My favorite cli/tui programs:

1. visidata

   1 37 7,995 9.6 Python

   A terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data

   visidata: csv manipulation - by far the best of the best

2. SaaSHub

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

   

3. navi

   2 52 15,378 6.1 Rust

   An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line

   

   navi: cheatsheets framework

4. zenith

   3 9 2,704 5.1 Rust

   Zenith - sort of like top or htop but with zoom-able charts, CPU, GPU, network, and disk usage

   

   zenith: interactive process viewer

5. awesome-ttygames

   4 11 853 4.3 HTML

   Unix ASCII games

6. sn

   5 22 28 0.0 Shell

   Simple Notes using fzf

7. bottom

   6 83 10,617 9.2 Rust

   Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.

   I like bottom, gotop and glances.

8. glances

   7 103 27,365 9.8 Python

   Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative for GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS and Windows operating systems.

   I like bottom, gotop and glances.

9. sc-im

   8 29 4,925 5.1 C

   sc-im - Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised -- An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal

   

   I've been using sc for spreadsheet stuff, but just recently switched to sc-im.

10. hledger

    9 88 3,132 9.9 Haskell

    Robust, fast, intuitive plain text accounting tool with CLI, TUI and web interfaces.

    

    I'm also switching my finances from ynab to hledger. I'm really enjoying the flexibility.

11. ripgrep

    10 361 49,790 8.1 Rust

    ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore

    

    Not already given : BurntSushi/ripgrep: ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore, sharkdp/fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find', Chafa: Terminal Graphics for the 21st Century, WeeChat, the extensible chat client

12. Weechat

    11 22 3,014 9.8 C

    The extensible chat client.

    

    Not already given : BurntSushi/ripgrep: ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore, sharkdp/fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find', Chafa: Terminal Graphics for the 21st Century, WeeChat, the extensible chat client

13. chafa

    12 31 3,123 9.0 C

    📺🗿 Terminal graphics for the 21st century.

    

    Not already given : BurntSushi/ripgrep: ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore, sharkdp/fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find', Chafa: Terminal Graphics for the 21st Century, WeeChat, the extensible chat client

14. fd

    13 185 35,163 8.7 Rust

    A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'

    

    Not already given : BurntSushi/ripgrep: ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore, sharkdp/fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find', Chafa: Terminal Graphics for the 21st Century, WeeChat, the extensible chat client

15. dotfiles

    14 1 2 7.9 Lua

    My personal dotfiles which takes inspirations from lots of people (by ingram1107)

    Here you go, just push it to GitHub Repo.

16. termgraph

    15 5 3,149 0.0 Python

    a python command-line tool which draws basic graphs in the terminal

    https://github.com/mkaz/termgraph - for plotting simple data

17. calcurse

    16 21 1,016 4.1 C

    A text-based calendar and scheduling application

    https://calcurse.org/ - calendar/todo

18. jid

    17 15 6,903 2.2 Go

    json incremental digger

19. xxv

    18 1 80 0.0 Rust

    Discontinued The XXV visual hex viewer for the terminal.

20. sad

    19 13 1,818 8.4 Rust

    CLI search and replace | Space Age seD

    

    https://github.com/ms-jpq/sad - when you need PCRE in sed

21. delta

    20 97 25,112 9.1 Rust

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

    

22. gitui

    21 84 18,921 9.3 Rust

    Blazing 💥 fast terminal-ui for git written in rust 🦀

    

23. lazygit

    22 169 55,210 9.7 Go

    simple terminal UI for git commands

    

    https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit - git client

24. dust

    23 52 9,240 8.0 Rust

    A more intuitive version of du in rust

    

25. dutree

    24 2 827 0.0 Rust

    a tool to analyze file system usage written in Rust

26. hyperfine

    25 83 23,703 8.0 Rust

    A command-line benchmarking tool

    

27. xsv

    26 67 10,464 0.0 Rust

    A fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust.

    

28. tokei

    27 32 11,623 8.9 Rust

    Count your code, quickly.

29. dua-cli

    28 28 4,311 7.4 Rust

    View disk space usage and delete unwanted data, fast.

30. lsd

    29 65 13,812 7.6 Rust

    The next gen ls command

    

31. exa

    30 131 23,721 3.0 Rust

    A modern replacement for ‘ls’.

    

32. lsix

    31 8 4,044 4.9 Shell

    Like "ls", but for images. Shows thumbnails in terminal using sixel graphics.

33. kilo

    32 18 7,520 2.5 C

    A text editor in less than 1000 LOC with syntax highlight and search.

    Text Editor vim / kilo

34. fff

    33 22 4,028 0.0 Shell

    Discontinued 📁 A simple file manager written in bash.

    File Manager fff / vifm / ranger / none

35. Vim

    34 432 37,197 9.9 Vim Script

    The official Vim repository

    

    Text Editor vim / kilo

36. vifm

    35 37 2,781 9.6 C

    Vifm is a file manager with curses interface, which provides Vim-like environment for managing objects within file systems, extended with some useful ideas from mutt.

    

    File Manager fff / vifm / ranger / none

37. ranger

    36 168 15,818 7.6 Python

    A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console

    

    File Manager fff / vifm / ranger / none

38. md2pdf

    37 3 289 5.4 Python

    Markdown to PDF conversion tool

    Writing Documents Markdown (and md2pdf or cmark + html2ps + ps2pdf) / plain text / groff

39. commonmark-spec

    38 53 4,906 5.5 Python

    CommonMark spec, with reference implementations in C and JavaScript

    

    Writing Documents Markdown (and md2pdf or cmark + html2ps + ps2pdf) / plain text / groff

40. cmus

    39 37 5,642 8.2 C

    Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.

    

    Music Player cmus / mpg123

41. cmark

    40 11 1,686 7.3 C

    CommonMark parsing and rendering library and program in C

    

    Writing Documents Markdown (and md2pdf or cmark + html2ps + ps2pdf) / plain text / groff

42. imcat

    41 3 327 0.0 C

    Show any image in a terminal window.

    imcat - images in terminal (doesn't work in urxvt, works well in tilix/tty {tested there})

43. fzf

    42 423 67,176 9.7 Go

    :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

    

    fzf - fuzzy finder

44. hx

    43 5 196 2.8 C

    Hex editor for the terminal using plain C99 + POSIX libs.

    hx - hex editor

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