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semantic-release/semantic-release

📦🚀 Fully automated version management and package publishing

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#automation #changelog #package #publish #release #release-automation

Updated: 2026-08-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-06-13
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 405 open

23,993

stars

Forks: 1,812
Commits: 2,217 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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ipfs/ipfs

Peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol

GitHub topics

#ipfs #ipfs-protocol #ipfs-web #ipld #js-ipfs #multiformats

Updated: 2025-05-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-12-04
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 8 open

23,055

stars

Forks: 1,548
Commits: 412 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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mislav/hub

A command-line tool that makes git easier to use with GitHub.

Stack

Go Sinatra Bundler Go modules

GitHub topics

#git #github-api #go #homebrew #pull-request

Updated: 2024-02-02
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2009-12-05
History: 14 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 294 open

22,954

stars

Forks: 2,226
Commits: 3,337 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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eza-community/eza

A modern alternative to ls

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#color #command-line #files #hacktoberfest #icons #ls

Updated: 2026-08-06
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2014-05-03
History: 7 history points
License: EUPL-1.2
Issues: 415 open

22,880

stars

Forks: 490
Commits: 3,372 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

svg/svgo

SVG Optimizer for Node.js and CLI. ⚙️

Stack

JavaScript Vite pnpm

GitHub topics

#cli #hacktoberfest #javascript #minification #nodejs #optimization

Updated: 2026-08-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-08-22
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 255 open

22,647

stars

Forks: 1,461
Commits: 1,640 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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localtunnel/localtunnel

expose yourself

Stack

JavaScript npm Yarn

Updated: 2025-08-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-06-18
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 166 open

22,415

stars

Forks: 1,560
Commits: 169 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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gitui-org/gitui

Blazing 💥 fast terminal-ui for git written in rust 🦀

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#async #bash #command-line-interface #command-line-tool #git #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2020-03-15
History: 30 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 328 open

22,294

stars

Forks: 753
Commits: 2,628 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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jarun/nnn

n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager

Stack

GitHub topics

#android #batch-rename #c #cli #command-line #developer-tools

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2014-10-07
History: 7 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 4 open

21,736

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Forks: 812
Commits: 4,615 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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antonmedv/fx

Terminal JSON viewer & processor

Stack

Go Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#cli #command-line #json #tui

Updated: 2026-07-28
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2018-01-25
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 24 open

20,566

stars

Forks: 484
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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yudai/gotty

Share your terminal as a web application

Stack

Go npm

GitHub topics

#browser #go #javascript #terminal #tty #typescript

Updated: 2024-08-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-08-16
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 158 open

19,546

stars

Forks: 1,408
Commits: 230 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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tj/git-extras

GIT utilities -- repo summary, repl, changelog population, author commit percentages and more

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#git

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-08-04
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 97 open

18,094

stars

Forks: 1,225
Commits: 1,850 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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bcicen/ctop

Top-like interface for container metrics

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#command-line #commandline #containers #docker #monitoring #runc

Updated: 2024-07-08
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2016-11-06
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 121 open

17,803

stars

Forks: 591
Commits: 628 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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asciinema/asciinema

Terminal session recorder, streamer and player 📹

Stack

Rust Axum Cargo

GitHub topics

#asciicast #asciinema #cli #recording #rustlang #streaming

Updated: 2026-07-28
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-11-21
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 8 open

17,607

stars

Forks: 1,038
Commits: 1,706 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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denisidoro/navi

An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#bash #cheatsheets #cli #command-line #rust #shell

Updated: 2026-07-28
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-09-20
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 108 open

17,417

stars

Forks: 555
Commits: 1,092 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ranger/ranger

A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console

Stack

Python pytest pip

GitHub topics

#console #file-launcher #file-manager #file-preview #vim

Updated: 2026-07-28
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2009-11-16
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 933 open

17,320

stars

Forks: 937
Commits: 5,276 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rupa/z

z - jump around

Stack

Shell

Updated: 2024-06-19
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2009-06-19
History: 9 history points
License: WTFPL
Issues: 107 open

17,037

stars

Forks: 1,175
Commits: 217 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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wting/autojump

A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line

Stack

Python

GitHub topics

#autojump #command-line-tool #filesystem #python

Updated: 2025-02-27
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2008-04-21
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 231 open

16,954

stars

Forks: 708
Commits: 845 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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lsd-rs/lsd

The next gen ls command

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#color #hacktoberfest #icons #ls #nerd-fonts #rust

Updated: 2026-07-25
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2018-11-12
History: 10 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 203 open

16,167

stars

Forks: 509
Commits: 1,117 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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beetbox/beets

music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger

AI dev

Stack

Python Flask pytest pip uv

GitHub topics

#cli #hacktoberfest #music #music-library #musicbrainz #python

Updated: 2026-07-28
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2008-05-14
History: 10 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 706 open

15,446

stars

Forks: 2,068
Commits: 15,077 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ast-grep/ast-grep

⚡A CLI tool for code structural search, lint and rewriting. Written in Rust

AI dev

Stack

Rust pytest Cargo npm PEP 517

GitHub topics

#ast #babel #codemod #codereview #command-line #command-line-tool

Updated: 2026-08-08
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2022-07-01
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 49 open

15,444

stars

Forks: 424
Commits: 4,305 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

muesli/duf

Disk Usage/Free Utility - a better 'df' alternative

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#cli #df #disk-space #disk-usage #filesystem #freebsd

Updated: 2026-01-13
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2020-09-20
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 81 open

15,230

stars

Forks: 467
Commits: 281 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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tomnomnom/gron

Make JSON greppable!

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#cli #json

Updated: 2025-05-31
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2012-09-08
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 50 open

14,491

stars

Forks: 331
Commits: 223 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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sivel/speedtest-cli

Command line interface for testing internet bandwidth using speedtest.net

Archived

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#python #python-library #python-script #speedtest

Updated: 2024-07-20
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-09-10
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: Disabled

14,077

stars

Forks: 1,918
Commits: 299 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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sshuttle/sshuttle

Transparent proxy server that works as a poor man's VPN. Forwards over ssh. Doesn't require admin. Works with Linux and MacOS. Supports DNS tunneling.

Stack

Python pytest pip uv

Updated: 2026-07-28
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2010-05-01
History: 7 history points
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: 216 open

13,477

stars

Forks: 790
Commits: 1,337 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

dbcli/pgcli

Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting

Stack

Python pytest PEP 517

GitHub topics

#database #postgres #postgresql #psql #python

Updated: 2026-07-24
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2014-10-12
History: 11 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 38 open

13,319

stars

Forks: 600
Commits: 2,433 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jonas/tig

Text-mode interface for git

Stack

GitHub topics

#c #git #ncurses #tui

Updated: 2026-07-27
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2006-04-10
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 225 open

13,301

stars

Forks: 657
Commits: 2,915 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Canop/broot

A new way to see and navigate directory trees : https://dystroy.org/broot

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#balanced-bfs-descent #command-line #command-line-tool #fuzzy-search #hacktoberfest #linux

Updated: 2026-08-13
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2018-11-15
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 247 open

12,889

stars

Forks: 308
Commits: 2,021 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

cyrus-and/gdb-dashboard

Modular visual interface for GDB in Python

Stack

Python

GitHub topics

#ansi #assembly #console #dashboard #dashboard-styles #debugger

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-09-09
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 19 open

12,239

stars

Forks: 821
Commits: 416 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

bootandy/dust

A more intuitive version of du in rust

Stack

Rust Cargo

Updated: 2026-08-10
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2018-03-12
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 11 open

12,113

stars

Forks: 279
Commits: 600 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

dbcli/mycli

A Terminal Client for MySQL with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting.

AI dev

Stack

Python pytest uv

GitHub topics

#auto-completion #database #mycli #mysql #python #syntax-highlighting

Updated: 2026-07-27
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2015-04-05
History: 11 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 11 open

11,949

stars

Forks: 695
Commits: 3,497 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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