Best CLI apps and programs when SSH just works?

• mu

  9 1,519 8.6 C++

  maildir indexer/searcher + emacs mail client + guile bindings

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• git

  235 7,611 9.9 C

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

  

  git for keeping work synchronized across multiple machines

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• lazydocker

  22 27,036 2.6 Go

  The lazier way to manage everything docker

  lazydocker - for managing your container setup

• gurk-rs

  2 349 5.5 Rust

  Signal Messenger client for terminal

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

• sslh

  22 4,004 4.8 C

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

• yewtube

  1 246 6.2 Python

  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

  6 277 5.1 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

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• ytfzf

  14 3,185 8.6 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

  2 32 3.7 C

  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

  27 3,720 9.0 Go

  A tasty, 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

  78 29,126 9.3 C

  tmux source code

  

  tmux for session management

• mpd

  25 1,852 9.8 C++

  Music Player Daemon

  

  musicpd + mpc for listening to music

• neovim

  569 66,107 10.0 Vim Script

  Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

  

  neovim for editing code and documents

• llvm-project

  142 19,857 10.0 C++

  The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies. Note: the repository does not accept github pull requests at this moment. Please submit your patches at http://reviews.llvm.org.

  

  clang + lldb for getting work done

• gdu

  10 2,484 6.5 Go

  Fast disk usage analyzer with console interface written in Go

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

• ranger

  61 13,483 4.4 Python

  A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console

  

• pandoc

  189 28,956 9.9 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

  50 11,625 8.1 C++

  Mobile Shell

  

  Mosh

• nnn

  46 16,395 9.4 C

  n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager

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

• cli

  3 1,583 8.9 TypeScript

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

  

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

• bash-it

  9 13,553 2.1 Shell

  A community Bash framework.

  

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

• yq

  23 8,652 7.5 Go

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

  yq - like jq, but for yaml

• dust

  22 6,251 8.1 Rust

  A more intuitive version of du in rust

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

• zenith

  2 1,821 2.6 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

  23 12,914 6.1 Rust

  An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line

  navi -- like tldr and cheat.sh.

• jless

  10 3,707 0.0 Rust

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

  jless -- nice json viewer.

• micro-editor

  75 21,600 7.3 Go

  A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

  micro is a great little text editor.

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