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webtorrent/webtorrent-cli

WebTorrent, the streaming torrent client. For the command line.

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#bittorrent #cli #javascript #nodejs #p2p #streaming

Updated: 2026-06-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-01-25
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 12 open

1,352

stars

Forks: 151
Commits: 615 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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alichtman/shallow-backup

Git-integrated backup tool for macOS and Linux devs.

AI dev

Stack

Python pytest pip Pipenv

GitHub topics

#backup #backup-script #backup-utility #linux-backup #mac-backup-script

Updated: 2026-03-21
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-03-25
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 23 open

1,329

stars

Forks: 267
Commits: 468 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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mingrammer/flog

:tophat: A fake log generator for common log formats

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#apache #faker #generator #log #syslog

Updated: 2025-06-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-10-12
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 32 open

1,326

stars

Forks: 145
Commits: 139 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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cooklang/cookcli

Recipe Management CLI + embedded web-server in one binary

AI dev

Stack

Rust Axum Tailwind CSS Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#cooklang

Updated: 2026-07-01
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2021-03-13
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 22 open

1,321

stars

Forks: 95
Commits: 758 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

erkin/ponysay

Pony rewrite of cowsay.

Stack

Pony pip

Updated: 2024-08-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-02-26
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 79 open

1,316

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Forks: 94
Commits: 2,452 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ttscoff/doing

No description.

Stack

Ruby Bundler Go modules npm

Updated: 2026-06-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-03-15
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

1,280

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Forks: 93
Commits: 1,354 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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lasantosr/intelli-shell

Like IntelliSense, but for shells

AI dev

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#autocomplete #bash #bookmark #cli #command-line #fish

Updated: 2026-06-26
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2023-01-20
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 4 open

1,242

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Forks: 22
Commits: 157 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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arunsupe/semantic-grep

grep for words with similar meaning to the query

Stack

Go Go modules

Updated: 2024-08-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2024-07-26
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

1,239

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Forks: 27
Commits: 87 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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chaqchase/lla

blazing fast `ls` replacement with superpowers

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#cli #ls #replacement #rust #terminal

Updated: 2026-06-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-07-31
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

1,218

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Forks: 25
Commits: 549 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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dduan/tre

Tree command, improved.

Stack

Rust Cargo

Updated: 2024-09-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-02-10
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 23 open

1,209

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Forks: 31
Commits: 190 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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wustho/epy

CLI Ebook (epub2, epub3, fb2, mobi) Reader

Stack

Python pytest Poetry

Updated: 2024-03-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-10-23
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 72 open

1,197

stars

Forks: 69
Commits: 290 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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alichtman/stronghold

Easily configure macOS security settings from the terminal.

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#command-line #command-line-tool #hardening #macos #macos-setup #osx

Updated: 2025-02-24
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2018-03-17
History: 11 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 10 open

1,190

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Forks: 261
Commits: 144 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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jaebradley/uber-cli

🚗Uber, at your fingertips

Archived

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#command-line-tool #uber

Updated: 2020-06-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-12-21
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 24 open

1,185

stars

Forks: 43
Commits: 282 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-deploy

Zero-Config CLI to Deploy Static Websites to IPFS

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#cli #deploying #dnslink #ipfs #need-maintainer #pinning

Updated: 2025-05-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-02-13
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 31 open

1,170

stars

Forks: 117
Commits: 302 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ivanilves/xiringuito

SSH-based "VPN for poors"

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#access #aws #bastion-host #network #security #ssh

Updated: 2021-12-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-02-04
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 8 open

1,155

stars

Forks: 46
Commits: 151 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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sibprogrammer/xq

Command-line XML and HTML beautifier and content extractor

Stack

Go Cobra Go modules

GitHub topics

#cli #formatter #golang #html #syntax-highlighting #terminal

Updated: 2026-06-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-11-06
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 15 open

1,129

stars

Forks: 35
Commits: 386 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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golbin/git-commander

A git tool with an easy terminal interface.

Stack

JavaScript npm

Updated: 2015-08-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-07-05
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 19 open

1,122

stars

Forks: 59
Commits: 77 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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jarun/imgp

:camera_flash: Fast batch image resizer and rotator

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#cli #command-line #console #image-compression #image-manipulation #image-optimization

Updated: 2026-06-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-08-08
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 0 open

1,087

stars

Forks: 54
Commits: 293 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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theZiz/aha

Ansi HTML Adapter

Stack

Updated: 2023-08-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-05-08
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 24 open

1,076

stars

Forks: 90
Commits: 181 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

Owloops/updo

Uptime monitoring CLI tool with alerting and advanced settings

Stack

Go Cobra Go modules

GitHub topics

#cli #monitoring #termui

Updated: 2026-05-26
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-12-26
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 5 open

994

stars

Forks: 47
Commits: 163 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

humblepenguinn/envio

A secure command-line tool for managing environment variables

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#cli #enviorment-variables #rust

Updated: 2026-06-23
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-03-20
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 11 open

978

stars

Forks: 20
Commits: 303 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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harehare/mq

A jq-like Markdown query language for command-line processing

AI dev

Stack

Rust Axum React Vite Cargo npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#cli #html-to-markdown #interpreter #jq #language-server #markdown

Updated: 2026-07-01
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2025-02-24
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 14 open

951

stars

Forks: 18
Commits: 5,583 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

pls-rs/pls

pls is a prettier and powerful ls(1) for the pros.

Stack

Rust Astro Svelte Vite Cargo PEP 517 pnpm

GitHub topics

#cli #ls #rust #terminal

Updated: 2026-07-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-06-30
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 15 open

951

stars

Forks: 32
Commits: 475 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

coderofsalvation/kanban.bash

commandline asciii kanban board for minimalist productivity hackers & managers (csv-based) #scriptable #nestable #statistics #singlefile #shellscript #issuetracker #git

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#cli #kanban #nestedkanban #scriptable #terminal

Updated: 2025-09-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-04-17
History: 5 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 6 open

949

stars

Forks: 61
Commits: 124 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

updatecli/updatecli

A Declarative Update Policy Engine

Stack

Go Cobra Flask gRPC Go pytest Cargo Go modules Maven

GitHub topics

#continuous-updates #dependency-manager #devops #gitops #good-first-issue #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-07-06
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2020-01-25
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 117 open

936

stars

Forks: 134
Commits: 2,878 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Hakky54/certificate-ripper

🔐 A CLI tool to extract server certificates

Stack

Java Maven

GitHub topics

#certificate #graal-native #graalvm #graalvm-native-image #homebrew #homebrew-tap

Updated: 2026-06-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-03-28
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 0 open

915

stars

Forks: 77
Commits: 341 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

clog-tool/clog-cli

Generate beautiful changelogs from your Git commit history

Stack

Rust Cargo

Updated: 2024-08-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-09-12
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 27 open

914

stars

Forks: 45
Commits: 222 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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MidnightCommander/mc

Midnight Commander's repository

Stack

GitHub topics

#c #console #file-manager #midnight-commander #terminal-based

Updated: 2026-07-01
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 1997-01-01
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 683 open

910

stars

Forks: 94
Commits: 16,982 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

keepcosmos/terjira

Terjira is a very interactive and easy to use CLI tool for Jira.

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#agile #cli #command-line #command-line-app #command-line-tool #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2023-03-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-11-27
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 31 open

907

stars

Forks: 34
Commits: 154 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

alexpovel/srgn

A grep-like tool which understands source code syntax and allows for manipulation in addition to search

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#abstract-syntax-tree #c #clang #cli #csharp #go

Updated: 2026-06-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-04-30
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

905

stars

Forks: 10
Commits: 791 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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