Top 23 Command-line Open-Source Projects

• PM2

  4 34,284 6.7 JavaScript

  Node.js Production Process Manager with a built-in Load Balancer.

  Project mention: For what projects, Nodejs is an absolute No No? | reddit.com/r/node | 2021-03-02

• tldr

  12 30,562 9.8 Shell

  📚 Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands

  Project mention: Test Your BASH Skills By Playing Command Line Games | reddit.com/r/linux4noobs | 2021-03-02

  Welcome aboard. Also check and https://cheat.sh/ and https://tldr.sh/. Both provides concise, practical examples for most Linux commands. You can also pull any Linux commands examples from the Terminal. For example, to display "find" commands cheatsheet, run:

• Scout

  Sponsored scoutapm.com

  Get performance insights in less than 4 minutes. Scout APM uses tracing logic that ties bottlenecks to source code so you know the exact line of code causing performance issues and can get back to building a great product faster.

• bat

  20 25,404 9.7 Rust

  A cat(1) clone with wings.

  Project mention: Paru<--yay, neovim<--vim, any other "neo" drop in replacement packages that are good to know about? | reddit.com/r/archlinux | 2021-02-20

  bat

• PowerShell

  36 24,618 9.7 C#

  PowerShell for every system!

  Project mention: PoweShell Access | reddit.com/r/PowerShell | 2021-03-01

  Windows PowerShell is available by default in recent versions of Windows (Server). PowerShell 7.x is installed separately and is available on GitHub.

• ripgrep

  22 23,983 7.4 Rust

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

  Project mention: Beginner to programming and rust | reddit.com/r/rust | 2021-02-26

  Do you mean something like a working game or command line utility written in Rust? A good example of the former is Veloren, which is an open source game being written entirely in Rust. A good example of the latter is the excellent ripgrep.

• cheat.sh

  6 23,631 8.6 Python

  the only cheat sheet you need

  Project mention: Test Your BASH Skills By Playing Command Line Games | reddit.com/r/linux4noobs | 2021-03-02

  Welcome aboard. Also check and https://cheat.sh/ and https://tldr.sh/. Both provides concise, practical examples for most Linux commands. You can also pull any Linux commands examples from the Terminal. For example, to display "find" commands cheatsheet, run:

• cobra

  11 20,555 7.2 Go

  A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions

  Project mention: git clone doesn't see slash in url (https) | reddit.com/r/sysadmin | 2021-02-02

  go get github.com/spf13/cobra/cobra

• fd

  10 16,483 8.3 Rust

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

  Project mention: Paru<--yay, neovim<--vim, any other "neo" drop in replacement packages that are good to know about? | reddit.com/r/archlinux | 2021-02-20

  fd

• micro-editor

  18 16,257 8.7 Go

  A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

  Project mention: I use the REAL text editor | reddit.com/r/linuxmemes | 2021-02-28

  I like micro

• Ink

  3 15,732 7.8 TypeScript

  🌈 React for interactive command-line apps

  Project mention: Building Rich Terminal Dashboards | news.ycombinator.com | 2021-02-15

• urfave/cli

  4 15,348 6.9 Go

  A simple, fast, and fun package for building command line apps in Go (by urfave)

  Project mention: Can you recommend open source projects with small codebase, but with high benefits for learning? | reddit.com/r/golang | 2021-02-22

• Inquirer.js

  5 13,938 6.1 JavaScript

  A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces.

  Project mention: [OC] CLI app to search about animes! | reddit.com/r/unixporn | 2021-02-07

  try to use these two packages to give more functionality to the cli: commander and inquirer

• GoAccess

  8 12,824 9.3 C

  GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.

  Project mention: Firefox replaces Google Analytics with fake no-op in strict tracking protection | news.ycombinator.com | 2021-02-26

• exa

  7 12,353 7.5 Rust

  A modern replacement for ‘ls’.

  Project mention: Paru<--yay, neovim<--vim, any other "neo" drop in replacement packages that are good to know about? | reddit.com/r/archlinux | 2021-02-20

  exa

• ctop

  7 11,120 7.2 Go

  Top-like interface for container metrics

  Project mention: something similar to k9s but for Docker | reddit.com/r/docker | 2021-03-02

  I like ctop

• neofetch

  29 11,022 7.7 Shell

  🖼️ A command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2+

  Project mention: [i3-gaps] My First Rice 🌚 | reddit.com/r/unixporn | 2021-02-26

  Fetch: Neofetch

• cz-cli

  5 10,858 5.3 JavaScript

  The commitizen command line utility. #BlackLivesMatter

  Project mention: 10 Retro CSS frameworks to relive your childhood | dev.to | 2021-02-22

• winget-cli

  27 10,837 8.2 C++

  Windows Package Manager CLI (aka winget)

  Project mention: God Damn Pretentious Cli Users | reddit.com/r/Windows10 | 2021-02-17

  I mean, I know its part of the joke and all, but I use Windows at work and at home when I play games and it is so much worse there than on linux. Winget and other package managers make it easier to live with though, but like, Windows users be like (on a new install):

• termui

  2 10,662 1.0 Go

  Golang terminal dashboard

  Project mention: Building Rich Terminal Dashboards | news.ycombinator.com | 2021-02-15

• nnn

  15 10,495 9.2 C

  n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager.

  Project mention: Sway Runixporn Mods Will Delete Your Posts But | reddit.com/r/UsabilityPorn | 2021-02-17

  I'm actually using nnn with preview-tui plugin. The preview is shown directly inside Kitty terminal, so you're just seeing two even splits by the terminal itself.

• http-server

  6 10,351 2.0 JavaScript

  a simple zero-configuration command-line http server

  Project mention: How to build a lightweight microblogging site with Contentful, vanilla HTML, CSS and JavaScript | dev.to | 2021-02-08

  If you want to use es6 syntax in your vanilla JavaScript file, you’ll need to serve your module file to the browser over an http-server in your local development environment. You can do this with this nifty npm package, aptly titled “http-server.”

• PsySH

  3 8,838 7.8 PHP

  A REPL for PHP

  Project mention: Integrating Tinkerwell with GNOME | dev.to | 2021-02-24

  tinker is a package created by the core laravel team, which uses the psysh REPL under the hood. This allows developers to tinker with their Laravel applications directly, executing code in the console and seeing the results right away, without needing to enter debug mode, or create test routes to verify that a simple Eloquent query work as they expect.

• sampler

  2 8,680 2.0 Go

  Tool for shell commands execution, visualization and alerting. Configured with a simple YAML file.

  Project mention: Sampler: Visualization for any shell command | reddit.com/r/linux | 2021-02-21

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