What are some of your favorite CLI/TUI apps?

1. dust

   1 52 9,978 7.9 Rust

   A more intuitive version of du in rust

   

   wget https://github.com/bootandy/dust/releases/download/v0.8.1-alpha.2/du-dust_0.8.1.alpha.2_amd64.deb sudo apt install ./du-dust_0.8.1.alpha.2_amd64.deb

2. InfluxDB

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3. yt-dlp

   2 102 99 9.9 Python

   Discontinued MOVE TO NIGHTLY BUILDS FROM YT-DLP. DO NOT USE (by ytdl-patched)

   

4. tealdeer

   3 48 5,146 7.5 Rust

   A very fast implementation of tldr in Rust.

   

5. fzf

   4 431 71,096 9.7 Go

   :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

   

   fzf - (fuzzy find) - https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

6. bottom

   5 84 11,436 9.2 Rust

   Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.

   

   bottom - (system monitoring; top on steroids) - https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom

7. difftastic

   6 79 22,428 9.5 Rust

   a structural diff that understands syntax 🟥🟩

   

   difftastic - (diff that understands syntax)- https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic

8. glow

   7 71 18,086 8.9 Go

   Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! 💅🏻

   

   glow - (basic markdown viewer)- https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow

9. SaaSHub

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10. rttt

    8 3 - -

    rttt for browsing hn and reddit (also has an RSS reader i think)

11. fzf-fish-integration

    9 23 2,220 6.2 Shell

    🔍🐟 Fzf plugin for Fish

    

    fzf (specifically fzf.fish )

12. fish-shell

    10 351 30,145 9.9 Rust

    The user-friendly command line shell.

    

    And, not really a CLI app, but i love the Fish shell :-)

13. s-tui

    11 22 4,622 5.5 Python

    Terminal-based CPU stress and monitoring utility

    

14. btop

    12 113 25,224 9.1 C++

    A monitor of resources

    

    btop - https://github.com/aristocratos/btop

15. indiepkg

    13 1 44 8.9 Go

    Discontinued A package manager written in go for small CLI programs.

    Golang. The repository is available here.

16. tidy-viewer

    14 28 2,097 2.9 Rust

    📺(tv) Tidy Viewer is a cross-platform CLI csv pretty printer that uses column styling to maximize viewer enjoyment.

    

    tv (cat for csvs) - https://github.com/alexhallam/tv

17. vis

    15 60 4,362 8.3 C

    A vi-like editor based on Plan 9's structural regular expressions (by martanne)

    

    Still not mentioned: vis

18. Proton-Caller

    16 31 521 0.0 Rust

    Discontinued Run any Windows program through Proton

    proton-caller https://github.com/caverym/proton-caller

19. vifm

    17 37 2,918 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.

    

    vifm - https://github.com/vifm/vifm

20. meta-package-manager

    18 13 511 9.6 Python

    🎁 wraps all package managers with a unifying CLI

    

    Potentially somewhat answering my own question (but not completely; i am still interested in your answer) you might be interested in https://github.com/kdeldycke/meta-package-manager is it along the same lines?

21. lakshmi

    19 9 135 6.6 Python

    Investing library and command-line interface inspired by the Bogleheads philosophy

    

    Lakshmi: https://github.com/sarvjeets/lakshmi

22. nmail

    20 3 160 7.4 C++

    Terminal-based email client for Linux and macOS

    

    nmail MUA/e-mail client. Easy and fast to compile, stores e-mails in sqlite, offline accessible and searchable. Much better alternative to Alpine or Mutt/Neomutt with imap download daemons and maildir mess.

23. Weechat

    21 22 3,100 9.7 C

    The extensible chat client.

    

    weechat for IRC and Matrix

24. ranger

    22 168 16,256 8.1 Python

    A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console

    

    lf file manager; but I use (Ranger's) [https://github.com/ranger/ranger] scope script to preview. More easy to customize than Ranger, for my tastes at least, plus faster (compiled in Go)

25. lf

    23 115 8,325 8.8 Go

    Terminal file manager

    

    lf file manager; but I use (Ranger's) [https://github.com/ranger/ranger] scope script to preview. More easy to customize than Ranger, for my tastes at least, plus faster (compiled in Go)

26. cmus

    24 38 5,800 7.7 C

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

    

    cmus as music player. More straight-forward than mpd clients, single app.

27. awesome-cli-binaries

    25 1 35 8.6 Shell

    Popular modern Linux CLI utilities, with pre-made statically compiled amd64/arm64 binaries and a great ~/.config starting point 🎉

    

    I have a nice list here https://github.com/rafi/awesome-cli-binaries

28. yt-dlp

    26 2,393 115,732 9.8 Python

    A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

    

    3.- yt-dlp https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

29. mpv

    27 858 31,038 9.9 C

    🎥 Command line media player

    

    1.- mpv https://mpv.io/

30. ytfzf

    28 84 3,916 4.6 Shell

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

    

    5.- ytfzf https://github.com/pystardust/ytfzf

31. xclip

    29 13 1,187 4.7 C

    Command line interface to the X11 clipboard

    

32. tg

    30 4 975 0.0 Python

    terminal telegram client (by paul-nameless)

    

    8.- telegram-tg https://github.com/paul-nameless/tg

33. nnn

    31 202 20,210 8.6 C

    n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager

    

    10.- nnn https://github.com/jarun/nnn

34. libarchive

    32 36 3,212 9.5 C

    Multi-format archive and compression library

    

    11.- bsdtar https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive

35. pash

    33 7 334 0.0 Shell

    Discontinued 🔒 A simple password manager using GPG written in POSIX sh. (by dylanaraps)

36. fx

    34 60 19,554 8.6 Go

    Terminal JSON viewer & processor

    

    JSON viewer: https://fx.wtf

37. dragon

    35 26 1,401 6.0 C

    Drag and drop source/target for X

    

    Install this: https://github.com/mwh/dragon

38. SaaSHub

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