Best CLI apps and programs when SSH just works?

• mu

  25 1,575 9.6 C++

  maildir indexer/searcher + emacs mail client + guile bindings

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• git

  616 8,070 0.0 C

  A fork of Git containing Windows-specific patches. (by git-for-windows)

  

git for keeping work synchronized across multiple machines

• 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.

  

• lazydocker

  74 33,274 6.8 Go

  The lazier way to manage everything docker

lazydocker - for managing your container setup

• gurk-rs

  8 420 7.6 Rust

  Signal Messenger client for terminal

I recently found gurk, a Signal client for linux command line.

• sslh

  44 4,368 8.4 C

  Applicative Protocol Multiplexer (e.g. share SSH and HTTPS on the same port)

• yewtube

  4 246 6.2 Python

  Discontinued Terminal based YouTube player and downloader. No Youtube API key required. Forked from https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube (by iamtalhaasghar)

I listen to music from Youtube with https://github.com/iamtalhaasghar/yewtube/ - turn off video and you have a bandwidth and CPU friendly youtube music player!

• pipe-viewer

  17 357 7.7 Perl

  A lightweight YouTube client for Linux, without requiring an API key.

This looks like a fork of mps-youtube which I used and liked before the development stopped. Nowadays I use pipe-viewer from trizen which is not reliant on npm and feels lighter as far as I can tell. https://github.com/trizen/pipe-viewer

• 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.

  

• ytfzf

  84 3,562 7.9 Shell

  A posix script to find and watch youtube videos from the terminal. (Without API)

Another good one that gets mentioned often is ytfzf https://github.com/pystardust/ytfzf

• notes

  3 32 0.0 C

  Discontinued Notes manager, CLI and TUI, in TUI works like file manager (mc,nnn,fff,lf). Notes are plain text (txt,md,groff,...) files. Compatible with Nextcloud Notes, can be used with rclose, git, rsync, etc. (by nereusx)

I love this simple CLI/TUI notes program.

• soft-serve

  48 4,802 9.2 Go

  The mighty, self-hostable Git server for the command line🍦

  

Oh, and rather interesting thing — soft-serve. It's a TUI for Git that you access over SSH.

• tmux

  207 32,923 8.3 C

  tmux source code

  

tmux for session management

• mpd

  59 2,063 9.8 C++

  Music Player Daemon

  

musicpd + mpc for listening to music

• neovim

  1,384 76,465 10.0 Vim Script

  Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

  

neovim for editing code and documents

• llvm-project

  349 25,563 10.0 C++

  The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.

  

clang + lldb for getting work done

• gdu

  37 3,255 8.9 Go

  Fast disk usage analyzer with console interface written in Go

If you like ncdu you’ll love gdu. It’s much faster.

• ranger

  165 14,889 6.5 Python

  A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console

  

• pandoc

  420 32,396 9.8 Haskell

  Universal markup converter

And if LaTeX is a bit too much for your use case, try Pandoc to convert documents between several document formats, including PDF and markdown.

• Mosh

  152 12,199 4.6 C++

  Mobile Shell

  

Mosh

• nnn

  200 18,170 8.1 C

  n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager

nnn for file manager (https://github.com/jarun/nnn)

• cli

  12 1,583 8.9 TypeScript

  Discontinued The command line vault (Windows, macOS, & Linux). (by bitwarden)

  

bitwarden cli (https://github.com/bitwarden/cli)

• bash-it

  19 14,024 4.1 Shell

  A community Bash framework.

  

I prefer bash_it https://github.com/Bash-it/bash-it

• yq

  66 10,736 9.2 Go

  yq is a portable command-line YAML, JSON, XML, CSV, TOML and properties processor

yq - like jq, but for yaml

• dust

  48 7,780 7.5 Rust

  A more intuitive version of du in rust

i can't allow dust to not get mentioned. :)

• zenith

  8 2,297 5.7 Rust

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

zenith -- like htop, but keeps a history so you can scroll back in time and zoom-in and out.

• navi

  52 14,337 8.3 Rust

  An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line

navi -- like tldr and cheat.sh.

• jless

  34 4,487 6.3 Rust

  jless is a command-line JSON viewer designed for reading, exploring, and searching through JSON data.

jless -- nice json viewer.

• micro-editor

  227 23,872 8.9 Go

  A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

micro is a great little text editor.

• SaaSHub

  www.saashub.com sponsored

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

  

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