Awesome Shell

A curated list of awesome command-line frameworks, toolkits, guides and gizmos. Inspired by awesome-php.

• Awesome Bash
  • Networking and Servers
  • Customization
  • Package Management and Frameworks
  • Writing and Testing Scripts
  • Multimedia
  • Games
  • Utilities and Tools
• Guides
• Other Awesome Lists

Networking and Servers

Self-hosted, lightweight servers and networking tools written in shell scripts.

• balls - Bash on Balls
• bashblog - A Bash script that handles blog posting
• bashttpd - A web server written in bash
• bitpocket - "DIY Dropbox" or "2-way directory (r)sync with proper deletion"
• dokku - Docker powered mini-Heroku in around 100 lines of Bash
• Dropbox-Uploader - Dropbox Uploader is a BASH script which can be used to upload, download, list or delete files from Dropbox
• ngincat - Tiny bash HTTP server using netcat
• pushblast - Get PushBullet notifications when a shell program exits
• pushbullet-bash - Bash interface to the PushBullet API
• resty - Little command line REST client that you can use in pipelines

Customization

Custom prompts, color themes, etc.

• base16-shell - Base16 for Shells
• bash-git-prompt - An informative and fancy bash prompt for Git users
• bash-powerline - Powerline-style Bash prompt in pure Bash script
• bashstrap - A quick way to spruce up OSX terminal
• flatui-terminal-theme - Nicer colors for terminal
• liquidprompt - A full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh
• powerline-zsh - Powerline for Zsh
• pure - Pretty, minimal and fast ZSH prompt
• sexy-bash-prompt - Bash prompt with colors, git statuses, and git branches
• zsh-autosuggestions - Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh
• zsh-git-prompt - Informative git prompt for zsh
• zsh-prompt-powerline - A ZSH prompt based on the powerline font from the popular vim plugin
• zsh-syntax-highlighting - Fish shell like syntax highlighting for zsh
• zsh-history-substring-search - An implementation of the Fish shell's history search feature for zsh.

Package Management and Frameworks

Tools for managing multiple shell configurations.

• antigen - A plugin manager for zsh, inspired by oh-my-zsh and vundle
• bash-it - A community bash framework
• bpkg - JavaScript has npm, Ruby has Gems, Python has pip and now Shell has bpkg
• fresh - Keep your dotfiles fresh
• homeshick - git dotfile synchronizer written in bash
• oh-my-fish - Framework for managing your fish shell configuration inspired by Oh My ZSH
• oh-my-zsh - A community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration
• prezto - The configuration framework for Zsh
• vcsh - config manager based on Git

Writing and Testing Scripts

Boilerplate-like templates and systems to jump-start whatever script you are writing.

• bashful - A collection of libraries to simplify writing bash scripts
• bats - Bash Automated Testing System
• composure - Compose, document, version and organize your shell functions
• dispatch - A command line argument parser in 50 lines of portable shell script.
• shpec - A shell testing framework
• sub - a delicious way to organize programs
• ts - a shell test script

Multimedia

Tools for handling video and audio files.

• Beets - Music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger
• PiCAST - PiCAST turns your $35 Raspberry Pi in to a Chromecast like Device

Games

All work and no play is a cruddy way to spend your day.

• bash2048 - Bash implementation of 2048 game
• minesweeper - Bash implementation of minesweeper
• sedtris - Tetris in sed
• sed-scripts - Arkanoid and Sokoban written using sed

Utilities and Tools

Other various neat gizmos to make your terminal experience more enjoyable.

• Android-Kitchen - A text-based kitchen for Android ROM customization. Uses shell scripts and works with Cygwin/OS X/Linux
• ansiweather - Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols
• autoenv - Directory-based environments
• autojump - A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line
• bash-slugify - Command that converts filenames and directories to a web friendly format
• bashmarks - Directory bookmarks for the shell
• cv - Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, ...
• fasd - Command-line productivity booster, offers quick access to files and directories
• geeknote - Command line evernote client
• git-extras - GIT utilities -- repo summary, repl, changelog population, author commit percentages and more
• git-sh - A customized bash environment suitable for git work
• quick-secure - Quickly secure and harden UNIX/Linux systems
• hr - <hr /> for your terminal
• hstr - BASH History Suggest Box
• jrnl - A simple command line journal application that stores your journal in a plain text file
• ledger - Command line accounting
• lsp - An improved ls, with file descriptions in plain language and intelligent file grouping
• mr - Multiple Respository management tool
• pretty-time-zsh - Convert seconds to a human readable string: 165392 → 1d 21h 56m 32s
• semver_bash - Semantic Versioning in Bash
• shellcheck - Static analysis tool for shell scripts
• slap - Sublime-like terminal-based text editor that runs on Node.js
• spark - ▁▂▃▅▂▇ in your shell
• spot - Tiny file search utility
• sshrc - bring your .bashrc, .vimrc, etc. with you when you ssh
• transfer.sh — Quickly upload and share files from your shell
• v - z for vim.
• wemux - Multi-User Tmux Made Easy
• z - z is the new j, yo
• zsh-dwim - ZSH Do what I mean.
• zsh-notify - Desktop notifications for long running commands in zsh
• zshmarks - A port of Bashmarks (simple bookmarking plugin by Todd Werth) for oh-my-zsh

Guides

• Bash Hackers Wiki
• Greg Wooledge's (aka "greycat") wiki. Specifically Bash Guide, Bash FAQ and Bash Pitfalls
• Google's Shell Style Guide
• The Linux Documentation Project: Bash Programming - Intro/How-to
• The Linux Documentation Project: Advanced Bash Scripting Guide
• WikiBooks: Bash Shell Scripting
• Use the Unofficial Bash Strict Mode (Unless You Looove Debugging)

Other Awesome Lists

Other amazingly awesome lists can be found in awesome-awesome and awesome-awesomeness.