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jlevy/the-art-of-command-line

Master the command line, in one page

GitHub topics

#bash #documentation #linux #macos #unix #windows

Updated: 2024-06-25
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2015-05-20
History: 35 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 256 open

162,344

stars

Forks: 14,827
Commits: 1,218 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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junegunn/fzf

:cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

Stack

Go Bundler Go modules

GitHub topics

#bash #cli #fish #fzf #go #neovim

Updated: 2026-08-26
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2013-10-23
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 327 open

82,702

stars

Forks: 2,862
Commits: 3,730 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ibraheemdev/modern-unix

A collection of modern/faster/saner alternatives to common unix commands.

GitHub topics

#cli #command-line #lists #shell #terminal #tools

Updated: 2024-09-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-01-12
History: 7 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 69 open

33,026

stars

Forks: 828
Commits: 86 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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peass-ng/PEASS-ng

PEASS - Privilege Escalation Awesome Scripts SUITE (with colors)

Stack

C# CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#bash #batch #batch-script #color #csharp #enumeration

Updated: 2026-08-24
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-01-13
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 0 open

20,390

stars

Forks: 3,391
Commits: 2,116 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

sveinbjornt/Sloth

Mac app that shows all open files, directories, sockets, pipes and devices in use by all running processes. Nice GUI for lsof.

Stack

Objective-C

GitHub topics

#directories #domain-sockets #filter #gui #ip-sockets #lsof

Updated: 2026-05-28
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2011-03-28
History: 11 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 3 open

8,930

stars

Forks: 174
Commits: 399 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Arthur-Ficial/apfel

The free AI already on your Mac. CLI tool, OpenAI-compatible server, and interactive chat — all on-device via Apple Intelligence. No API keys, no cloud, no downloads.

AI dev

Stack

Swift Swift Package Manager

GitHub topics

#apple-intelligence #apple-silicon #cli #foundationmodels #homebrew #llm

Updated: 2026-08-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2026-03-24
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 10 open

6,347

stars

Forks: 244
Commits: 583 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Jas-SinghFSU/HyprPanel

A Bar/Panel for Hyprland with extensive customizability.

Archived

Stack

TypeScript Meson npm

GitHub topics

#ags #astal #catppuccin #dracula #everforest #gjs

Updated: 2026-04-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-06-09
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 226 open

2,196

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Forks: 207
Commits: 630 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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liballeg/allegro5

The official Allegro 5 git repository. Pull requests welcome!

Stack

C Android CMake Gradle

GitHub topics

#android #audio #c #game-development #linux #macos

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2000-05-14
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 392 open

2,119

stars

Forks: 320
Commits: 12,173 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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da-luce/astroterm

A planetarium for your terminal! Explore stars, planets, constellations, and more, all rendered right in the command line—no telescope required. ✨🪐

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#ascii #ascii-art #c #command-line #console #linux

Updated: 2026-04-01
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-06-16
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 37 open

1,998

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Forks: 46
Commits: 193 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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enzo1982/freac

The fre:ac audio converter project

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#aac #alac #audio #c-plus-plus #cd-ripper #converter

Updated: 2026-07-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2002-09-22
History: 10 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 222 open

1,930

stars

Forks: 94
Commits: 2,302 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ColleagueRiley/RGFW

A lightweight single-header cross-platform library for general windowing

Stack

GitHub topics

#c99 #cocoa #cross-platform #graphics #hedgehogsoft #library

Updated: 2026-07-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-02-22
History: 4 history points
License: Zlib
Issues: 10 open

1,864

stars

Forks: 83
Commits: 3,745 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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poetaman/arttime

arttime is a CLI application that blends beauty of ASCII / text art with functionality of clock / timer / pattern-based time manager in terminal ⏰

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#ansi #ansi-art #ascii #ascii-art #cli #clock

Updated: 2026-05-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-05-20
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 6 open

1,370

stars

Forks: 25
Commits: 529 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Badgerati/Pode

Pode is a Cross-Platform PowerShell web framework for creating REST APIs, Web Sites, and TCP/SMTP servers

Stack

PowerShell .NET SDK npm pip

GitHub topics

#active-directory #authentication #cross-platform #docker #framework #https

Updated: 2026-09-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-11-29
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 89 open

1,058

stars

Forks: 108
Commits: 3,222 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

xyproto/orbiton

Snappy and configuration-free text editor/IDE for the terminal. Suitable for writing git commit messages, editing Markdown, config files, source code, man pages and for quick edit-format-compile cycles when programming. Has syntax highlighting, jump-to-error, rainbow parentheses, macros, cut/paste portals, LSP support and a simple gdb+dlv frontend.

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#command-line #editor #freebsd #gdb #gleam #go

Updated: 2026-08-09
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2019-09-30
History: 8 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 1 open

692

stars

Forks: 17
Commits: 6,389 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ngircd/ngircd

Free, portable and lightweight Internet Relay Chat server

Stack

GitHub topics

#bsd #c #chat #daemon #internet-relay-chat #irc

Updated: 2026-07-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2001-12-11
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 32 open

574

stars

Forks: 83
Commits: 3,687 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

efugier/smartcat

Putting a brain behind `cat`🐈‍⬛ Integrating language models in the Unix commands ecosystem through text streams.

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#ai #chatgpt #cli #command-line #command-line-tool #copilot

Updated: 2025-02-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-11-06
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 14 open

569

stars

Forks: 33
Commits: 164 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

kprotty/zap

An asynchronous runtime with a focus on performance and resource efficiency.

Stack

Zig Cargo

GitHub topics

#asynchronous #io #networking #performance #runtime #rust

Updated: 2025-01-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-02-15
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

551

stars

Forks: 20
Commits: 73 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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shlomif/fortune-mod

Implementation of the Unix fortune command for displaying a random quotation, for Linux and other systems.

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#floss #fortune #fortune-cookie #fortune-mod #foss #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-08-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-04-02
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 10 open

540

stars

Forks: 72
Commits: 826 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

diogo-fernan/ir-rescue

A Windows Batch script and a Unix Bash script to comprehensively collect host forensic data during incident response.

Stack

Batchfile

GitHub topics

#bash #batch #cybersecurity #dfir #forensics #incident-response

Updated: 2021-02-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-08-06
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 4 open

488

stars

Forks: 92
Commits: 55 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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bntzio/wipe-modules

🗑️ Easily remove the node_modules folder of non-active projects

Stack

Shell npm

GitHub topics

#bash #cleanup #cron #cron-jobs #hacktoberfest #javascript

Updated: 2023-01-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-05-03
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

359

stars

Forks: 6
Commits: 37 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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kruseio/hygg

📚 Simplifying the way you read. Minimalistic Vim-like TUI document reader.

Stack

Rust Axum Tauri Cargo

GitHub topics

#cli #cli-utility #cross-platform #document-reader #ebook-reader #epub

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2024-06-13
History: 9 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 14 open

344

stars

Forks: 15
Commits: 332 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

chrstphrknwtn/epoch-flip-clock-screensaver

Unix time (epoch) flip clock macOS screensaver

Stack

Objective-C

GitHub topics

#clock #epoch #flipclock #macos #screensaver #unix

Updated: 2019-01-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-03-19
History: 10 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 3 open

234

stars

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

GitHub

PabloLec/neoss

:heavy_check_mark: User-friendly and detailed socket statistics with a Terminal UI.

Stack

TypeScript npm

GitHub topics

#blessed #command-line #connection #cybersecurity #educational #linux

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2021-08-11
History: 7 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 13 open

229

stars

Forks: 4
Commits: 672 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

eneserdogan/trino

Trino: Master your translations with command line!

Stack

JavaScript npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#api #cli #cloud #google #shell #tool

Updated: 2022-12-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-03-16
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 2 open

144

stars

Forks: 11
Commits: 17 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

ehmicky/unix-permissions

Swiss Army knife for Unix permissions

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#access-control #acl #chmod #cli #javascript #library

Updated: 2025-10-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-12-18
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 0 open

143

stars

Forks: 5
Commits: 2,024 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

raforg/rawhide

find files using pretty C expressions

Stack

GitHub topics

#c #command-line #cygwin #file #find #freebsd

Updated: 2025-12-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1990-02-18
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 6
Commits: 141 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

iguessthislldo/georgios

Hobby Operating System

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#hobby-os #kernel #operating-system #osdev #unix #x86

Updated: 2025-10-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-12-01
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1 open

stars

Forks: 7
Commits: 472 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

youwangd/SageCLI

⚡ Simple Agent Engine — Orchestrate AI coding agents from your terminal. No frameworks, just bash, jq, and tmux.

Stack

Shell npm

GitHub topics

#agent #ai #bash #claude #cli #cline

Updated: 2026-04-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2026-03-13
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

stars

Forks: 1
Commits: 658 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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