CLI Tools

The Command Line Interface (CLI) originates from the early days of computing in the 1960s from computer terminals.

 

The command line is fundamental for scripting and automation. In modern development, it remains essential for its precision, control, speed and productivity for those who want to have direct access to the machine rather than a GUI.

 

Below are a list of terminal tools that are CLI tools.

  1. act3 - Glance at the last 3 runs of your Github Actions.
  1. age - A simple, modern and secure file encryption tool.
  1. aichat - all-in-one AI powered CLI chat and copilot.
  1. aider - AI pair programming in your terminal
  1. aim - A command line download/upload tool with resume.
  1. amfora - A fancy terminal browser for the Gemini protocol.
  1. amp - A complete text editor for your terminal.
  1. angryoxide - A WiFi attack and pentesting tool built in Rust.
  1. aria2 - The ultra fast download utility.
  1. asciinema - A terminal session recorder.
  1. asn - ASN lookup tool and traceroute server
  1. atac - A simple API client (postman like) in your terminal.
  1. atuin - Sync, search and backup shell history.
  1. bandwhich - Terminal bandwidth utilization tool
  1. bat - A cat(1) clone with wings.
  1. bbcli - A TUI for accessing BBC News in the terminal.
  1. bkp - Utility that makes backups of your files/directories.
  1. bmon - Bandwidth monitor and rate estimator
  1. bombadillo - A non-web client for the terminal, supporting Gopher, Gemini and much more.
  1. bottom - Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.
  1. broot - A new way to see and navigate directory trees.
  1. brows - A GitHub releases browser for the terminal
  1. browsr - A pleasant file explorer in your terminal supporting all filesystems.
  1. bt - Interactive tree-like terminal file manager.
  1. btop - A terminal monitor of resources.
  1. buku - Personal mini-web in text
  1. byobu - Text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer
  1. calcurse - A calendar and scheduling application for the command line.
  1. caligula - A user-friendly, lightweight TUI for disk imaging.
  1. carbon-now-cli - generate beautiful images of your code from right inside your terminal.
  1. carl - a cal(1) alternative calendar for the command-line.
  1. cava - Cross-platform Audio Visualizer for Alsa
  1. cgdb - A curses (terminal-based) interface to the GNU Debugger (GDB)
  1. chmod-cli - effortlessly generate chmod commands.
  1. cidr - A CLI to perform various actions on CIDR ranges.
  1. circumflex - It's Hacker News in your terminal.
  1. clipboard - Your new, ridonkulously smart clipboard manager.
  1. cloc - Count lines of code in many programming languages
  1. cmus - Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.
  1. cointop - cryptocurrency tracking for hackers that like htop.
  1. cpufetch - Simple yet fancy CPU architecture fetching tool.
  1. croc - Easily and securely send things from one computer to another.
  1. csvlens - a csv viewer like less but made for csv.
  1. ctop - A top-like interface for container metrics.
  1. curl - A command line tool and library for transferring data.
  1. curlie - The power of curl, the ease of use of httpie.
  1. cyme - List system USB buses and devices.
  1. daff - align and compare tables
  1. dblab - The database client designed for command line specialists.
  1. ddgr - DuckDuckGo from the terminal.
  1. delta - A viewer for git and diff output.
  1. devzat - A tool to chat over SSH.
  1. diffnav - A git diff pager based on delta but with a file tree, à la GitHub.
  1. difftastic - A structural diff that understands syntax
  1. dijo - scriptable, curses-based, digital habit tracker.
  1. dive - A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image.
  1. dns53 - Expose your EC2 quickly, easily and privately within a VPC.
  1. docfd - TUI multiline fuzzy document finder.
  1. dog - A command-line DNS client.
  1. doggo - A command-line DNS client for humans.
  1. dooit - A TUI todo manager for the terminal
  1. dra - A command line tool to download release assets from GitHub.
  1. dry - A Docker manager for the terminal.
  1. dua - View disk space usage and delete unwanted data, fast.
  1. ducker - A slightly quackers Docker TUI.
  1. duf - Disk Usage/Free Utility - a better 'df' alternative.
  1. dug - A global DNS propagation checker on your CLI
  1. dunk - Prettier git diffs in the terminal 🎨
  1. dusage - A command line disk usage information tool.
  1. dyff - diff tool for YAML files, and sometimes JSON.
  1. eddy - Simple, fast CLI file encryption tool.
  1. eget - Easily install prebuilt binaries from GitHub.
  1. elia - A TUI ChatGPT client built with Textual
  1. elinks - A full-featured text www browser.
  1. emacs - The extensible, customizable, free/libre display editor.
  1. erdtree - A general purpose filesystem and disk-usage utility.
  1. eva - A calculator REPL, similar to bc.
  1. exa - The original modern replacement for ls
  1. eza - A modern replacement for ls
  1. fastfetch - Like neofetch, but much faster.
  1. fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
  1. fend - An arbitrary-precision unit-aware calculator.
  1. ffmpeg - record, convert and stream audio and video in the terminal.
  1. flameshow - A flamegraph viewer in the terminal.
  1. fnc - interactive text-based user interface for Fossil
  1. fnm - fast and simple node.js version manager in rust.
  1. fnug - Run all your lints, tests and commands at once, in the terminal.
  1. fork-cleaner - A tool to clean up old and inactive forks on your GitHub account.
  1. fq - jq for binary formats.
  1. frogmouth - A Markdown browser for your terminal
  1. fx - command-line tool and terminal JSON viewer.
  1. fzf - A command-line fuzzy finder
  1. fztea - A flipperzero remote control locally in the terminal and ssh.
  1. gallery-dl - Download image galleries and collections from image hosting sites.
  1. gama - Manage your GitHub Actions from the terminal.
  1. gdb - The GNU Project Debugger
  1. gfold - A CLI tool that helps you keep track of multiple Git repositories.
  1. gh-dash - An interactive GitHub Dashboard for your terminal.
  1. ghq - Remote repository management made easy.
  1. git-split-diffs - Syntax highlighted side-by-side diffs in your terminal
  1. gitnr - A CLI / TUI to generate .gitignore files using templates.
  1. gitui - A blazing fast TUI for git written in rust
  1. glances - A cross platform top/htop alternative in python.
  1. glow - Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz!
  1. goaccess - a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer.
  1. gobang - A cross platform TUI database management tool written in Rust
  1. gocovsh - A shell for interacting with Go coverage profiles.
  1. goji - Commitizen-like tool for formatting commit messages using emojis.
  1. gomuks - A terminal based Matrix client written in Go.
  1. goose - A database migration tool written in Go.
  1. gopass - The enhanced unix password manager for teams.
  1. gotop - A terminal-based graphical activity monitor written in Go.
  1. gpg-tui - A terminal user interface for GPG
  1. gping - Ping, but with a graph.
  1. gpterminator - A TUI for OpenAI's ChatGPT
  1. grex - generate regular expressions from user-provided test cases.
  1. gri - manage git/gerrit change requests in the terminal.
  1. gtop - System monitoring dashboard for terminal.
  1. gtrash - A featureful trash CLI manager.
  1. gtt - A TUI for Google Translate, ChatGPT, DeepL and other AI services.
  1. hackernews-tui - A Terminal UI (TUI) to browse Hacker News.
  1. haiti - A CLI to that identifies various hash types.
  1. halp - A CLI tool to get help with CLI tools.
  1. has - Checks presence of various CLI tools and their versions on the path.
  1. hashcat - World's fastest and most advanced password recovery utility.
  1. havn - A fast configurable port scanner with reasonable defaults.
  1. helix - A post-modern text editor.
  1. hexyl - A rust based command-line hex viewer
  1. hf - Cross-platform hidden file library and utility.
  1. hishtory - Your shell history: synced, queryable, and in context.
  1. hl - A fast and powerful log viewer and processor.
  1. hledger - Fast, friendly, robust plain text accounting software
  1. hnterm - Hacker News in the terminal.
  1. hstr - A bash and zsh shell history suggestion box for your command history.
  1. htop - An interactive process viewer.
  1. httm - Interactive, file-level Time Machine-like tool for ZFS/btrfs/nilfs2.
  1. humble-explorer - cross-platform, command-line Bluetooth Low Energy scanner.
  1. hurl - Run and test HTTP requests with plain text.
  1. hyperfine - A command-line benchmarking tool.
  1. impala - TUI for managing WiFi on Linux.
  1. irssi - A well known cross-platform and famous IRC client
  1. jc - A tool convert CLI output, files & strings to JSON/YAML.
  1. jira-cli - Interact with Jira in the Terminal with Jira CLI.
  1. jless - A command-line JSON viewer.
  1. jnv - Interactive JSON filter using jq.
  1. jq - Command-line JSON processor
  1. jqp - A TUI playground to experiment with jq.
  1. jwt-ui - A CLI and TUI for decoding/encoding JSON Web Tokens.
  1. k9s - Kubernetes CLI and TUI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!
  1. kalker - A scientific terminal calculator with math syntax.
  1. kibi - A text editor in less than 1024 lines of code, written in Rust.
  1. koji - An interactive CLI for creating conventional commits.
  1. kondo - Cleans node_modules, target, build, and friends from your projects.
  1. kubecolor - Colorize your kubectl output.
  1. kupo - A terminal file manager / browser, kupo!
  1. lazydocker - The lazier way to manage everything docker
  1. lazygit - Simple terminal UI for git commands.
  1. lazynpm - A simple TUI for npm commands.
  1. lemmeknow - The fastest way to identify anything!
  1. links - A fast and lightweight web browser running in both graphics and text mode.
  1. logmerger - A utility to view multiple log files with merged timeline.
  1. logria - A powerful CLI tool that puts log aggregation at your fingertips.
  1. logshark - A CLI / TUI debugger for JSON logs.
  1. logss - A simple cli for logs splitting.
  1. lsd - lsdeluxe, the next gen ls command in Rust.
  1. lychee - A fast, async link checker written in Rust.
  1. lynx - A TUI based web browser.
  1. macmon - Sudoless performance monitoring for Apple Silicon processors.
  1. manly - A TUI for viewing man pages in the terminal.
  1. mapscii - The whole world in your console.
  1. mc - Midnight Commander, a feature-rich visual file manager for the terminal.
  1. mdcat - fancy cat for markdown
  1. meli - Experimental mail client with a terminal-user interface.
  1. menyoki - Screenshot/cast and perform ImageOps on the command line.
  1. micro - A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor
  1. mise - The front-end to your dev env.
  1. mitmproxy - A TLS/SSL-capable interception HTTP proxy.
  1. moc - A music player with a terminal user interface (TUI)
  1. moe - A command line Nim based editor inspired by Vim.
  1. monolith - A CLI tool for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file.
  1. mprocs - Run multiple commands in parallel.
  1. mqttui - A TUI tool to publish/subscribe MQTT messages from the terminal.
  1. mtr - A network diagnostics tool
  1. ncdu - A ncurses based disk usage analyzer
  1. nemu - ncurses-based TUI for QEMU.
  1. neofetch - A command-line system information tool.
  1. neomutt - A command line mail reader based on mutt
  1. neoss - User-friendly and detailed socket statistics with a TUI.
  1. netop - A network topology visualizer.
  1. newsboat - An open-source RSS/Atom feed reader for text terminals
  1. nnn - The missing terminal file manager for X
  1. noping - A C library to generate ICMP echo requests with a visualization
  1. numbat - high precision scientific calculator with full support for physical units.
  1. nvitop - An interactive NVIDIA-GPU process viewer and beyond.
  1. nvtop - NVIDIA GPUs htop like monitoring tool
  1. octocov - A toolkit for collecting code metrics.
  1. ollama - get up and running with large language models locally.
  1. onefetch - A command-line Git information tool.
  1. openapi-tui - Browse and run APIs defined with OpenAPI v3.0 in the TUI
  1. opencubicplayer - a text-based audio player with some few graphical views.
  1. oterm - A text-based terminal client for ollama.
  1. otti - one-time TUI password manager for the terminal.
  1. ouch - Painless compression and decompression in the terminal
  1. ov - A feature rich terminal-based pager.
  1. ox - A Rust text editor that runs in your terminal!
  1. oxker - A simple TUI to view & control docker containers.
  1. pandoc - a universal markup converter.
  1. papis - A powerful and highly extensible CLI document and bibliography manager.
  1. pass - the standard unix password manager.
  1. pastel - Generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors.
  1. patat - Terminal-based presentations using Pandoc.
  1. pathos - A terminal interface for editing and managing PATH environment variables.
  1. pctrl - A terminal-based process controller.
  1. pdu - Highly parallelized, blazing fast directory tree analyzer.
  1. peco - A simplistic interactive filtering tool.
  1. pgtree - Unix process hierarchy tree for specific processes.
  1. pik - A TUI for interactively stopping processes.
  1. pillager - Pillage filesystems for sensitive information.
  1. planor - A TUI client for cloud services for aws, vultr, heroku, etc.
  1. pls - A prettier and powerful ls(1) for the pros.
  1. portal - A quick and easy command-line file transfer utility.
  1. presenterm - A TUI markdown terminal slideshow tool.
  1. process-compose - A scheduler and orchestrator to manage non-containerized applications.
  1. procmux - A terminal multiplexer for processes.
  1. procs - A modern replacement for ps written in Rust.
  1. prs - Stay updated on PRs without leaving the terminal.
  1. pumas - Power Usage Monitor for Apple Silicon.
  1. pvw - A terminal-based (TUI) port viewer in Go
  1. pwdsafety - A CLI tool for checking password safety.
  1. pysentation - TUI for displaying Python presentations
  1. qq - A jq inspired interoperable config format transcoder with interactive querying.
  1. qrc - A QR code generator for text terminals.
  1. qsv - Blazing-fast CSV data-wrangling toolkit
  1. radare2 - unix-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset.
  1. rainfrog - A database management TUI for postgres.
  1. ranger - A vim-inspired file manager for the console.
  1. rclone - rsync for cloud storage
  1. reader - Readability for the command line.
  1. redu - ncdu for your restic repository.
  1. restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program.
  1. rga - Ripgrep, but can also search in docs, PDFs, E-Books, zip, tar.gz, etc.
  1. ripgrep - A recursive directory search tool using regex patterns.
  1. rizin - open source reverse engineering tool based on radare2.
  1. rsync - A fast and extraordinarily versatile file copying tool for both remote and local files.
  1. rsyncy - A status/progress bar for rsync.
  1. rucola - A terminal based markdown note manager.
  1. rustscan - The Modern Port Scanner.
  1. s-tui - terminal-based CPU stress and monitoring utility.
  1. s3scanner - A tool to scan for misconfigured S3 buckets.
  1. sc-im - An ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal
  1. scc - A very fast accurate code counter with complexity calculations.
  1. scli - simple terminal user interface (TUI) for Signal.
  1. sd - Intuitive find & replace CLI (sed alternative)
  1. sen - Terminal User Interface for containers.
  1. serie - A rich git commit graph in your terminal, like magic!
  1. servitor - A fediverse client with a terminal interface
  1. shellcheck - A static analysis tool for shell scripts.
  1. sherlock - Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks.
  1. sig - interactive grep. (for streaming)
  1. silicon - create beautiful image of your source code.
  1. sizeof - A command-line tool to calculate the size of data structures
  1. slack-term - A Slack client for your terminal.
  1. slides - A terminal based presentation tool
  1. slurm - Realtime traffic statistics for network interfaces
  1. sntop - A simple network top for monitoring connectivity
  1. spiel - Display richly-styled presentations using your terminal.
  1. sq - The missing swiss-army knife tool for wrangling data.
  1. sshs - Terminal user interface for SSH
  1. stew - An independent package manager for compiled binaries.
  1. stree - A simple directory tree command for listing AWS S3 bucket
  1. sttr - A CLI/TUI tool to perform 30+ string transformations on text.
  1. superfile - fancy, modern file manager in the terminal.
  1. tabiew - A lightweight TUI application to view and query tabular data files.
  1. taskwarrior-tui - A terminal user interface for taskwarrior
  1. tcping - A cross-platform ping program for TCP ports.
  1. tcpterm - A terminal-based TCP dump viewer.
  1. tealdeer - A very fast implementation of tldr in Rust.
  1. tempy - A simple TUI for displaying the current weather in the terminal
  1. tere - A faster alternative to cd + ls.
  1. termdbms - A terminal UI for editing database files
  1. termshark - A terminal UI (TUI) for tshark, inspired by Wireshark.
  1. textql - Execute SQL against structured text like CSV or TSV
  1. textual-astview - A Textual-based Python AST viewing widget library and application
  1. tgpt - AI Chatbots in the terminal without needing API keys.
  1. tig - Text-mode interface for git
  1. tmux - An open-source terminal multiplexer.
  1. tokei - Count your code, quickly.
  1. toot - Interact with Mastodon directly in the terminal.
  1. topgrade - Upgrade all the things
  1. tproxy - A cli tool to proxy and analyze TCP connections.
  1. tran - Securely transfer and send anything between computers with a TUI
  1. tre - A modern and improved alternative to the tree(1) command.
  1. trippy - A TUI network diagnostics tool
  1. ttyper - A terminal-based typing test
  1. ttyplot - A realtime terminal plotting utility with data input from stdin.
  1. tuptime - Like uptime(1), but preserves shutdown / restart stats.
  1. tut - A TUI for Mastodon with vim inspired keys
  1. twitch-tui - A Twitch chat TUI client for the terminal
  1. typeinc - A cool ncurses based typing speed test tool.
  1. tz - A terminal based timezone helper
  1. ugm - A TUI to view information about UNIX users and groups
  1. updo - Uptime monitoring CLI tool with alerting and advanced settings.
  1. viddy - A modern watch command, time machine and pager.
  1. vim - The ubiquitous text editor
  1. vscli - A CLI/TUI making it easy to launch Visual Studio Code (vscode) projects.
  1. vtop - Wow such top. So stats. More better than regular top
  1. w3m - A pager and/or text-based browser.
  1. weechat - The extensible chat client
  1. wg-cmd - TUI for managing WireGuard configuration files
  1. wget - A utility for non-interactive download of files from the web.
  1. wiki-tui - A fast Wikipedia CLI/TUI client
  1. wireman - A TUI gRPC client.
  1. wordgrinder - A cross-platform word processor for the terminal
  1. wtf - The personal information dashboard for your terminal.
  1. xh - Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests.
  1. xplr - A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer
  1. yai - Your AI powered terminal assistant
  1. yazi - Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.
  1. youplot - A command line tool that draw plots on the terminal.
  1. youtube-dl - Download videos from YouTube and other video sites.
  1. youtube-tui - An aesthetically pleasing YouTube TUI written in Rust
  1. yr - Get the weather delivered to your command-line.
  1. yt-dlp - A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes.
  1. zeit - A simple command-line tool to track your time
  1. zoxide - A smarter cd command. Supports all major shells.

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