awesome-cli-apps-in-a-csv

Awesome Command Line (CLI/TUI) Programs

This repository - to the best of my knowledge - contains the largest collection of command line (CLI/TUI) tools available in the form of awesome list. With source information maintained in a handy CSV file.

To contribute, see the indications. Read the instructions before rushing at changing the README file: you must edit the CSV files, not the README!

Some links are available to related resources.

Summary:

• Apps/tools: 2208
• Categories: 87

Contents

Core Utils

• File listing (alternatives to ls) (11)
• Directory changers (alternatives to cd) (21)
• File finding (alternatives to find) (9)
• File deletion and trash bin (alternatives to rm) (14)
• History management (6)
• Diff (12)
• Text search (alternatives to grep) (16)
• Text search and replace (alternatives to sed) (8)
• Disk usage analyzers (13)
• Process viewers and monitoring (alternatives to top) (28)
• Clean up of files and directories (17)

File and Filesystem Management

• File managers (27)
• File explorer and tree visualization (11)
• File and file system handling (30)
• Backup (20)
• File watching for changes (8)
• File renamers (15)
• File systems (4)
• File format converters (17)

Text and Data Processing

• Text processing (58)
• Data management (18)
• Data management - JSON/YAML/etc. (47)
• Data management - Tabular data (36)
• Fuzzy finders and option pickers (18)
• Markdown (9)

Development and Programming

• Editors (32)
• Git and accessories (81)
• Versioning (9)
• Programming (75)
• Program templates and boilerplate (13)
• DevOps (22)
• Web development (37)
• Co-pilot (12)

System and Terminal

• System tools (45)
• Terminals (14)
• Terminal multiplexers and accessories (13)
• Shells (26)
• Prompts (14)
• Copy/paste and clipboard (11)
• System monitoring (54)

Environment Management Tools

• Package managers (25)
• Containerization and virtualization (25)
• Command launchers (28)
• Dotfile managers (5)
• Font management (5)

Communication and Networking

• Email (23)
• Chat and instant messaging (51)
• Networking (87)
• Connection managers (12)
• Data transfer (47)
• Torrent (10)
• RSS (12)
• Web browser (19)
• Online search and resources (39)

Personal Information Management

• Todo managers (43)
• Time trackers (29)
• Note taking (34)
• Organizers and calendars (22)
• Financial tools (25)

Productivity

• AI / LLM integration (48)
• Productivity (19)
• Office tools (23)
• Writing (12)
• Calculators (21)
• Pastebin (2)
• Commands cheatsheet and snippets (33)
• AI terminal command generator (16)

Media and Creative

• Graphics (53)
• Video (15)
• Sound and music (53)
• Music players (20)
• Animation (44)
• Viewers (49)
• Screen savers (7)
• Screen recorder (12)

Security and Package Management

• Ciphering and steganography (17)
• Security (25)
• Password managers (25)

Utilities and Miscellaneous

• Utilities (46)
• Weather (6)

Learning and Leisure

• Learning and didactic tools (9)
• Anki, decks and flashcards (10)
• Typing test and practice (21)
• Games (100)
• Funny tools (23)
• Religion (6)
• Science (21)

Core Utils

File listing (alternatives to ls)

List directory content and files, with colors or icons; alternatives to ls.

• colorls - A Ruby script that colorizes the ls output with color and icons.
• eza - eza is a modern, maintained replacement for ls, built on exa.
• Files-Sort-py - Python-based file sorter that sorts file by extensions, size, and time.
• ll - ls with git status.
• lscoltui - A TUI tool for changing the colours of ls.
• lsd - This project is a rewrite of GNU ls with lots of added features like colors, icons, tree-view, more formatting options etc. The project is heavily inspired by the super colorls project.
• lsnotes - The program lets you add a description to your directories.
• nat - Complete replacement for the ls command.
• pretty-ls - Rust ls clone with pretty colors.
• stree - A CLI tool designed to visualize the directory tree structure of an S3 bucket.
• vivid - A themeable LS_COLORS generator with a rich filetype datebase.

Directory changers (alternatives to cd)

Programs for improving the efficiency of directory traversal by remembering common paths and other approaches; alternatives to the cd command.

• Apparition - Apparition allows giving names to paths, so that moving to the specific path can be done by using the name; it also allows managing the list of assigned names.
• autojump - A cd command that maintains a database of most visited paths and allows the access to a directory with shortened versions of the path.
• broot - broot displays an optimized (omitting unnecessary content) tree view of the filesystem, allowing to fuzzy search files and folder, and move to specified directories.
• cdwe - (cd with env vars) Wrapper of the cd command that sets and unsets env vars when you change dir based on a config file.
• enhancd - A next-generation cd command with your interactive filter.
• fastdiract - Lightning-fast cd and command execution.
• ff - ff is a command-line tool to manage favorite folders, creating an alias, to be used via shell directly with the cd command.
• fz - Fuzzy tab completion for z.
• Jmp - Change directory with smart searching of the path specified through regex.
• menucd - Directory browser and changer for the command line.
• nav - Terminal navigator for interactive ls workflows.
• navita - A command-line tool for fast directory navigation in Bash & Zsh, ranking directories by frequency and recency. It enables quick fuzzy searches, recent history access, and smooth directory switching for efficient terminal workflows.
• pazi - Fast autojump helper.
• pm - The easy way to switch between your projects on ZSH. In short, another directory changer.
• qcd - A tool to change to another directory by just by entering commands like qcd 3 and step back to where you came from with qcd -o. Frequently visited directories are stored in a sqlite3 database.
• Shunpo - A minimalist bash tool that makes directory navigation just a little bit faster.
• slingshot - Lightweight command line tool to quickly navigate across folders.
• z - Directory changer based on aging and 'frecency'.
• z.lua - Directory changer that learns your habits.
• zm - Improved cd.
• zoxide - It remembers which directories you use most frequently, so you can "jump" to them in just a few keystrokes.

File finding (alternatives to find)

Search the filesystem looking for files with specific characteristics, e.g., names; alternatives to find.

• bfs - A breadth-first version of the UNIX find command.
• crtag - CLI for searching directories by tag (UNIX and OS).
• fd - A simple, fast, and user-friendly alternative to find. Written in Rust.
• Findpick - General purpose file picker combining "find" command with a fuzzy finder.
• friendly-find - Usable replacement for find.
• happyfinder - (another) Fuzzy file finder for the command line.
• plocate - A much faster locate; plocate is a locate based on posting lists, completely replacing mlocate with a much faster (and smaller) index.
• rawhide - File finder that uses C expressions to specify the filenames.
• trovatore - A fast command-line tool for searching files by name.

File deletion and trash bin (alternatives to rm)

Tools to manage the deletion of files/directories, often with the support of a trash can, i.e., the ability to restore deleted items.

• Brash - Move and restore items from the XDG trash. Written in pure Bash.
• del - Save deleted files to a .del/ subdirectory in the same directory.
• extundelete - Recover deleted files from an ext3 or ext4 partition through its journal.
• gomi - UNIX rm command with a safety net.
• gtrash - TUI for moving and restoring items from the XDG trash. Fully compliant with the FreeDesktop.org specification.
• RecoverPy - Recover deleted files and overwritten data. It scans every block of the partition. You can even find a string in binary files.
• rip - Move and restore items from the graveyard (by default, /tmp/graveyard-$USER if $XDG_DATA_HOME is not set and $XDG_DATA_HOME/graveyard otherwise)
• rm-trash - Meant to be used in place of rm in Linux, supporting all its arguments. It can move and restore the files from the XDG trash.
• rmw - (ReMove to Waste) is a trashcan