dev

   

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

9. SaaSHub

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10. spack

    8 55 4,656 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…

11. micro.

    9 1 - -

12. semver

    10 782 7,450 0.0

    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…

13. the_silver_searcher

    11 63 26,539 0.0 C

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

    

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14. sd

    12 36 6,265 3.5 Rust

    Intuitive find & replace CLI (sed alternative)

    

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15. HomeBrew

    13 1,345 43,520 10.0 Ruby

    🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

    

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

16. bat

    14 207 52,466 9.3 Rust

    A cat(1) clone with wings.

    

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17. batdoc

    15 1 - -

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

18. mods

    16 15 3,558 9.2 Go

    AI on the command line

    

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19. LocalAI

    17 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

20. glow

    18 68 17,770 8.9 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.

21. cli

    19 278 39,071 9.9 Go

    GitHub’s official command line tool

    

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22. cli.

    20 2 - -

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

23. scc

    21 19 7,283 9.1 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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24. go-formatter

    22 115 143,259 9.5 Go

    A curated list of awesome Go frameworks, libraries and software

    

25. delta

    23 100 26,106 8.6 Rust

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

    

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26. act

    24 155 61,054 9.1 Go

    Run your GitHub Actions locally 🚀

    

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27. svu

    25 4 656 8.6 Go

    semantic version utility

    

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28. stackupassets

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29. SaaSHub

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