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Top 23 Bash Open-Source Projects
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1️⃣7️⃣ The Art of Command Line 🖥️ 📌 https://github.com/jlevy/the-art-of-command-line Master the Linux command line with this detailed guide.
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Project mention: Meet uv: The Lightning-Fast Python Toolchain That JS Devs Will Love 🚀 | dev.to | 2025-05-13
Remember the day you've installed nvm for node and npm?
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In my blog post yesterday, I mentioned fzf. Its simplicity and power make it a good tool for many scripting tasks. In this post, we will see a practical example of how to use it in a CLI program and package it with Nix.
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WezTerm does not have a graphical interface for configuration, and the setup is done through a Lua file (this is unusual for me, but Vim users are familiar with it). The configuration file can be located at ~/.wezterm.lua or ~/.config/wezterm/wezterm.lua. I prefer the second path because it is where Fish and starship store configs too.
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Project mention: 🔓5 Open Source Tools That Changed My Development Workflow Forever | dev.to | 2025-05-16
Zx solves these problems by letting you write shell scripts in JavaScript or TypeScript. It is maintained by Google and is perfect if you are a JS lover.
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Project mention: TLS Certificate Lifetimes Will Officially Reduce to 47 Days | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-16
I was just digging into this a bit and discovered ACME supports a something called DNS alias mode (https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh/wiki/DNS-alias-mo...) which allows you to add a static DNS TXT record on your core domain that delegates to a second domain. This would allow you to setup a second domain with DNS API (if permitted by company policy!)
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awesome-cheatsheets
👩💻👨💻 Awesome cheatsheets for popular programming languages, frameworks and development tools. They include everything you should know in one single file.
ID: i10 Tags: Code, Cheatsheets Description: A collection of awesome cheatsheets for popular programming languages, frameworks, and development tools. GitHub Link | Website Link
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awesome-shell
A curated list of awesome command-line frameworks, toolkits, guides and gizmos. Inspired by awesome-php.
The next day (July 7th) awesome-shell was launched by Caleb Xu. People throughout the GitHub ecosystem had apparently took notice of the awesome-list trend and they were joining with lists of their own.
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Comprehensive Linux Command List
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Project mention: Apple announces new accessibility features, including Eye Tracking | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-15
https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/main/.macos
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zoxide
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Project mention: Show HN: WindTerm – Introducing a better Tmux experience | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-11
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As far as I understand, the autocompletion specs, which is what powers this tool, are the only part of fig that is in fact Open Source
https://github.com/withfig/autocomplete
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Have been using Atuin for a couple (few?) years, it's great! How many others are using it too? I'm curious what everyone's tool of choice for shell search is!
https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin
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Project mention: Show HN: A Common Lisp implementation in development, supports ASDF | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-27
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Warp
Warp is a modern, Rust-based terminal with AI built in so you and your team can build great software, faster.
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openvpn-install
OpenVPN road warrior installer for Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, CentOS and Fedora
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Project mention: 5 Local Environment Mistakes I See Everywhere, and How to Fix Them Properly | dev.to | 2025-03-21
There are tools built exactly for that. One of the best is Gum - a small utility that helps build terminal user interfaces with checkboxes, file pickers, prompts, and more:
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Project mention: Gitui release 0.27 adds simple management of remotes | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-15
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Use oh-my-posh to make your terminal cute.
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rbenv is installed and ready to go;
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Bash projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | the-art-of-command-line | 155,981 |
| 2 | nvm | 84,466 |
| 3 | fzf | 70,144 |
| 4 | starship | 48,813 |
| 5 | zx | 44,082 |
| 6 | acme.sh | 42,651 |
| 7 | awesome-cheatsheets | 42,479 |
| 8 | ShellCheck | 37,378 |
| 9 | awesome-shell | 34,255 |
| 10 | linux-command | 33,264 |
| 11 | dotfiles | 30,768 |
| 12 | zoxide | 26,415 |
| 13 | WindTerm | 26,281 |
| 14 | autocomplete | 24,909 |
| 15 | atuin | 23,928 |
| 16 | asdf | 23,533 |
| 17 | Warp | 23,446 |
| 18 | openvpn-install | 19,780 |
| 19 | gum | 19,656 |
| 20 | gitui | 19,568 |
| 21 | oh-my-posh | 19,012 |
| 22 | PEASS-ng | 17,486 |
| 23 | rbenv | 16,373 |
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