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CSV

• xsv - Fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust.
• csvdiff - Fast diff tool for comparing csv files.
• sc-im - ncurses spreadsheet program for terminal.

File system

• RecoverPy - Recover overwritten or deleted data.
• modd - Flexible tool for responding to filesystem changes.
• reflex - Run a command when files change.

Fun

• primitive - reproducing images with geometric primitives.

Games

• love - Framework to make 2D games in Lua.

Git

• fac - Easy-to-use CUI for fixing git conflicts.
• git - The stupid content tracker.
• hub - Wrapper around Git to extend it with features.
• tig - Text-mode interface for git.

Go

• dep - Go dependency management tool.
• go - Manage go source code.
• playgo - Send .go file to the Go Playground.
• richgo - Enrich go test outputs with text decorations.

Java

• ant - Java based make tool.
• java-repl - Read Eval Print Loop for Java.

Lua

• lua - Lua interpreter.
• luajit - Just-in-time compiler for the lua language.

macOS

• asr - Apple Software Restore; copy volumes (e.g. from disk images).
• defaults - Access user's defaults.
• do-not-disturb - Control the macOS Do Not Disturb feature.
• kexstat - Display status of loaded kernel extensions.
• m-cli - Swiss Army Knife for macOS.
• PlistBuddy - Read and write values to plists.
• softwareupdate - System software update tool.
• iStats - Mac stats.
• mas - Command line interface for the Mac App Store.
• time
• switchaudio-osx - Change the audio source for Mac OS X from the command line.
• displayplacer - macOS command line utility to configure multi-display resolutions and arrangements. Essentially XRandR for macOS.

Networking

• neoss - Socket statistics visualization and explanation tool for Unix systems.
• Catflap - Creates a listening TCP socket and passes its FD to a child process.
• curlie - Power of curl, the ease of use of httpie.
• sshfs - Network filesystem client to connect to SSH servers.
• 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.
• telnet - User interface to the TELNET protocol.
• bandwhich - CLI utility for displaying current network utilization by process, connection and remote IP/hostname.
• httpie - Modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era.
• http-prompt - Interactive command-line HTTP and API testing tool built on top of HTTPie with autocomplete, syntax highlighting, and more.

Nix

• nix-env - Manipulate or query Nix user environments.
• nix-shell - Start an interactive shell based on a Nix expression.
• nox - Tools to make nix nicer to use.

Package managers

• brew - Package manager for macOS.
• npm - Package manager for javascript.
• yarn - Package manager for javascript.

Productivity

• eureka - CLI tool to input and store your ideas without leaving the terminal.
• cb - Powerful clipboard manager for all platforms.

Python

• livepython - Visually trace python code in real-time.
• rq - Simple job queues for Python.
• tg - Telegram terminal client.
• visa-cli - Visa Requirements terminal interface.

Ruby

• rbenv - Groom your app’s Ruby environment.
• ruby-build - Compile and install Ruby.

Rust

• project init - Project templates in rust.
• rustup - Rust toolchain installer.

Static website engines

• hugo - Static site generator written in go.
• jekyll - Static site generator written in ruby.

Text editors

• kakoune - Modal editor with multi selections.
• helix - A Kakoune / Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust.
• micro - Modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor.
• emacs - Extendable/customizable text editor.
• neovim - Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability.
• vim - Modal text editor.

Web

• create-react-app - Create React apps with no build configuration.
• preact - Create preact app.
• up - Deploy infinitely scalable serverless apps, apis, and sites in seconds to AWS.
• urlsup - CLI to validate URLs in files.

Logging

• lnav - Advanced log file viewer for the small-scale; Watch and analyze your log files from a terminal.
• red - Terminal log analysis tools.
• goaccess - Real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in nix systems or through your browser.
• angle-grinder - Slice and dice logs on the command line.
• drep - Grep with dynamic reloadable filter expressions. This allows filtering stream of logs/lines, while changing filters on the fly.

Other

• zenith - Sort of like top or htop but with zoom-able charts, network, and disk usage.
• grcov - Collects and aggregates code coverage information for multiple source files.
• wtf - Personal information dashboard for your terminal.
• navi - Interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line.
• zoxide - cd command that learns your habits.
• pastefile - Create a file that contains the contents from the clipboard.
• ran - Simple static web server written in Go.
• watchexec - Executes commands in response to file modifications.
• procs - Modern replacement for ps written in Rust.
• termdash - Terminal based dashboard.
• yq - Portable command-line YAML processor.
• squeeze - Enables to extract rich information from any text (raw, JSON, HTML, YAML, etc).
• amber - Code search / replace tool.
• Pueue - Daemon for managing long running shell commands.
• mmv - Rename multiple files using your $EDITOR.
• jq - Command-line JSON processor. (Mastering JQ)
• jq in Go - Pure Go implementation of jq.
• faq - Format Agnostic jQ.
• gomi - Trash can in CLI.
• jql - Easy JSON Query Processor with a Lispy syntax in Go.
• linkchecker - Check links in web documents or full websites.
• brok - Find broken links in text documents. (HN)
• broot - New way to see and navigate directory trees.
• chars - Display names and codes for various ASCII (and unicode) characters / code points.
• diskus - Minimal, fast alternative to du -sh.
• glow - Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz.
• dtool - Collection of development tools.
• uni - Query the Unicode database from the commandline, with good support for emojis.
• viu - Command-line application to view images from the terminal written in Rust.
• tealdeer - Very fast implementation of tldr in Rust.
• xcp - Extended cp.
• pazi - Fast autojump helper.
• cbf - Build custom CLI apps with only a json or yaml file.
• rga - Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz, etc.
• hunter - Ranger-like file browser written in rust.
• ytop - TUI system monitor written in Rust.
• noti - Monitor a process and trigger a notification.
• ffsend - Easily and securely share files from the command line. A fully featured Firefox Send client.
• adns - Advanced, easy to use, asynchronous-capable DNS client library and utilities.
• advancecomp - Collection of recompression utilities for your .ZIP archives, .PNG snapshots, .MNG video clips and .GZ files.
• ag - Recursively search for pattern.
• Antibody - Fastest shell plugin manager.
• aria2A - Lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility.
• asciinema - Terminal session recorder.
• asdf - Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more.
• aspcud - Solver for package dependencies.
• automake - Automatically create Makefile.in's from Makefile.am's.
• basename - Strip directory and suffix from filenames.
• bash - GNU Bourne-Again SHell.
• camlp4 - Software system for writing extensible parsers for programming languages.
• ccat - Colorizing cat.
• chroma - General purpose syntax highlighter in pure Go.
• chrome-cli - Control Google Chrome from the command line.
• cmake - Cross-platform makefile generator.
• cowyo - Feature rich wiki webserver for minimalists.
• croc - Easily get things from one computer to another.
• ctop - Container metric viewer.
• curl - Transfer a URL.
• direnv - Unclutter your .profile.
• dirname - Strip last component from file name.
• docker - Self-sufficient runtime for containers.
• entr - Run arbitrary commands when files change. (Article) (Code)
• eisd - Execute your favorite command in SubDirectories.
• fasd - Quick access to files and directories.
• fd - Simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'.
• ffmpeg - Video converter.
• fkill - Kill processes.
• friendly-find - Usable replacement for find.
• fzf - Command-line fuzzy finder.
• fzy - Better fuzzy finder.
• gdbm - Library of database functions that use extensible hashing and work similar to the standard UNIX dbm.
• gifski - GIF encoder. Squeezes maximum possible quality from the awful GIF format.
• gotty - Share your terminal as a web application.
• GraphicsMagick - Swiss army knife of image processing.
• hask-replace - Command-line tool to rename modules in Haskell projects.
• hexyl - Command-line hex viewer.
• htttpie - HTTP client.
• hyperfine - Command-line benchmarking tool.
• temci - Advanced benchmarking tool written in Python 3 that supports setting up an environment for benchmarking and the generation of visually appealing reports.
• imgur-screenshot - Take screenshot selection, upload to Imgur. + more cool things.
• jq - Lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor.
• jump - Helps you navigate faster by learning your habits.
• just - Handy way to save and run project-specific commands.
• kubectl - Kubernetes cluster manager.
• less - Free, open-source file pager.
• license-up - Create a license quickly for a given name.
• LicGD - Open source code library for the dynamic creation of images by programmers.
• loc - Count lines of code quickly.
• mackup - Keep your application settings in sync (OS X/Linux).
• make - GNU make utility to maintain groups of programs.
• massren - Easily rename multiple files using your text editor.
• mediumexporter - Export medium.com articles to markdown.
• moreutils - Growing collection of the unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago when unix was young.
• mycli - Terminal Client for MySQL with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting.
• ncdu - Disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface.
• neofetch - Displays information about your operating system, software and hardware in an aesthetic and visually pleasing way.
• ninja - Small build system with a focus on speed.
• nm - Display name list (symbol table).
• nmap - Network mapper.
• pgcli - Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
• pkg - Package your node.js project into an executable.
• pngquant - Command-line utility and a library for lossy compression of PNG images.
• pspg - Postgres Pager.
• pv - Pipe Viewer.
• rclone - Rsync for cloud storage.
• rename - Renames files according to modification rules specified on the command line.
• scipy - Open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering.
• scons - Software construction tool.
• skim - Fuzzy Finder in rust.
• snallygaster - Tool to scan for secret files on HTTP servers.
• spark - Sparklines for your shell.
• spotify-ripper - Rip Spotify URIs to MP3 files.
• static-docs - General-purpose library, purpose-built commands for various domains.
• stow - Symlink farm manager program.
• svgcleaner - Clean up your SVG files from the unnecessary data.
• tar - Manipulate tape archives.
• tin-summer - Find build artifacts that are taking up disk space.
• tokei - Display statistics about your code. (Reddit)
• visidata - Terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data.
• vsce - Publish VS Code extensions.
• warp - Secure and simple terminal sharing.
• weather - Weather via the command line.
• wego - Weather app for the terminal.
• wifi-password - Get wifi pass.
• you-get - Dumb downloader that scrapes the web.
• dust - More intuitive version of du in rust.
• mdcat - cat for Markdown.
• exa - Replacement for ls written in Rust.
• sd - Intuitive find & replace CLI.
• ack - Grep-like text finder.
• alias - Define or display aliases.
• apropos - Search the manual page names and descriptions.
• awk - Pattern-directed scanning and processing language.
• bc - Arbitrary precision calculator language.
• cat - Concatenate and print files.
• cd - Change Directory.
• chmod - Change file mode bits.
• cp - Copy files and directories.
• cron - Daemon to execute scheduled commands.
• cut - Cut out selected portions of each line of a file.
• diff - Compare files line by line.
• echo - Write arguments to the standard output.
• env - Set environment and execute command, or print environment.
• file - Determine file type.
• find - Walk a file hierarchy.
• gnuplot - Generate two and three dimensional plots of data.
• grep - File pattern searcher.
• head - Output the first part of files.
• jobs - Display status of jobs in the current session.
• join - Join lines of two files on a common field.
• kill - Send a signal to a process.
• killall - Kill processes by name.
• ln - Create symbolic links.
• ls - List directory contents.
• lsof - List open files.
• man - Open manual pages.
• mv - Move (rename) files.
• nice - Execute a utility with an altered scheduling priority.
• nohup - Run a command immune to hangups, with output to a non-tty.
• paste - Merge lines of files.
• rm - Remove directory entries.
• rmdir - Remove empty directories.
• scp - Secure copy (remote file copy program).
• screen - Screen manager.
• sed - Stream editor.
• set - Set or unset options and positional parameters.
• sort - Put the lines of a text file in alphanumeric order.
• split - Split a file into pieces.
• ssh - Remote login.
• strings - Print the strings of printable characters in files.
• tail - Output the last part of files.
• top - Display and update sorted information about processes.
• touch - Change file timestamps.
• tr - Translate or delete characters.
• tree - List contents of directories in a tree-like format.
• type - Describe a command.
• uniq - Report or omit repeated lines.
• uptime - Tell how long the system has been running.
• wc - Print newline, word, and byte counts for each file.
• whoami - Print effective userid.
• whois - Client for the whois directory service.
• habitctl - Minimalist command line tool you can use to track and examine your habits.
• jwt-cli - Super fast CLI tool to decode and encode JWTs built in Rust.
• rtss - Relative TimeStamps for Stuff.
• jc - Serializes the output of popular gnu linux command line tools and file types to structured JSON output. This allows piping of output to tools like jq.
• psrecord - Record the CPU and memory activity of a process.
• bottom - Cross-platform graphical process/system monitor with a customizable interface and a multitude of features.
• undent - Unindent text/code.
• misspell - Correct commonly misspelled English words in source files.
• rargs - Kind of xargs + awk with pattern-matching support.
• dupe-krill - Fast file deduplicator.
• fcat - Cat implementation in Rust. Only works on Linux.
• lorem - Python lorem ipsum generator.
• miller - Like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON.
• kickstart - Scaffolding tool to get new projects up and running quickly.
• scc - Very fast accurate code counter with complexity calculations and COCOMO estimates.
• gf - Wrapper around grep, to help you grep for things.
• godu - Simple golang utility helping to discover large files/folders.
• now - Develop. Preview. Ship.
• nomino - Batch rename utility for developers.
• hex - Futuristic take on hexdump, made in Rust.
• url-parser - Command-line URL parser, written in Go.
• luneta - Interactive filter that can be easily composed within any script.
• spin - Simple scaffolding tool.
• as-tree - Print a list of paths as a tree of paths.
• wifi-password - Quickly share Wi-Fi connection info.
• delta - Syntax-highlighter for git and diff output.
• fzz - Allows you to change the input of a single command interactively.
• github-stats - Command-line tool to get the total traffic statistics of your GitHub repositories.
• map - Map lines from stdin to commands.
• JQL - JSON Query Language CLI tool built with Rust.
• jiq - jid on jq - interactive JSON query tool using jq expressions.
• ijq - Interactive jq tool. Like jqplay for the command line.
• rex - Command line playground for regular expressions.
• PWatch - Process Watcher.
• Rdfind - Command line tool that finds duplicate files.
• bfs - Breadth-first search for your files.
• Choose - Human-friendly and fast alternative to awk and cut. (HN)
• yj - Convert YAML <=> TOML <=> JSON <=> HCL.
• buku - Browser-independent bookmark manager.
• twf - Standalone tree view file explorer, inspired by fzf.
• hostblock - Simple terminal interface for blocking websites via the /etc/hosts file.
• ugrep - Ultra fast grep with interactive query UI.
• sad - CLI search and replace. Show you a nice diff of proposed changes before you commit them.
• wfh - Continuously watches your local directories and rsync them against a remote host.
• teip - Select partial standard input and replace with the result of another command.
• Got - Simple and fast concurrent downloader.
• duf - Disk Usage/Free Utility.
• espanso - Cross-platform Text Expander written in Rust.
• huniq - Command line utility to remove duplicates from the given input. Note that huniq does not sort the input, it just removes duplicates.
• RustScan - Modern Port Scanner.
• nat - Complete replacement for the 'ls' command.
• csvq - SQL-like query language for csv.
• gping - Ping, but with a graph.
• FClones - Efficient Duplicate File Finder.
• googler - Google from the terminal.
• Proji - Powerful cross-platform CLI project templating tool.
• dasel - Allows you to query and modify data structures using selector strings.
• McFly - Fly through your shell history.
• pbgopy - Copy and paste between devices.
• prism - RTMP stream recaster / splitter.
• menyoki - Screen{shot,cast} and perform ImageOps on the command line. (Web)
• projen - Define and maintain complex project configuration through code.
• lsd - Next gen ls command.
• ls-lint - Extremely fast directory and filename linter - Bring some structure to your project directories. (Docs)
• lychee - Fast, async, resource-friendly link checker written in Rust.
• vgrep - User-friendly pager for grep.
• urlhunter - Recon tool that allows searching on URLs that are exposed via shortener services.
• rip - Safe and ergonomic alternative to rm.
• Orderly - Tool that provides ordered and controlled start, stop, restart and cleanup of a group of processes.
• Ruplacer - Find and replace text in source files.
• Graphtage - Semantic diff utility and library for tree-like files such as JSON, JSON5, XML, HTML, YAML, and CSV.
• sq - Command line tool that provides jq-style access to structured data sources such as SQL databases, or document formats like CSV or Excel. (Web)
• yank - Yank terminal output to clipboard. (HN)
• xplr - Hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer, stealing ideas from nnn and fzf.
• Freshfetch - Fresh take on Neofetch.
• rush - Cross-platform command-line tool for executing jobs in parallel.
• so - Terminal interface for Stack Overflow.
• gdu - Disk usage analyzer with console interface written in Go.
• kalk - Command line calculator that supports math-like syntax with user-defined variables, functions, derivation, integration, and complex numbers. (Web) (HN)
• fcp - Significantly faster alternative to the classic Unix cp command.
• Renamer - Command line utility to batch-rename files via your editor.
• Difftastic - Syntax-aware structured diff tool. (HN)
• hck - Drop in replacement for cut that can use a regex delimiter instead of a fixed string.
• calendarheatmap - Calendar heatmap inspired by GitHub contribution activity.
• rnr - Command-line tool to batch rename files and directories.
• Gaze - Runs a command, right after you save a file.
• Czkawka - Multi functional app to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images etc.
• Rustcat - Netcat Alternative in Rust.
• s - Web search from the terminal. Just opens in your browser.
• Sweep - Reduce the disk usage of your projects by removing dependencies & builds.
• Viddy - Modern watch command. Time machine and pager etc.
• tree-grepper - Like grep, but uses tree-sitter grammars to search.
• qq - Select stdin with query.
• todocheck - Static code analyzer for annotated TODO comments.
• TV - Cross-platform CSV pretty printer made to maximize viewer enjoyment. (HN)
• anew - Tool for adding new lines to files, skipping duplicates.
• hors - Instant coding answers via the command line.
• dua - View disk space usage and delete unwanted data, fast.
• conan - Find clue about the type of the file.
• alt - Find alternate files.
• fzwiki - Command with fzf-like UI to quickly search Wikipedia articles and open it in your browser.
• Untree - Converts tree diagrams produced by tree back into directory file structures.
• IDNT - Batch software uninstall.

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