For those who are familiar with RSS to track release notes, blogs and more RSS supported sites, eilmeldung is handy when you want scanning, tagging, and focused reading of RSS content in the terminal.
It has a clock, pomodoro, timer, stopwatch, countdown, and world clock modes, also developer time formats like Unix, ISO 8601, and hexadecimal. It can copy timestamps, print once for scripts, and show day or year progress.
This tool also features FIGlet fonts, weather backgrounds, system reactive visuals, and you can configure the text with custom fonts.
sigye can be used by developers and terminal users who want a screensaver-like clock and status style visuals inside of the terminal.
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It supports almost every feature in the Discord web and desktop app, some features include, direct messaging, sending, receiving, replying, editing and deleting messages, muting and unmuting channels, full message history, emoji reactions and pinned messages to name a few. Even the layout mirrors the web app, and it is optimized for low memory usage compared to Discord's own app.
As concord is in the terminal, it has terminal specific features such as inline image previews via Kitty, iTerm2, Sixel protocols, Halfblocks and markdown rendering. Member profiles, notifications, typing indicators and polls are also in the TUI.
Anyone who is a Discord power user who prefers the terminal may find concord as a useful, efficient alternative Discord client to the official Electron based Discord app.
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It runs full pipelines or only up to the current subcommand, and has a live feedback while typing in the input field with the query that you want to execute. It also has command completion and file paths through bash tools.
Syntax highlighting is also supported in rura, alongside other features such as persistent command history, output search, line wrapping, inline or pane errors, and TOML config for keys, themes, and layout.
This tool is ideal for developers debugging pipes, parsing logs, shaping command output, and testing shell ideas before saving them into scripts in the terminal.
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This debugger is not based on gdb or other debuggers. It is written from scratch and has the standard debugger features such as breakpoints, conditional breakpoints, stepping in functions and subroutines, side-by-side or top-down source view and disassembly views, and watch expressions.
For those who are looking for a minimalist lightweight debugger that works on native code, nnd is useful for developers debugging native Linux programs in compiled languages such as Rust, C++, Zig, or Odin with no dependencies in the terminal.
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It can lint and validate workflow files such as ci.yml, release.yml, and gitlab-ci.yml, then run jobs through containers, host emulation, or secure emulation. Docker and Podman are supported, but not required. It also handles GitHub style environment variables, secrets, job dependencies, reusable jobs, and watch mode.
Other features of wrkflw include job selection, DAG views, live logs, matrix builds, artifacts, cache support, expression evaluation, and remote triggering. Compared with act, wrkflw has GitLab CI support, non-container runtime modes, and a TUI for watching jobs run locally.
wrkflw is useful for software engineers and anyone working with CI/CD who wants to test GitHub Actions or GitLab CI jobs locally in the terminal.
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The TUI allows you to send and compose emails with autocomplete and rich text rendering. It also has attachments support and stores your emails locally and securely. You can manage multiple accounts and switch between them and navigate via the keyboard.
Additional features of matcha include drafting emails, archive handling, embedded media, inline image support and a plugin marketplace. Clickable terminal links requires modern terminals with hyperlinks support (OSC 8) such as iTerm 2, Ghostty, WezTerm and many others.
If you find yourself writing and drafting emails, staying in the terminal, and longing for a minimal interface for all your email accounts in one place, consider using matcha.
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This tool reviews staged / unstaged, and ref-based changes and also supports watch mode, glob filtering, fuzzy file switching, and click-to-open editor links. critique comes with lazygit support and can preview the diff output on the web with PDF exporting and it works with 20+ languages.
critique works best for developers reviewing local unstaged changes, patches or branch diffs, before committing them or if they need an alternative diff tool.
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It displays data in a hexadecimal format and the editor color-codes bytes by value, supports multiple selections which can have its selection as signed, unsigned, binary, fixed-point, UTF-8, or color values. It can also display split selections into a 4-byte fixed-size chunks for reading the character hex bytes easily instead of all together.
Other features of hexapoda include configurable vim style key-bindings, undo and redo functionality, marked offsets and while hex editing a binary, you can jump to relative or absolute offsets quickly.
This tool is useful for programmers, reverse engineers, and helix or kakoune users analyzing binary files in the terminal.
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The TUI uses tree-style navigation for navigating the LDAP directory both locally and remotely. This tool also supports entry attributes, running custom filters, automatic pagination and has real-time query results. You can access saved LDAP connections when you need to and add new ones later.
This tool is ideally useful for LDAP directory admins, those working with LDAP or Active Directory data directly in the terminal and those who require automation or remote management.
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This tool uses sane defaults, it can auto-detect serial ports connected to the machine and has automatic reconnection. You can configure the baud rates of the serial connection in case if certain devices require a specific connection speed to communicate with.
It also features several features such as modem line toggles, hex mode, file logging, config profiles, shell redirection, and can show RX/TX statistics.
tio works best for embedded developers, hardware engineers, and those working with low level systems and it can be a useful tool for debugging hardware via serial consoles in the terminal.
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It shows your local home directory and chezmoi-managed files side by side, while also keeping matching selections synced between both trees. The TUI also supports encrypted files, themes, templates, executables, directories and further configuration via chezmoi config files.
You need chezmoi installed for cheznav to work, as this tool uses chezmoi commands like add, apply, diff, edit, forget, chattr and ignore through the TUI context menu. You can run a subset of these chezmoi commands in dry-run mode in cheznav if you want to preview changes before applying them for real.
cheznav is a great for chezmoi users who want a visual way to compare, apply, and clean up dotfile changes easily using a TUI interface.
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This file manager can preview supported file types on the right-hand side of the pane and it can preview markdown, code, images, and archive files including zip files. You can do multiple operations in the file manager such as creating three files in one folder in a single bulk file operation. With that, it has trash management and can restore or permanently delete files.
elio's inline image preview supports Kitty Graphics Protocol, Sixel, and iTerm2 images and it allows you to customize places on the left-hand side and auto-detects connected storage devices. This tool also has vim key-bindings support as well as mouse navigation.
This terminal file manager is very useful if you need an all-in-one file manager to quickly preview files in a TUI interface without using additional CLI tools or if you are accessing a machine remotely over SSH and you need rich previews of your files.
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This tool requires mpv and yt-dlp for video playback and it has features such as gapless audio, stream prefetching, and it can import from your Spotify playlist. When a track is played in ytm-player, is able to sync lyrics from YouTube and other lyric repositories as a fallback mechanism.
Extra features include in-app notifications of a currently playing track, Discord and Last.fm support and ytm-player can be used without the need for YouTube Music Premium under the free-tier.
ytm-player is great for terminal focused music listeners who want a YouTube Music client that supports lyrics, queues, and playback state in the terminal.
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It supports two player local games, has support for universal chess interface (UCI) chess engines such as Stockfish, you can play against the computer and online Lichess matches. Users can run chess-tui on macOS, Linux, and Windows.
Whilst playing against the computer, you can configure the bot difficulty and the game mode you want to play. For local multi-player games, you can play against other players on the same network or remotely and for Lichess integration, you need a Lichess token to play with other Lichess users.
chess-tui is best for general chess players, Lichess users and competitive chess players and hobbyists who want quick games, or practice playing chess or need a TUI for Lichess without opening a browser.
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It handles general administrative operations such as package installation, uninstallation, upgrading, staging changes and version picking. You can see the release notes of each package and also view command previews, package policies, and batch execution with one UAC prompt.
Extra features include cleaning up old temporary files after installs and uninstalls, health checks, which checks for the package installation status with headless mode support, self upgrade handoff and supports Windows 10 and 11 support.
This tool works best primarily for windows users who manage apps with winget, needs a package manager with updates, and can be used for automating installation of predefined packages in the terminal.
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This tool reads Logcat, filters by tag, text, or level, queries SQLite databases, monitors CPU, memory, disk, and network.
It also includes other features such as file browsing, themes, crash and ANR views, session history, runtime permission control, screenshots, app kill, app uninstall, dark mode toggles, layout bounds, and show taps.
If you find yourself debugging Android apps and using the ADB logcat tool, you may find that holo would work best for you if you need interactive stats, real time crashes, traces, device information all in one TUI.
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This tool can show a dashboard of statistics or any form of data that can be displayed in the terminal. For example: Git information, GitHub statistics, CI health, pull requests and contribution heatmaps. splashboard can also be configured via a local .splashboard/dashboard.toml file.
splashboard is suitable for developers who want an immediate overview of useful information they care about inside their terminal, instead of an empty new shell when they create a new terminal session.
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It turns incoming text into columns, keeps live feeds readable with arrival timestamps, tail mode, and time windows, then lets you filter, sort, search, pivot, and reshape the result as it changes. It can also parse JSON, CSV and detect common log formats without any manual setup.
It also keeps analysis history with buffers, separates files or shell command output into buffer groups, pins columns for wide scans, and gives you raw pager mode, pipe mode, saved sessions, reusable views, and failed-line inspection.
This tool is useful for engineers watching API streams, Kubernetes events, CI pipelines, access logs, server logs and other live data as sortable tabular columns for inspection in the terminal.
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It has two practice modes, curated topic based lessons, support for multiple languages, live WPM and accuracy tracking. It also has a error review and a rank system tied to your typing speed.
If you want to see an overview of all your stats, toofan comes with a profile dashboard showing speed history, personal bests across durations, recent tests and a daily activity heatmap at a glance. It also has themes and local backups just in case.
This tool works best for programmers, students, and hobbyists who want to practice and improve their typing skills that feels closer to code and fully runs in the terminal.
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It handles multi-cluster and multi k8s context setups and shows the main dashboard on the right hand side with the number of running nodes, pods, and resources. In the TUI, you can navigate to each k8s resource within a cluster. These are under specific sections including workloads, networking, storage and access controls.
You can use lfk to view all namespaces or search, filter, and perform bulk actions. It also has a monitoring dashboard for Prometheus alerts, and has an integration that allows you to configure and manage Helm charts inside of lfk.
This tool is a strong fit for DevOps engineers, experienced Kubernetes users and those who need a 3-column Midnight Commander style layout to easily inspect any k8s resource and monitor the cluster status in the terminal.
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It pulls data from many source formats like RSS, Atom feeds, APIs, website scraped sources, and even .onion sources via Tor. It does this to create an aggregated feed to manage all sources for text or regex keyword matching, criticality levels, deduplicated alerts, snippet extraction, and cached article reading.
Alerts can be set automatically and you can categorize their severity (Low, Medium, High, and Critical) based on the keywords being monitored. In the TUI dashboard, it shows seven day trend views, recent alerts, feed health monitoring, and a criticality distribution which shows the number of matched security threats that are from Low to Critical.
This tool is handy for those who are security researchers, threat analysts, solo researchers or anyone who is interested in monitoring threat feeds in their job. Combined with the ability to send alerts via email, webhooks, or discord makes threatdeck useful.
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It displays account statistics such as level, member since date, games owned, playtime hours, achievement progress, top played games, recently played titles, and rarest achievements. It also shows your avatar image, using image protocols such as Sixel, Kitty, and iTerm2 to display your profile picture in the terminal, otherwise block characters are used. If no avatar is found, an ASCII steam logo is shown instead.
The tool loads stats via an SDK (by detecting the a logged in Steam user) or an API key (for advanced users), but if you're looking to try it out without an account, steamfetch can show demo data without you connecting an API key.
Useful for Steam users, gamers and those curious about their Steam stats, steamfetch is ideal if you want a neofetch-like banner of account statistics, play history, and achievements to show off to your friends or display in the terminal in style.
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It shows live aircraft data with the country flags representing the origin of the aircraft, and it shows their callsign, route and altitude information. You can add any aircraft to your favorites and monitor its flight journey. Radar mode calculates the proximity of any aircraft based on your estimated location. Plus, you can capture and export this data CSV or JSON.
It also has layout modes for full, compact, and radar views, adjustable stale aircraft filtering, trail length settings, radar range controls with logging controls, and threshold settings for masking location derived values.
This TUI is useful for aviation hobbyists, ADS-B tinkerers and curious flight enthusiasts who want to track aircraft and air traffic around them and see this beautifully displayed in a TUI interface.
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It displays GitHub data in a minimal dashboard showing repositories, open pull requests, authored issues, contribution heatmaps, followers, stars, organisation links, and searchable repo lists.
This tool also has a 60 second auto refresh, manual refresh, public only mode for presentations, desktop notifications, and is aware of rate limits in case you go over GitHub's limits.
Ideal for GitHub users who want to view their own GitHub profile stats and recent activity for sharing with colleagues, friends or social media, octoscope can be used if you want a quick glance of other public GitHub profiles in the terminal without using a browser.
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It opens multiple systemd service logs and displays them in a tab view which you can apply custom filters such as date range filtering, string pattern matching searches and filtering by specific service.
This tool also has vim-style navigation, quick switching between log buffers, has detailed views and clipboard support for selected key value pairs from log entries.
Works best for Linux users, sysadmins and developers, see-tui is useful for those navigating through raw journalctl output logs and when you need to audit or read all available service logs remotely and intuitively in the terminal.
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Alongside monitoring the CPU cores and memory usage of the running machine, each connected GPU is monitored with it's temperature, power, VRAM, and aggregate GPU usage. The top used processes are shown below the GPU stats. It handles unified memory, includes synthetic load generation and can also monitor RDMA or InfiniBand throughput.
Developers or machine learning engineers specializing in high performance computing, CUDA kernel performance tuning, inference engineering, or DGX users would find nv-monitor useful when they need to monitor GPU health and cluster operations for scaling GPU workloads or inference performance in the terminal.
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It pulls live Hetzner auction data, sorts servers by CPU value per euro, RAM per euro, and storage per euro and includes PassMark CPU benchmarks for quick server comparisons. You can see more details and properties of a server you're interested in, with the ability to see the location, storage and pricing with the full server price inclusive of value added tax (VAT) which is displayed and shown in the TUI.
This tool also has a JSON listing mode, aggregated stats, opening the server in the browser, VAT toggling, configurable tax rate, and an optional cloud baseline comparison against Hetzner's CCX33 instance.
Ideal for self hosters, software engineers, and sysadmins who already know their way around servers and want a faster way to compare Hetzner auction machines by value in the terminal.
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It scans across common junk categories and displays each of their file sizes and paths before deletion, sends items to the trashcan by default and also keeping riskier categories unselected unless you explicitly include them.
You can also do a preview-first cleanup and select categories by enabling Full Disk Access support for restricted paths (For macOS permissions).
This tool works best for Mac power users and intermediate users who want to quickly examine temporary files taking up space and preview them before removing them in the terminal.
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It tracks branch state, dirty files, ahead and behind status, active worktrees, changed files, commit history and updating repo state in near real time with split diffs.
It also has commit search, push, pull, rebase actions, repo sorting, clipboard copying, mouse support, add and remove controls, and further configuration via a TOML file for scan depth, exclusions pinned repos and more.
For developers managing lots of repos, microservices, or generated worktrees who want to view their local repositories and check without navigating between directories in the terminal, can use gitpane for that use case.
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It handles multi tab editing, syntax highlighting, project search, also LSP completions, hover docs, go to definition, file tree actions, git status, and undo and redo.
Other features are file watching, built in themes, VS Code theme import, configurable settings, unsaved change markers, and support for Go, Python, Rust, web files, bash, and Markdown.
Useful for programmers and tinkerers when you need to patch files, inspect a project, or jump between edits quickly in the terminal.
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It allows you to browse, compare, and edit multiple .env files and replaces manual editing with a clean, visual overview of your workspace variables. It displays a two panel layout with file list and variables with the ability to perform inline editing and side-by-side diffing between two files.
Those that frequently need to access the contents of a machine's environment variables would find lazyenv a perfect usecase for this. You can use this tool if you need to handle local .env file configurations without leaving the terminal.
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It has an 8 screen control pane number-based key navigation with live bandwidth charts, zoomable topology, client filtering, firewall policy editing, and real-time event streaming. It can display traffic graphs with the specific clients, device information and network topology info as well as firmware and uptime data. It also includes customizable themes and named profile configurations.
This tool is useful for network administrators, sysadmins, and those that use UniFi infrastructure and need a way to interact with devices on the UniFi network.
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It pulls recent papers from chosen categories, tracks read and unread items and supports keyword filters with global search, and saved libraries. You can directly download PDFs from arXiv, look up papers with BibTeX citation browsing, and you can save them at different user-specified directories.
For researchers, students, and hobbyists who frequently read papers or need to keep up with the latest papers released on arXiv will find this tool helpful while still using the terminal.
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Upon running rustlens, it does a code analysis of all Rust source files and extracts the syntax and language semantics used in a project such as: functions, constants, enums, traits, impl blocks, structs and modules.
With this you can easily navigate and search certain types or structs with the search box and the definition / implementation of the selected type is shown on the right hand pane. It comes with a cargo dependency view to visualize all dependencies used in a project and supports vim style key bindings.
This tool is directed towards software engineers or developers who primarily use the Rust programming language and also learners that want to get a quick map of a Rust codebase or crate structure very quickly.
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It has visual mode which you can insert formulas with a selected range of rows or columns for basic calculations. You can directly edit cells, insert or delete cells and cut and paste cells. This tool can search forwards and backwards and has command mode allowing you to save a CSV file or open a new one.
sheets is for those who are familiar with Excel, formulas and would want a minimal CSV viewer with a spreadsheet TUI for the most basic operations.
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It features an overview dashboard that shows you the live traffic (RX and TX) with the interface identifier and IP information. The top network connections are displayed in the dashboard with configurable health check monitoring, network timelines, and a color-coded latency heatmap that measures host and client ping latency. It has a built in packet capture and decoder which allows you to inspect captured packets in PCAP format, and it can optionally monitor eBPF packets as well.
This tool also shows a topology view with an ASCII network map visualization (unique to netwatch), showing the network traffic frequency with the process names, PIDs, where it came from and a visualization showing the timeframe of bandwidth data and packets in the TUI.
Ideal for sysadmins, network engineers, homelab enthusiasts and anyone interested in packet inspection, use netwatch when you need to diagnose network issues visually on a local or remote machine using a single tool with multiple functions in the terminal.
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It finds old branches, deletes merged ones by default, protects main branch names, also skips WIP and draft patterns, saves backup SHAs, and works with local or remote branches.
Other features include dry runs, branch statistics, backup restore, shell completions, and an interactive TUI interface with searching, visual selection, sorting, and a fun particle dissolving animation when a branch is deleted.
This tool makes sense for developers maintaining repos when old branches pile up after fixes, experiments, and reviews in the terminal. It is also an ideal tool even if sometimes you want to delete a branch in style.
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It is agnostic of where the repository is hosted, and supports GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, Bitbucket and self-hosted providers for it to work. It works by storing all activity (including posts, issues, pull-requests and releases) on gitmsg/* branches and syncs using git fetch (update) and git push (to publish). It handles releases with artifacts and is useable via a TUI (or CLI), and JSON-RPC.
Since git is used as the underlying tool for its functionality, it can work offline and can work peer to peer (if self-hosted) and it comes with support for posting comments, re-posts, timelines, issues, project management features such as boards, milestones and cross-forge pull requests with version-aware reviews.
This tool works best for those who are in open source teams or are git-heavy power users who need to an all-in-one tool that you can review pull-requests, comment and publishing releases in any Git hosting provider and works offline or online in the terminal.
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It searches SSH hosts in a config file and can sync servers from 16 cloud providers, i.e. AWS EC2, GCP, Azure, Vultr, Hetzner, DigitalOcean and many others. After adding a server, purple gives you immediate server health statistics and metadata such as the connection info, running containers (via Docker), an activity graph with the number of SSH connections and the last SSH connection time which is useful for sorting or grouping other servers.
It also manages Docker and Podman over SSH, browses remote files, runs command snippets, retrieves SSH passwords from common password managers and keychains, and ignores comments in the SSH config file so your notes aren't altered.
This tool is ideal for system administrators, DevOps engineers, and developers who frequently need to SSH into many hosts to know their server's health status immediately and need an alternative to directly editing their ~/.ssh/config file in the terminal.
It has several features that makes it a useful signal messenger such as 1:1 and group messages, replies, image attachments, clickable hyper-links, typing indicators, synced messages from your phone, unread tracking, reactions, editing, deleting your own messages and notifications via the terminal bell or OS-level desktop notifications.
You can search messages, mention members in the group chat, read receipts for outgoing messages, create disappearing messages (with a message timer), and it has mouse support, a group management setup wizard with QR code linking.
Is best used for those who are either hobbyist, advanced or power users of Signal who would like a fast TUI interface to the standard signal client and to have most of the features all inside the terminal.
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It tracks multiple markets, portfolios and shows real time quotes, with fundamentals, charts, and custom layouts. You can add as many markets into your watchlist, for stocks it shows the ticker with it's last asking price, intra-day change %, market cap and P/E ratio. It also has a command bar where commands are invoked via Control+P, has shortcuts which are used for navigation and launching new windows, plus it has support for split panes, search, settings and theme selection.
This tool also supports plugins, such as an "Ask AI" plugin to screen stocks using questions, view SEC filings, notes, news and a plugin for viewing US options chains. You can connect a broker (IBKR for example) for portfolio tracking or you can enter in your positions manually. It is also possible to compare against multiple tickers and produce a single chart comparison which overlays the charts of multiple tickers.
gloomberb is useful to those who are retail or hobbyist investors, and those who want to view their stock portfolio with a minimalist terminal aesthetic. It is recommended to use a terminal with rich Kitty graphics support such as iTerm2, WezTerm, Ghostty and others for the best experience.
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It automatically detects your system specifications such as RAM, VRAM, CPU, GPU and inference runtime and then scores models by quality, speed, fit, and required memory consumption. You can compare over hundreds of models against your machines requirements and it allows you to filter more than 20 different properties, such as parameter count, the model architecture, quantization, context size, tokens per second, and how well the model fits on your machine.
You can search the model name in the search bar and you can filter by model capability (reasoning, tool use, chat, coding, multimodal, embedding) and it detects which runtime to run the model under (runtimes such as vLLM, MLX, llama.cpp, Docker Model Runner, and LM Studio.)
This tool is very useful to AI researchers, developers, engineers, and AI enthusiasts who are interested in self-hosted LLM inference engineering who want to pick the best model for their machine depending on their laptop, desktop, or GPU box specs in the terminal.
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The main difference between jsongrep and jq is that this tool queries more than just JSON. It supports and queries inputs that are in YAML, NDJSON, TOML, JSONL, CBOR, and MessagePack from files or stdin, with count, depth, format, and path controls. It also includes fixed string search, compact output, path headers, case insensitive matching, and shell completions.
Another significant difference is the declarative path-matching tasks, which you can specify the exact shape of the path you want and jsongrep's engine processes it and finds them.
jsongrep is for those who want a fast JSON query processor and an alternative to jq to query across multiple structured formats very quickly.
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It can fetch RFCs by number and cache them automatically for offline reading. It supports text search inside documents and table of contents (ToC) navigation. Whether if the documents are offline or online in rfc_reader, you can navigate via keyboard controls, read a specific RFC, and quickly jump between reading, searching, and section browsing in one place.
If you are familiar with reading RFC documents and accessing them frequently on the web, or you require reading RFCs in general, this tool is useful to have a way of fetching RFCs documents and reading them all in the terminal.
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It reads OpenTelemetry, Zipkin, Prometheus, and Datadog data, also shows traces, spans, topologies, metrics, logs, filters, and basic metric charts. It also features trace and log detail views, links between logs and spans, clipboard copying for log bodies, refresh controls, and buffer settings.
Useful for backend developers and platform engineers debugging services, watching signals, or checking telemetry feeds directly without opening a browser.
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Instead of hand editing monitor configs and lining screens manually, this tool handles monitor placement, workspace planning, mirroring, scaling, transforms and also hardware based monitor matching.
Compared with heavier GUI tools, it keeps profile editing and auto-switching without extra runtime dependencies beyond Hyprland, while the background daemon automatically applies the best matching profile on hotplug. After changing a profile, you can automatically revert it if there is an issue.
Useful for Hyprland users with multiple monitor setups, hyprmoncfg can be used when you need to move between a desk, dock, external screen, or projector and want saved profiles, auto-switching, and monitor layout control in a TUI without hand-editing config files.
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It scans directories, filters entries, sorts by size or name and can handle hidden files, one filesystem limits, snapshots, imports, and exports. Compared with du, and ncdu, it leans more into browsing and inspection of specific files than plain size totalling of the entire disk. In the TUI, it has standard file operations to delete, move files and rescan the filesystem.
Also, it comes with a live color-coded treemap view for a more visual representation of which contents take up the most space in the users filesystem.
darya is useful for developers, sysadmins, and power users who need to monitor and visualize disk space, free up extra data held in cache files and folders, or display a treemap of files on remote servers in the terminal.
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It supports standard JQL search with autocomplete, highlighting, and history and in its interface has useful properties also found in the Jira tickets such as priority, assignee, labels, comments, descriptions, transitions, and custom fields.
The TUI has a 4 panel layout showing issues, projects, details and status in one view. If you're familiar with vim or custom keybindings which it supports, navigation through the layout is straightforward. It also includes saved JQL tabs, mouse reporting, adaptive layouts, column control, and inline editing through your editor.
This tool is useful for engineers and those who use Jira daily who want ticket triage, status changes, and issue reading from the terminal.
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Core features include playback for many audio files, (MP3, WAV, FLAC, OGG, AAC, ALAC, Opus, and WMA), playlist and music folder support, streaming from platforms such as YouTube, SoundCloud, Bilibili, Spotify and Navidrome, parametric EQ for shaping sound and the ability to stream audio from internet radio stations.
This tool also has support for lyrics, themes, audio quality controls, keybindings and config files for custom stations and playback settings. The reactive visualizations are one of the highlight features of cliamp, and you can cycle through 20+ unique visualizations in the TUI.
Core features include deep fuzzy search across keys and values, breadcrumb based navigation through nested trees, read only local file handling for sensitive files, instant loading for smaller files, themes, and a streaming SQLite backend for larger datasets.
You can also use this tool to clean up common broken JSON, i.e. trailing commas, NaN values, and unquoted keys. It has a helpful column based view that keeps the parent context visible instead of hiding it while you move deeper into large files.
twig is useful for anyone inspecting configs, API responses, logs, or heavy nested dataset files in the terminal.
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It shows a live list of program IDs with properties such as the type of program, average runtime, events per second and estimated CPU use. It comes with a time series graph when you select a specific eBPF program running on the system, and you can filter by name or type.
Just like many top-like tools, it has a table view which you can sort by columns, process names and PIDs tied to each program, and you can adjust the refresh rate if needed.
bpftop is useful for SREs, platform engineers, kernel developers, and Linux performance engineers who need to trace systems and analyze eBPF metrics. It can also be used to get an overall holistic view of the eBPF programs running on your system.
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It lets you browse package lists, search and filter them, switch between installed and upgradable views, sort results, handles parallel downloads, and check details like version, size, dependencies, and homepage links.
You can also pin your favourite packages, export your installed packages to JSON and import them when you need to restore your packages on another system. This tool can manage your PPA repositories by adding, removing and disabling them in the TUI.
aptui works well for Linux users who use APT as their package manager and may want to try an alternative TUI for managing Linux packages.
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Core features include in / out marking, play and pause, second and frame seeking, mute toggling, preview quality changes and undoing trim changes. Keyboard shortcuts are supported by lazycut, while you edit your clip, the TUI shows video, codec, bitrate and FPS information about your video.
You can also preview the trimmed video, and export the section you need. When exporting, you can change the aspect ratio sizes in the TUI before exporting your video. This tool uses ffmpeg under the hood, the equivalent ffmpeg command is shown for your own information or future reference.
This tool is useful if you want to preview your trimmed video for automation with ffmpeg and you don't want to load a full video editing program.
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It can be used for viewing markdown files and editing them, local and external link navigation with wiki style documentation if you need a defined structured style. Also, tiki can search across stored files, to-do tracking with priorities, status, assignee and size, issue management with board views, burndown charts, plugin based filters and actions, and git backed version history.
This tool is useful for those who are frequent note takers and those planning files close to their codebase. If you like versioned history of notes or docs and you are a frequent user of Git, consider tiki if you want to keep them organized.
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This tool updates matches as you type with live feedback in the TUI and supports multiple regex engines such as PCRE2, fancy-regex or the default Rust regex engine. It also shows capture groups, replacement previews, plain english pattern explanations, and flag toggles.
It also supports other features such as stdin input, clipboard and mouse support, batch print mode, count mode, whitespace display, and optional vim mode. The TUI includes a regex cheatsheet in the help menu, a dedicated pane for expression explanations and the tool has built in regex recipes you can test in rgx.
If you've built applications that use regex in the past or you're looking to test regex expressions on multiple engines interactively, consider trying out rgx. It is useful for software engineers, students and anyone who wants to double check regex quickly and offline.
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This tool records costs for home maintenance, appliances, projects, incidents, vendor quotes and house records in one local SQLite database, with no cloud account or subscription, and it stays locally on your machine. It also keeps maintenance schedules with auto-computed due dates and service history, compares quotes in local currency, tracks warranties and appliances with purchase dates tied to them, and also stores manuals, invoices, and photos.
Other features include incident logs by location and severity, full text search, a vendor directory, project tracking from idea to completion, and an optional local LLM chat that summarizes results on your machine for when you ask questions about spending or planned work.
Useful for homeowners, renters, and those who prefer a simple terminal interface who wants to see repair history, costs, and documents kept nearby locally without cloud accounts or subscriptions.
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It scans a Git repository and produces visualizations that are shown as summary cards, commit charts, and heatmaps. This tool also has the ability to change the date granularity by hour, week, month or year and can display contributor rankings, sortable branch tables, and search commits in the TUI.
Other features of gittop include file breakdowns for churn, size, authors, staleness, and languages in the repository. It can also display commit diffs, can change the theme, has vim keybindings and it can do global filtering for author, path, branch, or regular keywords.
This tool is useful for those familiar with Git who want to see a quick and visual overview of any Git repo's activity in the terminal.
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Core features include parsing common strace flags and output formats, color coding syscalls by type and error state, dynamic filtering, syscall search, JSON export of parsed traces, stack trace resolution to function names + source lines, and graphs for forks and clones.
This tool also has support for multithreaded and multi-process traces, the option to open a trace file or trace a command directly, and a view that helps spot failures, repeated calls, and noisy sections faster.
strace-tui is useful for Linux programmers, students, and low level tinkerers who want visual and interactive feedback on strace while staying in the terminal.
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Core features include parallel agent sessions, support for many terminal coding agents, importing and using git worktrees, diff viewing, keyboard and mouse control, tmux backed isolation, and persistent sessions for each agent. This tool requires tmux so that each agent can run a seperate tmux session for terminal isolation.
Handy for developers comparing coding agents, running parallel prompts at once, or splitting tasks across branches while keeping output separated during experiments, reviews, and fast moving build sessions in the terminal.
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It comes with resource autocompletion with keyboard driven commands (with Vim like keybindings), can control resources from the terminal such as starting, stopping and terminating EC2 instances, and allows multiple AWS profile selection and switching between multiple regions.
This tool shows detailed views of 96 AWS resources across 60+ AWS services in it's TUI. You can filter your resources locally (using fuzzy matching) or server side by using AWS tags. It also has pagination, useful for navigation large AWS resources and has the ability to refresh the TUI without resorting to multiple browser tabs for the same action.
AWS cloud engineers, DevOps teams, SREs, and developers who are familiar with AWS would find taws useful during routine infrastructure work or just seeing an overview of AWS information directly in the terminal.
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Key features include, intelligent scheduling that allocate tasks across days to honor daily limits, support for task dependencies (plus fixed tasks like meetings), a visual gantt chart to display workload analysis in the terminal, markdown notes for rendering task notes, soft deletion and audit logging.
Additionally, this tool tracks each task's planned vs actual time and stores all data locally in a SQLite database for privacy (no cloud needed). This tool also includes a REST API and MCP integration if one wants to optionally extend or connect taskdog to an AI assistant.
Ideal for solo developers, students, or professionals who manages tasks in the terminal with automated scheduling, taskdog is useful for anyone needing a personal task planner that runs locally and organizes each day’s workload automatically.
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It reads .splat and .ply files, supports six render modes in the terminal including half-block, braille and ASCII (which can be cycled through). It has two camera modes, (free and orbit cameras) which can be used to navigate the 3D scene, supports supersampling up to 3x, and renders 3D scenes fully parallelized in the terminal. It currently runs on a CPU, a GPU isn't required but it is planned.
Other features of tortuise are HUD toggling, axis flip flags, adjustable speed keys, and has cross-platform support on macOS and Linux. It works best on terminals that support Truecolor such as Ghostty, iTerm2, Kitty, WezTerm or Alacritty, etc for the best experience.
This tool is useful for those curious or familiar with NeRFs (Neural Radiance Fields), nerfstudio, and those who want to inspect scenes, test terminal rendering to the limits, or to show off 3D scenes in a terminal environment.
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It sets up Oh My Posh and Nerd Fonts and walks you through the installation, then downloads themes on demand from the official theme repo. In addition, it can switch themes, search by name, and writes or removes the standard init line depending on the shell you use. It supports powershell, bash, zsh, fish, nushell, and elvish profiles and the TUI has full keyboard and mouse input support.
Other features of omp-manager are a status dashboard showing active themes, font and shell configuration status, quick actions to update, reset and to open the setup wizard. This tool also comes with a themes browser to browse 100+ themes, which contains live search, visual previews and to apply a theme in a single click.
omp-manager works best for those who want to customize their shell for Oh My Posh without the manual setup hassle. It is useful for quickly setting it up on new machines or over SSH on remote machines.
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It tracks GPU load and VRAM use with real-time charts, live stats for clock speed, temperature, power draw, memory, and it shows CPU breakdown metrics. It also has an advanced view in the TUI, (showing hostname, uptime, speed, external IP, RAM / swap and fan speed), has a process inspector, and the ability to kill processes.
One notable feature of gptop is that it is able to show multiple GPU graphs and side-by-side charts which is useful to those that want to compare the charts of multiple GPUs simultaneously. You can tweak the TUI color theme, such as the chart tick color, the text and the interface accent color.
gptop works well for those in machine learning (ML), AI, software engineering, and system administration who need to monitor not just GPU metrics, but also which processes are running on either the CPU or the GPU. It is useful while training models, gaming, or anything that uses GPU processing at home or on a remote server in the terminal.
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It sends mail through SMTP or Resend, reads content from stdin or files, supports Markdown, subject and address flags, file attachments, and a preview before sending. It can also use preset sender details and signatures from environment variables. Other features of pop are a full screen compose mode, script friendly CLI usage and pip support.
pop is useful for those who want to send (or test sending) emails manually through the TUI, or using the CLI for use in scripts, CI integrations or AI agents without needing to write heavy custom code to send emails.
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It can list folders and files, previews text with syntax highlighting, renders image thumbnails, searches names across the drive, and copies direct download links. It handles move, copy, rename, delete, folder creation, and star or unstar. It also supports batch downloads with pause, resume, and per-file progress, and offline tasks for URLs or magnets.
Other features of pikpaktui are uploading files with hash deduplication and multipart resuming, sharing links, displaying quota and account information, a download dashboard with the speed and ETA displayed, shell completions with remote path tab completion and persistent login with auto refreshing the TUI.
This tool is ideal for hobbyists, students and developers who already keep files in PikPak and want to manage their files on PikPak without leaving the terminal.
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It runs an agent on your server collecting host metrics, container stats, and logs 24/7. It has a configurable retention of these logs using SQLite storage and alerts you over email or webhooks when anything matches your rules. All connections run through an SSH-only tunnel and directly connects to a tori Unix socket (tori.sock), which means no HTTP server and no exposed ports.
You can also use multiple servers with tori, plus monitor multiple hosts from one terminal. It comes with regex search, log level filtering, with date/time ranges. In a configuration file, you can customize the ANSI colors, storage location, docker socket, and you can choose between email or webhook notifications.
This tool is useful for people who frequently SSH into their servers and want a minimal way to monitor their internal host metrics and logs. It also works with managed self-hosting solutions like Dokploy, Coolify, locally running homelabs or anyone running VPSs with a Docker installation without the overhead of a full monitoring stack.
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Standout features include almost full support for GitHub flavoured markdown, full support for the commonmark subset, admonitions, a bookmark system that allows you to save frequently visited issues and almost feature complete interaction with GitHub issues.
Other features include, support adding and removing reactions, regex search for labels, plus the ability to create, edit, add, and remove labels from issues, editing comments, closing issues, assigning and unassigning issues to users and creating new issues.
This tool works best for those that need to work with tickets fast and for anyone that interacts with GitHub issues on a regular basis.
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It reads common file inputs directly, including JSON, CSV, TSV, Parquet, and line-by-line text, either by file path or via standard input (stdin). For databases like PostgreSQL or MySQL, you can install a plugin and then reference tables in your query, so you can join a local CSV with a database table in one SQL statement and print the result as a table or CSV.
Other features include --describe to show a file or table schema, multiple output modes like live_table and batch_table, built-in SQL tables that document available functions and aggregates, and --explain to visualize the query plan.
Works best for data engineers, software engineers and anyone working with SQL data and pipelines, octosql is useful when your data is scattered and you just need an answer fast, for example querying JSON logs piped from another command, or running quick checks in CI or over SSH without setting up a separate pipeline.
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It tracks active TCP, UDP, ICMP, and ARP connections with detailed states, including TCP and QUIC phases, plus DNS and SSH activity. It measures interface bytes, packets, errors, drops, and collisions, and it tags connections with process names and well-known services by port. In the TUI, rustnet supports smart filtering, so you interactively filter live results with fields like port:, src:, dst:, sni:, process:, and state:. It can also inspect packets to identify protocols such as HTTP, TLS SNI, DNS, NTP, DHCP, and mDNS.
This tool has other features such as TCP network analytics, reverse DNS with caching, service name resolution, protocol-aware timeouts with staleness indicators, optional logging, and landlock sandboxing on Linux.
Useful for network engineers, system administrators or those that need to inspect network traffic regularly for auditing ports, debugging traffic and other network related monitoring or troubleshooting.
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It shows an index of every manual page on your system, grouped by section, a table of contents per page, hyperlinks to related man pages, URLs, email addresses, and local files. You get incremental search across pages and within page text, also man style flags like -k and -f, with navigation history and less-like keybindings.
This tool also has in-page links, pages for apropos and whatis results, mouse support, online help, and config files for key mappings and colors.
Those who want a different UI from their man pages may consider using qman. It's useful for quick jumping between references during debugging or learning unfamiliar commands while still staying true to the original man page.
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It syncs using Gmail via OAuth, saves full messages, labels, and attachments, and it imports MBOX archives or Apple Mail folders. Search runs locally with Gmail-style filters like from:, subject:, label:, has:attachment, and date ranges. It also can show basic analytics like top senders, domains, and label counts.
Other features of msgvault include an interactive TUI, multi-account archives in one vault, storing attachments once with content hashes, staged deletion that only removes mail from Gmail when you run the delete command, plus optional local web and MCP servers for scripts or AI assistants.
This tool works well for anyone with years of email who may want to move away from Gmail, those who need an email backup into an archive with attachments, and if you want your email archive easily searchable offline in a fast terminal UI.
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It connects via Redis to show Sidekiq processes, running jobs and has several properties such as queue contents, job lists and error backtraces. You can see which jobs that have been retried, busy or have been scheduled, and it gives error breakdowns and execution metrics in the TUI interface.
lazykiq also has keyboard shortcuts for vim style navigation, paging and list filtering, and quick view switching between dashboards, queues, and metrics. Job details include payload, timestamps, retry counts, and exception traces, and it supports nerd fonts.
This tool works best for Ruby and Rails developers, Backend Engineers, SREs, and DevOps engineers when diagnosing stuck workers, rising retries, or noisy failures during deploys, production incidents, or staging smoke tests.
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It reads through tasks using a PRD document (product requirements document) in a JSON format i.e. a prd.json, picks the highest priority item, builds prompts, runs your chosen agent, and checks for completion each iteration. It supports Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex and more, plus it is able pause and resume after crashes, saves logs per iteration, and has progress tracking across tasks.
Other features of ralph-tui are an interactive setup wizard, PRD creation with chat mode, conversion between tracker formats, prompt template viewing, and plugin listings for agents and trackers. Remote control is built in, with a listener mode, secure token based auth, remote add and test commands, and config push to multiple machines.
This tool works best for vibecoders, developers and maintainers who want repeatable agent runs on repos, especially when tackling many small fixes or refactors.
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It scans disks and then sorts directories by size, so you can spot large files fast, and it tags sizes for quick reading. It has color-coded disk usage with vim-style navigation and also searches for build artifacts and caches across 18 plus ecosystems, which helps reclaim space from toolchains and package managers.
On macOS it detects orphaned app data left behind in the ~/Library folder. For deletion it supports dry runs, double confirmation, and JSON audit logs. It can also target common directories that have a collection of large files such like node_modules, cargo target, and old Docker build leftovers.
Ideal for developers whose need to clean up large files such as build artifacts, package caches, and old project leftovers, mcdi is useful when you need to reclaim disk space or clean up disk space on your machine over time.
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It Includes Twitch moderation tools, poll viewing, stream markers, and clip creation. Supports third-party emote providers: 7TV, BTTV, and FFZ. Graphical emote display for Kitty-compatible terminals.
You can also manage multiple Twitch accounts and chat rooms in a single terminal session. This tool also has local message logging, user chat history, custom commands, custom themes, and self-hostable server.
Ideal for chat moderators and users active in multiple chats for extended sessions and it is available on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
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You can filter and search articles using a small query language, tag items and bulk tag by query, and switch into a focus mode that hides everything except the article text. It also supports many RSS providers, keeps sane defaults but stays configurable. Under the hood it keeps feed state in sync, so refreshes do not block while new items arrive.
For those who are familiar with RSS to track release notes, blogs and more RSS supported sites, eilmeldung is handy when you want scanning, tagging, and focused reading of RSS content in the terminal.
This tool has 4 tabs in its TUI interface, 'Home' where you can see an overview of your Hardcover activity, progress and book library for each of your saved books, 'Search' which allows you to search and find books on Hardcover, 'Lists' which categorizes books as private or public lists, and 'Stats' shows your reading stats by displaying charts, how much hardcovers, audiobooks and ebooks you've read, goals, and top genres.
A personal API key is needed to connect your account. Once connected, hardcover-tui can display your saved books such as author, series, and ratings. You can also select the status of the book, write a journal entry and follow other reading activity from other accounts in the TUI.
hardcover-tui is for book readers who want to effortlessly update and maintain their reading progress, manage lists, write reviews and keep a reading journal from the terminal itself.
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It pulls pricing from IsThereAnyDeal (API key required) and lists deals from 20+ online game stores, including Steam, GOG, Humble, and Epic Games Store. You can search titles, sort by discount, price, or popularity, and compare where the cheapest game deal or direct buy sits today. Also, it shows historical pricing and simple price charts to spot pricing deals.
Other features of dealve-tui are store and deal-type filters, region-aware pricing, per-game details such as current price and sale percentage, and a config file for further customization.
This tool is useful for PC gamers, gift buyers, and those who want game price comparisons across multiple games stores. It is extra useful if you want to quickly compare prices without opening multiple tabs with a browser, when you can instead compare game deals quickly by using the terminal.
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You can read timelines, write, reply, like, and repost or boost posts, plus cross-post the same text to multiple networks. It also handles media attachments, drafts, scheduled posts, and has CLI commands for posting and fetching timelines. Credentials go into your system keyring.
perch also has an SQLite cache for offline reading, filters per network, desktop notifications for mentions, keybindings and built-in themes. It can keep multiple accounts ready, so switching is quick.
This tool works best for developers, writers, and those who use the terminal often and want to keep up with Mastodon or Bluesky during short work breaks, coding sessions or discreetly in the terminal.
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It focuses on keyboard controls for playback, plays local files and folders as playlists, and also handles stream URLs through yt-dlp (Required) for sources like YouTube. You can queue tracks, seek, change volume and toggle repeat or shuffle without the need to use a browser.
It can save audio from a stream to a file, and also shows rich terminal visualizers such as matrix, spectrum or waveform. Optional settings cover key bindings, default player backends, and metadata display.
This tool is for those who want to listen to music while coding, are in terminal heavy setups or those that generally go for minimalist music players that run in the terminal. It is also useful when you need a music player that features quick playback, a queue, and visual feedback with lots of creative visualizations playing with the background.
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It reads Parquet, CSV, JSON, NDJSON, Avro, Arrow, ORC, and Excel, and it can load data from local files, S3, or HTTP. You can sort, filter, group, pivot, and reshape columns, then run SQL or an SQL-like DSL to slice results. In addition, it computes basic stats and renders charts in the terminal.
Other features of datui are exporting of query results, chart export as images, correlation checks, support for hive-partitioned folders, and keybindings.
This tool is useful for analysts, data engineers, and students who need to check datasets small or large, locally or via remote storage in the terminal.
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The TUI lets you place displays, snap them to edges, and tweak resolution, scale, and rotation. You can save presets for desk, dock, or travel setups, then switch presets quickly and preview changes before applying them. Additionally, it assigns workspaces to monitors, warns if there are config changes outside the tool, and keeps a short confirmation window to prevent bad layouts.
This tool also has mouse drag support, commands to list or apply presets, enabling or disabling toggles per monitor, and shortcuts for common resolutions. It can cycle orientations and restore previous workspace placement when loading a preset.
monitui works well for Linux and hyprland users with multi-monitor rigs who dock and undock, rotate a screen for coding, or swap between work and gaming setups. It is also useful for those who want to quickly configure their display settings in the terminal.
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It uses a three-way comparison between base, ours, and theirs, so you can see what changed on each side and build a result. You can pick whole sections from either side, copy lines across, and write the merged file back in place safely. It can also step through every conflicted file in a repo and run as a git mergetool.
This tool includes an optional diff3 output when base is available, non-interactive modes for scripts, backups of merged files, and a "list conflicts" mode when you run it with no args. There’s also a neovim plugin to launch it in a terminal buffer.
ec works best for developers working with in long rebases, merges, and cherry-picks who want a repeatable way to clear conflicts without leaving the terminal.
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It uses the Homebrew bottle ecosystem, is able to locally store a cache of packages, and is measured to be 5-20x faster than Homebrew. It is faster by being able to download and extract packages in parallel, uses APFS clonefiles (on macOS), which can copy packages by reference (copy on write) for zero disk overhead, and uses a SHA256 hashed content store. All of these performance enhancements means that re-installs are instant with zerobrew.
This tool also has a garbage collection command, which removes unreferenced data to reclaim space, and has commands like install, upgrade, uninstall, list, doctor and more commands which are the same commands as the original Homebrew.
This tool is ideal for those already familiar with Homebrew, but with the added benefit of being useful as a drop in alternative, and if you need fast installation and management of your Homebrew-installed tools.
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It watches multiple paths with optional recursion and debouncing. It also matches files by glob or regex names, extension lists, size thresholds, and modification age. Rules can move, copy, rename with date and filename tokens, trash or delete, plus it can archive files or run commands. This tool can run in the background that applies rules 24/7, keeps an activity log, and can send error notifications.
Ideal for developers and busy desktop users who want downloads, screenshots and invoices sorted, or old temporary files cleared, hazelnut helps to keep your files organized while staying in the terminal.
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It runs TCP, UDP and QUIC, and also tunes bitrate, duration, interval, and parallel streams. The server handles multiple clients at once, and keeps TCP on only a single port. It supports reverse and bidirectional tests, firewalls, outputs to plain text, JSON, JSON streaming or CSV, and also can compare past runs.
This tool also has a LAN discovery feature to find local servers, plus optional Prometheus metrics, themes, keyboard bindings and update notifications as a way to prompt you to update the program when needed.
For network engineers, SREs or those who need to diagnose slow paths or compare transports, xfr is useful for network heavy use cases, such as testing data center networks, VPN testing and network benchmarking where repeatable bandwidth numbers matter.
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It uses data from models.dev, lists providers and models, plus filters providers by category and groups them for scanning. It supports cross provider search, prints context limits, pricing, and capability flags. It also copies model IDs or docs links, and can emit JSON for scripts.
For agents, it keeps a curated set of assistants, detects installed versions, and checks GitHub for stars, releases, changelogs, and update status. You can also pick which agents to track and add custom entries in a config file.
Designed for developers building with LLM APIs and those comparing model tradeoffs, models is useful when you need a fast answer about what a model supports and what it costs.
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This tool uses multiple methods concurrently to find devices on your LAN. It performs mDNS and SSDP probes to discover network services. It is able to scan the local network without needing root privileges, and it even shows the manufacturer information by looking up MAC addresses.
Other features of whosthere include running in the background, a HTTP API, keybindings, optional port scanning on a discovered device, and a configuration file for making functional changes to whosthere. You can change the scan ranges, scan intervals, TCP ports to scan, timeouts, and the interface itself as it supports different themes.
This tool is helpful for network engineers, sysadmins and those with homelabs. It works best if you need to identify a device's IP in your LAN, check open ports on a device, or to get a holistic view of all devices in your local network.
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It runs queries in real-time, suggests fields, functions, and has context aware autocomplete in the TUI. It has a snippet library for saved filters, shows function tooltips with examples, has searchable query history and it also has output search with highlighting.
It also has a system clipboard, mouse support, keybindings, syntax highlighting and has a JSON object statistics bar at the bottom of the TUI. This tool has an optional AI helper that displays query hints and is able to fix type errors.
jiq works best for developers, data analysts and those who work with anything that is JSON. It's useful if you need a tool with an interactive TUI to query data (e.g. API responses or JSON datasets) with helpful jq suggestions, UI feedback and optional AI assistance if you need it.
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It comes with an interactive prompt allowing you to link or unlink selected packages, and it reports what is currently linked via the status command. When files already exist, it prompts for backup, skip, overwrite, or a quick diff. and it can auto-backup conflicts into a .lnko-backup file.
It can clean up broken symlinks using the lnko clean command, and it keeps compatibility with GNU Stow symlinks. It supports tree folding for tidier layouts, dry-run mode, ignore patterns, verbose output, and custom local source and target paths.
lnko is ideal for developers who keep dotfiles in Git and jump between machines. Handy for fresh setups, clean repos, and safer changes.
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It supports login with email plus 2FA, QR sign in, or a token with keyring support and it can show desktop notifications while keeping very low CPU and RAM use when compared to the main desktop app. Servers, channels, profiles, threads and forums are browsable in the TUI and message history is cached for scrolling. It also supports search, member lists, user profiles, embeds and reactions.
This tool also supports clipboards, attachments which you can upload and download them, tabs and links can open in external apps. You can view media like images, gifs, audio, videos, stickers and YouTube rendered as ASCII or block characters in the terminal. It can highlight mentions, show typing indicators and set status and a custom status. Additional features like themes, sending GIFs and mouse controls are available with lots more advanced features inside of a terminal client.
endcord works best for power users, developers and terminal first users who prefer the terminal as their main interface. It works best if you have a tiling window manager or setup, a low power machine or if your curious about trying out Discord in a terminal interface.
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Directories are sized in the background, and also entries re-sort as the results are finished. You can show hidden files, select items and ranges, and send folders or items to the trash by deleting them.
An undo option also exists to revert deletion operations once sent to the trash or you can switch to permanent deletion mode with confirmation and permanent delete files which cannot be undone. There is a largest-files mode support that scans the whole tree and it can sort by size, name, updated and created.
Individuals who are developers, sysadmins and DevOps engineers would find cull useful, it is ideal in usecases to clean downloads, caches and build artifacts without leaving the terminal.
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Several features include a real-time feed (with defined sections such as New, Top, Discussed and Random) with auto-refresh and threaded comment viewing with filtering the feed by day, month, year and all time. You can also browse the leaderboard to see the most active and highest-scoring participants.
The tool also provides access to "submolts", which are topic-based communities similar to subreddits. It can show real-time platform metrics such as the total number of agents signed up, posts and the total comments on the platform. It also has vim style keybindings (j/k for movement, Enter to select) which are available for familiar navigation and mouse input is supported as well.
Developers, terminal enthusiasts and anyone curious about moltbook would find this tool interesting and useful for exploring the AI agent-only network from the terminal.
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It is able to connect to lots of databases such as: PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Oracle, SQL Server, ClickHouse and Firebird plus it stores queries with named parameters plus optional default values. It can also export the results as CSV, JSON, SQL, Markdown, or HTML tables.
Other features include editing data in place by updating cells or deleting rows, opening queries in your editor, running explain or explore helpers, and reusing connections from a single config file.
squix works best for developers, analysts and DBAs who jump between many databases and want repeatable queries during debugging, incident checks or quick reporting, all from the terminal interface.
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It captures several properties of a Terraform run in the details section such as command output, duration, and exit status and shows the Git info with the commit hash, branch and the CI provider used.
It can give you the resource events by selecting the Events section in the TUI in addition to showing a per-resource timing chart by using the Timeline section for spotting slow creates and destroys. Runs are stored as JSON plus saved stdout text, and optional S3 syncing keeps history shared across machines with per-team prefixes and filters with support for search through lots of runs.
This tool is very useful for DevOps, platform engineers and Terraform users who need searchable run history during debugging, postmortems, or audits and especially when local and CI runs should live in one place.
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It tracks staged, modified, and untracked files, shows diffs and handles stage or unstage keys. It refreshes on file changes, lists files, has task monitoring and includes a code preview. It also has a conversation browser for agents, plus search and can display token totals.
This tool has support for worktree commands to create parallel branches, then link tasks for context. It can start an agent from that worktree and also guide commit, push, PR and cleanup.
This tool is mostly ideal for developers, AI engineers and those who want to run agents in parallel, non stop and use Git and task control in one terminal session.
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Core features include high-speed downloads using multi-connection support, pausing and resuming transfers and managing a download queue. The TUI interface also shows real-time progress visualizations with speed graphs. Batch downloads are also supported including auto retries for failed connections.
Beyond the TUI, surge can also run as a background headless server. It has a browser extension to intercept and send downloads directly from Chrome or Firefox. Furthermore, its CLI mode can send jobs to a running instance or function like a standalone wget for scripts.
This tool is ideal for data hoarders, archivists and users who frequently download large files or need to automate download tasks. It is suited for running on remote servers, local development machines or within automated pipelines where visual feedback or background operation is needed.
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It has a TUI that lists your experiments with fuzzy search for quick finding and it automatically prefixes new project folders with the current date. This tool integrates with Git to clone repositories directly from URLs into your workspace and you can preview file contents before entering a directory.
Additionally, try-rs supports opening a selected project directly in your configured code editor. It also allows for safe deletion of old experiments from the UI with confirmation. The tool is configurable, supports themes and works across multiple shells and operating systems.
This tool is useful for developers, students and those who want temporary coding experiments. It is helpful for temporary code tests, quick prototypes and cloned repositories, making them easy to revisit or clean up.
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Core features include auto-detecting VPN profile files, displaying real-time throughput and latency graphs, and monitoring for IPv6 and DNS leaks. It shows your exit IP's geolocation and integrates a kill-switch firewall. The interface is keyboard-driven for connecting, disconnecting and reconnecting to VPNs.
vortix can also import new VPN profiles interactively by using the TUI and provides a viewer to inspect the configuration of any profile. It can calculate advanced metrics like jitter and packet loss and it allows you to copy your public IP to the clipboard directly.
This tool is designed for security professionals, network engineers, remote workers or anyone who use VPNs regularly.
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It connects to multiple Redis servers, supports TLS, browses keys with pagination, filters by pattern and allows you to inspect properties such as strings, lists, sets, hashes, zsets and streams. Just like with many typical Redis clients, tredis can show slowlog entries, connected clients, ACL users and config values.
Other features of tredis include live command monitoring and Pub/Sub channel subscriptions to watch messages arrive. It can consume Redis Streams and it keeps stream entries readable while you skim IDs and fields. It also has keyboard shortcuts stay consistent across views.
tredis is useful to developers and system administrators who regularly work with Redis. It is useful when you need a clear, centralized view for debugging and data inspection when working with Redis in the terminal.
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It performs a deep system cleanup to reclaim space from caches and logs and a smart app uninstaller that removes associated files. The tool visualizes disk usage to identify large files and folders. It also runs system optimizations like rebuilding caches and indexes. A live dashboard monitors CPU, memory, disk and network stats.
This tool also includes a "purge" command to find and delete project build artifacts like node_modules, and it can locate, remove and clean up old installer files (.dmg, .pkg) from various directories. You can preview all cleanup and optimization actions with a dry run flag before executing them.
mole is aimed at macOS power users, developers and system administrators who want to analyze and free up disk space deep inside their macOS system. It is particularly useful for managing developer environments and performing routine system maintenance in the terminal.
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This tool uses AES-256-GCM encryption with PBKDF2 key derivation for credentials and it creates BIP39 recovery phrases during the setup phase. It also links to system keychains on Windows, macOS and Linux for master password handling, plus it checks password strength with rules on length and characters.
It also backs up vaults with verification, keeps HMAC-signed audit logs of changes, runs diagnostic checks on vault health, outputs data for scripts in quiet mode, syncs via rclone if needed and makes TOTP codes from stored secrets.
Developers, DevOps engineers, sysadmins and security oriented engineers and individuals would find pass-cli useful as a way to manage their passwords interactively or by using commands in the terminal.
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It can send and receive A2A messages with the responses streamed in real-time, can validate agent cards, inspect tasks and view artifacts and manage sessions and authentication.
This tool includes an MCP server that bridges AI assistants into A2A (using stdout, SSE as the transport protocol) and supports push and receive webhooks for agent events. It also ships with a reference server agent built with Google ADK and LiteLLM and can also use Ollama for local inference.
handler works for AI agent builders, developers and researchers building or integrating A2A agents, plus those who need agent to agent debugging. It can be used for local prototypes, staging systems and quick checks against a remote agent from the terminal.
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This tool has different diff modes, such as a dual mode for scrolling through diffs or stepping incrementally, a unified mode where code transforms in one pane, a split mode for side-by-side old and new versions, has an evolution mode with deletions fading out and a blame mode for Git annotations per line.
Other features of oyo include handling hunk navigation to jump between change groups, multi-file support, regex search across diffs, a command palette for quick actions, syntax highlighting, word-level diff marking, animated steps, line wrapping, Git integration as a difftool, autoplay at set speeds and helpful keyboard bindings.
oyo works best for developers and reviewers who want to glance and follow big refactors or risky patches carefully, especially during pull requests and commit reviews in the terminal.
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It creates, renames, deletes, absorbs, and prunes worktrees and it shows dirty files plus ahead or behind counts on each branch. It can create a worktree from your current branch with uncommitted changes, and in addition it can create from GitHub or GitLab issues, PRs (Pull Requests), or MRs (Merge Requests) in the terminal.
It also supports cherry-picking commits across worktrees, and also it runs stage, commit, and diff commands via your pager, with optional delta. It can start per-worktree tmux sessions too locally.
This tool works best for developers who juggle multiple fixes, reviews or experiments at once and want clean, isolated checkouts. It's great during code review, bug hunts or refactors when you need fast switching while keeping each branch separate.
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It tests download and upload speeds, checks idle latency and loaded latency under traffic. It also keeps a history of previous tests for review, exports data in JSON format, supports text only output for automation in scripts and lets you bind to a particular network interface or source IP address.
Network engineers, programmers troubleshooting connections and hobbyists monitoring home setups or remote servers would find cloudflare-speed-cli great for quick speed checks, debugging slow uploads, Wi-Fi drops or ISP congestion from the terminal.
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It reports charge percentage, time remaining, cycle count and battery health and it tracks system power draw with a CPU or GPU breakdown of statistics. It ranks processes by energy impact and can stop power hungry processes.
This tool also has a dedicated panel for recording history graphs of power trends, has 10 different themes with light and dark mode detection and can run in the background to collect stats between sessions. It can export metrics to JSON and it includes commands for configuration, logs and debug output.
jolt works best for developers, software engineers and laptop users who are curious about what tools, applications and services contribute to their laptop's battery usage. It is also useful for those who want a quick power readout without leaving the terminal.
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It supports listing currently paired devices, scanning for new devices and visualising connection details of each device in rows all from the TUI interface. You can refresh the device list or quit the app with simple shortcuts and it calls blueutil under the hood to connect or disconnect devices without manually typing Bluetooth commands.
This tool is could be useful for developers on macOS who want a quick TUI interface for both managing and visualizing technical information about their bluetooth devices in the terminal.
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It has multi tab browsing (opening several directories at once), a built in file preview pane (with sixel support) to see file contents and a plugin system for adding extra functionality, including integration with other command line tools such as zoxide, bat, fd, ripgrep and more.
Other features like clipboard management, sorting and a context menu (with available actions, like copy, cut, delete rename) are also supported and built into rovr. It also lets you adjust its appearance, themes and keybindings via simple config files to fit your preferences.
This tool is useful for any person that wants to manage their folders and files without leaving their terminal. Fans of other terminal file managers (like ranger, nnn or superfile) will appreciate rovr's polished interface and plugin support, especially when working over SSH or on remote machines without a GUI.
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This tool has the ability to mark favorites, a "to-read" list, and has progress tracking capabilities when reading through the PDF or EBUB file. It also supports searching through metadata and file content and can auto-import details by detecting identifiers (DOI, arXiv) in PDFs. It has theming options if you want to change the default theme of gorase.
For researchers, students or any user with many PDFs or e-books, gorae provides a keyboard-driven way to browse and search documents in the terminal.
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It can retrieve the newest release notes for a specific assistant by name (e.g. aic claude or aic codex) or showing all new releases from the last 24 hours with one command (aic latest). Additionally, it supports output in plain text, JSON or Markdown via flags (for scripting or documentation).
For developers and AI enthusiasts, aic provides a quick way to stay updated on multiple AI coding tools in one place. Instead of manually checking each project’s changelog page, one terminal command shows you what’s new in Copilot, Codex and other tools.
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It displays a connection table and also refreshes on an interval for live monitoring. You can filter by TCP or UDP, listening or established state, IPv4 or IPv6 and furthermore narrow results with key=value queries like pid, proc, port or contains.
This tool can resolve hostnames and service names, can run in numeric mode (which disables DNS name resolution), cache or bypass DNS lookups and export plain text, JSON or CSV. Other features of snitch include an assortment of themes, keybindings and a small config file which sets the refresh interval, DNS resolution and cache, NO_COLOR options and a save state for snitch to remember the view state between sessions.
snitch is a handy tool for developers, SREs and sysadmins for tracing ports, checking what talks to where and tying traffic back to processes, live and without fiddling with command line arguments.
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Key features include enhanced versions of common shell commands (e.g. interactive variants of ls and ps). Additionally, x-cmd’s package module can fetch and set up many development tools and runtimes (from Docker to Node.js) on the fly without needing root.
This tool is ideal for developers, engineers and CLI power users who want a unified toolset. It's useful if you need to manage everything from version managers to cloud commands accessible in one toolset.
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It primarily can browse the web, but also supports other protocols, such as Gemini, Gopher and the Spartan protocol as well as RSS / Atom feeds. It uses a permanent cache to save visited pages for offline reading and even supports subscriptions to both RSS and Gemini feeds for reading updates.
This tool has bookmarking and list management capabilities to organize saved pages and can "freeze" content to keep an unchanged offline copy. Other features of offpunk include built-in documentation, themes, keyboard navigation and redirecting URLs for enhanced privacy.
offpunk is useful for digital minimalists, small web, gemini, gopher enthusiasts and anyone on limited internet connectivity. It's great when you want a distraction-free, text only browsing experience or want to browse the small web and other low bandwidth websites in the terminal.
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It stores data in a human-readable plain text file (compatible with trackers like Bartib or Timewarrior). Tock is fast to run (a single binary with no external dependencies) and also supports multiple storage backends (flat file or Timewarrior), making it adaptable to different setups. It also has shell auto-completion to speed up command usage.
This tool is useful for developers or anyone who wants to track work hours directly in the terminal. It is useful for maintaining simple time logs and reviewing how time is spent on projects without switching to a separate app.
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Core features include vim-style keybindings for navigation and editing, plus rich Markdown rendering (headings, lists, code blocks, and more) with inline image previews in supported terminals like iTerm2, Kitty, WezTerm, Ghostty or Sixel-compatible terminal. This tool supports full-text search across notes to find information and has customizable themes (i.ie catppuccin by default) and has mouse support for scrolling through content.
Other features of ekphos are syntax highlighting for code, wiki links and an organized three panel layout showing everything you need to use ekphos. The graph view allows you to see a visual representation of your notes and links in the terminal and is helpful for those who want to see the connections and link relationships of their content.
ekphos is useful for developers, technical writers and researchers who prefer managing notes entirely in the terminal. It’s ideal for those who want an Obsidian-like environment for organizing Markdown notes and brainstorming, all without leaving the terminal.
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Key features include unified search across repos and AUR, plus optional fuzzy matching. When you want to install multiple packages, it queues them and allows you to install packages after confirmation. You can also run AUR security scans before installing packages, as pacsea can use multiple scanning tools like ClamAV, Trivy and ShellCheck with a detailed summary shown after the scan. It also has a news feed which displays Arch news, announcements, advisories and update notes.
This tool also has distro-aware mirror and update helpers, the ability to view AUR community comments, can filter, bookmark and mark news as read, has keyboard bindings, viewing recent searches and has an installed-only mode for reviewing only installed tools for safe removals and downgrades.
Ideal for Arch Linux power users, system administrators and those who maintain Arch based machines, pacsea works best for anyone who frequently searches for AUR packages and wants a convenient TUI for package management.
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It can detect when variables are missing from one file, when values differ between environments and when extra keys are present. This tool ignores irrelevant differences like comments or blank lines, focusing only on the configuration changes. It also clearly marks which keys are added, removed or changed, helping you spot configuration mismatches at a glance.
envdiff is useful for developers, DevOps engineers and system administrators who manage multiple environment files. It's works best for verifying that development, staging and production configurations stay in sync, it works best for catching any missing secrets or misconfigured values before deployment.
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Core features include a simple scripting format ("tape" files) to programmatically define a terminal session, which can then be rendered as an animated image. There are commands for tape files, which you can use to control VHS, for example, the 'Output' command can specify the output and the file format of your terminal recording in either MP4, GIF or WEBM.
Other commands VHS has are for example, screenshotting the current frame with Screenshot, setting environment variables with Env, hiding commands from output with Hide, sourcing commands from other tape files with Source and more commands in the VHS reference. This tool has other features such as customizing the output size and font, syntax highlighting, has an SSH server baked in and includes a built-in command to publish your animations on a sharing server,
vhs is useful for developers, open-source maintainers and educators who need to visually demonstrate command line tools in action. You can use vhs for creating tutorial screencasts, adding animated terminal demos to documentation, continuous integration or generating repeatable examples for CLI applications.
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Key features include smart dotfile detection, support for multiple dotfile profiles (allowing separate config sets for work, personal, homelab, etc.), adding custom files and automatic symlink management. You can sync your config files via a GitHub repository (which can be private or public) and it handles automatic backups before applying any changes.
It also has a CLI available for automation, support for multiple package managers (e.g. brew, pip, npm, cargo, etc.) and is able to track required CLI tools for each profile and can install them when required. The TUI has mouse support and doesn't require extensive Git knowledge to use and is built with security checks (no shell injection, uses GitHub token auth, etc.) to ensure safe file operations when handling dotfiles.
Useful for developers, system administrators and those who maintain custom dotfiles across multiple machines. It's helpful for quickly setting up new environments or keeping configurations in sync without manually using Git, symlinks or custom scripts.
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It supports a wide range of Markdown elements in real time, so you see formatted output for things like tables drawn with Unicode borders, syntax-highlighted code blocks and LaTeX math formulas rendered as Unicode art. It also supports Kitty graphics so you can see rich images with a terminal that supports the protocol.
The TUI also includes productivity aids such as a writing timer for timed sessions and a focus mode that hides all interface elements except your text for minimal distraction. This tool has a dark and light theme which you can toggle to your liking.
This tool is useful for writers or programmers who prefer the terminal to write in Markdown and get instant formatting feedback. It's ideal when you want to focus on text without distractions, while still seeing rich formatting in the terminal.
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It has an interactive text menu to navigate YouTube feeds (subscriptions, trending, playlists) and search results. You can play videos using an external player and also download videos through its integration with yt-dlp. The tool also lets you bookmark channels or videos, and it supports other video platforms via yt-dlp, extending its use beyond YouTube.
This tool is great users on headless systems who want to enjoy YouTube without a graphical browser. It's ideal if you prefer to use YouTube in a keyboard-driven environment and need to search, watch, or download videos entirely within the terminal.
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It supports all HTTP methods and lets you group requests into collections. You can compose requests by setting the URL, headers, body and other parameters, then execute them to see a formatted response with headers. All your requests and collections are saved between sessions and you can import Postman collections or export any request as a curl command.
Nexus also handles persistent storage, has a response viewer in the TUI pane, allows you to edit requests inline, has keybindings for navigation, creating, deleting, importing, duplicating and editing requests / collections.
This tool is useful for those who are familiar with Postman, engineers who work with APIs and those that have a need for using Postman collections and other formats to quickly inspect, execute and make HTTP requests in the terminal.
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It renders an interactive table visualization of rows with keyboard navigation and it exposes a schema explorer for column types and nested fields. This tool also shows file-level details like writer version, encoding stats and other metadata. It can break down row groups with per-group statistics, min and max values and distribution clues. Plus it also supports quick switching between data, schema, metadata and row-group tabs in the TUI.
Data engineers, analysts or developers working with Parquet files will find parqeye handy for quick inspection and debugging. It spares you from launching heavy tools just to peek into a file, which parqeye allows you to do in the terminal.
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It supports EC2, S3, IAM, RDS, Lambda, ECS and dozens more and can start or stop instances, delete resources and tail logs. You can jump between related resources like VPCs, subnets, functions and log groups. In addition, it can switch to different AWS profiles and regions fast, can query multiple regions in parallel and claws can search by tag or fuzzy match in the TUI.
Other smaller but useful features include, sorting columns, resource comparison i.e. comparing two resources side by side, filtering, mouse support, paginating through large lists and running in read-only mode.
This tool is beneficial for DevOps engineers or system administrators who regularly work with AWS. It's especially handy if you prefer a vim-style terminal environment and want to quickly handle AWS management tasks without using the AWS web console.
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It supports many traditional relational databases such as SQL Server, SQLite, MariaDB, PostgreSQL and MySQL, plus newer databases like DuckDB, Clickhouse, Snowflake, Supabase, Turso and more via adapters. The interface is fully keyboard-driven with shortcuts always visible on the screen. It has query history, syntax highlighting, vim-like editing for SQL queries and lets you navigate databases, tables, views and stored procedures in its TUI.
Other features of sqlit include SSH tunneling for remote connections, themes, autocomplete, results filtering, a dependency wizard (useful for installing missing database drivers) a handy connection manager and the ability to auto detect and find database containers started by Docker, which is useful when working in development.
This tool is useful for developers, database administrators and data analysts who prefer working with databases using the command line. It is ideal for quickly inspecting data, schemas or working with many databases in the terminal.
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It provides single-key shortcuts to mark each commit’s action (pick, squash, fixup, etc.) and allows quick reordering of commits, including moving multiple lines together in a visual selection mode. The interface can also show commit details and diffs on demand, and includes extras like toggling breakpoints or opening an external editor.
This tool is ideal for developers and project maintainers who sometimes need to rewrite commit history. It’s also helpful for cleaning up commits, making rebases faster and less error-prone with clear visual feedback in the terminal.
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You can attach notes to text selections and perform full-text searches across the book. It has vim-style keybindings along with mouse support, and it automatically saves your place with bookmarks and reading history so you can resume where you left off.
Other features include a hierarchical table of contents, reading statistics, customizable themes, and zen mode for distraction-free reading. PDF rendering uses terminal graphics protocols (Kitty, iTerm2) for smooth, high-performance page display with continuous scroll mode in supported terminals.
This tool is for anyone who reads EPUB and PDF books or technical papers and prefers the terminal to read them in.
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You can connect or add any IRC server and join multiple channels, and chats are shown in a split-pane interface (channel list on one side, messages on the other). Navigation is keyboard-driven, you can scroll through the chat log with the up or down keys and switch between panels with left / right keys.
If you like a clean, minimal IRC client where you can focus, zuse is a no frills option. It implements the core IRC functionality in a simple TUI.
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It has an interactive generator using a TUI (cpx new) that sets up a C++ project with your chosen supported build system (CMake, Bazel, or Meson) and testing framework. Dependencies are added with a single command (cpx add <package>) that fetches dependencies via the appropriate backend (e.g. vcpkg for CMake), and common tasks like building or testing are done with unified commands like cpx build or cpx test.
This tool has support for code sanitizers (ASan, TSan, MSan, UBSan), cross compilation (using Docker based toolchains), warns about missing tools, supports static analysis, linting tools and formatting C++ code all built-in for cpx.
This tool is beneficial for C++ developers who need to setup their project without many headaches by using a single CLI tool instead of multiple separate tools.
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It features preset work and break intervals (with default and custom durations) and shows a visual timer (either a progress bar or ASCII-art countdown). You can pause or resume timers, skip sessions and adjust the timer length on the fly using keyboard shortcuts. In addition, pomo can chain cycles with confirmation prompts and sends a desktop notification when a session ends.
This tool is useful for developers, students and those who work in the terminal and want a specialised, built-in focus timer. It works best for anyone practicing the Pomodoro technique and needs a simple and easy to use timer to focus on their work.
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The features that comes with himalaya include, a helpful (and recommended) setup wizard, email folders, reading emails, adding attachments, multiple email accounts, composing new messages in your editor, sending emails via SMTP and PGP encryption for secure emails.
For setting up secure accounts, himalaya supports OAuth2 (available if a provider offers it) and can use the system keyring for storing credentials. This tool can output email data to JSON and use both remote servers (IMAP) and local mailboxes (Maildir or Notmuch). It also supports email accounts such as Protonmail, Gmail, Outlook, iCloud Mail and may other email providers via a configuration file.
This tool is ideal for hobbyists, power users such as developers or system administrators who prefer email in a terminal environment. It can be used for scripting, checking mail on remote servers or avoiding bulky GUI clients while still handling multiple accounts, .
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In the TUI interface there are four main tabs, Scoreboard, Gameday, Stats and Standings. You can view game scores (with detailed box scores) for any date, check league standings and browse team or player stats (including pitching and hitting metrics). The gameday tab even shows a pitch-by-pitch view of live games with a visual strike zone and win probability graphs as the game progresses.
Other features of mlbt includes helpful keybindings for each tab, watching "live" games during game day, a date picker for browsing stats and a configuration file for toggling your favourite team and changing the timezone if need be.
This tool is great for baseball fans who are also terminal enthusiasts or developers. It's useful for anyone who wants real-time MLB updates and detailed stats from the terminal without needing to open a web browser.
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It lists available packages in the TUI, filters by name as you type in the search and also shows which ones are already installed. You can open a package in the detail view (by pressing enter) to inspect metadata, versions and other information.
Other features of opemui includes keybindings for navigation, automatic scrolling for large package lists and it is cross platform on macOS and Linux.
This tool is useful for OCaml developers, library maintainers, those who need quick visibility into the opam ecosystem or those who just want to explore OCaml packages in the terminal.
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It has a TUI with a full menu system with tabs. You can do actions such as open, save, new, close, auto-revert and has a Git file finder for jumping around repositories. Editing includes undo and redo, multi-cursor, block selection, smart indent, comments and clipboard actions. It has search capabilities which covers incremental find, find in selection and query replace.
Other features of fresh include integration with language servers, a powerful command palette, mouse support, extensive keybindings, a diagnostics panel and markdown previewer. The editor also supports plugins that are written in TypeScript and run in a sandboxed Deno environment.
This tool is ideal for developers and those trying out new terminal text editors. It is useful for editing code, extending existing functionality through plugins while also being fast and light.
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Depot CLI transforms how you build containers–from local development to production pipelines.
The CLI helps you build faster, scale effortlessly, and ship with confidence across your entire workflow. Depot was purpose built to integrate into how you build and ship software, and works with all your existing tools.
You can accelerate Docker Compose builds, speed up CI/CD pipelines, power Dev Containers, integrate with goreleaser, and route any docker build command through cloud infrastructure, all with ease–freeing up valuable time waiting for builds.
With Depot you get powerful tools and features: native multi-platform builds, persistent layer caching, remote builder infrastructure, OIDC authentication, the Depot Registry, automated buildx integration, and native Intel/ARM builders.
Ready to accelerate your builds? Get started with the Depot CLI.
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It supports downloading multiple torrents at once, can track peers and pieces and it can open magnet links directly. It also shows real time analytics like heatmaps, peer metrics and network graphs, dynamic port reloading without restarting the client and has persistent state with crash recovery.
For homelabs, it has support for a Docker setup that is VPN aware with automatic port forwarding and also reloads inbound listener ports when your VPN changes without restarting.
This tool is useful for torrent enthusiasts, developers, seedbox users and server administrators. It's ideal for managing torrent downloads on headless systems or whenever you prefer to handle torrents in the terminal environment.
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It provides an 8×8 or 16×16 pixel canvas and a 256-color palette, and you use the mouse to draw pixels or fill areas. You can click to pick colors or drag to draw, and the tool can import existing images by scaling them down to icon size. Your finished artwork can be saved as an SVG file ready for use as a favicon.
Developers working with favicons or hobbyist designers will find rusticon handy for quickly tweaking favicons without a GUI. It's especially useful on remote servers or in terminal only environments where a lightweight icon editor is needed.
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It can generate heavy loads of requests over multiple protocols (UDP, TCP, or encrypted DNS via DoT, DoH, DoQ) to measure how a server performs. You can customize DNS record types (A, AAAA, etc.), concurrency level, test duration. You can also see real-time statistics on response codes and latency in the termina. This tool can output results as console histograms, JSON / CSV data and even generates latency distribution charts for deeper analysis.
Useful for network engineers and system administrators who need to evaluate or compare DNS server performance, dnpyre helps reveal how well a DNS resolver handles peak traffic conditions and where any bottlenecks or failures occur.
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Key features include viewing lists of Kubernetes resources (with the ability to switch between namespaces), deleting selected resources and viewing or editing the YAML configuration of a resource. You can also inspect events for a resource, change theming of b4n, navigate the TUI using keybindings, stream logs from a container, open an interactive shell inside a container and enable port forwarding for a container’s port.
Kubernetes administrators, DevOps engineers and cloud developers would find b4n helpful for managing and troubleshooting cluster resources. It's a tool one can use for quickly checking pod statuses, tailing logs or debugging issues without needing a graphical dashboard.
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It presents your repository in multiple panels for branches, staged/unstaged changes, commit history, and file diffs. You navigate using keyboard shortcuts (including Vim-style keys), stage or unstage changes, switch branches, or view file diffs. This tool also has themes, gitignore support and visual indicators for push status. It written in pure Python, meaning no need to use an external Git CLI.
This tool is ideal for developers or any Git user who works in the terminal but wants a more visual and easy to use interface without reliance on an external Git binary. It's useful for reviewing changes, managing commits and browsing repository history in the terminal.
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This tool reads from files or from stdin and opens a TUI where you can type SQL queries to filter or analyze the data. Instead of memorizing jq syntax, qo lets you query data using SQL and the terminal interface displays the results in real time as you refine your query.
Other features of qo include joins across multiple files, format conversion between JSON, CSV, TSV, and JSON Lines, SQL features like WHERE clauses and aggregate functions, useful keybindings for navigation and qo can pipe the filtered output to other programs like jq and other tools.
Useful for developers, data engineers and anyone familiar with SQL that needs to quickly inspect and manipulate data, qo works best for analyzing large data dumps, one off queries and if you just like exploring datasets in the terminal using SQL syntax.
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It displays a live regex playground where you can input patterns and test strings side by side. The TUI updates dynamically and highlights matching text in color and instantly shows capture groups in the preview window. Other features include loading files into trex, a RegEx help menu on the side of the interface, keybindings for navigating the TUI and copying and clearing regex expressions.
This tool is useful for developers, testers and anyone who frequently needs to experiment with or debug regex patterns on the fly. It is ideal for those who prefer a terminal based, offline regex tester instead of relying on online web tools in a browser to test expressions.
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You can check battery status or set charge limits, toggle the camera and microphone privacy switches, adjust the keyboard brightness or monitor the power status of USB-C ports. The TUI also shows live sensor information (temperatures, fan speeds, battery health, etc.) and lets you change the fan speed if need be.
This tool is useful for Framework laptop users who want quick control over their hardware without a GUI. It works great for power users who prefer adjusting system features and monitoring their laptop’s status using the terminal.
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It supports searching by ID, keyword, author or partial sequences, paginated browsing and sequence detail tabs for overview, formulas, code and references. It handles plotting, exporting to JSON, CSV, Markdown, B-files and uses SQLite for saving recently viewed sequences.
Additionally, this tool has a "webcam mode" which rotates through newly added sequences, it is able to bookmark sequences you come across, has a built in CLI also for searching, fetching and is useful for scripting, has configurable keybindings, comes with 14 different themes, 6 languages and is cross platform on many operating systems.
This tool is useful mathematicians, researchers, engineers, teachers, students and algorithm designers who frequently reference and use OEIS. It is especially useful for those who take an interest in number theory, are curious about sequences, verifying mathematical patterns or just want a quick OEIS search, data export and plots without leaving the terminal.
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It opens CSV files in a spreadsheet-like text interface where you can navigate cells with vim like keybindings and edit values directly. This tool only writes the changes you make, preserving the original quoting, delimiters, and encoding of unchanged data. It handles large CSV files smoothly by loading data in the background. Edited cells are underlined (with one-key undo for each change) to show modifications.
This tool is useful for data engineers, analysts, or admins working with CSV data on servers that need a tool that allows for quick editing on CSV files.
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It displays live InfiniBand port statistics (throughput, packet rates, errors) with continuous updates in a TUI. This tool reads counters from the InfiniBand subsystem on Linux and refreshes periodically to show current link utilization. No special setup is needed beyond running it on a system with InfiniBand support and a color-capable terminal for it to function.
This is useful for sysadmins, network engineers and those who are familiar with working with InfiniBand. ibtop has a quick terminal view of network performance, helping identify bottlenecks or monitor high-speed data transfers in the terminal.
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The TUI displays job queue, details and the standard output, refreshes the slurm job queue every few seconds and shows active and pending jobs. This tool supports all the filtering and sorting flags of squeue for narrowing down the view. You can also select a job to view its live output log (tailed in real time) alongside the job list.
turm is handy for sysadmins, developers and those who are familiar with using Slurm and job scheduling. It works best for those who need to see an overview of running and queued jobs on remote clusters without a GUI.
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It lets you search code with structural patterns, reuse patterns across many languages, define metavariables on nodes, run bulk refactors with --rewrite, apply fixes in interactive modes, turn patterns into lint rules in YAML, organize rules in a project config, scan stdin or directories, and also export matches as JSON for piping into jq or other tools. Additionally, you can plug it into CI using the GitHub Action so rules include templates or transforms to migrate APIs, rename symbols or adjust call sites.
This tool helps developers, maintainers, library authors and anyone automating repetitive code rewrites or enforcing project-specific patterns in large repositories.
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This tool presents EC2 instances in a list with key details (ID, state, type) and lets you perform actions like start, stop, reboot or terminate directly from the interface. You can quickly check an instance’s status or connect via SSH without leaving the TUI. Filtering and searching by name or other attributes are supported for managing many instances and e2c has support for many AWS profiles and regions.
This tool benefits cloud and DevOps engineers who work with cloud resources on AWS. Instead of using the AWS web console, e2c is a useful alternative for quick oversight and control of EC2 instances right from an SSH session in the terminal.
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It supports flexible querying to extract specific sections or elements from Markdown and the ability to apply transformations that restructure or reformat the content. The tool provides many built-in filters and functions out of the box, and supports extension with custom functions for specialized processing. It also offers an interactive REPL mode for trying out queries live as you refine them.
This tool is useful for developers, data engineers, technical documentation writers or anyone dealing with a lot of Markdown text. It works well in tasks like preparing structured prompts for language models, automating documentation updates or analyzing content across multiple Markdown files.
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It supports filtering by IP, port, process, container or even protocol-level details like HTTP paths or Redis keys and has the ability to automatically decrypt SSL traffic. It has three subcommands, watch (capture network traffic), stat (aggregate request/responses based on filters and statistical information) and overview (displays external resources that the current machine relies on).
Captured data is aggregated to identify which sources or requests cause high latency or heavy bandwidth use. This tool alsp shows kernel level latency breakdowns for each request to pinpoint exactly where delays occur. All results are displayed in real time in the terminal, including fully decrypted request data.
Security engineers, network engineers, DevOps and system administrators will find kyanos valuable for quickly troubleshooting network requests between services and debugging traffic issues without complex packet capturing tools.
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The TUI shows a dual pane interface, an outline of headings on one side and the rendered Markdown on the other. You can expand or collapse sections and scroll through content with synchronized movement as you move up and down the markdown document. It supports filtering of headings and applies syntax highlighting to code blocks. This tool also has keybindings for quick navigation and includes a non-interactive CLI mode for scripting; allowing you to parse or transform Markdown files programmatically.
This tool works best for technical writers, developers or anyone using and working with documentation and markdown in the terminal. Those that read technical documentation files, READMEs, or spend time regularly reading markdown documents may find treemd useful to directly read markdown documents in the terminal with a rich TUI interface.
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Features include automatic host discovery from your flake and integrated actions to SSH into or run shell commands on a target host. It can also reboot a machine with ping-based status tracking and it logs each deployment and command per node while flagging any out-of-date systems in the list.
This tool is ideal for hobbyist developers and NixOS users managing small clusters or homelabs (up to a few dozen machines). It can be used during the development or testing of configurations, when you need to rapidly deploy changes and verify them before moving to large scale deployment tools.
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You can view usage and cost per API key over the past 7 or 30 days (daily, weekly, monthly totals) and group the data by model or by API key. The TUI interface supports multiple model providers side by side (OpenAI and Anthropic are supported so far), has terminal bar charts displaying the costs and usage and has keyboard shortcuts for switching views or refreshing the stats.
This tool is useful for those who need to monitor their AI token usage and costs. Those who are AI developers, vibe coders, researchers or anyone using OpenAI or Anthropic's APIs who needs to track token consumption across different models. It's especially useful for monitoring across projects or team API keys without leaving the terminal.
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It's features include support for both composite resources and claims and is able to operate in between Kubernetes contexts and also runs common kubectl commands (describe/get/edit/delete) on the selected resource. Whichever $EDITOR or $PAGER you have set in the terminal, xpdig is able to use and copies fully qualified object names and supports searching over resources and filters by namespace or context and can emit structured logs to a JSON file with configurable log levels.
xpdig is a terminal tool that is useful for platform engineers, SREs and operators working with Crossplane who need to debug compositions and inspect object state without leaving the terminal whilst allowing you to auto-refresh trace data with integration into tools such as k9s via plugins.
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Key features include a TUI for managing snippets, a background daemon that expands shortcuts system wide and is cross-platform on Linux, macOS and Windows. This tool also supports dynamic snippets, executing shell commands via a "!" trigger, parameterized inputs, applying text transformations and inserting dynamic content such as dates, system info or web data into your expansions.
Developers, system administrators and technical writers will find snipt useful for automating repetitive typing tasks. It's especially helpful for quickly inserting boilerplate text or code snippets and executing custom commands via shortcuts all from the terminal.
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Auggie was purpose built to integrate into how you ship and run software, and works with all your existing tools. You can debug issues with linters and tests, open PRs with GitHub, put AI in your CI/CD, triage bug reports, and jump start your incident response, all with ease–freeing up valuable time.
With Auggie you get powerful tools and features: deep context, custom slash commands, MCP, multi models, prompt enhancers, user & repo rules, tasklists, and native tools.
Don’t just write code. Ship it with Auggie CLI.
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Key features include monitoring CPU usage per core, threads and listing running processes with their memory and CPU consumption in full display. It also tracks disk I/O rates and storage capacity, memory usage (including swap) and real-time network throughput. All information updates dynamically, giving you a real-time performance dashboard in the terminal. This tool also displays a health score of your system, a great way to show the overall performance in one terminal window pane.
Sysadmins, DevOps engineers and Linux power users would be interested in a tool like sot for user friendly real time monitoring of system resources from the terminal. It works best for quickly and easily diagnosing performance issues or simply keeping track of a system's health without using a GUI.
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It replays commit diffs keystroke by keystroke with realistic typing, cursor movements, and deletions to simulate live coding. It also syntax highlights code in 26 languages (via tree-sitter), shows a file tree updating with each commit, includes a screensaver mode for endless random commit playback, supports 9 built-in themes, custom themes and stores preferences in a config file under your user directory. This tool can also be used in combination with tools such as fzf, for interactive commit selection and asciinema for terminal recording.
Ideal for engineers, reviewers, educators and anyone who wants to visualize code history, gitlogue works best for showing the evolution of a software project, as a screensaver that animates commit history, or if you just want to appear "productive" or "busy".
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Core features include retrieving weather from the OpenWeatherMap API, with options to set a default city and choose units (metric or imperial). It can show the local time and an ASCII art weather icon (for example, a sun or cloud), and even add an emoji with a custom message to the output. It also offers an interactive mode and supports custom color themes.
This tool is handy for terminal enthusiasts who want a quick glance at the weather without leaving the terminal. It’s a fun way to check forecasts or current conditions with some personal flair in your terminal.
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Key features include support for many common grep flags (recursive search, case-insensitive search, etc.) and the ability to search multiple PDF files at once. It highlights matches in color and supports regular expressions for complex queries, caching on large files and quiet output support, perhaps for use in scripting. This tool can even search in password-protected PDF files if you provide the password.
Archivists, researchers, students and IT professionals will find pdfgrep useful for sifting through large collections of PDF documents for specific terms. It’s especially handy for quickly locating information in e-books, research papers, or other PDF files without opening them one by one.
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Core features include browsing directories on the remote host via the SSH protocol, viewing text file contents, editing files in place using your local editor, modifying and deleting files, recursively downloading directories using parallel traversal, spawning SSH sessions directly in a chosen path, support for custom SSH ports, private key authentication and OpenSSH certificates, support for SFTP-based transfers and large directory trees.
filessh is a quick and useful tool that sysadmins, developers, homelab users and those who are familiar with SSH can use. It works best for quick file inspection, lightweight edits or bulk downloads from remote servers without mounting filesystems, long commands involving scp, or reaching for a graphical file manager if you want to stay in the terminal.
Core features include real time monitoring of Google Cloud instances, listing, filtering and searching by name, label, region or state, the ability to start, stop, restart and delete instances, auto refreshing in the TUI and support for multiple projects and regions. This tool also has a CLI mode, support for authentication with Google Cloud, keyboard shortcuts and customizable themes.
Useful for cloud engineers, system administrators, SREs and DevOps engineers who need control of Compute Engine fleets from the terminal and need a visual TUI. This tool works great for general instance maintenance, machine provisioning, quick system overview and remote sessions over SSH when the web console is unavailable or too slow.
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It allows you to search across all cells with full text support, copying cell or row data to the clipboard, and viewing cell formulas within the TUI. It handles large spreadsheets with lazy loading. This tool supports multisheet workbooks, opens Excel and OpenDocument spreadsheet files and exports data to CSV, JSON or plain text.
xleak works well for who are data analysts for quickly inspecting spreadsheets in the terminal. It is especially useful in remote or headless environments where Excel or a graphical interface isn’t available.
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Features include, a 'FUZZ' keyword (or a custom fuzz keyword) for targeted testing with multiple wordlists and support for filtering by status codes, response sizes and timing patterns. It also has concurrent threading with rate limiting, auto calibration, recursive discovery and output formats that range from JSON to HTML for integration with security tools like Burp Suite.
Pen testers and bug bounty hunters would find ffuf a useful tool for directory discovery, virtual host enumeration and API endpoint testing during authorized security assessments.
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This tool displays an interactive interface with six control panels and access to over 100 retro, pixel, bitmap and decorative fonts of your choosing. It supports rich colors, gradients, horizontal and vertical color gradients using ANSI colors and hex values. Other features include effects such as shadows, for adjustable offsets with three density styles, text scaling that works at multiple resolutions and smart typography which control and handle spacing and alignment.
bit can also export your logo to a .txt file or you can export to six programming languages (Go, Javascript, Python, Rust and Bash) with properly escaped ANSI sequences and you can use the CLI if you prefer generating ASCII text without the TUI.
Those who create CLI tools, ASCII / ANSI art or just want to play around with graphics in the terminal can consider using bit for this. It is useful for creating terminal header logos, banners for Linux motd headers, ANSI logos and generating terminal friendly banners for their projects.
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Features of cobib consist of both a CLI and a TUI interface for bibliography management including the ability to add, edit, search and import functionality which handles DOI (Digital Object Identifiers), arXiv, ISBN and BibTeX sources.
Advanced filtering is supported with fuzzy matching and full text PDF search (via rga (ripgrep-all)). This tool also has Git integration for version control, exporting entries which saves your entries in a BibLaTeX format with journal abbreviation support and the ability to add notes, sorting and reviewing references and many more operations in the TUI interface.
Researchers and academics can use cobib for managing their references with the ability to review and manage them easily in the terminal.
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Core features include podcast subscription management via RSS and Atom, offline support with the ability to download episodes with resuming functionality, playback queue and next / previous controls. This tool also has searching and filtering podcasts, volume and speed controls, OPML import or export for migrating between podliner and other players, multiple audio engine support, local configuration and data storage, vim inspired keyboard shortcuts for common actions and mouse support.
Useful for developers, multi-taskers, terminal power users and podcast fans, podliner works best for those who want offline playback, interactive podcast management listening to their favourite podcasts distraction free in the terminal.
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Features include a workspace explorer, an inline editor with syntax highlighting and built-in GraphQL and gRPC support. It supports request variables and helpers, multi step workflows and importing curl commands.
Responses can be viewed in pretty, raw, diff, history modes and resterm also has built in authentication (OAuth2, bearer tokens, etc.) and profiling (@profile helpers for latency charts, @trace for tracing). This tool also uses .http / .rest files to define HTTP calls and it's interface splits the screen between an editor for requests and panes for responses.
For those that are software engineers, API developers and testers, resterm would be useful if you need to send and debug API requests in any format (HTTP, GraphQL, gRPC, etc) while using the terminal interface.
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Features include, full VM/container management and node / storage monitoring. It also supports multiple connection profiles, caching for speed and secure authentication (API tokens or passwords). You can SSH into VMs or open an embedded noVNC console and it supports a plugin system. Keybindings are customizable and this tool supports custom themes so you can change color scheme of the TUI as you see fit.
Useful for Proxmox administrators, sysadmins and homelab users, pvetui lets you handle and manage tasks like starting or stopping VMs entirely without a web interface.
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The tool displays a way to execute scripts interactively, has search functionality for filtering available scripts, quick execution of selected scripts and can choose the package managers.
Frontend engineers, especially those that are JavaScript or TypeScript developers using multiple npm scripts would benefit from using rum. It helps in discovering and executing npm scripts in JavaScript projects without memorizing script names or repeatedly checking package.json files.
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Enables pre-commit reviews of both staged and unstaged changes, creating a multi-layered review process.
Fits into existing Git workflows. Review uncommitted changes, staged files, specific commits, or entire branches without disrupting your current development process.
Reviews specific files, directories, uncommitted changes, staged changes, or entire commits based on your needs.
Supports programming languages including JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, C#, C++, Ruby, Rust, Go, PHP, and more.
Offers free AI code reviews with rate limits so developers can experience senior-level reviews at no cost.
Flags hallucinations, code smells, security issues, and performance problems.
Supports guidelines for other AI generators, AST Grep rules, and path-based instructions.
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cat(1) command (and is similar to bat) to a wide range of file types, including images, videos, documents, archives and more.
It automatically detects the input type (local file, URL, or piped data) and processes it through a pipeline to produce terminal friendly output. You can convert PDF or DOCX documents into Markdown or HTML and then render them as styled text in the terminal or even as an inline image if your terminal supports graphics. It can also display images and play videos directly in the terminal (using supported image protocols such as sixel and kitty), with an interactive mode available to zoom and pan around large images within your terminal window.
This tool works great for terminal enthusiasts and those who want to quickly inspect or preview file contents, documents or any media file format all in one without leaving the terminal.
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This tool features a TUI with responsive navigation, the ability to download torrents with pause and resume capabilities, realtime progress tracking, multiple indexer access through Jackett or Prowlarr integration, caching (opt-in) for faster repeated searches, keyboard driven controls and theme customization with dark and light mode toggling.
Useful for enthusiasts those who download distros, LLM models or many large files, torrra lets you automate torrent fetching or handle downloads on remote or local machines in a terminal UI.
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Features include timestamped entries, search by keywords, dates or tags, inline tagging and optional AES encryption. It supports multiple journals, starred entries and editing with the system's default editor. You can filter or query entries by date or content for example, jrnl -n 20 shows the last 20 entries. It also allows you to store your journal on shared folders which can be easily synced on file sharing services.
This tool is useful for developers, writers or students who need quick text based notes in the shell. Ideal for daily logs or diaries kept entirely in the terminal.
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Key features include viewing existing cron jobs, adding new ones with cron expression validation (and human-readable feedback), pausing/resuming tasks, editing and deleting jobs and showing the last/next run time of each job. It also understands special schedule shortcuts like @daily or @monthly and supports managing remote crontabs over SSH (with password or key authentication).
cronboard is ideal for developers, system administrators and DevOps engineers who frequently work with crontabs and scheduled tasks in for their servers and homelabs. You can use cronboard when you want a more user-friendly way to oversee and adjust cron schedules directly in the terminal instead of editing raw crontab entries.
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Features include parallel compression with configurable thread counts (default 16), multiple API key support, automatic retries for failed requests, recursive directory search for images, multi-format support (PNG, JPEG, JPG, WEBP, AVIF), smart file skipping when size difference is below specified percentage, metadata and EXIF preservation and optional original file backup. The tool intelligently reduces file sizes through selective color reduction with low quality loss.
Web developers, software engineers and hobbyist programmers who need automated image optimization in their build pipelines or those managing large photo collections would benefit from tinifier’s batch or one off processing of images.
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It can preview images in the terminal using the Kitty graphics protocol, has keyboard shortcuts and vim-like keyboard navigation, video playback integration (also using Kitty graphics protocol), multi-account management and a way to filter content. You can also upvote and downvote in the terminal, is controllable via a YAML-based config, refresh commands and it has action menus for links.
Those who are familiar with the terminal, are power users and want a distraction free reddit experience may want to consider reddix to navigate subreddits, content and media in the terminal instead of a browser.
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This tool has the ability to include per-process bandwidth monitoring with PID and program name identification, support for multiple network interfaces simultaneously, customizable refresh rates and display modes (kB/s, total MB, GB/s) and interactive sorting by sent or received traffic. This tool can monitor specific PIDs and track both TCP and UDP traffic with configurable garbage collection.
System administrators, network and DevOps engineers would find nethogs useful for identifying bandwidth heavy processes during network performance troubleshooting or detecting runaway applications on servers.
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Core capabilities include playing multiple audio formats (MP3, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Opus, WavPack, WAV, QOA), extensive VGM (video game music) format support with chip emulation for YM2612, YM2151, NES APU, SID and dozens more. It also has module file playback via libxmp, MIDI and MUS support, multi-threaded parallel audio conversion to WAV or Au file formats, playlist looping functionality, TCP audio streaming and is controllable remotely over a dedicated socket. It also has keyboard support and performance is optimized for low resource systems including Raspberry Pi systems.
For those who organize music in folders, prefer terminal interfaces over GUI applications and digital preservationists working with vintage game soundtracks, these groups would find benben’s specialized VGM playback and batch conversion features useful as well as the vast amount of input file formats benben supports.
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Key features include dual display modes, search, theme aware coloring via the LS_COLORS environment variable, file-specific emoji icons, clickable hyperlinks in supported terminals, gitignore support and sorting by name/size/date/extension with natural ordering. It also supports directory only filtering, depth control and max files per directory limits, file permissions and size display, exporting to CSV/XML/JSON formats, keyboard and mouse navigation, context-aware actions (opening files in $EDITOR), shell integration and a plugin system.
Those who navigating codebases, remote machines and other filesystems and need a minimalist interface coupled with the ability to integrate with fuzzy finders like fzf would find wisu excellent for project and filesystem exploration.
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Features of wifitui include listing all saved and visible Wi-Fi networks with their details (signal strength, security type, etc.), quick fuzzy searching by SSID, the ability to display the plaintext passphrases of your known networks and you can generate a QR code for any saved Wi-Fi network.
Users can join new or hidden networks and trigger a rescan for networks on demand. It also has non-interactive commands (to list networks, show network info in JSON or connect via a single command) and allows custom color themes via a config file.
This tool would be useful for Linux power users, system administrators or anyone running a headless or minimal system who needs to manage Wi-Fi from the terminal.
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It features multiple practice modes (e.g. timed tests or custom text challenges) and tracks typing metrics like words-per-minute and accuracy as you type. It gives immediate feedback on errors and performance. You can adjust test duration, choose different word lists or text sources and change themes or layouts to suit your preferences.
octotype is well-suited for programmers, writers or any keyboard enthusiasts who want to sharpen their typing skills in a coding friendly environment. It's also appealing to those who prefer practicing typing in the terminal without the distractions while getting detailed feedback and flexible settings similar to modern typing websites.
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Key features include a vim-inspired modal control scheme with keyboard shortcuts, tiling multiple windows and organizing them across up to 9 workspaces. Windows can be minimized to a dock with animations, content updates run in real-time and full mouse interaction is supported for moving and resizing. It also has a real-time CPU usage graph in the status bar and an SSH server mode for remote access to its TUI environment.
tuios is ideal for software engineers, sysadmins, terminal enthusiasts who are familiar with or new to terminal multiplexers (i.e. tmux or zellij) and those who frequently manage multiple terminal sessions.
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It analyzes your project's source and its dependencies, then produces a tree view of the dependency graph annotated with statistics about unsafe usage. Crates that declare #![forbid(unsafe_code)] (forbidding unsafe) are marked accordingly, helping you identify which dependencies are entirely safe code and which contain some unsafe components.
It also generates a safety report that highlights how many unsafe code blocks and functions are present in each crate, acting like a geiger counter for your codebase by measuring the "radioactivity" of unsafe Rust in your dependency tree.
cargo-geiger is valuable for Rust developers and teams concerned with code safety. It allows you to quickly gauge the "safety health" of your project, which is especially important in security-sensitive applications or when vetting third-party libraries.
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It has support for multiple OS platforms and CPU architectures, automatic downloading of binaries from GitHub releases and the ability to install or update all your CLI tools to their latest versions with one command. You can also pin specific tool versions, track which versions are installed (with timestamps), and handle archive files by extracting the binaries automatically. It also organizes tools by platform or architecture and generates shell integration scripts to add them to your PATH, which allows you to start using the tools immediately after cloning your dotfiles.
This tool is particularly useful for developers, DevOps engineers and anyone who maintains a dotfiles setup across multiple environments. It benefits those who frequently set up new systems or work without admin rights, by ensuring all their preferred CLI tools (like fzf, bat, etc.) are instantly available via their dotfiles repo.
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It refreshes every second to show the latest call stack statistics for each python process, similar to how the "top" command displays system processes The interface has multiple modes: a default summary, a full tree of function calls and a live flame graph to visualize hot spots in the code. You can also pause or resume the display and it is cross platform.
This tooI is ideal for python developers and performance engineers who need to profile code and pinpoint bottlenecks. It's especially handy for seeing which functions are consuming the most CPU in a python application directly from the terminal.
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It provides an interactive interface where you can enter or load Python code and immediately see the corresponding AST and bytecode side by side. You can toggle whether to view the AST or the disassembly (or both at once), switch between horizontal and vertical layouts and use keyboard shortcuts for various actions.
For Python learners, instructors or developers interested in Python’s internal bytecode for debugging use-cases, dhv is ideal for studying how the interpreter transforms Python code into bytecode and how it is structured in its AST representation.
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It intercepts each system call a process makes and uses heuristics to infer the high-level action it represents, so the output shows not just raw calls but also context to aid debugging. It can attach to a running process or start a new one, supports tracing child processes (forks), allows filtering by specific calls or only failed calls, and can produce a summary report of all calls.
This tool is useful for anyone who needs insight into a program’s system-level behavior. It’s helpful for diagnosing bugs or crashes by showing what each syscall does in a more readable format than strace(1).
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Notable features include an auto-updating commit log view, quick revision filtering with hotkeys, and the ability to create new commits or abandon existing ones directly from the TUI. It also allows editing commit messages and can convert an existing Git repository into a Jujutsu repository from within the interface.
This tool is ideal for developers using Jujutsu who want a convenient way to manage commits and their history. It will feel familiar to users of other Git TUI tools like lazygit, but for Jujutsu.
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It includes listing container apps across your subscription and viewing each app’s configuration details and revision history. It supports live log tailing for any app or revision and provides a way to jump into a running container’s shell for debugging. This tool also lets you browse container apps, see detailed info and revisions and access logs or an interactive shell in any container.
This tool is beneficial for cloud engineers, SREs or developers who manage Azure Container Apps and want to monitor and control them in the terminal. It works great for quickly checking app status, reviewing revision history or troubleshooting containers without using the Azure web portal.
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It supports multiple database engines (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.) and a range of storage targets (local disk, FTP/SFTP, S3, GCS, Azure and more). It can archive selected files or directories with compression (and optional encryption), split large backups into parts and it can run as a daemon for automatic scheduling, if you need a web UI, gobackup also supports this as well.
gobackup is useful for system administrators and DevOps engineers who need a straightforward, automated backup solution for application servers. It's ideal for scheduling regular backups of databases and important files to off-site storage with minimal ongoing maintenance.
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It shows the file contents in a standard hex dump layout, showing offsets, byte values in hex and their ASCII representation. You can scroll through the data with keyboard commands and overwrite bytes to edit values. This tool also supports copying and pasting chunks of hex data. Additionally, certain aspects are configurable, letting you adjust things like the color theme or key bindings.
hexhog is useful for programmers, reverse engineers or forensic analysts working with binary data. It works well for examining the raw contents of files, debugging low-level data issues or applying quick patches to a file’s bytes directly in the terminal.
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It supports modal editing (e.g. you can switch between command and insert modes) and lets you run or evaluate code directly from the text buffer. It includes a help system (:help) and has user scripts, mouse based navigation, and extensions. It also lets you edit text in modes (normal/insert) like vim but treats text as executable commands. If you're adventurous, you can build on top of the ad editor you want tailored and custom functionality.
This tool is aimed at power users and software engineers who like exploring new experimental text editors. It’s useful if you want a customizable terminal editor that merges modal editing with interactive scripting, especially if you enjoyed tools like acme, sam or other terminal text editors.
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It supports standard gdb commands and options, lets you attach to running processes, examine core dump files and even perform reverse debugging with rr. The tool shows the current source or assembly code, a table of variable or expression values and the program’s terminal I/O. You can set or toggle breakpoints in the code listing and navigate through stack frames.
Ideal for C, C++, embedded engineers and Rust developers, embedded systems engineers and others who prefer debugging in the terminal, this tool helps when you need your code, variables and console output visible together while stepping through execution in the TUI.
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Key features include navigation commands (for example, go back, move up a path, open a URL, reload, home, follow a link by number, save the current page and bookmark) and an easy quit command. It supports TLS client certificates (one per domain) for accessing authenticated capsules. A simple config file lets you adjust formatting or style.
This tool is useful for those who like alternative protocols to HTTP and want to test out their sites and domains for browsing the gemini network in the terminal.
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Features include user-provided session scripts (for different window managers or Wayland compositors), PAM authentication and optional systemd integration. You place your session launch commands in its config directories and lemurs will list them at login. You can also customize the theme or prompt and disable other display managers and start itself on boot.
This tool is useful for sysadmins and users of minimal desktops who prefer a TUI interface when logging in their machines or if you don't want the overhead of a GUI desktop login manager.
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It supports quick command search and bookmarking via keyboard shortcuts, tagging, dynamic variables in command templates and has autocomplete plus smart completions for those variables. You can import examples from tldr pages and export or share your command library. The tool is highly configurable with custom keybindings, themes, search modes, the ability to load commands automatically from your current workspace and has support for shells like zsh, bash, fish, powershell and nushell.
This tool is useful for developers, sysadmins and those who do most of their work in terminal. It keeps your frequent commands at hand, especially when dealing with complex or hard-to-remember commands.
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It connects to the Spotify Web API to retrieve your listening activity data, such as your current track and recent plays. After logging in, sprofile displays top artists, top songs, recent songs and your playlists in the TUI. It refreshes in real time to update the currently playing song, has keybindings for navigation and lists recent tracks from your profile. For top artists and songs, you can view this information from a 4 week, month to an all time period.
Ideal for those who actively use Spotify, prefer a terminal interface and are curious about their listening activity, sprofile works great for displaying your music listening activity in a glance in the terminal.
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You can manage tasks and filter, list, trigger and pause DAG runs on demand. It also includes features such as opening selected DAGs in the browser for further inspection, key bindings on each page with a help menu and you can connect flowrs to supported managed Airflow providers or custom self hosted Airflow instances.
It also supports multiple Airflow servers using a configuration file which is great for switching between dev and staging setups.
Useful for data engineers, developers and anyone working with Airflow and automation, flowrs works best when you want a quick way to navigate, preview and interact with DAGs on remote machines in the terminal.
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It loads an OpenAPI document (from a file, piped input or a URL) and presents the endpoints and schemas in a navigable TUI. OpenAPI 3.0 and 3.1 are supported by this tool, handling both JSON and YAML formatted specs. You can expand endpoints to see details like HTTP methods, parameters and response models, using keyboard navigation to move through the spec.
oq is useful for API developers and engineers who work with OpenAPI/Swagger documentation. The tool makes it easy to read a large API spec without leaving the terminal.
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It can open an audio file or capture microphone input to display an FFT spectrum alongside a waveform in realtime. It also shows loudness meters (LUFS and true peak) for monitoring volume. You can play or pause playback, switch between file and mic sources and customize the interface’s color theme.
soundscope is useful for audio engineers, music producers or hobbyists who want to examine audio characteristics without a GUI. It’s a quick way to check the frequency content and loudness of tracks in the terminal.
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It supports many programming languages (Rust, Python, JavaScript, C/C++, etc) and gives real-time feedback on your typing speed, accuracy and consistency. It also has multiple game modes like normal practice or time attacks and it has a ranking system that awards fun developer-themed titles as your skill improves.
If you're into improving your touch-typing skills and knowing your typing speed and WPM, give gittype a try. It makes typing practice more engaging and by using real code from codebases it helps get familiar with programming languages and challenges you with each difficulty setting.
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You can add new tasks, mark them as complete and delete tasks or whole lists when finished. All data is stored in a local SQLite database, so your task lists are saved between sessions. You can change databases and create multiple databases which you can quickly navigate via it's keyboard-driven TUI.
This tool is for those who prefer managing simple todo lists offline and locally in the terminal with the ability use multiple databases when needed.
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You can queue multiple files for download, view progress and pause or resume transfers. It also exposes aria2's advanced options (connection counts, speed limits, proxies, etc.) through its menus. The interface shows each download’s status (speed, percentage complete, etc.) and communicates with aria2’s daemon to update progress in real time.
This tool is ideal for system administrators and power users who download files on servers or already use aria2's CLI or wget. It leverages aria2's multisource downloading with a terminal interface, which is especially handy for headless environments where no GUI is available on remote servers.
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It has standard debugging features like breakpoints, stepping and watchpoints with support for multithreaded programs and the ability to inspect the program state using data query expressions. It also understands Rust-specific types and formats them with Rust’s Debug trait for clarity. It also supports async Rust, letting you inspect Tokio tasks and their backtraces. You can also toggle between the console and TUI at any time.
bugstalker is ideal for Rust developers who want a specialized debugging tool. This tool particularly works best when working on and debugging complex Rust projects with threads, collections, smart pointers, async code all while working in the terminal.
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It syncs your notes to a chosen backend without relying on any cloud service, so your data stays under your control. Notes can be stored locally using separate files, a local database (powered by redb), in memory for testing, synced to a Git repository or saved in a MongoDB database. This tool has support for different theme presets and keyboard bindings for those who are familiar with vim commands for navigation and editing.
Any user who wants to manage notes in the terminal with full control over syncing would want to try glues, especially if you want to version control your notes using Git or just keep your notes local to your computer with the option self-host your notes to a database if need be.
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It performs two-way sync with your Simplenote account, caching notes locally so you can work offline and sync changes later. In the TUI, you can browse and quickly search through notes by keyword or regex and open a note to view the contents. You can edit notes in your editor, manage tags and other metadata (toggle pinned or Markdown, trash or restore) and even view past note versions.
sncli is ideal for those who are familiar with Simplenote but prefer a fast, keyboard-driven way of working with it in the terminal. It works best for quickly searching, editing and organizing notes from the service in the terminal.
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Features of lue include, extensive document support (TXT, EPUB, PDF, Markdown and more) with automatic format detection. The text-to-speech provider uses Edge TTS, (an online TTS provider) by default and can be used offline locally with Kokoro TTS. This tool supports 100+ languages with adjustable speech speed. It also highlights each word and sentence in sync with narration and you can customize the interface of the TUI with themes. Reading progress is saved automatically and you can navigate the TUI quickly using a mouse, scrolling or keyboard shortcuts.
For those who have ebooks and frequently use the terminal, would find lue useful as a great way to turn your documents into a terminal audiobook. Use lue if you want an audiobook experience by listening to ebooks in the background or if you need distraction-free reading with line by line word highlighting in the terminal.
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Key features include multi-cluster support (connect and switch between different clusters) and topic management (list, create, delete topics and view partition/offset details). This tool can consume topic messages in text, JSON, or Avro formats with filtering and monitoring consumer groups (members and offsets). It also integrates with Kafka’s Schema Registry to browse or register schemas, and supports Kafka Connect to view connectors.
For those who are Kafka administrators, backend engineers or developers who need to work with pub/sub systems would find ktea helpful. It works best for remote access to Kafka, quickly checking topics, reading events and managing Kafka resources in a TUI without the overhead of GUI clients.
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It shows details such as OS version, CPU info, memory, disk usage and more in a clean text output. It is configurable via a JSON file, so you can choose which info modules to display and adjust colors or ASCII art with support for Linux and macOS.
Those who want a minimal alternative to neofetch and fastfetch would find zigfetch as a useful replacement and as a very simple system information tool.
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With envx, it allows you to quickly filter variables and group by scope (system, user, etc.) and it supports multi-line value editing and can import/export variables in common file formats (JSON, YAML, .env). It also allows saving profiles (snapshots of variable sets) and has a watch mode to autosync changes when environment files are updated.
This tool is useful for anyone dealing with complex app configurations and needs to frequently check environment variables. It helps maintain consistent environment settings across projects and makes it easier to verify variables which can help users who are developers, DevOps engineers or infrastructure engineers.
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It has realtime chat backed by SQLite and also allows you to share files (with an interactive file picker), you can post code snippets, toggle message bell notifications, show the time, clear the chat, save files and extend more functionality with plugins. It also includes an admin panel for moderation management (ban/kick system) and customizable themes.
This tool is ideal for developers and small teams who prefer a TUI chat interface that allows team communication without relying on external services, all supported by its ability to allow for self-hosting on any server of choice.
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Features include integrated source code and call graph views with an option to hide Go’s runtime functions. It also includes a mini-flamegraph, can diff two profiles to highlight performance changes between versions and help catch regressions. This tool also supports live profiling (connecting to a running service for real-time updates) and has built-in help for understanding profiling metrics.
This tool is especially useful for Go developers and performance engineers optimizing their applications. It enables profiling and diagnosing slowdowns completely within the terminal, without switching to a GUI or external tools.
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The program lists all listening TCP ports with their process names and PIDs in a scrollable list. You can filter entries by port number or PID to find a specific service, then select it to send a kill signal directly from the interface and free that port.
gruyere is useful to developers and users who need to find and free up ports or resolve port conflicts on their machine or remote machines. It pinpoints the exact name of the program that is holding a port and lets you stop it without manually searching through PIDs or using multiple commands with lsof(8) to achieve the same solution.
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Key features include listing servers from your SSH config in a scrollable interface, adding or editing entries, pinning favorites, pinging servers to test for connectivity and adding tags to categorize or identifying servers (like staging, prod, or aws, gcp). You can also sort the server list by name or last connection time and once added, you can login directly into the server by simply pressing Enter on the selected server.
lazyssh is ideal for system administrators and developers who manage multiple servers. It keeps SSH hosts organized in one place and speeds up remote server management from the terminal.
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Features include plugin-based support for multiple archive types (built-in support for ZIP, TAR, GZIP) and an internal search function for finding text or hex data. It also has multiple color themes and the option to open the current file in an external program via a shortcut. It is also cross platform on macOS and Linux systems.
For those who are developers, system administrators and CLI enthusiasts who often need to inspect files and archives, FAT is very useful for quickly previewing archive contents, examining file data in the terminal without extracting files directly on to disk storage.
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branchlet has the ability to create, list and delete Git worktrees. It uses project-specific or global configuration files to automatically copy defined files (like environment or config files) into each new worktree. It also supports direct commands to create, list and delete (useful for scripting) and has a configuration (either in .branchlet.json (local) / ~/.branchlet/settings.json (global)) and supports post create actions, i.e. actions that run custom commands after worktree creation.
This tool is useful for developers who work with multiple branches using Git worktrees specifically. If you like an interactive way to manage your Git worktrees with a TUI, branchlet may be useful to you.
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This tool has advanced features like recursion into subdirectories, multi-threaded scanning for speed, and flexible wordlist handling (including placeholders and forced extensions). You can filter results by status code or size, set request concurrency, use proxies and save output reports. It has modern brute-force techniques and optimized request settings for high accuracy and performance.
This tool is useful for security researchers, penetration testers and web developers for web security assessments. It’s ideal for finding hidden files and directories during penetration tests or site reconnaissance directly from the terminal.
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It can run one or multiple commands repeatedly (or concurrently) to gather timing statistics, presenting live results with a progress bar and ETA. It also displays metrics like average execution time, min/max, and standard deviation as the benchmarks run. You can compare different commands in the same session and even simulate concurrent execution to see how commands perform under load.
cmdperf is very useful for developers, DevOps engineers and sysadmins who need performance insights without heavy profilers. It works great for seeing how different commands or options perform and for evaluating their behavior under various conditions.
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It has a TUI to browse and search Jira issues, plus a set of CLI commands for advanced operations. You can search issues by project or key, view issue details and metadata, manage comments and even look up Jira users or groups. All of this happens within the terminal without using the Jira web interface.
jiratui is useful for developers or anyone who frequently has to work with Jira and prefers a terminal interface to this. It helps users quickly check or update issues from the terminal, avoiding context-switching to a browser.
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It uses Celery’s event stream to show live task events as they occur. You can inspect each task details (arguments, exceptions, tracebacks) and retry failed tasks in the TUI. It is also keyboard-driven and keeps a scrollable history of tasks in memory, supports themes and can connect to any Redis or RabbitMQ based broker.
Backend engineers, DevOps engineers and those who manage queuing systems (especially celery) regularly would find celerator useful. It is ideal for those who are well versed in the Python ecosystem as celerator works with any web framework that integrates with celery, i.e. Flask, Django and FastAPI.
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Features include geocoding by coordinates (with cached lookups), has multiple language support, unit selection (metric or imperial) and various output modes (full, compact, one-line, or JSON for scripting). You can also get the weather via the city name via '-c' with the name of the city you want without using coordinates ('-c Milan' for example).
rustormy supports fetches data from multiple providers and uses Open-Meteo by default and shows current conditions such as temperature, wind, humidity, precipitation, pressure and displays ASCII weather icons describing the weather forecast.
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You can get or set values individually or in bulk, load settings from config files, and apply system-wide settings. The --explain option shows documentation for each kernel parameter. It also supports verbose logging. An optional interactive mode provides a text interface with search and editing for /proc/sys values. It also has a TUI for those who prefer a text mode interface.
This helps system administrators, system programmers or kernel developers tweak and audit system settings directly in the terminal. It’s useful for performance tuning, security hardening or debugging kernel parameters on any Linux/BSD system and serves as an alternative to the standard sysctl command.
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It infers the plot type from piped data and requires no configuration. This tool accepts input in JSON, JSON Lines (NDJSON), CSV or TSV formats and automatically scales axes with metric prefixes. It produces neat true-color visuals (line, scatter, bar, etc.) with automatic tick marks, legends and numeric value labels. Extreme values are filtered out to focus on the main data.
Data analysts, engineers and other users can use it to quickly visualize data right in the console. It’s especially useful for inspecting datasets or logs in remote servers or in scripts, giving immediate insight into the data without leaving the terminal.
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It supports both X11 and Wayland sessions and relies on PAM for authentication and has minimal dependencies (libc, pam, Xorg, etc.). It’s designed for portability for example, it does not require systemd and it has a scriptable login greeter (with support for multiple languages and sample config scripts).
For those who have setups that want to use a login display manager without a GUI, or users on embedded systems that need rescue consoles or just command-line sessions using only the terminal, you can use ly as a display manager for those systems.
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You can browse files inside a container, execute a shell in it and inspect its configuration. It handles multiple Compose projects and provides real-time log streaming (initially showing the last 1000 lines). It also shows each Docker command used for debugging and works with Docker-in-Docker setups.
Developers and sysadmins running Docker will find this useful for monitoring and debugging multi-container setups. It’s ideal on servers or workstations to get an overview of container status and activity without leaving the terminal.
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You can also switch between system or session units, filter to show only service-type units or all units, and directly edit unit files. After editing, you can control the state of the service such as (starting, stopping, restarting, enabling, disabling) a service. It supports Vim-style navigation for those who are used to vim.
This is useful for system admins and DevOps engineers who need to inspect Linux services from the console. systemd-manager-tui is also more useful when configuring services on servers and desktop machines when a graphical interface isn’t available and you need to quickly edit a systemd service without typing lots of commands to manage them.
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Just like what you can also do in the web client, it has a full post composer (with character count, polls, content warnings, etc.) and renders images inline with support for ANSI, Sixel and TGP. Actions such as like, boost, or reply are done with keyboard shortcuts and it supports built-in light/dark themes and has configurable refresh intervals per timeline.
It's ideal for people who want to access Mastodon without using a graphical browser but want to use a terminal user interface instead or want an alternative to other Mastodon TUI clients such as toot.
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This editor features multi-region selections and powerful editing primitives (such as regex selection, split by pattern and text objects). It has tmux support, rich text manipulation (aligning, rotating selections, indenting, case changes) and a client-server model that allows multiple views or splits on the same session. It also provides automatic completion as you type, macros, user-defined hooks, go-to commands, a normal and insert mode, live syntax highlighting and has a helpful assistant to guide you through using the editor.
kakoune is suitable for programmers, software engineers or power users who are familiar with vim, but want an alternative that is fast, multi cursor, keyboard-driven and a multi-user collaborative editor in the terminal to improve their productivity.
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You can, edit, copy and sort SSH entries and support for custom SSH options. It can execute commands on remote hosts and import hosts directly from your ~/.ssh/config file. No passwords are stored as it relies on SSH keys. The interface is entirely keyboard-driven.
This tool is useful for developers or sys-admins who use many SSH hosts and want to use a tool that oragnizes their keys in the terminal. It is a quick, organized way to connect via SSH and run commands without manually typing each host.
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You can adjust volumes, mute tracks and reroute audio between devices or applications, and configure ports and profiles. It has a TUI with sections (tabs) for playback, recording, input and output streams. The tool uses keyboard and optional mouse controls: arrow keys (or hjkl) change volume, ‘m’ toggles mute, ‘d’ sets the default device, and ‘c’ opens the routing menu. It also supports extra configuration and has options for changing themes or the refresh rates of the TUI.
This tool is useful for audio developers and those who want to view and control audio on Linux and is familiar with PipeWire without remembering multiple commands to control the audio in the terminal.
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Its functionality includes beautiful terminal rendering (with proper table alignment and Unicode borders) fast search with highlighting, and support for smart tables. You can copy text to the clipboard directly from the terminal and export the document (or its parts) to Markdown, CSV, JSON or plain text. It also supports inline image display on modern terminal emulators and preserves color schemes from the original document.
doxx works best for anyone who prefers the terminal for quick inspection / previewing, searching and extraction of Word document content without a GUI.
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It allows browsing tables, executing SQL queries and editing records. It supports loading a database file with the filename option and has the ability to navigate and search across results.
squall is ideal for those who need quick access to SQLite in the terminal, and need a simple lightweight, tool to do so.
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It supports real-time monitoring with configurable refresh rates, automatic grouping of sensors by unit (temperature, load, etc.), and dual Y-axes for comparing different units on one chart. It calculates rich statistics (min, max, average, 95th percentile) on the fly. It also supports unit based filtering and the tool adapts its layout to the terminal's size.
This tool is useful to tech enthusiasts, system administrators on Windows who prefer to use a CLI tool to monitor the hardware performance of their system.
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This tool supports syntax-aware merging rules for many languages and has a cautious approach that avoids hiding unresolved conflicts. It operates as a drop-in driver for git merge, git rebase, cherry-pick, etc., but can also be run manually after a conflict. It can often auto-resolve conflicts, when it can’t safely auto-merge, mergiraf leaves clear conflict markers and encourages manual review. It also works well with difftastic.
This tool is aimed at software engineers and those working on complex codebases who get frequent merge conflicts. It benefits anyone who needs more intelligent conflict resolution than Git's default one.
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Main features include commands to start (hap run), stop, and restart jobs, as well as to list all tracked processes with their status. It keeps output logs for each job and shows whether they are running, stopped or finished. Keyboard shortcuts and scriptable options can quickly kill or bring processes into the foreground.
In short, hapless provides a lightweight process manager in the shell without requiring a full supervisor system.
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Unlike other similar type-speed tools, this one supports more than 14+ programming languages (e.g. Python, JavaScript, Rust, Go, C) with English text to test your typing with. The display shows a few lines of text scrolling smoothly, where your typing speed and mistakes are tracked in real time.
For those who want to test their typing skills in a terminal environment, this tool is ideal for students, or programmers and typing enthusiasts who want to practice or challenge their typing skills directly in the terminal.
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You can search with translations into many languages included, each page contains quick practical examples instead of a full man-page. Other features include the ability to update the local database for offline access and listing all the entries in the database.
This tool is ideal for sysadmins, developers and students who need quick help recalling command syntax. It saves you time in reading through the man pages of each command line tool and gives you the essential usage of the most useful commands with examples of how to use a given tool with the correct flags.
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With jocalsend you can list local peers on a local area network (LAN), send files using the file picker and navigate the interface with keybindings with options for sending or receiving files with automatic device discovery via mDNS or similar protocols. It supports multiple file transfers and shows progress in the terminal. You can also send messages to peers and for advanced usage, logs are displayed in the TUI if you want to see more technical information.
This tool suits developers and power users who want to quickly share files over local networks. It works best for quick ad-hoc file transfers between LocalSend compatible clients such as smartphones, home servers and personal computers.
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Core features include support for multiple backends (OpenAI, ollama, etc.), session management, configurable themes, and clipboard integration. The TUI includes colored chat bubbles and slash commands for common actions. It also has a command to start a new chat session and can remember conversation history and it integrates with editors (e.g. neovim) via plugins, letting you chat about code or generate snippets directly from your editor.
This tool is useful for those who want quick AI assistance without leaving their terminal editor. It’s ideal when you need code suggestions or explanations during coding sessions.
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It reports per-process memory usage and other GPU metrics, with options to filter output by GPU or process and adjust the refresh interval. It comes with a TUI or headless mode that outputs JSON logs and recorded data can be replayed or exported as SVG charts for later analysis of performance trends.
Useful for Linux administrators, AI infrastructure engineers, developers and other power users who need to monitor GPU performance, this tool helps you profile GPU-intensive applications, pinpoint which processes are consuming GPU resources and diagnose performance issues.
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It allows you to create and view issues, manage pull/merge requests and check CI pipeline statuses across different services in a consistent manner. This tool works so you don’t have to learn a new command set for every hosting service with minimal context switching.
gcli works best for developers and DevOps engineers who deal with multiple git forges. It’s useful for anyone managing projects on GitHub, GitLab or other forges, letting them handle issues, code reviews, and related tasks from one terminal tool.
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It features a real-time graph of swap usage, process-level tracking and an aggregate view grouping usage by program. The tool provides multiple color themes and supports unit conversions (KB/MB/GB) for the display. You can also configure the refresh frequency of the live data from every second and has keybindings for quick navigation.
swaptop is useful for those who are interested in monitoring the of their system swap space or are dealing with systems with limited RAM. It helps pinpoint which processes are heavily using swap space in real time, aiding in monitoring swap usage or potential performance slowdowns caused by swapping.
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Features of cashd include the ability to load data via ledger or hledger journals, supports CSV via JSON config, transaction and account type normalization, regex account-type inference, multiple CSV files and globs. Other features include keyword search with field prefixes and operators, OR groups, negative keywords, custom date-range filters, search by amount and description, account balances and category totals and sample CSVs.
Useful for plain-text accounting users, developers, students and hobbyists, cashd is handy for reconciling bank exports, slicing monthly spend or quick accounting without a GUI.
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This tool enumerates endpoints (admin or login pages), detects exposed secrets (API keys or credentials) and scans for sensitive file types on websites. It supports custom endpoint lists and regex patterns for secrets detection, with adjustable concurrency and request delays to avoid server overload. It also integrates with burpsuite, can save HTTP responses and output results to JSON or text files for later analysis.
cariddi is useful for bug bounty hunters, penetration testers and security professionals to quickly scan a target web application for ethical pentesting. It is also ideal for uncovering hidden pages and potential data leaks during vulnerability assessments directly from the terminal.
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It allows you to fuzz endpoints, retrieve HTTP status codes for many URLs, perform reverse DNS lookups, and check for subdomain takeover vulnerabilities. It is meant to be a single suite for pentesting web apps for educational and research purposes.
Intended for pentesters and security enthusiasts who want multiple web testing capabilities in one place, kanha allows users to perform fuzzing, DNS enumeration and vulnerability checks from the terminal without juggling different tools.
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It runs cloc on a given directory and shows the results in an interactive table. You can sort by any column (e.g. line count) and filter the data to focus on particular languages or file types. This interactive approach lets you explore code statistics from the terminal without manually parsing cloc’s raw output.
cloctui is handy for developers, project maintainers, or team leads who want a quick overview of a codebase’s composition. It is ideal for seeing how many lines of code each language or module contributes to the project, all within a terminal interface.
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It lets you run a shell command back-to-back (with a user-defined count and optional delay between runs) and captures each output. You can also specify number of runs, run sequentially, add a delay, or stop a the first failure when running a command. The TUI displays all results so you can compare them at a glance. This is useful for catching inconsistent server responses, observing flaky test results or doing quick performance experiments.
mult is helpful for developers, testers, or DevOps engineers (and even system administrators) who need to rerun commands for debugging or diagnostics purposes.
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Key features include an interactive shell, pinging all connected hosts for availability, host inventory management, and a dashboard with menus and tables. It shows a consistent view of updates across different Linux distributions (e.g. apt, yum) and FreeBSD. It connects to each host over SSH with no central server or agents required, consolidating patch data from all servers in one place, with no complex setup needed.
exosphere is useful for system administrators or DevOps engineers managing multiple servers in small to medium networks. It’s ideal for quickly assessing which systems need updates or patches.
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Key features include two-way serial communication (read & write), automatic serial port detection and color-coded terminal output with an option to log serial data to files. You can edit the configuration file for default settings and includes a built-in serial plotter to visualize data in real time (including multiple values with legends).
comchan works best for makers, electronics hobbyists, students and embedded engineers who work with microcontrollers or IoT devices via serial. It’s especially useful for monitoring device output, visualizing sensor data as graphs and sending commands to boards directly from the terminal.
It uses simple query commands (like count, sum, raw) instead of complex query syntax and supports intuitive filtering by any field (IP, port, protocol, etc). This tool can aggregate flows to find top 'talkers', analyze traffic patterns, and detect anomalies, with output in table or CSV/JSON format. It also automatically annotates IP addresses with WHOIS details and highlights traffic to known cloud providers.
fli is useful for cloud engineers, security analysts or network administrators working with AWS networks. It’s ideal for investigating traffic patterns or suspicious activity within VPC Flow Logs, or troubleshooting connectivity issues using those logs.
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It keeps header rows and first columns visible while scrolling through wide tables, so you never lose context when reading results. You can search within the output and select specific rows or columns to copy to the clipboard. pspg integrates with PostgreSQL’s psql and other database clients (e.g. MySQL or pgcli), and can also open CSV or TSV files as well.
Developers and database administrators who want to explore data in the terminal would find pspg handy for this.
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It has a keyboard-driven interface to switch between worker, queue and task views, showing how many tasks are in each queue and what each worker is doing. You can search or filter tasks and see each task’s state (pending, running, etc.) at a glance and has a help screen for it's keyboard shortcuts as well.
lazycelery is useful for developers working in Python or Django, back-end developers and DevOps engineers working with celery. It helps you check the health of workers, monitor task queues and debug problems with your task queues in the terminal.
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It provides a TUI with tasks stored as individual JSON files in a Git repository. Every change is auto-committed (optionally pushed to remote) to maintain a full history of tasks. Tasks can have due dates and labels, be marked in-progress and sorted by various fields. Because everything is version-controlled, you can sync your to-do list across machines and revert changes if needed.
Ideal for developers, students or those who want a simple terminal-based task tracker with built-in version control, this tool is also great for sharing task lists across devices or maintaining a detailed history of your tasks.
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Key features include live TCP monitoring with configurable refresh intervals, human-friendly service names, keyboard navigation and clickable menus in the TUI. Selecting a connection reveals details about the process such as its path, PID, resource usage and open files. You can also filter the process list using regex and sort connections by status or by process name. This tool works without root (with limited info) or with root for more details and it displays live connection counts and per-interface bandwidth usage.
netshow works best for system administrators, network engineers, developers or homelab enthusiasts with computer networking skills who need an easy way to monitor network activity and see which processes are communicating. It's useful for debugging connection issues or just watching traffic directly in the terminal.
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It shows live CPU, memory, network and disk I/O use for each container and lets you start, stop, restart containers or open a shell inside one from the TUI. It includes a log viewer with JSON parsing, text search, filtering and live log tailing. The TUI supports mouse input, resizable columns and the tool is optimized with parallel data collection for high performance.
For developers and DevOps engineers who want to monitor and control containers from the terminal, dtop is great for quickly spotting resource issues, checking logs on the fly and managing and monitoring containers in real time.
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This tool supports OpenAPI specs in JSON or YAML and keeps all references and structure intact while removing unneeded parts. You can navigate through the endpoints with the keyboard or the mouse, visualize HTTP methods with color coded highlighting and you can use fuzzy search to quickly find paths. Other features include loading API specifications from URLs, grouping selected endpoints at the top of the list and switching between light and dark terminal themes.
Useful for API maintainers, software developers and those working with large API definitions, apisnip helps create smaller, focused specs when working with microservices and APIs all from within the terminal.
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You can use regex with capture groups to replace text, perform case transformations and insert sequential counters or dates into filenames. This tool also allows you to exclude specific files from renaming and use undo/redo to safely revert changes. All actions use keyboard shortcuts, so you can quickly set up rules and preview results before applying.
renux is helpful for any power user dealing with many files without using many commands. It's great for organizing and renaming batches of files, like cleaning up a downloads folder or standardizing naming conventions.
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Core features include profile-based manifest generation, automatic validation with kubeconform / kyverno, live reload with diff visualization, pre/post-render hooks, plugin system for custom commands, Chroma theme support, content-based project matching and multiple generator support.
Kubernetes engineers, DevOps teams working with Helm/Kustomize and developers iterating on manifest files would find kat very useful to eliminate context-switching while providing persistent, navigable views of rendered resources with instant feedback.
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It has features such as an incremental fuzzy filter, source preview, Vim keys, real‑time updates, coverage mode, custom flags, rich go output integration and run‑duration logs for context.
gotip works best for Go maintainers and engineers handling test suites large and small and need an interactive way of running tests in the terminal.
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Core features include universal format support through pandoc, built-in OCR for scanned documents, vim keybindings, visual text selection, bookmarks, incremental search, shell command execution from text, split-view mode and automatic progress saving.
Ideally for developers, researchers and terminal enthusiasts that want to open or read documentation, research papers and books directly without switching to GUI applications would find hygg helpful for distraction-free reading of PDFs inside the terminal.
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Core features include real-time simulator status monitoring, smart filtering, direct simulator booting, syntax-highlighted file previews, terminal-based image viewing, SQLite database inspection, automatic plist conversion, 60+ color themes, vim-style navigation, lazy loading and breadcrumb navigation.
iOS developers frequently inspecting app containers, debugging app or file system issues or managing multiple simulators would find simtool useful for iOS simulator management without typing commands all the time and using a terminal-based user interface.
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The main feature of this TUI client is that it does not need an internet connection to work, only Bluetooth and a bluetooth peer server. It supports encryption, Bluetooth mesh networking, public and private channels, direct messaging, no account registration, password-protected channels, user blocking and ownership transfers.
Ideal for privacy advocates, field researchers, maker-spaces, event organizers preferring local networks and anyone requiring secure communication even when internet is not available or during an outage.
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Several features include temperature wind, humidity and precipitation information, multiple weather providers such as OpenMeteo (No API Keys) and OpenWeatherMap integration, TOML configuration, customizable units and colors, compact mode display and city name toggling.
Those who want instant weather information presented in the terminal and also ASCII weather images would find stormy a handy quick tool for this.
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Core features include profile-based grouping of ECS clusters and services, real-time deployment monitoring, regex-based service/cluster filtering, multiple AWS authentication methods (environment, profiles, role assumption), JSON/delimited output formats, automatic refresh capabilities, service marking for targeted updates.
DevOps engineers and AWS administrators monitoring ECS deployments across multiple accounts may find ecscope helpful to track service health without switching between AWS console pages.
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Features include multi-criteria search sorting (sort by, relevance, downloads, updates, recently updated, newly added, etc), scope control for online/local/binary searches, visual labelling for dependencies and binaries, open documentation, repository, crates on the crates.io website from the terminal, binary installation from cargo and Cargo.toml dependency management with system-wide binary installation.
Rust developers managing multiple crates benefit from cargo-seek's unified interface for discovering packages, auditing dependencies and installing tools visually for their Rust project without browser switching.
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This tool displays formulae and casks in searchable tables, shows package details including dependencies and popularity statistics, filters packages by category (installed, outdated, explicit), performs installation and removal operations directly. Additional features include dependency chain visualization, version information display, package state indicators and real-time search functionality.
Those who frequently use and manage Homebrew packages would find taproom useful for visual package exploration and system maintenance without memorizing commands.
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The tool includes 90+ classic animations, supports direct file playback, adjusts frame rates, applies RetroArch shaders for visual effects, provides interactive browsing through sidebar navigation. It preserves historical ANSI art, demonstrates VT100 escape codes and maintains original timing accuracy.
Terminal art enthusiasts, vintage computing collectors and educators teaching computing history would find theattyr interesting and useful for experiencing early digital art culture and technical demonstrations.
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Core functionality covers staging, committing, branching, remote operations, visual file state indicators, advanced mode for logs with graphs, merge operations, interactive rebase support, optional GitHub CLI integration for repository creation and cloning. The tool displays git states clearly, provides operation warnings, maintains minimal feature set focused on daily workflows.
Git beginners learning concepts visually and experienced developers seeking efficient daily operations would find froggit useful for version control management coupled with an optional integration with GitHub's CLI.
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The tool comes with a JavaScript runtime with setup()/draw() functions, drawing primitives for shapes and text, ANSI color rendering, animation loops, keyboard/mouse event handling, Perlin noise generation, terminal cell aspect ratio correction, PNG/GIF/MP4 export capabilities, hot-reloading during development, custom TTF font support for exports and for advanced usage, runal can be used as a Go library.
Creative coders, ASCII artists and educators use runal for generative art, data visualization and interactive terminal graphics on resource-limited systems.
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Key features include hierarchical file tree navigation with directory folding, flexible diff tool configuration using template variables, ANSI color rendering, checkbox tracking for reviewed files, real-time search filtering and vim-style keyboard navigation. The tool supports Git operations directly, comparing branches, commits, directories and individual files with persistent state management.
Developers reviewing code changes, conducting merge reviews and exploring large diffs benefit from ftdv's organized file-by-file approach, making complex changesets manageable through its interactive tree interface.
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This tool captures terminal output including bold, italic, underlined text, full color support (16-color, 256-color, 24-bit), optional font embedding, light/dark mode compatibility, extensive iTerm2 color themes and customizable window styles. It renders output from any command into publication-ready SVG images, preserving all terminal formatting and colors accurately.
Documentation writers, tutorial creators and developers preparing presentations would find termframe great for creating terminal screenshots, creating visual CLI / TUI examples while in a crisp vector format.
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Core functionality includes real-time pipeline preview, interactive command editing, scrollable output viewing, support for all standard Linux text utilities (grep, awk, cut, sort), automatic pipeline saving to shell scripts and input buffer freezing for long-running commands.
System administrators, data analysts and developers would find up useful for exploratory data analysis, building complex text pipelines interactively and debugging shell command sequences with instant visual feedback.
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This tool queries domain availability with smart presets (startup, enterprise), checks against 35+ TLDs simultaneously, supports bulk processing from files, outputs results in terminal, JSON or CSV formats, handles up to 100 concurrent checks and provides real-time streaming results. Additional features include automatic retry mechanisms, comprehensive error handling and caching to minimize API calls.
Suitable for developers, domain enthusiasts and those searching for available domains directly through the protocol level, domain-check is best used for bulk domain research and if you need a tool which uses the new RDAP protocol (successor to WHOIS) to search for domains.
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Features include automatic location detection via IP, multiple output formats (TUI, simple, detailed, JSON), 7-day weather forecasts, metric/imperial unit support, streaming mode for continuous updates and customizable templates for output formatting. Weather data includes temperature, humidity, wind, UV index, precipitation probability with intelligent caching to reduce API calls.
If you're looking for a way to display the weather and also the data for your own purposes, outside may be beneficial for you.
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Core features include protocol discovery for 373+ tools, fuzzy search navigation, multiple transport support (HTTP/SSE, WebSocket, stdio, TCP), interactive parameter forms with validation, real-time message tracing, multi-format response viewers. Additional capabilities encompass session persistence, error detection with fix suggestions, export functionality for reports, automated compliance testing, performance monitoring with timing metrics.
Software developers using or developing MCPs servers would find mcp-probe useful for testing MCP server implementations, troubleshooting integration issues and inspecting MCP information with an intuitive visual interface.
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Features include per-project JSON config, custom type lists, optional board prefixes, predefined scopes, co-author insertion, ticket placeholders, line-length enforcement, automatic word-wrap, message templates, character limits, intro screen toggle, all git-commit options preserved, advanced flags forwarded unchanged without extra commands needed.
Developers who are well versed in Git, teams enforcing semantic version pipelines and maintainers juggling multiple trackers will appreciate meteor. It simplifies commit hygiene during pairing, open-source contributions, or sprints, ensuring every commit stays parseable by changelog generators and review bots.
It supports real-time consumption, a SQL-like query language for filtering records, multi-topic search, exporting results, headless CLI mode and user-defined filters. It also lets you register multiple clusters with custom consumer settings. By default, it doesn’t commit offsets automatically to avoid altering cluster state.
This tool is useful for developers, SREs, data engineers or hobbyists who need to inspect messages, trace pipelines, or debug Kafka flows without using web GUIs, it is hands-on and keyboard-driven.
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It supports fast switching between databases, viewing and editing documents, creating and dropping collections, managing indexes, autocomplete for commands, query history, multiple color themes, connection handling, intelligent document preview (peeking) and smart filtering and sorting.
vi-mongo suits developers, DBAs, sysadmins and terminal-focused users who run MongoDB on servers, managed services and local machines. It speeds up common tasks like inspecting records, running queries, adjusting indexes, and jumping between databases all in one terminal interface.
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Key features include displaying current track, album, artist details such as duration, popularity, genres, follower counts, clickable Spotify links, and adaptive image sizing. It supports interactive commands like mufetch search <query> with options to specify type (track, album, artist).
This tool is useful for music fans, developers or terminal enthusiasts who want an ambient music display without leaving the shell. Ideal when listening while coding or sharing terminal sessions—as a low-distraction, info-rich sidebar to your music workflow.
This tool has stdin support, automatic detection of terminal columns, fit or explicit resize via --width and --height flags, lanczos or nearest resampling for quality control, transparency preservation, animated playback, interpolation switch, top offset positioning, plus a silent flag to omit status messages and true-color override for misconfigured emulators.
You can use imgcat to test out displaying images in the terminal to see what they would look like.
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Features include AWS SSO session handling, fast account and role switching, fuzzy search to filter accounts, browser console launch, CLI-only mode, region-specific settings, session persistence and improved handling for large account lists. It also supports editing and removing saved accounts.
This tool suits developers, sysadmins and AWS users managing multiple SSO accounts who want to switch contexts quickly in a terminal, track recent sessions and optionally open the AWS console directly in the terminal.
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Key features include cross-provider task management, command-line accessibility, task filtering, status updates and saving/loading UI states for customized views.
Ideal for developers or power users who manage tasks across various task platforms / todo lists, it provides a unified way to view and update all their tasks from the terminal.
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Key features include recursive listing, filtering by file type, size or date, respects .gitignore files, Git integration, customizable output formats, colorized output and supports file-specific icons such as nerd fonts to distinguish file types. It comes with the classic tree-like interface by simply running "lstr" and you can also use the interactive TUI mode which can be launched by running "lstr interactive".
If you are used to the tree command to display a structured list of files, lstr is a great alternative which adds interactivity and shows specific icons to distinguish the types of files listed in the directory.
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Main features include grouping by content hash, size, and path patterns, filtering by name, size or regex, scanning multiple roots, respecting symlinks/hardlinks, output in text/CSV/JSON or fdupes format, dry‑run mode and prioritization by timestamps or path depth.
It auto‑tunes performance by detecting SSD vs HDD, uses parallel I/O, path compression, page‑cache friendliness, optional hash caching and shows progress.
fclones suits sysadmins, data hoarders and developers who need to clean up duplicates, reclaim disk space or manage mirror directories in scripts or pipelines.
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It supports simultaneous queries across multiple Stack Exchange sites, uses Google, DuckDuckGo, or the StackOverflow API, renders markdown lightly, and integrates with your clipboard. You can set defaults like search engine, sites, result limit, theme colors, and API key via config.
This tool suits developers, sysadmins or hobbyists who occasionally need quick answers without leaving the terminal. It’s ideal when you’re already in a shell, want a fast lookup of common tasks or code snippets and don’t feel like opening a browser to StackOverflow or the Stack Exchange network of sites.
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Key features include customizable typing tests with adjustable duration and word count, accuracy and speed tracking, support for multiple themes, configurable difficulty settings with randomized capitalization and performance statistics for reviewing progress.
Programmers, keyboard enthusiasts and touch typists would find this tool useful when honing their typing skills. It’s ideal for daily practice, preparing for coding challenges or improving keyboard proficiency for text editing, writing or anything that requires typing.
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Key features of nmail include support for multiple email accounts, themes, signatures, draft messages, composing emails while offline, multi-threading support, compatibility with IMAP and SMTP protocols, email threading for organized conversations, searching and filtering capabilities and integration with external text editors like vim or emacs. This tool also has a simple setup wizard for connecting your Gmail, iCloud, Outlook and other email providers and you can write your email messages in markdown.
Ideal for system administrators, developers and for those who prefer doing email in the terminal, nmail is a lightweight client with a lot of modern features, it is available on macOS and Linux.
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Core features includes markdown support, animated transitions like swipe and slide, hot reload for live editing, YAML-based styling, theme support, flexible layouts, intuitive keyboard navigation and a presentation timer to track slide durations.
For developers, programmers and those who want to create and deliver presentations without leaving the terminal, kyma would be useful for this, especially for technical talks and code demonstrations where kyma would be really handy.
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You can wake individual devices or groups and create/edit devices (requiring name, description, MAC, IP) or groups. The tool refreshes device statuses via pinging, supports deletion with confirmation and stores configurations in a JSON file (~/.wakey_config.json).
For those that manage multiple computers, servers, have a homelab or has any device that is connected on a LAN would find wakey useful for waking devices on their network in a simple easy TUI interface.
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It lists clusters, services, tasks and containers, shows logs, provides an interactive shell into containers/instances, supports port forwarding and S3 file transfers. It supports both Fargate and EC2 launch types.
For software engineers, sysadmins, DevOps engineers, operators and those with AWS experience would find e1s useful. It provides a live view of ECS clusters, tasks and logs, simplifying debugging and daily operations all from the terminal.
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It offers faster file discovery, flexible argument placement, detailed error messages with typo detection, and options like -exclude to skip subtrees and -nohidden to bypass hidden files.
System administrators, developers and power users benefit from bfs when searching files and directories in the terminal as it improves upon and acts as a fine alternative to the traditional find command.
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It features a custom browser engine with CSS support and optional JavaScript, doubling as a terminal pager, multi-processing, incremental document loading and HTML5 support with encodings like UTF-8, Shift_JIS and GBK. Its CSS layout engine handles flow, table and flexbox layouts with CJK support.
This tool also has Vim-like keybindings, enable mouse support and optionally activate JavaScript or inline images (via Sixel/Kitty protocols). Additional features include Markdown / man page viewing, bookmarks, history and syscall sandboxing for security.
Users who prefer or want to try browsing the web from the terminal, such as those in server environments or minimalistic setups, will find chawan useful. It is ideal for accessing web resources, viewing documentation or exploring alternative protocols like Gopher, all within the terminal and in a single tool.
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This tool displays repo statuses side by side, using color-coded branches (white for no remote, green for synced, red for diverged, purple for ahead, yellow for behind) and symbols (+ for staged, * for unstaged, ? for untracked, $ for stashed). Book-keeping commands include add, clone, group, and rename. It also delegates git / shell commands asynchronously to specified repos or groups, supports customizable groups, user-defined sub-commands via JSON configs and has shell completion.
For those who manage multiple Git repositories can look to using gita as it is useful for batch operations like applying commits across repos or fetching the latest commits upstream from the terminal.
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Features include a collection of examples for many commands, custom extensions, a way to list all available commands, support for custom example files and automatic paging of the output. You can also list all supported commands with eg --list to discover what cheatsheets are available and once the cheatsheet is downloaded, it works offline.
This tool is valuable to students, hobbyists, developers and anyone who finds themselves forgetting the exact syntax of a shell command and wants immediate examples at hand instead of having to read through manual pages.
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With gollama you can list installed models, filter and sort models, edit a model’s configuration, run or unload models, link models to LM Studio, and pull or push models to remote registries. Additional features include searching models with OR and AND operators, comprehensive vRAM estimation for ollama and Hugging Face models, JSON configuration for sorting and themes, logging and experimental features like Docker support.
This tool is useful for ML hobbyists and AI developers who work with multiple local LLMs and want a minimal interface to organize, update, remove and manage models in the terminal.
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It scans all non-loopback network interfaces for active hosts, resolves each discovered address to its mDNS hostname or DNS-SD service instance and compiles an IP-to-hostname list in the TUI.
This tool is useful for network administrators and home lab enthusiasts who need to discover local network devices, map networks and identify them by hostname for troubleshooting.
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Features include filtering hosts, tagging servers for grouping or priority, toggling between SSH and mosh modes, in-app editing of the SSH config and custom color theme support.
This tool is ideal for system administrators, DevOps engineers and developers who manage many remote machines.
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It automatically analyzes dependency manifest files (like Cargo.toml, package.json, go.mod, etc.) to list all licenses in use and then flags licenses that could impose restrictions on personal or commercial use or conflict with your project’s own license. It also can scan the dependency tree, categorize licenses by type, generate compliance reports and output results as text or JSON.
This tool is useful for project maintainers and compliance teams who must ensure that all dependency licenses are compatible with their usage requirements.
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Core functions include safe file deletion, where files are sent to the OS trash/recycle bin instead of immediate removal, directory navigation, age and size filters, wildcard exclusions, optional subdirectory pruning and an extensions filter.
This tool also has a rules system where you can save your filters for quick access, cleanup the temporary system cache, use keyboard shortcuts, configure the history limit, view operation logs and an optionally confirm deletion of files. All of these are controllable either interactively or by CLI flags suited for scripts and automation.
This tool is best used for purging old downloads or tidying project folders whether you're on a development machine, server or your own homelab setup. deletor gives those who need fine-grained control over file deletion a safer way to delete files rather than manual rm commands.
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It supports checking SSL certs against a list of domains, files or direct input, supports autocompletion, environment-based grouping, custom timeouts and debug logging. Configurations can be managed through a YAML file located at $HOME/.config/ssl-checker/config.yaml.
This tool is useful for developers, sysadmins and DevOps engineers who need to audit SSL certificates across various environments, ensuring they are valid and not nearing expiration.
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Features of igrep include, searching hidden files and directories, specifying the text editor (vim is used by default), context viewer positions, custom commands for opening matches, glob patterns for including files, case-insensitive searches, following symbolic links, file type filtering, UI color themes, and sorting results by various criteria.
Developers, system administrators and those who are familiar with grep would find igrep beneficial for finding files interactively in the terminal.
It supports adding prefixes and suffixes to keywords, specifying TLDs, filtering by domain length and available domains only. This tool performs concurrent WHOIS checks and streams results as they are found. It also includes options for verbose output and displaying statistics.
Those that are developers, indie hackers, hobbyists or those that need to quickly brainstorm and verify domain name availability directly from the terminal, would find tldx a great tool to use without going through domain registrars to find or register a unique domain name.
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You can switch between multiple Git identities, adding new identities interactively, delete unwanted identities and utilizes Git's built-in configuration system. The tool has keybindings which helps you navigate easily through the interface.
gitid works for developers who work on multiple projects requiring different Git identities, ensuring commits are made with the correct credentials.
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It shows disk usage, free space, mount points and device types (e.g., SSD, HDD, removable, LVM, encrypted). Users can customize displayed columns, sort by various metrics and export data in JSON or CSV formats. Filtering options allow selection based on filesystem type, usage percentage or available space.
Ideal for system administrators, developers and Linux users needing detailed disk information directly in the terminal. Useful for monitoring disk usage, identifying storage issues or integrating disk data into scripts.
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It enables users to search for packages, install or remove them, update packages individually or in bulk, and view package dependencies. Additionally, it provides system monitoring features, such as checking Homebrew system status, monitoring disk usage, and viewing installation logs.
This tool works best for developers and macOS users who prefer visually managing Homebrew packages through a TUI, rather than typing brew commands on the command line.
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Main features include searching within the context of providers and resources, changing the active provider version, and context-aware copying. It supports quick navigation through tabs, focusing on specific windows like providers, resources, and contents. Users can easily toggle a table of contents, display a log window, and enjoy seamless window focus transitions across the interface.
tofuref for those who use OpenTofu who need a way to view and interact with provider registries. It's useful for exploring and managing resources swiftly within a terminal-first setup.
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Key features include on-demand SSH port forwarding, automatic temporary SSH server startup, authentication via session username, support for custom ports and instant teardown of tunnels and connections when the host ends the session. This tool doesn’t require any always-on servers, and no ports are left open after use. Peers connect with standard SSH clients and are dropped into the shared zellij session without needing extra setup.
zmate is useful for or anyone who needs a quick, secure, temporary terminal collaboration in restricted or cloud environments, especially when persistent remote access tools aren’t available or wanted.
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Key features include displaying real-time node metrics, viewing and searching for resources, switching contexts and namespaces, copying resource YAML or descriptions, streaming container logs and filtering resource lists. This tool also supports both light and dark themes, keyboard shortcuts, and configurable polling rates for live updates. Although similar to k9s, this tool does not modify resources; its focus is on monitoring and inspection, not management.
kdash is useful for system administrators, platform engineers and developers who want fast, read-only visibility into their clusters directly from the terminal. It's especially handy for troubleshooting, log tailing or just daily monitoring.
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It fetches and updates orbital elements automatically via the internet, provides detailed information on selected satellites, and supports various satellite groups including CSS, ISS, weather, NOAA, GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, Beidou, and CubeSats. Data is displayed on a world map with object information present about the satellite.
This tool is useful for programmers, hobbyists and students interested in satellite tracking and orbital mechanics for monitoring satellite positions and trajectories in the terminal.
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Features include context-aware suggestions that surface tables, columns or keywords as you type, fuzzy filter on history, syntax highlighting, multi-line editing, smart pager selection, auto switch to vertical output when a result exceeds terminal width, configurable row-limit prompt, primitive support for psql slash commands, optional warnings before destructive statements and a rich configuration file for prompts and colours too.
Database engineers, data analysts or software engineers who want to experiment with queries or editing data safely during troubleshooting, migrations or demos without leaving postgres would find pgcli helpful.
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This tool excels in navigating documentation via full-text, partial name, and description searches. Wikiman features fuzzy result filtering, multiple source integration, quick search mode, and user customization through configuration files. Users can enable additional documentation sources and manage usage through command options such as adjusting search sources or output preferences.
wikiman is great for developers, system administrators and Linux/BSD users who frequently seek documentation without online dependencies.
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Features include persistent history, fuzzy search, multi-item selection for copy or delete, pinning, image and text previews and optional duplicate filtering. You can customize key bindings, history limits, file paths, and themes via JSON configuration files. It integrates with window managers like Hyperland (for Nix systems), i3 and supports both X11 and Wayland through utilities like xclip or wl-clipboard.
clipse works best for those who need a clipboard manager accessible via keyboard, with configuration options and support for both text and image content.
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Main features include listing 100+ different programming languages, fzf-powered fuzzy search, bat colour output, offline storage, 60-day auto-refresh, manual update, local grep, quick aliases and with minimal network usage.
Ideal for polyglot developers, students and those needing a quick instant reference or language reminders during coding, teaching or travelling offline and without browser tabs.
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It supports server reflection for browsing available services and methods, allows adding metadata headers and includes Bearer token authorization. Users can generate sample request payloads, save and reuse requests with bookmarks and manage requests efficiently.
This tool is useful for developers and testers working with gRPC APIs who prefer a terminal interface for inspecting and interacting with services.
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It supports torrent creation with automatic piece length selection, magnet link generation, tracker announcements and verification of downloaded content. It can also display detailed torrent metadata, convert magnet links to .torrent files and dump raw bencode data. File inclusion and exclusion are customizable via glob patterns and .gitignore rules can be respected.
Ideal for developers, archivists and self-hosters needing precise control over torrent metadata or those who need to generate or audit torrents directly in the terminal, especially when working with large datasets or automating file distribution over torrents.
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It runs multi-threaded, optional version lookup, exit codes for missing tools, colored output with verbose logging, and can read requirement lists from a needsfile. It skips version calls in no-version mode, supports pipe-friendly output and logs timing per command.
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Key features include markdown rendering with inline images, a side panel for note selection within a vault, persisting scroll position and a bottom information bar displaying the current mode (Select, Normal, Insert) along with word and character statistics. Users can navigate using keyboard shortcuts, access a help modal, and toggle vault selection screens.
For those who frequently use tmux with other tools, is used to terminal note taking, and for anyone who wants to use Obsidian in the CLI without context switching would find basalt useful. It is ideal for journaling, documentation or brainstorming with minimal memory usage.
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Core features include the ability to create, edit, squash, abandon, fetch, push, describe or bookmark changes in the TUI. It also has files, bookmarks and a log tab, that shows the revset list beside a panel that flips between color-word and git diff. Pressing enter opens a change’s file list, shows conflicts and switches diff mode.
Other features include keybindings, mouse support, bookmarking pane tracks, untracks, renames, forgets or spawning new changes. Config keys adjust highlight color, default diff style, layout direction, split percent, and bookmark prefix per repository.
Version control power users and anyone trialling, thinking or is used to Jujutsu (jj) may find lazyjj useful, as it allows you to interactively inspect history, craft patches and juggle bookmarks without typing many Jujutsu commands.
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The program queries each host locally, compresses results, then ships only a 250-line slice plus histogram buckets, keeping gigabyte logs responsive. Filters accept awk-style expressions; range jump, next/prev page, vim keys, arrows and copy-to-clipboard share links provide fast control. Timeline data renders live in color for quick visual scanning.
This tool suits sysadmins, site reliability engineers and developers who need to inspect systemd, syslog or custom logs across many hosts quickly in their terminal sessions.
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It respects .gitignore and .ignore lists, scans directories using ripgrep-style globs and displays results with syntax highlighting chosen from custom themes. Users enter a pattern, inspect every hit, toggle replacements, preview context and open the exact line in their favorite $EDITOR.
Capture groups can reorder text, hidden files can be included and safety checks skip edits when lines diverge. An advanced regex flag unlocks look-ahead features for complex queries.
Developers and engineers may find scooter useful for precise, tracked replacements with a TUI, for those who want interactivity and less context switching.
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It fetches, caches and presents metadata quickly, avoiding repeated network calls. The TUI lists every PEP with sortable columns, has free-text search, status filters and keyboard navigation. Selecting an entry opens detail panes showing authors, discussions, supersessions and history.
It also has a preview feature that renders the ReStructuredText source offline from the local cache for fast paging. It has keybindings to refresh data, search by author, change the theme, launch links in a browser, or copy numbers to the clipboard.
peplum works best for library maintainers, OSS contributors, engineers working with Python projects and those who need to know new proposals to the Python programming language.
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It sends configurable GET, POST or custom methods at user-defined intervals, supports request bodies, bearer tokens and basic auth and respects .gitignore-style filters for target lists. A YAML config lets you group hosts with per-endpoint timeouts, threshold and notification settings, while a quick flag mode handles one-off checks.
Ideal for on-call engineers, SREs and hobbyists needing endpoint health feedback during development or triage.
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Features include a unified info panel, scrollable data preview, per-column stats—counts, nulls, min/max, mean, distinct—row-group overview for Parquet, keyboard or mouse navigation, Arrow/Pandas/DuckDB back-end, gzip handling, pluggable format handlers and zero network requirements for local files.
parqv works best for data engineers, analysts, and anyone auditing Parquet dumps or logs who prefer staying in tmux or SSH sessions, need schema checks, spot anomalies and grab metrics without leaving the terminal.
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This tool supports GitHub and honours branches, private tokens and has a quiet mode. By default it relies on Git’s built-in sparse-checkout for speed; if that fails or the user prefers, it can fall back to GitHub’s REST endpoint to zip the subtree. Downloads are parallelised, progress bars can be silenced, and completions for common shells are autogenerated.
gitsnip helps those who reuse boilerplate, keep bandwidth consumption low and ultimately works best if you want to extract only documentation, configuration or any other specific folder in a git repository.
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Features include detecting template‑injection strings, hard‑coded credentials, overscoped tokens, unpinned third‑party actions, impostor commits and risky triggers. The output defaults to colored cargo‑style diagnostics, JSON, SARIF (static analysis results interchange format) and GitHub‑annotation modes support CI integration.
This tool works best for security and devops engineers, maintainers and hobbyists who rely on Github Actions for their software.
make the older build runner.
Features include clear compile-time error reporting, colored timestamps, .env loading, argument parsing and shell completion per platform. Recipes may depend on others, take in command line arguments and run scripts in any programming language like Python or Node. Modules and imports share task collections across repos, and a chooser pairs with fzf for interactive picking.
This tool suits developers who juggle numerous scripts those who are looking for a more ergonomic and modern make replacement to try out.
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By default daylight uses your IP address and timezone to know the sunrise and sunset times in your current location. You can manually enter latitude and longitude data so that you can see these times in other locations other than your own. This is handy in cases when you're offline.
Other features of daylight include a ten-day projection table, solar-noon and day-length data, concise mode, JSON export, automatic dark-or-light colour schemes and support for the NO_COLOR environment variable which disables styling. It is also cross platform on macOS, Windows and Linux.
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It fetches the site feed, shows titles in a scrollable list and keeps all interaction inside your terminal. It has keys that mirror those familiar with vim for navigation such as pressing 'n' for the next page, 'p' for previous, 'r' for reloading, 'gg' for the top of the page, 'G' for bottom and pressing 'o' on an article opens the article in the browser (with environment variable support for your favourite $BROWSER).
lobtui is visually similar to other terminal news aggregators such as hnterm, circumflex and hackernews-tui, where the points, votes and comments are visible, except for the difference that lobtui (like the lobste.rs website) shows tags which helps you know the relevant topics of the article.
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It displays search results within a simple TUI and uses a TOML configuration file to set API tokens. Navigation is managed by hotkeys, allowing users to switch between integrated services quickly. You can perform quick searches for IPs, domains, etc and see the results of the services that have been scanned in the TUI.
This tool works best for security researchers, network analysts and hobbyists who need to check IP addresses and domains for threats across multiple services for security flaws. It suits both professionals and enthusiasts who are working in the terminal.
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It generates OTP codes by using encrypted backups exported from andOTP, Aegis authenticator, 2FAS and Authenticator Pro, then it lists these accounts in the TUI. It has search, keyboard navigation with arrow and vim keybindings, instant revealing of the OTP codes and you can press "u" to hide usernames. When the code is shown, you can press "c" to copy the code to your clipboard (with support for xclip, wl-copy, pbcopy or clip.exe).
For those who are privacy-minded or those who sync encrypted vaults on their own clouds (Dropbox, NextCloud) and prefer the terminal would find andcli useful. Ideal in any situation where you need to quickly copy and grab OTP codes without reaching for your phone all of the time.
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It spawns a background daemon authenticated via the standard system prompt, then exposes sub-commands: auth to renew trust, pw and otp for interactive or JSON listing, list <domain> for filtered output, and start for service management. You can also output to JSON for future use for scripting and automation.
This tool is ideal for macOS power users who keep passwords in iCloud, yet favour scripts or integrations like Raycast and others.
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It checks the string against well-known leaked lists, then scores composition: uppercase, lowercase, digits, symbols, unique-char ratio, length and Shannon entropy. If the total falls below 69, the tool suggests a random high-entropy replacement and prints a coloured verdict, all without writing to disk.
Everything stays in memory and no password leaves the machine. Scoring categories are tunable through flags and the program outputs complexity tips. Input arrives via pipes or redirection and you can pipe candidate phrases through pwdsafety for use cases such as automation or shell scripting.
For sysadmins, security researchers, developers or any curious users that wants to audit and check passwords may find pwdsafety useful.
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Records are sealed with 256-bit AES-GCM and a per-entry Argon2-derived key, while the master secret lives only in protected memory and never on disk. This tool supports sessions that let you chain commands after one unlock using the master password and can auto-expire or trigger scripts.
The database is a portable binary, which you can move anywhere alongside with the kure executable. Other features include clipboard helpers, OTP retrieval, configurable timeouts and with the benefit of being able to use this tool completely offline.
kure works best for sysadmins, developers on air-gapped systems, privacy advocates and anyone who prefers to use the terminal over a GUI for keeping their passwords safe, encrypted and all offline.
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It creates human-readable five-word phrases using the EFF list, random character strings up to any length or numeric PINs. Flags let you set word count, separators, case, symbol and digit inclusion, deterministic seeds, clipboard suppression and JSON output.
The optional --analyze flag scores entropy and flags weak choices, while sensible defaults avoid less secure generated passwords.
It lists folders and entries in two panes, supports arrow keys, has vim keys support, mouse support, search and live filtering. Pressing enter shows a preview pane where you can copy the password, login field or time-based OTP to the clipboard.
This tool respects existing pass configuration and refreshes the TUI without touching files. Modification tasks like add or delete is intentionally left to pass, so the interface stays focused on viewing and copying.
Great for sysadmins, penetration testers, those who are familiar with pass and everyday terminal users who want to interactively browse their pass store in a read only setting.
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Core features include watchlists, multiple lots per symbol, support for pre/post‑market price quotes, configurable refresh intervals, currency conversion and outputting your holdings to JSON or CSV. This tool can read a configuration file (YAML) of all your chosen stock symbols and holding information to which these are displayed in the TUI. You can also tag holdings, group assets you're looking at, change sorting on the UI (alpha, value, change %) and set the theme if you wish.
Those who want a quick glance of stocks during coding sessions or want to monitor their own portfolios, may find ticker useful. It allows you to have a keyboard‑friendly stocks snapshot without leaving the terminal.
If you're looking for advanced charting, candlesticks and call and put options data, tickrs is also a good alternative.
]]>grep, tr and sed. It fuses regular expressions with tree‑sitter parsing to let you search and refactor source code safely.
Key features of srgn include syntax-aware searching, allowing users to locate code patterns based on structure rather than text. It supports multiple programming languages and can be used for code refactoring or rewriting specific constructs.
This tool also has customizable queries, parallel processing, replacing text with capture variables, delete, squeeze repeats, switch case, unicode support and even converts german characters (e.g. Ä to 'Ae' or 'AE'). Other features include bulk edits, --glob rewrites and coloured diffs.
This tool supports recording audio with custom file naming, playing .wav files and monitoring input and output devices. The TUI enables users to search for files, select output devices and when recording, it displays a waveform in the terminal.
This tool is suitable for terminal users who want to quickly test their microphone or sound speaker (with asak monitor) and when you need helpful visual feedback on the loudness of your audio setup. It aims to be a an audio swiss army knife similar to SoX but more fun and interactive.
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It utilises ripgrep for raw speed and can switch to AST‑grep when you need syntax‑aware accuracy; modes cover case, whole‑word, regex and tree queries. The screen splits into search and replace inputs, a results list and a live preview that highlights matches and shows context before you commit.
This tool also supports config files (JSON, YAML, TOML, INI) that let you remap key bindings, optional neovim toggleterm integration and cross platform support on Windows, macOS and Linux.
If you're used to searching and replacing text in large codebases, find that IDEs are slow for searching, or you prefer a terminal based approach, serpl may be useful for you here, especially if you're familiar with ripgrep and VS Code's searching but all in one interactive terminal tool.
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It fetches the full chain from a remote server with SNI, parses PEM or DER input and prints concise OpenSSL‑style text for every certificate. The program decodes subject, issuer, serial, validity windows, algorithms, key sizes, X.509 extensions, SCT lists, CRL distribution points and key‑usage bits.
It has a TUI (via interactive mode with -i) which lists certificates on the left and shows scrollable detail on the right, with vim‑like navigation, mouse‑wheel support, copy‑public‑key shortcut and a dynamic scrollbar.
Ideal for sysadmins, pentesters or hobbyists, inspect-cert-chain works best for validating, learning or troubleshooting certificate chains on any domain and is useful when you need this information to use in a script or if you prefer the terminal.
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Key features include filename-first ranking, space-separated token queries, and strict path matching when the query resembles a file path. It can also display a list of matches with real-time filtering as you type. Additional functionalities include multi-selection, vim and telescope integration, a preview window and smart case sensitivity.
zf is particularly useful when precise file navigation is required, or you're willing to try out alternative fuzzy finders.
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It provides user customization with configurable control schemes and a dedicated configuration file stored at ~/.config/mdn/mdnrc. The viewer supports mouse scrolling and keyboard navigation with options for Vim and less key bindings. It renders HTML tags in Markdown, permits file embedding in C applications.
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This tool wraps around the standard diff tool and sends its output to a pager defined by the environment variable or defaulting to moar and less. It also displays conflict markers and merge commits with clear color coding.
riff benefits software engineers and hobbyists when they need to quickly review diff file changes. It delivers focused visual feedback for comparing source files and tracking modifications in patches.
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This tool includes a TUI with dark and light modes, custom themes and a prompt library, plus commands to manage sessions, helpful keyboard bindings, importing models and access to various AI providers such as OpenAI, Groq, Anthropic, Gemini, xAI, OpenRouter, DeepSeek, LiteLLM, LlamaCPP and Langchain. You can also discover and download local ollama models from in parllama's TUI.
It also supports remote ollama servers, chat history, code copying from conversations and chat tabs that allow you to chat with multiple models. You can switch models and test out the LLM of your choice with the chat window where you can add files, images with slash commands.
parllama works best for those who want to interact with offline and online large language models for testing purposes, to try out new LLMs or for fun. It is designed to be a full chat, model management and interactive LLM suite for the terminal.
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This tool includes support for user-defined variables and functions, enabling custom calculations and reusable code. It provides a range of operators such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, bit shifts and logical tests. The tool permits saving and loading the working environment to preserve setups across sessions, assisting numeric experiments and debugging routine calculations. This functionality supports rapid iteration on numeric problems.
hexowl is ideal for software engineers and hardware engineers who work with various numeral systems, hex calculations and more.
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This tool supports customizable headers, token or basic authentication, and editable request bodies. It integrates command aliases and preset configurations. Keyboard shortcuts allow access to panels, help, settings, and saving output, all managed through a simple text interface with high clarity.
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It displays essential details like kernel version, uptime, memory usage and processor load across Linux, macOS, Windows and other platforms. This tool provides a neofetch-like interface with a separate theming system. macchina has a doctor flag which can be used for troubleshooting.
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This journal displays a calendar and two menus that list section titles and tags. You can select a date to open a log in the editor using the $EDITOR environment variable. It supports remote storage by integrating with Git and includes a basic encryption option using AES-128 for speed and security. The interface uses keyboard shortcuts for navigation and log management, keeping the view clear and organized.
caps-log works great for those who want to track, log and organise activities and habits all in the terminal. If you want a tightly integrated journal that encrypts your data, visualises entries, works with your favorite editor and you're familiar with markdown, consider trying out caps-log.
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The tool reads in a JSON configuration file to define tests with HTTP methods, concurrent requests, cycles and thresholds. It supports GET, POST and other methods, letting you specify headers, JSON bodies and expected responses. It also has features for ramping up requests and one off runs.
API developers, testers and engineers working on performance tuning would find ballast useful for this use case. It is a simple tool to run and compare API performance quickly with easy to understand results.
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The tool provides a TUI interface with three views: message list, message details and help. It supports JSON formatting, filtering by subset keys, and adding context keys to display extra details. It also has keyboard shortcuts for navigation, fetching additional messages, toggling deletion mode and searching.
This utility is best for those who work with AWS queues. It helps inspect and analyze message payloads during debugging or routine monitoring.
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It supports previewing, filtering, slicing, sorting and aggregating records. You can visualize your CSV data for easy exploration with xan in scatter plots, histograms, timeseries, correlation matrices, tables and heatmaps in the terminal.
It also has parallel processing, an expression language and shell tab completion. Additional commands let you search, count rows, deduplicate and group data, covering a wide range of CSV tasks.
This tool is beneficial for programmers, data analysts and hobbyists who work with large or small datasets while having the ability to explore and generate visualizations in the terminal.
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It features full-text filtering, history tracking and integration with Go's profiling tool pprof. It also has keybindings for quitting, pausing and help offers a clear overview of routine statuses.
This tool is ideal for those who either want to learn Go's concurrency model or are working with Go programs that need a way to visualise and debug goroutines in real time. It helps troubleshoot performance issues and monitor application behavior while not leaving the terminal.
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It presents a TUI that lists files with color indicators for matches. You can switch between matching and renaming fields using TAB, cancel with CTRL+C and apply changes easily with ENTER.
This tool is ideal for those who need to rename multiple files while having a TUI for visually seeing these changes. It provides a clear and simple way to handle bulk file renaming tasks without leaving the terminal.
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Features include a responsive interface that adapts to various terminal sizes, this tool has multiple panes, can preserve calculations between sessions and built-in commands for paste, undo and error messages.
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This tool queries several services such as Virustotal, Shodan and AbuseIPDB to fetch reputation scores, open port data and whois details. The UI organizes results into panels with clickable hyperlinks when supported. It also minimizes API usage to preserve quotas.
wtfis works best for security analysts, network administrators and developers who require quick, clear insights about websites, domains and IP addresses. It is useful for investigating suspicious domains, evaluating IP risk and gathering contextual data all in the terminal.
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The tool accepts country names or two-letter codes and returns facts such as flags, population, area, and other key statistics. It supports listing all available countries and showing information for multiple nations at once.
countryfetch is a useful and fun tool for anyone who wants a quick glance about the technical details or facts of the country they are in or other countries from the terminal.
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Core features include native support for multiple financial reports such as income statements and balance sheets. Users can apply filters by account, date, period and depth to customize data views.
This tool is ideal for those managing personal or business finances via the terminal. It serves those familiar with hledger who want an interactive, text-based solution to monitor and review financial data.
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Using Vim-like keybindings, fex lets users move with j, k, h, and l, search with / and other commands. This tool also adapts to different terminal sizes while supporting sorting, filtering and toggling of hidden files. Other features include shell widgets integration for directory changes and presenting file details in a clear layout.
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When running, tasktimer shows a header with total time and a list of tasks. You can type a brief description and press enter to begin recording the session, and pressing enter again to stop or switch tasks. Other features include generating a report, editing tasks or exporting data as JSON.
For hobbyists, students, developers and those who need to track work sessions, tasktimer is useful for recording project hours, study periods or coding intervals in a minimal terminal interface.
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The tool displays a table of contributors with commit counts, last edit dates and change metrics. It also provides a tree view and a commit history chart in the terminal. Sorting options let you rank by first edit, file changes or line modifications.
git-who is useful for developers and maintainers who need a clear overview of project contributions in Git. It suits both professional and hobby projects as an way to understand code ownership in a single command.
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It shows file icons, adjusts layout to terminal size and applies syntax highlighting for source code with customizable themes. It renders markdown documents, renders images in the terminal and supports mouse input. Additional features include opening files in a chosen editor, copying file paths to the clipboard, and reading PDF content.
fm would be useful for those that require a lightweight file manager with modern features (support for documents, markdown, pdf, etc) and if you prefer doing regular file management in the terminal.
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The tool provides graph, table and point views for latency statistics. It updates maximum, minimum and average values in real time and reports packet loss in addition to having IPv4 and IPv6 support. The TUI displays data concurrently for several addresses with adjustable intervals, counts and provides customizable view modes.
For network engineers, system administrators and software engineers, nping works best for those who need to perform routine checks of networking issues, test connections and measure ping and packet loss while visualising this data intuitively the terminal.
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It supports editing notebooks, themes, running live code, previewing kernel outputs and handling rich media like LaTeX, images and tables using sixel, iterm or kitty terminal graphics. You can also use euporie over SSH with euporie hub that allows you to share your session with others, similar to JupyterHub.
Other features include tab completion, a command palette, console conversion to notebooks and familiar vim, emacs, micro style keybindings and works across Linux, macOS and Windows.
This tool is ideal for researchers, developers or those who prefer working in the terminal. It's useful when used over SSH, via containers or when you need to preview notebooks quickly without a GUI.
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With senpai, it supports desktop notifications, image previews, tab autocomplete and extensions such as fetching the server chat history with the CHATHISTORY command. It can send commands to bouncers via bouncer-networks, supports file uploads via drag and drop (with compatible bouncers) and allows message searches within logs with the SEARCH extension. A debugging mode is also available which prints raw IRC traffic for troubleshooting.
senpai is ideal for IRC users, developers, hobbyists and those who prefer and are looking to try a terminal IRC client that supports media features with extensions.
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It includes autocompletion for tasks, servers and tags and it can list available tasks and hosts in a clear table format. You can open configurations in your preferred editor and import additional YAML files.
sake is useful for those who want to run tasks across multiple systems via SSH. It is particularly useful in routine server tasks that require distributed operations all at once.
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It supports tracks, albums, playlists, genres and searching. It also includes vim keybindings, IPC for remote control and customization via a configuration file. The TUI displays library, queue, and cover art views while remaining simple and resource friendly.
For those that want to access their spotify library in the terminal, ncspot is very useful for this and it runs on multiple platforms such as macOS, Windows, Linux and BSD.
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It wraps around curl to capture various metrics such as connection, transfer and response times. It accepts standard curl options and environment variables to control output, including options to show the response body, IP addresses and transfer speeds.
This tool is useful for those dealing with network monitoring and performance use cases, tracking request delays, diagnosing connection issues during testing or if you want to inspect HTTP interactions during development and debugging.
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Features of pet include support for parameterized snippets with optional default values, letting you assign variables and tags to commands. The tool has an interactive search and direct execution of stored commands. The configuration uses a simple TOML file that you can edit manually. It also supports automatic synchronization with online services that support gists such as GitHub, GitHub Enterprise and GitLab to keep your snippets up to date.
This tool is suitable for developers or hobbyists managing numerous commands and need a manager to store them and use for later.
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This tool has navigation and relies on arrow keys, page controls and keyboard shortcuts for theme changing and switching the focus of the pane. The interface is concise and displays both the schema number of the rows, the file name and data columns separately.
pqviewer is useful when inspecting datasets during development or analysis. It suits anyone who works with Parquet files and wants to open the data inside the terminal quickly without using the GUI.
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Features of mani include, cloning multiple repositories with a single command, running custom commands across multiple repositories and easy to use filtering options. It comes with a built in TUI for listing and visualising tasks being run interactively. This tool also has additional features like autocompletion, customizable themes and it works on macOS, Windows, Linux and BSD systems with no extra dependencies.
This tool can be used for working with multiple projects, projects with a microservice-like layout or generally multi-project codebases. It is useful to anyone from software engineers to hobbyists that manage multiple codebases, or need to sync or execute commands in the terminal using either the CLI or the TUI.
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It supports listing tables, viewing items, searching by attributes and editing or deleting item data. Navigation uses arrow keys or vim-style keybindings: press Enter to open an item’s details and Backspace to return to the table list. This tool can utilise AWS profile or environment variables to connect to DynamoDB if they are set.
ddv is useful for those who need to check or modify DynamoDB entries during development or testing. It saves time by avoiding the AWS web console or custom scripts and it's suitable on local or staging tables.
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It highlights each stage and resource action, updating statuses as resources are created, modified or destroyed. Once the run finishes, the interface shows a summary of output variables, so you can select an output and copy its value to the clipboard. This tool also supports plain output, use with the tee command and exporting logs to a path.
This tool is suitable for DevOps engineers and infrastructure developers who want more insight into the resources that are being executed when using Terraform.
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Key features include sliders for RGB, HSL and CMYK color models, with seamless conversion between these formats as parameters are adjusted. The interface updates the color preview live with sliders and you can copy the final color code (HEX, RGB, HSL, etc.) to the clipboard.
This tool is useful for developers, designers and theme creators who work in the terminal and need to pick or refine colors without a GUI. It’s handy when tweaking color codes in code or configuration (for example, CSS or terminal themes) and provides quick visual color feedback without using another external picker.
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The interface divides the screen into a request view (method, URL, headers, body) and a response view (status code, headers, body). You can navigate between these areas with keyboard shortcuts and send requests with a key press (e.g. Enter or Ctrl+R). This tool also supports saving/loading requests, searching with regex and custom context specific search on HTML and JSON, plus a history of past requests for easy retesting of API calls.
API testers, web developers or DevOps engineers who need to debug HTTP endpoints directly from the terminal woud find wuzz useful. It's great if you don't need a GUI and if you test API services on remote servers over SSH.
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Core features include listing kernel mailing lists, showing recent patch series and viewing detailed metadata and diff content for each patch set. You can bookmark patch sets, reply with standardized tags (like adding a “Reviewed-by”) and integrate external diff viewers (e.g. bat, delta) for colorized diff displays.
This tool benefits kernel maintainers and contributors who review patches via mailing lists. By simplifying patch application and review tagging, patch-hub is useful in the patch review cycle for those used to working with and that rely on emailed patches.
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You can add feeds, refresh them for new episodes and select episodes to play immediately or queue for later. It has keyboard controls to pause/resume playback, seek forward/backward, adjust volume and change playback speed during an episode.
This client is works best for those who want to manage podcasts without a GUI, that runs in the background and is interactive all without leaving the terminal.
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The tool features a simple TUI with Vim-like keybindings, fuzzy searching and keyword filtering. It supports editing and viewing entries in a terminal editor such as vim, helix, emacs or nano, copying citekeys, loading multiple entries in one session, opening related PDFs or URLs and sorting records by various columns.
Works best for researchers, students and hobbyists, bibiman is suited for anyone that wants to remain focused and want to use a keyboard friendly and less distracting interface to navigate bibliographies in the terminal.
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Features include creating, opening, searching, tagging and deleting notes. The TUI displays icons and menus for quick selection and integrates through version control via Git.
fuzpad suits anyone who works in the terminal and is used to using fzf paired tools. It is useful for keeping brief, organized notes and tracking changes without distractions.
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It prints all variables, retrieves values by name and can modify settings either temporarily or permanently. The tool supports loading variables from dotenv-style files and integrates command execution for process-specific changes.
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The tool can import requests from popular formats like Insomnia, OpenAPI, VS Code .rest and Jetbrain's .http format and can build requests dynamically from local files, other requests or shell commands. In the TUI this tool also supports multiple sessions, auto reloading, templates and the ability to filter response data with JSONPath selectors and switch between environments via profiles.
For developers and those working with APIs, slumber serves as a practical tool for testing and debugging HTTP requests from the terminal weather via the CLI and TUI.
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The tool supports package search, filtering, marking for installation or removal and executing commands with root privileges. You can also quickly navigate lists, perform searches with fuzzy matching and review command output in a dedicated window.
Great for system administrators, developers and enthusiasts working with and installing packages in Void Linux, this tool can be considered if you want to find, manage and install packages interactively while also remaining in the terminal and not typing many CLI commands.
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This tool allows you to use commands to enter in URLs, filenames and directories. This tool also has a local file browser, bookmarking system and history log. Its TUI includes a command palette and a detailed help screen. This tool supports editing files using your preferred editor set in your environment.
hike works well in in tasks that involve managing Markdown documentation. It serves as a practical way for reviewing README files and technical guides while working in the terminal.
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Features include capturing screenshots every 250ms, idle frame detection along with optional border effects like drop shadows. This tool can run on macOS, Linux and NetBSD, handling various terminal sizes, fonts, colors, escape sequences, and curses-based programs without difficulty.
This tool benefits those who need to document command-line sessions or create accurate tutorials in a single binary across different platforms.
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This tool supports importing bookmarks from formats such as HTML, JSON, and TXT. It handles saving, updating, deleting and searching bookmark links while managing tags efficiently. It also has a TUI for interactively navigating, searching and viewing details of your saved bookmarks.
This tool is for those who want to manage their bookmarks locally in one place instead of the browser. It is useful if you have hundreds of thousands of bookmarks and want to migrate to a local bookmarking solution with importing support in the terminal.
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This tool has filtering, streams, searching, supports pipes and has detailed viewing of individual log entries, in addition to GCP logging with gcp-stream as loggo natively supports this. Users can copy logs, navigate large grids, and adjust display templates for clear formatting.
This tool suits software engineers, system administrators who work with log data. It is useful for monitoring local applications, clusters and cloud services, giving a clear view of real-time logs.
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The tool displays an interactive file picker that shows files within layers, a quick preview of filesystem in the image and the ability to export files from the image to your local system. It also reveals image manifests and configuration data, has keybindings for easy navigation and supports both local and remote container images.
This tool is useful for those who want to inspect and understand container images quickly, especially those in the fields of software engineering, system administration and security, where it is suitable for debugging and learning about image internals of a docker image interactively.
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This tool features the ability to start, stop, restart or reload services and lets you view and edit unit files and inspect logs quickly. It also allows you to view to check service statuses, review log outputs and has keyboard shortcuts to scroll and navigate around the TUI.
systemctl-tui works best for system administrators and those who work on Linux systems. It is ideal for service management on Linux systems, home and office who want a visual way to manage systemd services.
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It displays a QR code on first launch to connect your account and creates a configuration file with customizable keybindings. It supports both single-line and multi-line input modes and provides commands for navigation, message editing and clipboard actions.
This tool is ideal for those who want secure communications without leaving the terminal.
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Core features of forgit include a TUI that shows available selectors for Git branches, checkout, cherry pick, rebasing, stash, blame, commits and files with keybindings. This tool also has a gitignore generator, Git log and diff viewer which all commands are available as Git shorthands / aliases ('glo' shorthand for git log and so on). Optionally, forgit can use delta for human-readable diffs and bat for syntax highlighting.
forgit is useful for software engineers or hobbyists who work frequently with Git and use fzf as part of their toolset for fuzzy finding. It also suits those who prefer TUIs, use fzf plugins, shell completions and those who want to do almost all their Git operations in the terminal.
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Features of nkt include recording journal entries, notes, tasks, habit chains and stacks, keeping all data in plain text and JSON. It also uses fuzzy finding for finding anything and everything, tags, the ability own editor with the $EDITOR environment variable and can work with document formats such as Markdown or LaTeX.
nkt is ideal for developers, students, and hobbyists who favor minimalism and plain text for note management. It is ideal for quick note-taking, managing daily tasks and tracking habits when a full-featured GUI application is not preferred.
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This tool provides search by name or description with contains and starts-with options. Its TUI supports auto-suggestions, customizable commands, and display settings for colors, borders, and component sizes. The tool also caches search results and shows package details like PKGBUILD files.
pacseek is for Arch users who manage packages frequently. It benefits those who prefer an interactive tool over manually typing pacman commands.
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When executed without any arguments, ggh shows a detailed interactive list of earlier sessions. It also reads your SSH configuration file to list hosts and supports filtering by keywords. The TUI provides a straightforward method to browse and select sessions. This tool can run with options to display history or configuration details, clarifying connection settings without altering SSH.
This tool benefits system administrators and developers who often work with multiple remote servers. It suits users who need fast access to SSH sessions and want to avoid repetitive typing.
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This tool supports auto-complete for revset changes, rebase operations, and revision squashing with intuitive key commands displayed in the TUI. You can view detailed revision information, split files, restore changes, update descriptions, abandon revisions and manage bookmarks. It also displays diffs and supports creating and editing revisions as well as basic Git push and fetch commands.
For developers who are used to Jujutsu and prefer a visual approach to managing version history, jjui works for those who want to inspect changes and navigate commits without complex command sequences.
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The tool supports arithmetic operations with storage units, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and bitwise calculations. It accepts piped input and file redirection, and can invoke bc or calc modes for multi-base computations. The interface retains the last result and follows SI and IEC unit standards. It also has a interactive live REPL to perform these calculations and conversions.
bcal works best for software, hardware, systems, security and compiler engineers, who need quick numeric conversions and address calculations. It suits users who handle low-level data manipulation and disk operations frequently.
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It scans numerous websites to reveal where a username is registered and outputs these results in the terminal. The TUI displays matched social media profiles and URL details and can also handle multiple search patterns quickly.
enola is ideal for researchers and hobbyists for checking usernames of various online services. It can also be used to find if a username may or may not be available to register or to investigate scattered social profiles directly in the terminal.
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It shows various layout modes such as columns, tree, and JSON output. g also has filtering options and natural sorting, clearly marking file types and showing repository changes.
g is aimed at developers and power users who navigate file systems in the terminal. It can be used for reviewing project directories or checking Git status, especially when detailed file information is needed at a glance. It is cross platform and runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
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It provides subcommands to list Objective-C classes, symbols, and headers, and to modify load commands and signatures. A simple TUI mode is available for browsing binary content interactively. ktool also functions as a Python library, allowing integration into scripts for automated binary analysis and modification. It works on any platform.
ktool works best for reverse engineers, security analysts and developers working on macOS or iOS applications. Use it for inspecting app internals, debugging runtime issues, or preparing binaries for further analysis whether manually or through scripts.
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The tool processes input from various profilers and converts it into an interactive flamegraph. It supports navigation with arrow keys and shortcuts, allowing users to zoom in and out, search, and move through the TUI. It integrates with other flamegraph tools and can visualize live Python profiles. This tool's keybindings also allows you to freeze the flamegraph, find and highlight frames matching using regex and more.
This tool works best for system analysts, software engineers and those who work with profiling data and system optimization. It helps in quick analysis during development, debugging and performance testing.
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This tool has the ability to manage multiple connections, have tabbed views and has Vim-like keybindings and configurable shortcuts. The TUI displays query results, logs, and supports databases such as SQLite, MSSQL, PostgreSQL and MySQL.
lazysql is suited for developers, students and those who want to explore database tables quickly in the terminal for testing.
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It supports multiple protocols and lets you execute HTTP, SOAP, GraphQL or gRPC calls. In addition, httpyac also features a plugin system, environment variable management and Node.js scripting. When using httpyac, it shows responses and errors immediately, whether run interactively or via editor extensions.
httpyac is useful for developers and testers who work in the terminal and prefer text-based API testing without typing lots of commands. It is useful for automating, sharing or debugging API calls during development or continuous integration without needing a GUI.
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The TUI features switchable typing templates, multiple language options and performance tracking with detailed statistics to monitor your progress.
For programmers, hobbyists, students and anyone keen to improve their keyboard typing skills, tukai works best for those who want to do typing practice without leaving the terminal or just for fun to improve their wpm (Words Per Minute) when typing.
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Core features include file operations (copy, move, delete), built-in file previews, custom color schemes and directory bookmarks. The TUI supports both single and split views, with tree-like visualization options and full UTF-8 support. You can customize file associations, create custom commands and extend functionality through scripts.
This tool is best for any regular Vim users who want a deeply integrated file management tool with consistent Vim-like keybindings when working in the terminal. If you're looking to reduce context switching with other file management tools and are familiar with Vim, consider trying out vifm when you find yourself browsing files in the terminal.
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This tool provides a clean text interface showing file details, deletion timestamps and original locations. You can search through deleted files and restore them with simple commands, it is one of the core features of this tool. It also supports syntax highlighting, custom color schemes and standard rm command flags.
Useful for anyone looking for a cross platform 'Recycle Bin', gomi works great in scenarios where accidental deletions could cost hours of work. It is also for those who prefer 'soft deleting' rather than 'hard deleting', with an added option to restore files whenever the time arises.
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Users can pick durations or specific times to stay awake. An interactive TUI and command-line flags make it simple to control. It has minimal overhead and restores power settings when the program exits.
This tool is useful for maintaining sessions, homelab servers, data management, backup/restoration tasks, downloads and other tasks that must not pause and where you don't want your computer to sleep. Use it whenever you need to keep your machine active for a chosen interval.
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It supports authentication with passwords, NTLM hashes, Kerberos tickets and certificates. The tool converts dates, booleans and other attributes into readable text. You can also perform recursive searches, manage group memberships, edit object attributes, search deleted & recycled objects and more.
The TUI splits into panels for exploring the directory tree, viewing attributes and executing specialized tasks like DNS management or exporting subtrees to JSON, all with color coding and emoji markers.
System and network administrators, security professionals and Active Directory specialists will find godap useful for quick directory exploration and management tasks. It's especially handy when you need to perform maintenance, troubleshooting or security assessments with a TUI interface.
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The TUI interface splits into source code, pattern space, hold space and regex match panels. Key features include forward/backward stepping, preview variable values, breakpoints and vim-style navigation. The mouse can scroll code and toggle breakpoints, while hot reloading keeps your desed session intact when editing.
Useful for anyone who is used to constructing complex sed transformations. dsed is ideal if you need visual feedback when you're making or testing sed substitutions, making it clearer to understand, debug and use.
Core features of tegratop include displaying usage charts, temperature readouts and device insights. It specifically displays the fan, disk, engines, network, power and the number of CPUs all on one page.
For hardware engineers, tegratop works best when you are monitoring or debugging the board performance or power consumption for tasks like machine learning or robotics. It’s handy during the testing phases and day-to-day operations on embedded systems.
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Some features of gowall include terminal previews, color palette extraction, background removal, border drawing and daily wallpaper fetching. Users of gowall can also invert colors or replace specific hues.
It's useful for those who want to match wallpapers with their system's themes or make creative transformations to their images.
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Features include accounts, (sub)categories, splits, transfers, recurring transaction templates, quick entry shortcuts and budgeting insights. This tool also shows your accounting graphically in tables, line charts, records, as category breakdowns, people owed and has plotting tools that highlight spending and forecasting trends. You can customize keybindings, set defaults like first weekday and it saves data locally in a SQLite database.
bagels is suitable for programmers, students, hobbyists and those who are looking for distraction free budgeting. If you prefer doing accounting in the terminal and need a TUI with support for interactive spending insights and filtering, bagels works best here.
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Core features include capturing command outputs, decoding stack traces, summarizing logs and interpreting unknown commands. This frees users from puzzling over errors or investigating misconfigurations in the terminal.
Developers, hobbyists and learners gain quick insights into command behavior and logs using wut. It is most useful when diagnosing issues or clarifying unusual results, wut works best inside a tmux or screen session to capture the last terminal output.
]]>arduino-cli-interactive is a tool that acts as a middle ground between the Arduino CLI and the Arduino IDE, it aims to ease the transition from the Arduino IDE GUI to the Arduino CLI (Command line interface) for newcomers to Arduino CLI.
Main features are the same as the IDE: Board selection, New sketch creation, library installation, compilation and uploading of code. It also supports 3rd party cores for ESP32 and ESP8266 based boards, editing sketches and a built-in Serial Monitor.
This tool works best for those working with Arduino, especially learners, experimenters and professionals looking for an interactive and menu-based way of working with Arduino hardware in the terminal.
It provides interactive shell usage, SQL completion, command history, keybindings, multiple output formats and automatic file detection. Additional options manage shell redirection, output paths, and query customization. It also has the ability to import your data into an in-memory SQLite3 database, run and execute queries against it and can save the resulting data locally.
Those who prefer to work with SQL on any tabular data format would find sqly useful, especially with the option for querying data interactively with its shell (sqly-shell).
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Features of gaze include, server restarting, parallel handling and multi-platform support. You can match file patterns, kill ongoing processes, specify timeouts or run multiple commands in sequence. Default settings exist for common languages, but you can customize everything since gaze can be configured through a YAML configuration file.
This tool works best for anyone who edits code and needs to run frequent test runs or compilation of code builds where instant feedback helps productivity without manual effort.
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It displays an ASCII image of the GitHub user's avatar and shows profile elements like username, bio, repository counts, pull requests, followers, total issues and more. It uses a GitHub personal access token to fetch the information.
This tool is beneficial for developers who want a quick GitHub summary of their stats right in their terminal. It's helpful for daily checks and presenting user stats in a neat and quick format from GitHub.
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Features of astroterm include, highly accurate terminal rendering of the planets, moons and stars. It also has color, constellation outlines and various configuration options. It supports controlling star brightness thresholds, city-based coordinates, and optional grids and it is able to track precise moon phases in real-time.
Customization by date, time and location and future celestial events are features also supported by astroterm. For precise observation, users can specify latitude, longitude, or pick a city name for quick setup. If you're a fan of tracking celestial objects, consider viewing planets with astroterm in your terminal.
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It features hex and ASCII editing, search tools, jump-to-byte shortcuts and toggling endianness. Mouse interactions highlight labels and allow copying content and zooming adjusts component sizes.
It's practical for those dealing with raw data or debugging binary files. It works well for quick hex editing in non-critical environments.
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It has auto refresh previews, pager support, the ability to switch to system or user units, smart sudo handling and input state caching for saving common entries. This tool has a fluid layout which adapts to the terminal size, a command palette with many keyboard shortcuts and YAML configuration with auto-completion. With support for themes, isd can be customized in different styles in the TUI.
This tool can be used to view systemd services interactively and to diagnose issues across Linux setups. It is suitable for system administrators, software engineers and those seeking a way to monitor or modify systemd units where manual typing could use a TUI.
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Features of lsr include colorized file listings, filters, quick identification of directories by displaying the tree structure recursively, color schemes and showing files or symbolic links as flags. It also has Git status indicators and highlights staged and unstaged changes. Users can adjust default configurations or override specific settings to fit their preferences.
This tool can be extended further with scripts in Lua to display custom information when using lsr, which would work best if you need more customization and filtering than what ls provides.
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Additionally, gocker enables users to kill existing containers and initiate shells within Docker instances. Some features include the ability to start or stop services in docker-compose and interact with supervisord instances within a container. This tool also provides a list of keyboard shortcuts for those who prefer to navigate faster in the TUI.
The tool proves useful for developers and sysadmins who work with Docker environments, particularly when they require quick access to container data with all information in full view. Ideal for local Docker instances, it is a solution for efficient container management.
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This tool includes fast directory scanning, colored output and the option to delete files or folders inside the interface. It also has keyboard navigation with familiar keys for moving up or down and diving deeper into subfolders. Sorting and trash toggles are also an addition to wiper and you can see which files are taking up space with wiper's intuitive 'blocky space' display and the files being sorted by the biggest.
It’s helpful for cleaning up drives whenever projects expand while staying in the terminal. You can quickly open files with your default system app, navigate up to parent folders, all cross platform on Linux, Windows, and macOS.
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Core features include fast TUI operation, tree-sitter syntax highlighting, linting, language server navigation, infinite undo/redo, multi-cursor editing, and customizable keybindings. It provides extensive mouse support and theme options, providing various customizability for users.
Flow Control is useful for programmers seeking a newer terminal-integrated editor with text manipulation features.
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Core features include bookmark management and search functionality. The setup involves creating a raindrop.io API token and passing it to braindrop for the client to work. Configuration files and token storage are managed within designated directories and braindrop can be further explored through its inbuilt help screen.
This tool is suitable for those who are want to explore, edit, open and manage bookmarks without leaving the terminal.
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This tool features mouse input, DOS ANSI art compatibility and HTML output, among others. Modernizing classic MS-DOS software like TheDraw, Durdraw requires Python 3, making it cross platform on macOS and Linux systems. Additional capabilities include exporting animations as PNGs and GIFs when paired with Ansilove, and integrating with neofetch through its "Durfetch" feature for fetching system details.
This tool is valuable for creating intricate text art, ideal for artists and developers interested in retro computing, digital art or terminal-based artistic endeavors.
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The core features include tree-based navigation, quick file switching and simple integration with existing tools. In addition, drft can simply read multiple files in one diff and can offer a structured view for each section.
It can also be used when working with multi-file changes, or exploring new patches on personal or collaborative projects. It keeps patches better organized overall.
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Key features of gotz are custom labels, color-coded segments and symbolic displays in the terminal. You can toggle between 24-hour or 12-hour formats with the ability to configure time blocks, symbols, color, day segments and more in JSON. It can also continuously update the time with live mode by appending the command --live true to gotz.
This tool appeals to those who work in the terminal and also work with others remotely in different timezones, preventing confusion and freeing you from doing time conversions manually. You can consider this tool if you just want a simple and non distracting way of viewing timezones in the terminal.
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Key features include selecting keys, ranges, indices, flattening nested structures and validating JSON. It supports pretty-printing, raw output and streaming JSON line by line.
This tool is useful when you need to query complex JSON structures for quick testing in the terminal without resorting to writing code first. You can also integrate jql into scripts or build processes as well.
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Key features include the ability to script custom UIs in any language, adherence to the UNIX philosophy and installable extensions. It's extension catalog has ready-to-use scripts like GitHub integration, Google Search, Hacker News browsing, NPM search, Nixpkgs search and more. It also supports and can use JSON-based tools, has integrations with tmux and zellij, clipboard handling and has keyboard shortcut support.
This tool is cross-platform on macOS and Linux and is useful for developers looking to use a simple CLI launcher in the terminal that integrates with their existing tools and is highly extensible for their own needs.
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Core features include searching within archives, respecting .gitignore rules and filtering by attributes like MIME type or image dimensions. It outputs results in formats like JSON or CSV and supports interactive mode for live querying. You can also use fselect to perform complex queries with aggregate functions like counting or summing file sizes.
This tool is powerful for developers and is useful for those who want to make specific file searches, e.g. power users, data analysts. It is also ideal for tasks requiring precision, like debugging, content audits or finding information in large datasets.
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Key features include the ability to test DNS, ping a site with adjustable packet counts and verify HTTPS/TLS connections on custom ports. Results can be output as plain text or JSON, making it adaptable for manual inspection or integration into scripts.
dstp can be used to troubleshoot network problems, verify connectivity or perform quick diagnostics, especially during development or system monitoring.
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It supports local or remote usage, $EDITOR support, importing GitHub or taskwarrior issues, undo changes with Git revert, customized tagging and quick data retrieval. You can also open related URLs right away.
dstask is helpful for personal or professional tasks requiring markdown, version history and syncing. It can be best used to track and manage progress in projects that have many TODOs all in the terminal.
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Features include command line arguments for packet sizing, logging options and group-based permissions. pingtop can run as non-root which avoids using administrator privileges, meaning sudo is not required.
This tool can be used whenever you want a live readout of network stability. It's suitable for local or remote checks for servers, domains and even homelabs, helpful for server troubleshooting or quick visibility of response times in the terminal.
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Features of this tool include listing, parameter placeholders, ChatGPT-assisted creation and local or cloud synchronization. You can use shell plugins to easily search or fill saved commands and it also supports keyboard shortcuts.
This tool can be used if you need quick retrieval of long, customized commands and want to explore your commands in a TUI, hoard works best in conjunction with and is similar to fzf and atuin.
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It has the ability to adjust snow stacking, customize particle symbols and set various speeds. You can also add different star / snow styles entirely and you can run the program with decorative trees in the background.
If you're looking to make your terminal a little more festive or you just want to show off effects, bring out the snowmachine and make it snow!
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Key features include filtering records by date range or paths, analyzing trends, and running quickly—about one second per million lines, letting you iterate freely. You even get a data displayed as a table in the terminal with a histogram and trends showing what your nginx data looks like.
This tool can be used when you want precise insights into nginx web traffic or behaviors with a intuitive display of your data.
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This tool operates on systems with only gdb, nc and mkfifo, bypassing common issues like broken gdbserver binaries. Unlike many other tools, it doesn't rely on Python, making it compatible with more restricted setups.
Ideal for embedded systems and electronic engineers, developers and reverse engineers working and debugging in constrained environments, heretek is a practical, no-dependency tool for remote gdb sessions.
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Core features include fetching the latest version of packages, compatibility with nvchecker, comparing versions and displaying the differences, in addition to automatically auto updating old versions. Options like --no-fail handles recoverable errors gracefully and a --nuke command deletes outdated entries.
Useful for developers or for those to want to manage their terminal tools and dependencies, consider this tool if you're looking to update your existing packages or you want to see what packages are out of date.
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Core features of tuistash include customizable refresh intervals, command-line options for querying specific data (e.g., nodes, OS, JVM, pipelines) and support for output formats like JSON and raw text. In addition, tuistash displays all of these statistics (such as CPU Usage, JVM Heap, Throughput, Threads, Events, Queues, etc) as graphs and usage visualizations showing the health of your Logstash instance for debugging or profiling purposes.
This tool would be most useful for those who monitor backend systems and are also familiar with Logstash, especially those who are devops and software engineers that can diagnose Logstash issues using tuistash all while not leaving the terminal.
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Key features include regex support, natural sorting (ascending/descending) and the ability to preserve file extensions. Additional options like dry-run mode, JSON map generation and directory creation provide control and flexibility that nomino can do.
For those who work with lots of files and directories whether generated or not, nomino is a fast and precise tool for bulk renaming tasks, great for developers handling, sorting and organizing complex file naming conventions.
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Key features include log file generation, command output review and controls for pausing, resuming, or aborting jobs in real-time. It supports advanced SSH options, hostname resolution and customizable symbols for terminal displays.
This tool is ideal for system administrators, developers and those who need to manage bulk remote tasks efficiently across servers in both development and production environments.
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Whether you're looking for an alternative editor or just want to try out a different one to test out the features, consider trying out dte.
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Key features include configurable prompts and models, conversation support and integration with terminal editors. Power users can tailor configurations, insert user input and write prompt templates for recurring tasks in the terminal.
This tool is ideal for developers and terminal enthusiasts and for those that want to experiement with using LLMs and the terminal.
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Core features include watching logs across multiple containers, pods and clusters. In addition to also being able to search via regex and display timestamp-sorted views. With kl's TUI, you can focus on logs from specific containers, filter by labels and toggle different k8s contexts to narrow down the logs you want to view.
Additional features include archiving logs, clipboard copying and fullscreen views. This tool also has keyboard shortcuts for rapid navigation within the TUI.
kl is great for Kubernetes users needing quick access to logs from multiple Kubernetes resources and if you need to debug in multi-cluster environments.
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Features of hevi include syntax highlighting for formats like ELF and PE files, support for custom color palettes, configurable options for offsets, ASCII views, line skipping, and raw mode. It supports flags for quick adjustments and a robust config file for persistent customization.
hevi is great for those needing a simple, fast cross-platform and customizable hex viewer with helpful syntax highlighting features.
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This tool has the ability to filter logs from systemctl services, containers and files in real time. It can also view archived logs in the TUI and supports 3 different search modes (default, fuzzy and regex) to refine results. It also has helpful keybindings for navigating the TUI and performing actions like switching windows and refreshing the TUI.
Suitable for sysadmins and developers or anyone working with systemd or systemctl, lazyjournal is a great tool for anyone on Linux working with logs in terminal environments where no GUI is present.
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Interesting features of lla include various display formats such as tree, grid, timeline and Git-aware views. It supports sorting, filtering and recursive listing and has a plugin system that extends its functionality further such as duplicate detection, file hash calculation, code complexity analysis, extended metadata display, keyword search, categorization and tagging to name a few.
Ideal for developers and system administrators looking for an alternative to ls, lla is a powerful file exploration tool for anyone managing directories in the terminal.
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It supports a multitude of various ID formats and features like color-coded bit representation and outputting to the terminal, JSON or a binary representation of the identifier. You can also force format detection with the -f parameter, compare Snowflake ID variants and pipe input for batch processing.
This tool is useful for anyone interested in comparing and understanding different types of IDs they come across, particularly those who work in application security, distributed systems and databases where uuinfo would be effective in detecting these IDs.
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The core feature television has is called "channels" which lets you search through files, text content, git repositories, environment variables, aliases and more. This tool supports the majority of many terminal emulators, has various matching patterns like fuzzy, substring, prefix and exact matches. It also has customizable keybindings and a helpful preview pane which displays the contents of selected entries.
The tool supports consuming JSON messages out of the box, with options for Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) support. It includes AWS IAM authentication for secured brokers, which makes it flexible for different Kafka setups.
For developers working with Apache Kafka, kplay provides a quick and simple way to consume Kafka messages directly in a TUI interface.
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With customizable filters written in Lua, you can isolate logs based on specific conditions like severity, process, level or status. It also supports prefixing log lines and highlighting key fields for better readability and has log tailing and shell completions. Advanced formatting options let you personalize how logs appear, with support for NO_COLOR for disabling color output and also has color-coding and placeholder substitutions.
Ideal for developers and sysadmins, fblog also integrates with Docker, Kubernetes and even tools such as k9s, making it a great choice for debugging and logging JSON files in the terminal.
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You can create multiple boards, each with configurable columns, and manage tasks with options to add, edit, move or delete. Visual summaries such as bar charts provide insights into task progress, categorized by time or type. This tool also has keybindings visible in the TUI for easy navigation.
For developers and productivity enthusiasts, kanban-tui is a useful tool for anyone needing a task management tool that runs exclusively in the terminal.
You can quickly try it out a demo board with ktui demo in the terminal after installation.
Key features include keyboard navigation which makes going through text and menu pages easier, supports downloads, displays a colorful interface, has secure browsing with TLS, Tor support and bookmarking if you stumble across a site that you want to save for later. Users can customize viewing options, autoplay media files or save configurations.
Whether you're a Gopher enthusiast or new to the protocol, phetch provides a straightforward, efficient way to explore Gopher content securely. This tool has a <1MB footprint make it accessible across Linux, macOS, and NetBSD.
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Core features include running cargo check, clippy or tests, with simple keyboard commands / keybindings. It supports custom jobs through a bacon.toml configuration file, letting you tailor specific tasks such as checking examples or targeting specific platforms like Windows. You can also switch between tasks or focus on specific failures.
This tool works best for Rust developers and those who are looking for tools that can be integrated into existing editors, consider bacon if you primarily work with Rust codebases and environments.
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It works by querying multiple geolocation services in parallel to determine your location and maps this to the correct timezone. Key features include protection against invalid results, specifying an alternative IP address and the ability to simulate changes before applying them by printing the timezone information with -p flag.
Great for system administrators, software engineers or anyone working with time on servers, tzupdate is ideal when working across different locations or virtual machines.
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This tool has features which includes batch processing, Python-based filters, concurrency and dry-run modes for safe previews. It can customize commands with powerful expressions referencing file properties or content. You can even use plugins for more advanced operations.
Ideal for those who managing large file collections, para-cada is great for tasks like renaming, sorting, or any repetitive task you want to eliminate from the terminal.
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Core features include viewing, editing, grouping, and searching host entries. This tool has the ability to visualize connection graphs in the terminal (if ProxyJump is used), can output SSH configs in various formats including JSON, has TUI interactivity and can test SSH host connections in the terminal.
Ideal for developers and sysadmins managing complex SSH setups, sshclick is a suite worth looking into for ensuring SSH configs remain clean and manageable. Unless you're viewing or listing SSH configs, if you intend to modify your config file with this tool, ensure you have a backup of your SSH config before using sshclick.
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With an interactive interface, this tool acts as a cargo subcommand. Users can navigate through a list of binaries or examples, then execute cargo run or cargo build directly. Options include filtering by target kind and customizing display size, while keyboard shortcuts allow smooth navigation and action switching.
Perfect for developers who develop, build and test out Rust projects, cargo-selector can be considered to try out when you want to run examples of any library to quickly build and run example binaries with as few commands and typing as possible.
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The tool features a built-in terminal UI that displays real-time charts for latency, percentiles, and request metrics. It supports configurable options such as request rates, durations and custom headers. With mouse support and zoomable charts, it provides a detailed view of performance trends.
It is a useful tool for developers, backend engineers and system administrators, for testing services and APIs interactively in the terminal. It is also cross platform on macOS, Linux, Windows and FreeBSD.
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The tool lets you quickly create, view and edit events, either interactively or via commands. Its interactive mode, ikhal, allows easy browsing and modification of events using keyboard shortcuts. This tool also supports custom formatting, recurring events and timezone configuration. It also integrates with CalDAV servers which enables synchronization across devices.
For those looking for a different calendar application than the standard UNIX cal, khal is worth a look for a more featureful calendar management tool in the terminal.
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Key features include bar graphs for disk and inode usage, grouped filesystem views, and distinct colors for important directories like /, /boot, and /mnt. It supports copy-friendly output formatting for easy sharing.
Useful for system administrators and developers, dusage quickly displays disk usage with an optional debug (-d) parameter for even more detailed information.
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Core features include intuitive keyboard shortcuts, type-ahead search and customizable shell integrations like fzf and zoxide. This tool focuses solely on navigating directories, not file management, making it lightweight and easy to use across platforms like Linux, Windows, and macOS or operating systems which are resource constrained.
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It has the ability to read protocol buffer (.proto) files and has support for server reflection, storing request histories for reuse and vim inspired keyboard navigation.
Other features include setting host addresses, authentication headers, defaults for nested/repeated fields, features like custom themes, a built-in request editor and the ability to generate gRPCurl commands for easy sharing.
For those that work with Kubernetes, internal gRPC services or systems that would use gRPC, would find wireman a very suitable tool for testing gRPC services quickly without leaving the terminal. In addition, it is also cross platform on macOS, Windows and Linux as single binaries.
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Features of caligula include automatic disk detection, decompression of formats like .gz and .xz, hash verification and post-write disk validation. It also provides intuitive and cool graphs showing disk burn speed and handles permissions by prompting for root access when necessary.
caligula is perfect for developers, sysadmins and especially hobbyists with homelabs who want to create or burn disk images while staying in the terminal.
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The tool accepts text via command-line arguments or standard input (stdin) and converts it into a QR code. This tool is compatible with most text terminals and it also supports sixel graphics for enhanced visual output if this is supported by the terminal.
Other features include inverting the QR code, changing the margins, foreground and background color of the QR code.
A great usecase for quick data transfers to devices with QR code readers like mobile phones, qrc is straightforward to use, easily accessible and fast to generate in the terminal.
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The tool supports multiple files and restores data to the original location with a single command. Use the -a flag for archives and -m to add comments.
Useful for developers and power users, bkp ensures quick backups and easy restoration without complex setup.
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It includes features such as custom result limits, instant answers, support for HTTPS proxies, Tor network support, region-specific searches and more. You can also use DuckDuckGo '!bang' shortcuts with autocompletion in ddgr to search within specific sites and it integrates with text-based browsers like lynx, elinks, links and w3m as ddgr is entirely text-based. It also supports "I'm Feeling Ducky" searches for instant results.
For users that are privacy-conscious who want direct, no-nonsense searches without switching to a browser, ddgr is great for this use case. It’s also great for quick lookups or focused research, whether you’re using a Linux setup, a Raspberry Pi or simply prefer working without distractions in the terminal.
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This editor has core editing features like UTF-8 support, incremental search, syntax highlighting, and line numbers. Its lightweight design supports Linux, macOS, Windows and WASI making it accessible across platforms. Configuration is simple, with options for syntax highlighting and custom keybindings.
kibi works great for users seeking a quick, no-frills editor in the terminal.
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Some features of qq include multi-format conversions, interactive query-building mode with autocompletion and integration with shell scripts. qq offers high performance for broad use cases, while maintaining compatibility with jq syntax.
Recommended for developers and system admins, those who are used to jq's syntax may also want to give qq a try, especially if you are dealing with complex JSON data and want to benefit from qq's interactivity and autocompletion features.
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This tool has features such as scope autocomplete, customizable commit types and the option to include emojis. It can be used as a Git hook, so every commit is automatically checked to follow the conventional commit style.
For teams and individuals who want organized, clear commit histories without hassle, by using koji, developers can ensure consistent, professional commit logs in their repositories.
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Core commands include viewing the current weather, forecasts and opening forecasts in a web browser straight from the terminal. Additionally, yr can be used as a Go package for custom integrations in Go projects.
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Beyond basic capture, menyoki allows for additional image manipulations, such as resizing, cropping, and even converting images to grayscale. It also includes tools to analyze and edit images, giving more flexibility for more complex visual tasks. For macOS and Windows users, menyoki performs image manipulation only.
Useful for developers and terminal users who need efficient, in-terminal screen captures and image edits, menyoki is a solid choice for those who want quick terminal screen captures, GIFs or screenshots without needing graphical tools.
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Some features include querying, enabling/disabling recording, redacting entries and AI assistance for shell commands. It also supports self-hosting and offline installs, storing data locally and encrypting it for syncing across devices. You can use the Control+R key binding to search your history with detailed queries.
hishtory is useful for developers and power users needing comprehensive shell history management, accessible on all their devices.
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It supports creating, editing and deleting .env files, encouraging 12-factor principles and provides three methods for setting environment variables: copying shell-specific commands to the clipboard, creating a copy of the file in the current working directory, or copying the file path for use with other tools.
This tool is perfect for developers who need a quick and organized way to handle environment variables across projects in the terminal.
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It supports common file operations like moving, copying, renaming and deleting files with simple keybindings. Users can navigate directories, preview files and edit files directly in their preferred editor.
For those used to traditional column-based file managers, bt maintains context and simplifies file management tasks. It is ideal for developers and terminal enthusiasts needing an intuitive file tree manager.
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It displays transfer progress, speed, elapsed time and file counts, that allows you to monitor large data transfers visually. This tool uses the same arguments as rsync and you can also pipe output from rsync to rsyncy. If you prefer to not have any colors, rsyncy has the option to turn this off.
rsyncy works best for those who need quick, real-time feedback on their file transfers that use rsync without typing in many options.
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It features vim-style keybindings, SQL support and the ability to show multiple tables in a single view. Users can perform various operations such as selecting, filtering and ordering data directly in the terminal.
This tool can be used by developers and especially data analysts who need a way to manage and query large datasets in different formats, fast, cross platform and all inside a TUI.
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Users can log messages to the terminal or read a single payload. This tool also has a TUI interface which you can use to clean retained topics, browse topics, inspect the payload data such as JSON, etc and visualize this data in a graph in the terminal. You can also configure environment variables i.e. the broker URL, username, password etc, all can be used for scripting.
Recommended for hobbyists who have a homelab or software/hardware engineers working with IoT devices that use the MQTT protocol, mqttui is ideal when you need a fast, efficient way to interact with MQTT topics from the terminal.
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This tool features an active attack engine, target filtering, auto-hunting channels, a TUI and GPS integration with geofencing. It supports attacks like deauthentication, PMKID collection and rogue frame injection.
Useful for security researchers, hobbyist and professional penetration testers, angryoxide helps to assess Wi-Fi network vulnerabilities. Ensure that you use this tool on networks where you have permission to test or on your own network.
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It scans directories to find Git repositories and analyzes them concurrently, by default it scans the current working directory. You can customize behavior with a config file to avoid repeated arguments. When you want to create a configuration file, gfold supports a dry run which shows you a preview of the configuration file before it generates it.
For developers who need to handle multiple Git repositories, gfold can be a helpful tool for this use-case. It is also cross platform on macOS, Linux, Windows and BSD systems.
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Core features of this tool include multi-threaded scanning, support for multiple storage providers, scanning bucket permissions, saving results to a database and message queue integration such as RabbitMQ for scalable scanning.
Useful for security professionals and developers working with S3 buckets, s3scanner detects security risks by finding public buckets. It is best used when auditing cloud storage or during penetration testing.
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Core features of cy include a flexible layout system, replaying and searching through recorded terminal sessions, keybindings, shell command history and an advanced scripting and configuration engine for extending cy using the Janet programming language.
This tool also offers built-in fuzzy finding similar to fzf for quick navigation and displays fun to look at terminal animations. For those who are used to terminal multiplexing and want to search previous terminal sessions or just want to try a newer alternative, cy might be worth exploring.
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It recognizes over 632 hash types, including modern algorithms like SHA3, Keccak and Blake2. This tool supports color output and can also be integrated as a software library to check hash types in other applications.
When you need to quickly identify unknown hash types and want this functionality in other software projects, haiti would be an ideal tool to use.
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You can type Python queries to filter and manipulate JSON data, seeing the results update in realtime. Features include tab completion, schema viewing and standard emacs-like key bindings for navigation and editing.
This tool is ideal for developers or data analysts working with JSON in command-line environments. Consider jellex when you need to explore or manipulate data from JSON files and if you want to use Python from existing scripts to perform custom data extraction and preview the result.
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Some features include support for syntax highlighting, chat history management, file saving capabilities, support for LLM backends such as ChatGPT, llama.cpp and ollama. This tool also has vim-style keybindings for text editing and navigation in the TUI.
You can also customize these key bindings and configure different language models through a configuration file. Those who need to test LLMs would find tenere useful as it provides a quick way to try out and test language models without leaving the command line while also being cross platform on Windows, macOS and Linux.
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Core features include file transfer via OBEX, pairing with authentication, connecting devices, toggling adapter power, managing Bluetooth networking (PANU/DUN), remote media control playback and mouse support.
Useful for those who prefer terminal tools and working in the terminal, bluetuith can be considered should one seek an alternative to graphical bluetooth managers.
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Features of vignore are the ability to include asynchronous output for smooth scrolling, exceptional speed with large repositories and human-friendly number displays. It supports git and fd ignore files.
Consider vignore when you need to handle file inclusion and exclusion tasks in your projects and need to preview these ignored files in the terminal.
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Features include storing entries in JSON or SQLite, an intuitive TUI, and easy creation, editing and deletion. This tool also supports custom tags, fuzzy search, sorting, multi-select, undo/redo and Vim/Emacs keybindings.
Recommended for terminal users that prefer a distraction free environment, tui-journal is cross platform and lets you manage notes on Windows, macOS, Linux and NetBSD.
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Core features include support for HTTP(S), FTP, SFTP, SSH, and S3 protocols, optional SHA256 checksum verification, interactive mode for navigating directories and the ability to resume interrupted transfers. This tool also lets you share local folders over HTTP for simple file transfers between machines and has the ability to use .netrc and .aws folders for extra configuration.
For those that don't need torrent support like aria2, but still needs the ability to resume downloads or uploads and prefers rust-based tools, aim would be a good choice to use for your toolset.
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It features TOTP secrets with labels, generating passwords, importing configurations from other providers, and exporting data. It supports encryption with RSA private keys for enhanced security.
This tool is useful for developers and system administrators who prefer terminal utilities for authentication management.
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This tool has the ability to perform segmented downloading, resuming downloads, BitTorrent extensions like DHT and PEX support with chunk checksum validation and speed throttling. It also handles proxies, authentication, cookies, custom HTTP headers and aria2 optimizes your bandwidth by fetching a file from multiple sources simultaneously.
It also has support for a variety of environments and variables, as well as the capability for checksum validation, managing persistent connections and utilizing disk cache to reduce disk activity. It is a great alternative to curl and wget, if you are downloading and resuming large files or want torrent support and other protocols.
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Features include checking multiple commands at once, integrating into scripts for conditional execution, and using a .hasrc file for project-specific checks. You can install it easily or even run it directly from the internet.
Use has to ensure required tools are available in your environment. Ideal for developers and hobbyists who need to manage dependencies from the terminal.
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Some features that this tool has include navigating between HDF5 files with 'p' and 'n' keys, showing node attributes when highlighted, and plugin support for data visualization. Two example plugins are HexViewer and ImageViewer.
Useful for developers and data scientists who prefer working with terminal tools and inside the terminal. It helps quickly browse and inspect HDF5 files.
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You can connect to your Transmission daemon, view torrent statuses and perform actions like adding or removing torrents.
It also supports specifying connection details and has keybindings to navigate around the TUI without the need to use a mouse.
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Core features of monolith include bundling assets into data URLs, asset exclusion such as scripts, images or videos, cookies support and the ability to restrict which domains assets are retrieved from. It does not execute JavaScript but allows pre-processing dynamic content using tools like Chromium.
For researchers, data hoarders or anyone needing to capture web pages exactly as they appear online, monolith is a great addition to your toolset. Consider it when you need to archive or snapshot web pages for offline use, preserving their appearance without missing assets from the original page.
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Key features include inspecting data sources, comparing tables or databases and performing common database operations. This tool can also insert query results directly into SQL databases and handle cross-source joins and output formats such as JSON, Excel, CSV, HTML, Markdown and XML.
For developers and data analysts, sq offers a powerful way to wrangle data from diverse sources in the terminal. It also can be used for quick data exploration, ETL tasks, and bridging gaps between different data formats and databases.
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Features of lychee include custom headers, redirect support, cookies, JSON output, custom user agents, patterns, quiet mode, status code filtering, GitHub token support, and more. This CLI tool also offers flexibility for various link-checking scenarios and is configurable. It can be used as a command-line tool or library.
Developers may find lychee useful for maintaining links in documentation, READMEs, websites, and repositories. Its speed and portability make it suitable for both continuous integration (CI) pipelines like GitHub Actions and local development as a single binary, with the goal of ensuring link integrity on any document lychee can process.
]]>ping(8) utility that sends TCP probes to IP addresses or hostnames, effectively pinging TCP ports.
Key features include monitoring network connections, determining packet loss, analyzing and calculating minimum, average and maximum latency, plus displaying connection statistics. It also supports IPv4 and IPv6 and can retry hostname resolution after failures. This tool can also retry hostname resolution and enforce IP version usage.
For those who are network administrators, developers and IT professionals, tcping is a tool that can be considered for when you need to troubleshoot connectivity issues, monitor service availability or assess network performance in environments where ICMP traffic is blocked or unreliable.
The tool offers two main modes: a generator for crafting and sending packets, and monitoring for real-time packet inspection. It provides a TUI interface for detailed packet analysis and supports remote packet monitoring through a browser-based interface.
This tool is ideal for network administrators, security professionals and curious hobbyists who want to explore network behavior, test configurations, or troubleshoot issues. It's can be a powerful alternative to traditional command-line tools, offering visual packet crafting and analysis in one package.
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Features of stew include, the ability to distribute binaries across teams and private repositories, fetching the latest releases before other package managers, configuring where to install binaries and intuitively experiment with different projects by downloading them with stew's TUI interface. Other features include searching, browsing, upgrading and uninstalling binaries.
This tool can be used when you need a simple way to manage binaries on macOS, Linux or Windows. It's ideal for developers that want to try out new tools from GitHub releases with an interface and without reliance on waiting for tools to be added on various package managers.
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It allows you to navigate links, make small edits like renaming notes and access external editors directly from the terminal interface. Additionally, it can compile notes to HTML with LaTeX and code highlighting.
This can be used to efficiently manage your markdown notes from the terminal. It's ideal for users who prefer lightweight tools and work extensively with interconnected notes.
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With binsider you can examine ELF layouts, symbols and sections, trace system calls and signals similar to strace(1), display an interactive hexdump while you're analysing a binary and you can find sensitive strings within binaries with string extraction. This tool also has the ability to search, modify or jump to different sections of a binary with useful keybindings.
Those who analyze ELF binaries often would find binsider very useful to try out, such as Linux engineers, hobbyists and especially reverse engineers.
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This tool features the ability to include log filtering, starting a shell inside a container, and customizable keybindings. The TUI allows easy navigation with keybindings for various actions like viewing logs, searching, and toggling fullscreen. Errors are displayed clearly, helping users adjust configurations as needed.
For anyone frequently using Docker, this tool would be a great and helpful way to manage containers via the terminal given the various features pocker has.
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This tool offers various core features akin to magit, aiming to assist users in file staging/unstaging, viewing commits, branching, committing, fetching, logging, pulling/pushing, rebasing, resetting, reverting, and stashing. Moreover, Gitu's keybinds aim to mimic Magit while maintaining a Vim-like experience, offering a help-menu which can be accessed by pressing the 'h' key.
gitu adds on top a TUI interface to Git, facilitating tasks and operations directly in the terminal. You may find it useful when handling repetitive daily git tasks and it is especially beneficial if you're looking for a simplified, single binary alternative to magit.
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Key features include importing/exporting data, editor integration and a web app for browsing on tablets. Papis uses YAML files for easy customization and supports scripting for extended functionality.
Ideal for researchers and students, Papis simplifies document management, making it easier to organize and share academic resources.
]]>cal(1) while adding features like colors and iCal support.
It displays single or multiple months, Julian dates, and agendas with highlighted events from iCal files. Customization options include themes and colors, allowing users to personalize their calendar view.
This tool is useful for those who need an modern alternative to cal(1) while needing a visual, terminal-based calendar with enhanced readability.
Key features include viewing diffs, navigating files with keybindings, and toggling the file tree. Users can set diffnav as their global git diff pager for seamless integration. Configuration is managed through delta settings, and icons require a Nerd font.
diffnav is ideal for developers who want a more interactive way to review git diffs directly in the terminal.
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The tool stores data in a JSON format for easier exporting and access across different operating systems. It's designed to be simple and portable for quick task organization in the terminal. It also has the ability to rename tasks and has keybindings to quickly navigate the TUI.
basilk suits users want to try a straightforward and minimal way of tracking small tasks across projects in kanban form. For those who don't need additional features of a kanban tool and are looking for a simple
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You can programmatically create presentations with Python code, slides can include images viewable in the terminal, dynamic elements, reveals and animations with flexible triggers for interactive presentations. It supports custom transitions, has watch mode that reloads your slides while your editing and easy presentation management through it's CLI tool. You can see a demo terminal presentation with the spiel demo present command.
This tool is useful for developers, software engineers and hobbyists that prefer using the terminal for presentations. It is also best used when you want to create interactive presentations that are dynamic (e.g. presenting live real-time data during a presentation) for live demos, coding tutorials and technical talks or just want to have fun creating your own presentations with spiel.
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Core features include Tor support, output options (CSV, XLSX) loading data from a JSON file, limiting analysis to selected social media sites and proxy usage.
This tool would be suitable for security researchers, digital marketers, developers or anyone needing to track username availability quickly across many sites without manually checking by hand.
]]>rm command and adheres to FreeDesktop.org trash specification. It moves files to the system trash instead of permanently deleting them, allowing for easy recovery.
The tool features a modern TUI for intuitive file restoration, supports incremental search and offers rm-like functionality. It is also available as a static binary and it integrates seamlessly with other CLI tools and works across different file systems.
gtrash is ideal for users who want a safety net when deleting files in the terminal. It's particularly useful for those working across multiple directories or file systems and don't want to delete files with the rm command.
The tool offers a plethora of features such as recursive searching, previewing snapshot file versions, roll forward to previous snapshots (without destroying snapshots), deleted file recovery and the ability to work with local and remote backups. It also supports multiple output formats and includes interactive modes for browsing and selecting files.
httm is useful for system administrators and power users who need to track file changes or recover data on their local or remote machines. It works best for those working with snapshots or backups who want a better way of managing file versions directly from the terminal.
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This tool supports live tailing, syntax highlighting for web server logs and can handle large files as easily as small ones. It also has piping support, keybindings for quick navigation and opening log existing log files including opening logs with the JSONL file format.
It also merges multiple log files by detecting timestamps and opens compressed files automatically. It is useful for developers who often work with logs via SSH, and want a simpler way of viewing logs in the terminal for tasks typically done with a combination of tail, less, and grep commands.
It has features such as gzipped log files, log file concatenation, an automatic pager, live colorized log streaming, filtering by field values, log levels and chronological message sorting and customizable themes. You can also hide or reveal selected fields and customize it via configuration files or environment variables.
This tool can be used mainly by system administrators, developers and those who need a powerful log analyzer that can handle GBs of logs for analysis and processing in the terminal on any platform.
]]>ls command, similar to eza, exa and lsd but aiming to be prettier out-of-the-box, more customisable and more powerful than the comparison.
It features a cleaner, more colorful output and provides more functionality than ls and all its modern incarnations. It features two views (detail and grid), icons (Nerd Fonts, emoji and even PNG/SVG icon sets), powerful filters, multiple sort bases, importance-based visibility, collapsing autogenerated files, and displaying symlinks (and symlink chains) in its own unique style.
You can extensively customize pls to suit your preferences. It's ideal for anyone from hobbyists to power users looking for an improved directory listing tool for daily use in the terminal for macOS and Linux.
]]>oryx is a network traffic sniffer using eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter). It provides real-time traffic inspection similar to termshark, oryx can show visualizations of traffic data in a text-based user interface (TUI).
Features of oryx are the selection of different interfaces to monitor, such as wlan0, localhost, the docker0 interface and more interfaces. It also has comprehensive traffic statistics (such as terminal line graphs and charts) and fuzzy search capabilities. This tool has keyboard shortcuts for navigation and interaction and can export captured traffic data.
Developers, network and security professionals would find oryx useful especially when working with systems utilizing eBPF. If you need to visualize traffic or simply understand network behavior in real-time in Linux, oryx can help you with this.
Key features includes quick filtering and searching of processes, this can be done by name, path, arguments or port number. Detailed information is also displayed about the process and where it is executed from. This tool also has quick termination, keyboard shortcuts and works across Linux and macOS.
For those who work with long running processes or just want to see the where a particular process is being executed from, pik is useful in these situations. It is best used when you need to quickly identify and terminate specific processes without remembering exact commands or PIDs.
]]>tree(1) command which displays directory structures in a tree-like diagram in your terminal. It functions just like the original, but adds extra features for better usability and is cross-platform on macOS, Windows and works on many Linux distributions.
It skips files ignored by git according to your .gitignore file, can output the tree structure to JSON, creates shell aliases to open files directly from the listing, and outputs in color while respecting LS_COLORS.
tre is useful for those who need an efficient way to navigate and access files. Use it when you want an enhanced tree command.
git log --graph --all where the git tree is not as intuitive to understand with beyond many branches.
This tool's focus is on commit graph browsing and it utilizes your terminal's image display protocol (e.g. kitty and iterm2 inline image protocols) to present a visual representation of your repository's history. It also features keybindings, changing the git graph display order and the graph width.
serie can be considered for developers who want a clearer view of commit history while staying in the terminal, without the complexity of a full git client.
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This tool recursively explores archives and matches text across multiple file formats. It integrates with fzf for enhanced searching and offers customizable adapters for specific file types such as pandoc, ffmpeg, sqlite, zip, tar, decompress and mail which is disabled by default.
Users can quickly find information in various documents and file types which is ideal for developers, researchers and anyone dealing with a multitude of documents, images, subtitles, databases to find specific information.
Key features include a dashboard view, podman support, container and image inspection, log streaming and search and filtering. This tool also supports vim-like keybindings and shows an interactive tree view of Docker images. Users can also check disk usage of containers, images and volumes.
sen is useful for those who work frequently with Docker in the terminal and with first class support for podman. It provides a more user-friendly, intuitive and feature-rich alternative to basic Docker CLI commands if you want to take a look at your containers and images.
Key features include fuzzy searching, command bookmarking and history management. This tool allows you to easily find and execute recent or frequently used commands, saving time and reducing typing errors.
For daily use in the terminal, developers and system administrators may find hstr a great tool for quickly searching through their shell history for common usecases of recalling complex commands, managing your command history or quickly accessing your most-used commands without memorization.
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A key feature is parallel command execution across multiple hosts, ideal for managing server clusters. This tool can also handles complex setups with multiple proxies (SSH, HTTP, SOCKS5), multi-stage proxying, NFS support, port forwarding and X11 forwarding.
Anyone that manages multiple servers may want to tryout lssh, it can also integrate with OpenSSH configs, allows you to connect to remote servers with a local .bashrc file and supports various authentication methods. It is also cross platform and runs on Windows, macOS and Linux systems.
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Key features include previewing actions before execution, generating shell completions for bash, fish, nushell, powershell, elvish and zsh and having a Rust library for integration into other projects.
Although a small tool, hf is cross platform and it's functionality works consistently across macOS, Linux and also Windows.
]]>.gitignore files using pre-built templates. It pulls templates from popular sources like GitHub and Toptal, allowing you to create or combine multiple templates.
Core features of this tool includes filtering duplicate lines, using local or remote template files and an interactive search mode with a terminal user interface with keyboard navigation and helpful shortcuts at the bottom of the TUI. Typing gitnr search launches the TUI, but if you prefer the CLI approach, a command such as gitnr create Node would instantly create a node .gitignore template for you.
This tool is best used for when you need to quickly generate a standard or custom .gitignore file for any project setup that uses Git for version control. This tool is also cross platform across major platforms like Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Key features include support for extended workflow inputs, historical run listing and easy discovery of dispatchable workflows. It can simplify the process of triggering specific workflows with custom inputs.
This tool works best for developers and enthusiasts who frequently work with GitHub Actions for their CI and need a quick way to visualize all the workflows without leaving the terminal and with ease.
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Key features include request inspection, response customization and the ability to store responses under the .httplab directory. This tool also has keyboard shortcuts for quick navigation and editing, making it easy to test and debug HTTP interactions.
Local API mocking and debugging is the best usecase for httplab, which means that developers and API testers would find this tool very useful when developing web applications, APIs, testing client-side code or just exploring different HTTP responses in the terminal.
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This tool provides historical data, recording system startups, shutdowns, and uptimes, longest/average uptimes, and downtime statistics. It can display information in various formats, including tables and lists.
For system administrators and power users, tuptime offers a deeper understanding of system usage patterns. It's very useful for monitoring system behavior over time, and identifying potential issues related to frequent restarts or unexpected shutdowns.
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Key features include root-changing, scaling, and clipboard support. otree also offers customizable colors and keybindings, making it adaptable to individual preferences.
If you're dealing with configuration files or API responses, otree provides a quick way to explore data structures in the terminal, it can be used best for deeply nested objects or when you need a visual representation of your data's hierarchy.
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TTE supports custom colors (Xterm 256 RGB / hex color support), effect customization, gradient generation, complex character movements and synchronized animations. You can pass data via the standard input (stdin) to tte to visualise given any text visual effects.
For developers and CLI enthusiasts, TTE adds a creative touch to logs, data output, or any text-based information. It's perfect for making presentations, demos, or simply jazzing up your terminal. Use it as a standalone app or integrate it into Python scripts.
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Core features include binary patching, virtual address jumping, text/symbol search support, and a text-view. It also offers plugin support for extending functionality with Lua scripting.
For security researchers, low level programmers and those who analyse file formats and binaries, hexpatch is a very useful tool when you need to make precise edits or searches in executable files all in the terminal.
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Key features include scheduling, process interaction, task grouping, and background execution. Pueue maintains consistency by saving the queue to disk and persisting logs, ensuring task survival through crashes.
This tool works best for developers and system administrators and can be used when you need to send out compilation jobs, long downloads or any series of commands that benefit from organized, background execution and easy monitoring.
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The tool provides efficient schema and table browsing, keybindings, query history tracking and cross-platform support. Its interface allows users to easily switch between schemas, filter tables and view metadata.
This tool is ideal for developers and database administrators who prefer working in the terminal. If you need a tool for quick database interactions, query testing and data exploration without the need for heavyweight GUI applications, rainfrog can help in this area.
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A key feature is the ability to backup and synchronize your shell history between machines, with the data being fully end-to-end encrypted (E2EE). Atuin also features a full-screen search TUI, support for multiple shells including zsh, bash, fish, nushell and xonsh, plus displaying statistics on command usage in the terminal.
Those who occasionally search their command history and need it backed up across multiple machines with no information lost will find Atuin very useful for this. You can also self-host your own Atuin server or use the server provided by Atuin.
It's perfect for developers or anyone who frequently switches between different terminals or devices and want a unified, seamless and searchable shell history in their terminal.
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The tool displays installed packages by size, shows package information, and allows installation, upgrading, and removal. It also features disk usage monitoring and a command execution list for recent actions.
It's great for those who prefer a visual approach to system maintenance or want to quickly perform package operations without memorizing complex commands.
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Key features include live regex filtering, customizable log parsing rules, and aggregation methods. Logria offers interactive search, highlighting, and the ability to switch between stdout and stderr streams. Users can save sessions for later use.
logria excels at monitoring live logs from multiple processes or servers. It can be used by developers and system administrators who need to watch and analyze logs in real-time, offering a flexible alternative to traditional log analysis tools.
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This tool includes filtering by metadata, support for both text and non-text files, syntax highlighting, regex searching and import/export capabilities. Users can add, edit, view, and delete artifacts easily. It also offers template management and Git synchronization for collaborative use.
For developers, students and professionals who need quick access to organized information, kb can be a quick go-to for a minimalist knowledge base, which is great for managing technical notes, procedures, and cheatsheets in the terminal.
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It offers features that appeal to those who are used to Vim such as and vim-like keybindings and other features like syntax highlighting, auto-complete, Git support, live reloading for configuration files and VSCode theme compatibility.
Those who like experimenting and using terminal based editors will appreciate Moe for its blend of Vim-like functionality and modern features. It's ideal for those seeking a lightweight, customizable editor with the comfort of familiar keybinds and the power of newer coding tools.
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Key features include automatic device detection, screenshot capture, custom colors to change the foreground an background and an SSH server for serving your Flipper Zero's UI over SSH. The tool maps keyboard inputs to Flipper Zero buttons which you can to navigate the UI on your keyboard.
fztea would be useful for those who own Flipper Zero devices and prefer terminal-based tools. It's particularly handy for remote management where you can quickly access the device's features without physically handling it.
]]>strace-like TUI tool for tracing program execution. It traces execve and execve{at} system calls, revealing how programs are launched and their pre-execution behavior.
The tool has features such as interactive tracing, support for launching debuggers such as gdb, the ability to log detailed output and data of programs for exporting using the collect command, experimental support for profiles and controlling color output. It also supports tracing setuid binaries, reconstructing command lines and showing interpreter information.
tracexec is useful for debugging, analyzing shell scripts, inspecting commands from build systems and investigating execution behavior of proprietary software. It can also be used for troubleshooting complex command executions or understanding the intricacies of programs.
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It supports multiple coverage report formats and can generate badges, comment on pull requests and store reports in various datastores like GitHub, S3, and BigQuery.
Engineers can use octocov as a CLI tool or in CI pipelines to track code quality metrics over time. It's also useful for monitoring coverage across multiple repositories or projects through its central reporting mode.
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Key features include monitoring without the need for using sudo, historical charts, average/max values and customizable colors. It works in small windows and can display data in raw data mode for integration with other tools.
Users can use macmon to track resource usage of CPU intensive tasks like compiling code, running local LLMs, for applications that take advantage of the Apple Silicon chip. It's ideal for optimizing performance and understanding your Mac's behavior under various workloads in real-time.
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It features the ability to import banking transactions (through QFX/OFX files) from your favourite bank (if exporting is supported), support for displaying a visualization of transactions as charts or a table, trend analysis and a budget tracker.
Additional features also include transaction splitting, viewing detailed transactions and a automatic expense labeler to save you time categorizing them. Those who prefer a minimalist way of managing finances all in the terminal with lots of features would find moneyterm useful.
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It's core features are customization options such as the ability to send, receive messages as well as the ability to edit, delete and replying to Telegram messages. It also supports custom themes, editing the app configuration and the logger can be customized for tgt in TOML files.
It also has a wide range of keybindings (which the keymap can also be customized) for the chat list window and the chat prompt, for quick navigation on the keyboard without using a mouse.
This client is suitable for Telegram power users, developers or for those who are looking for more control and customization over their chat experience and seeking a TUI interface for Telegram without leaving the terminal and not using a GUI client.
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It features an interactive UI, regex evaluation, real-time character feedback and more. The regex evaluation can be done using 'match' or 'finditer' modes depending on what's suitable. The tool supports piped input to populate rexi's workspace for you to get started fast to work with testing your regular expressions. Matches are displayed in the TUI by underlining the input text such that you can see which regex expressions work in real time.
This tool is beneficial when learning regex and debugging it interactively. It offers an quick, 'trial and error' method for applying regular expressions without leaving the terminal.
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This tool is useful for filtering process statistics, logs, files and allows you to narrow down results that you want by typing your query in the input box. It also offers features like case-sensitive/insensitive filtering, regular expression matching, and fuzzy search.
You can pipe information to peco from other tools to filter and search the information you want all in a single binary with no other scripts needed to work with the tool.
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One notable feature is the capability to use the paging tool less for easy navigation, supports native terminal colors, marking submissions as read, highlighting new comments and formatting quotes, code and references. It shows a special badge for YC startups that are launching, supports Nerd Fonts as icons and allows users to save interesting submissions for later reference.
It works best for those who like to use the keyboard to browse tech news and discussions all without leaving the terminal.
]]>ufw command. It simplifies the addition, editing or removal of ufw rules in the terminal.
Your ufw rules are displayed in a table in one view and offers a form-like way of editing rules. You can also reset rules if you need to, disable or enable ufw and also change the protocol or add comments to your rules as you edit them.
This tool is particularly suitable for users who are familiar with using ufw and might want a user friendly TUI to see all rules, statuses of ufw without typing many commands. For effective utilization, tufw may need to use root as it may not work otherwise.
Notable features include using code phrases to securely send text, files and even multiple files, resuming interrupted transfers, self hosting relays, custom code phrases and the ability to use proxies all without requiring a local server or port-forwarding. It's also cross-platform and IPv6-ready but can fall back to IPv4 when necessary.
croc is useful for sysadmins, developers or hobbyists needing to securely transfer files or folders between two machines irrespective of their OS. Use croc whenever you need to securely and quickly transfer files across computers using the terminal.
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An added feature is its ability to render embedded images from the parsed page as colored block-renders on the terminal with Sixel, and you can change the terminal web reader in vi and neovim. You can also customize the output, say, no images or raw markdown.
This tool is useful for those wanting enhanced content visibility on the command line. You can utilize reader while browsing web pages on the command line or reading HTML files. It's efficient for quick content access without being distracted by extra frills of the web page.
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Key features include a top-like interface, offering an organized view of system processes, flamegraphs, CPU, memory and has cluster support. It offers different views in it's TUI for showing slow queries, last queries, processors, backups, replicas, servers and many more views which makes it easier for users to access and analyze key data and to dig into any issues.
For developers dealing with ClickHouse, chdig could be a real time-saver as it brings various tools under one TUI interface.
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This tool eliminates the need for API Keys and incorporates a variety of providers like KoboldAI, Blackbox AI and OpenAI. It also allows developers to interact with AI models in a familiar terminal environment. Its experimental features include generating and executing shell commands and creating code. Users can customize functions by selecting specific AI providers and setting various flags.
This tool is useful to developers interested in or experimenting with LLMs, as it offers handy chat support with powerful AI models without leaving the terminal. It's great for writing scripts, debugging, or trying out AI models.
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Features include a shorthand for launching VS Code, support for the insiders version of VS Code and a TUI for tracking and opening recent projects. It offers various launch behaviors and can pass additional arguments to VS Code.
Although VS Code contains the code command, if you're in need of opening workspaces or opening dev containers, vscli is particularly useful for this usecase.
The core feature is the concise display of the results, making it a convenient tool for post-action review and debugging. A significant convenience that Act3 offers is the ability to visualize results in HTML format, along with its standard CLI output. This not only provides an alternate viewing option but also expands accessibility for users who prefer a more graphical representation.
This tool proves useful to developers who often need to monitor or debug their Github Actions, providing an easy-to-read snapshot of the last three runs of each workflow.
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Users can manage multiple sessions and columns, select from pinned feeds, automatically refresh rows, and save and restore app data.
It offers an efficient way to manage social feeds without leaving the command line. It can be customized with a configuration file for a more personalized user experience.
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It has the ability to copy, cut and paste files, directories with unlimited capacity and history, support for copying through pipes, editing clipboard content, viewing the clipboard queue, supports multiple languages and has integration with existing clipboard systems. It is also cross platform supporting other clipboard systems such as X11, Wayland, macOS and Windows, Haiku and many others.
clipboard includes custom themes, a scriptable API and support for various data types. It can also import and export clipboards to and from other tools and display the history of your clipboard data.
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Its core features include full scripting engine support, adaptive learning, adjusting and improving its performance over repeated use, support for IPv6, CIDR and accessibility which is not overlooked by this tool.
Security researchers or pen testers would highly benefit from RustScan. It is best used in situations when you need to detect open ports in large networks or your own or if you’re looking to scan ports quickly to use for CTF challenges.
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This tool does not use docker, volume definitions nor containers, making it suitable for servers, IoT devices or simple VPSes. Once set up, you can describe your processes in a 'process-compose.yaml' file and commands are run from there. Features include process execution, startup order, restart options, environment variables, health checks, among others.
This tool is particularly useful when you need to efficiently run, restart and even visualise continuously running processes without the use or need of containers.
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This tool is fully cross platform on Windows, macOS and many Linux distributions to visualise system information with a dedicated OS logo visible in ASCII as a single binary.
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Key features include customizable output, a multitude of parsers and integration with various shells. This tool can handle complex data structures, add semantic context and process large datasets efficiently.
If you work with bash scripts and need a way of parsing it's output in a structured JSON format, jc is a great tool to use for this. It's particularly useful in scripting, configuration management and data analysis scenarios where structured data is preferred over unstructured raw text output.
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Key features include a file-tree interface, size comparisons, quick keyboard based navigation and the ability to mark files for exclusion in the TUI. This tool maintains a cache for quick subsequent runs and supports various cross platform installation methods.
Users already managing their backups with restic may find redu useful for optimizing storage and identifying unnecessary backups, especially visualized in a TUI interface.
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This tool optimizes time spent on tracking updates and it can be configured using a simple YAML file. This configuration file will cater to identifying the PRs important to you, alongside other customization options.
This tool could be invaluable for anyone who is looking for a quicker snapshot of their PR activities or wants to manage them in all in the terminal.
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With this tool, you can pair or unpair devices, device renaming, start or stop scanning, enable or disable discoveries and manage power settings. Additionally, it lets you customize keybindings in the configuration file for even more personalized usage.
It's an ideal tool if you often need to control various Bluetooth settings and prefer the terminal over a GUI. This tool assumes that the BlueZ Bluetooth stack is installed on the Linux system and has a series of default keybindings that allows navigation through its TUI interface.
]]>scc (Sloc Cloc and Code or Succinct Code Counter) is a tool for counting lines of code, blank lines, comment lines, and physical lines in many programming languages.
It aims to be the fastest code counter, offering features like Constructive Cost Model (COCOMO) calculation, code complexity estimation, dryness checking and unique lines of code metrics. Other features include support for multiple output formats e.g. CSV, SQL, JSON, HTML for reports and the ability to ignore specific files or directories.
For those that need a quick and accurate way of counting code metrics and has various language support and reporting built-in, scc would be a useful tool for use cases that involve people, maintenance and cost estimations with a codebase based on lines of code and complexity.
lsusb, with additional features and improvements.
It's core features include compatibility with lsusb, an improved --tree mode, controllable block data, colored output, JSON output and automatic scaling to terminal width. This tool can also track USB usage, debug devices and gather detailed system information in an easily digestible format, filter options, look-up device data such as USB speed, headers and serial masking.
With cyme's visual color coded highlighting and it's way of listing system USB devices, those who work with hardware regularly may find cyme a better suited modern cross platform alternative to lsusb for Linux, macOS and Windows.
erd) is a cross-platform, multi-threaded filesystem and disk-usage utility. It reports disk usage in various metrics like bytes, blocks, words and lines. It supports hidden file and gitignore rules, regular expressions and glob-based searching.
This tool also features bash completion for the erd command, icon support, colorized output, granular sorting options, detailed file information and offers different layouts when listing files such as a reverse tree layout, tree-like output or du-like output.
erdtree combines features from many UNIX utilities like du, tree, find, wc and ls in addition to taking inspiration from existing newer Rust based tools such as exa / eza, fd and dua. If you find yourself using multiple tools consecutively or need a single tool which outputs more disk usage and file information, erdtree is worth considering.
This tool can be used over SSH, includes a "jump mode" for quick navigation, environment variables with autocompletion, syntax highlighting, Vim keybindings and a command palette to quickly access additional functionality. It also supports custom themes, configuration options and OpenAPI spec imports.
Those who work on building or testing REST APIs such as backend, frontend or even fullstack software engineers would find posting very useful, especially if you need an alternative to using curl directly or when working on a remote machine via SSH where a full GUI may not be available.
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The main features of nap consist of a three pane interactive interface with key bindings, theme customization and folder organization. It can easily create new snippets, edit existing ones, copy to clipboard and use UNIX operators like pipe (|) and output redirection (>) to save notes for later use into nap.
If you frequently find yourself deciding where to save your text file for later use, nap may be a better choice that you can try for your next code snippet.
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This tool scans every block on your selected partition to recover data and it can even find specific strings in binary files. Some core features of RecoverPy include its ability to not only recuperate deleted files but also to restore overwritten data which is a standout feature of this tool.
Even as a last resort for data recovery, RecoverPy can be useful for those unexpected situations where you need to retrieve lost data, even on systems where a GUI isn't present like remote servers.
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With this tool you can monitor server health, track system information or even trigger deployment scripts in the terminal. Sampler has support for sounds and visual alerts and has configuration examples for each type of component, like line, gauges, bar, sparklines, charts, text boxes, etc.
Sampler is useful for any engineer or hobbyist that is interested in creating dashboards in the terminal that is simple to configure. Example use cases include homelab monitoring, tracking CI deployments, displaying error logs or even flight tracking.
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This tool walks you through getting started with the tool, has a theme changer, allows you to edit tasks using an editor via --editor flag, has compact and spacious mode, has the ability to import tasks from standard input (stdin), outputs tasks to the terminal and has keymaps for rapid navigation through the TUI.
omm is made for those managing tasks that frequently fluctuate in priority, it permits users to modify the priority of tasks, create new ones, archive or delete old tasks and rearrange existing tasks with a few simple keystrokes in the terminal.
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With cidr, it features the ability to check overlapping CIDR ranges and show information including address count, prefix, netmask etc, with both IPv4 and IPv6, verify if an IP address is part of a given CIDR range and calculate unique host addresses within a CIDR block.
This tool is particularly used in network management, when dealing with IP allocation and subnets. Those who work with computer networking will find this tool handy.
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It allows usage of binary and unary operators, handles basic trigonometric functions and also auto-inserts the multiply operator ('*') and can use the previous answer with the ('_') operator. This tool can also auto balance paranthesis which saves users from syntax errors.
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At its core, it comprises of pages, each one displaying specific aspects of the Docker system. The information on these pages can be interacted with by using commands and actions using hotkeys on your keyboard. The tool provides a range of commands and actions to view Docker images, open top-level pages, navigate through lists or tables.
Ducker also supports changing the UI through themes, handling specific actions for containers and images such as deleting, running and stopping containers, viewing logs for a specific container and toggling the view of dangling images.
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This tool showcases an array of core features, including HTTP/2 support, translating requests into curl commands, JSON deserialization, verbose mode, colorful output and a shorthand URL form. Moreover, xh is shorter to type and easily accessible via a single statically linked binary, which is cross platform on different operating systems.
For anyone handling HTTP requests, xh is a suitable alternative to curl. It is recommended where speed, portability and performance are important. It is a handy tool which can be used for API or load testing or just experimenting with HTTP requests.
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It supports multiple operating systems, and handles a range of CPU architectures including x86_64, ARM, RISC-V and PowerPC among others. It shows the system's number of cores, peak performance, microarchitecture, SoC type and more info depending on your system's CPU.
Understanding your system's CPU architecture is crucial for sysadmins, hardware and software engineers or for anyone who wants to benchmark, compare, debug or build computers and to those who might be curious about their CPU configuration for meeting software system requirements.
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The tool has specific commands for navigation and control, including switching between different sections, scanning, connecting or disconnecting a network, and controlling device power.
Additional commands allow for handling known networks and access points. Custom keybindings can be set in the config file for personalized navigation and control.
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This tool has two modes, admin and consumer. Admins can list, create, edit, delete topics while also having the ability to filter topics by name. The consumer modes can deserialize various formats including JSON, double, string, integer, long, float and boolean values.
Kaskade also supports SSL encryption, filtering by header, value, and/or partition, with the added benefit of Schema Registry support with Avro.
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The core features of goji include an interactive and non-interactive CLI with sensible defaults for defining commit types, scopes, and descriptions. It uses predefined commit types with corresponding emojis for quick identification of changes.
It also offers customizability through a JSON configuration file, so that users can set their own commit types and scopes with Git integration out of the box. For those who use conventional commits manually (even with emojis), consider goji for an added touch of emojis for ensuring future Git contributors understand your commit type quickly.
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It recursively searches directories for files matching specific patterns, which are then scanned by concurrent workers for sensitive data such as credentials, etc. It comes with a terminal user interface (TUI), for interactive scanning and supports gitleaks rules. This tool has varied output formats and supports customizable Go templates.
pillager is useful for security researchers, system administrators or developers that can benefit from pillager's capability in finding potentially exposed credentials in filesystems.
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This tool is able to use local or remote databases in a lightweight, fast, and easy interface. It also offers features such as automatic page updates, keyboard bindings for fast navigation, database connections via SSL, a single binary handling all supported clients and compatibility with different databases.
Database connections can be saved as a YAML configuration file in dblab for better management and in case you're managing different development environments for your database. For those looking for an interactive database client with a TUI all in a single binary, dblab is worth using.
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mprocs offers features like custom keymaps, remote control via TCP, and OS-specific configurations. It can load scripts from package.json and provides a user-friendly interface for process management, including starting, stopping and restarting processes.
With mprocs, it is designed for finite-lifetime processes that are frequently restarted. It's particularly useful for running long running processes (e.g. compilers), test runners and development servers concurrently, providing a centralized view of all running processes and their outputs in the terminal.
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This tool identifies common issues with shell scripts such as syntax issues, incorrect quoting, test statements in conditionals, frequently misused shell commands, typing errors, intermediate level semantic problems and potential failures due to overlooked pitfalls or corner cases.
Integrations with CI systems, test suites and editors is possible with shellcheck and it is useful for those who work with shell scripting in development or production systems.
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Features of pdu include generating graphical charts of file and folder sizes, relative file size comparisons, customizable tree depth and chart size and optional progress reporting. It also offers extensibility through its library crate or JSON interface.
It is useful for quickly understanding storage distribution across filesystems and can be used when managing large directories or when optimizing disk space usage.
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This tool has many features including creating tasks and calendar events, the ability to import data from calcurse, todo lists with subtasks and timers, .ics file integration, icons for events, vim key bindings, weather display and support for the persian calendar.
For those who are looking for productivity tools and need a terminal friendly tool will find calcure useful for managing their schedules and tasks efficiently in the terminal. It is a flexible, customizable calendar that integrates with existing tools and also cloud calendar services which may come in handy for cloud syncing.
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The core features include a variety of difficulty levels, a grading system, high score display, and a user-friendly TUI. It allows users to input any number as their chosen difficulty level. The program also has a grading system and a high score display that users can use to benchmark their typing speed.
Lastly, this tool can be used for improving typing speed or as a competitive game among friends. It becomes an ideal tool if you want to make your typing more efficient, improve your words per minute (WPM) speed, or just need a keyboard tester.
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The tool correlates log entries from various files, based on their timestamps, and presents the output in an easily readable, unified display. This tool is not constrained to text files alone, the software can also merge data from compressed text log files and CSV files, while also having experimental support for packet capture files.
logmerger is best when you need to combine log data from various sources for analysis. With clean, timestamp-ordered visualization, interactive browsing, and export options facilitating subsequent processing, logmerger can be used if you're looking to view and see logs in one place.
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The tool provides various options, such as stopping processes and other dependent processes, not asking for confirmation to kill, displaying multiple processes and others. All in a nice, colorful and intuitive tree structure for those who want to debug processes further.
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It handles the management of development tools, windowing and tasks and can support languages like node, python, terraform, cmake and more. It manages environment variables for different project directories, quickly switch runtimes, pinpointing to an actual path not a shim.
This tool provides an interface for the installation of different software versions. With mise, it comes in handy to developers seeking to effectively manage their tools, environment variables and tasks from one place.
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This tool is able to manage groups of host names by profile, enabling or disabling entire profiles, adding or removing groups of host names and even adding profiles directly from a text file and synchronize a profile with docker containers.
hostctl is best used for developers who need to quickly switch between different host configurations or are running complex setups needing frequent changes to the host files. It is also best used in situations where managing '/etc/hosts' directly would be unfeasible, or where fast, automated management of host files is required.
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Much like traditional top tools, ktop displays data about workloads such as nodes and pods within the kubernetes cluster. This tool can also work with or without a metrics-server and can use an existing cluster configuration to display kubernetes resource information.
ktop is cross platform and is also available as a kubectl plugin. It is useful for developers, homelab enthusiasts, sysadmins, DevOps or SRE engineers who work with and need to see resource information and metrics about their kubernetes clusters.
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You can simply use goto for the ability to connect or edit a remote SSH server and find a needed host among all your records easily and is available on macOS, Linux, and Windows.
goto can be very useful if you're dealing with maintaining a list of SSH remote servers to connect to and you frequently need to access or edit existing SSH connections and manage them all in a TUI.
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It displays metrics such as CPU cluster, GPU, and ANE utilization, as well as power usage and frequency metrics and more.
pumas is best for those who need to monitor the performance of their Apple Silicon Mac in real-time, particularly power usage and hardware utilization.
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It has a minimalist user interface and features editing and tracking tasks, summary statistics, and logs based upon the tracked time. It also supports creating and updating tasks, starting and stopping time tracking on a task, adding manual task log entries, deactivating or activating a task, viewing historical task log entries and more.
hours while being simple and user-friendly, offers users an overview of time allocation across various tasks.
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It visually highlights changes between versions of a file for creating tidy overview reports. It also retains key order in hashes upon output to the terminal, making it particularly effective for converting YAML to JSON and vice versa.
The best uses for dyff is when you need to identify changes between different versions of software, helping you understand differences seamlessly. By providing a clear visual representation, it helps your coding workflow whether for professional use or personal projects.
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It features the ability to display binary data as decoded tree structures and can also transform, slice, and concatenate binary data, has support for nested formats and even includes an interactive REPL with auto-completion of functions and names.
fq is best used as a tool for querying, inspecting, and debugging binary formats and it is beneficial for developers working in areas like debugging and data transformation or just quickly checking file formats.
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It is compatible with '.node-version' and '.nvmrc' files, which makes it easier to manage multiple Node.js versions across different projects.
fnm is useful for managing Node.js environments efficiently and can be utilized when switching between projects that employ different Node.js versions, providing a smooth operation without any hassles.
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It offers output to stdout and in-place file editing capabilities. Some distinguishing features include multi-table selection, piping support, and integration with external text editors defined by the $EDITOR environment variable.
For those who deal with markdown tables and want a quick and simple way to edit them, mdtt is a neat and quick tool for this use case.
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It features a REPL, high-precision arithmetic, binary, octal, hexadecimal and all other base conversions, extensive unit tracking, emacs-style CLI shortcuts, support for trigonometric functions and lambda calculus.
fend is useful for those who require a cross platform terminal calculator for complex calculations or even simple mathematical operations.
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This tool has 100% compatibility with pass, password searching, OTP support and recipient management. It also secures your passwords by encrypting them with GPG and has browser integration for Android, Chrome, iOS and Firefox browsers.
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Features include, searching using regular expressions, highlighting identifiers like IP addresses and PIDs and filtering and querying logs using SQLite. It offers an advantage over tail, grep and less by understanding log formats, sorting logs by time and handling compressed files, all features beyond raw lines of text. You can also try lnav via SSH.
lnav is best used when you need to understand single or multiple log files simultaneously for web servers or audit logs. It is especially useful if you are a system administrator, engineer or a hobbyist looking for an intuitive, advanced, colorized log viewer for the terminal.
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This tool has features such as saving the command history, custom keymaps, comparison of differences within the history, ANSI color codes support and various output options including log outputs. The tool also supports the execution of specified commands when differences occur.
hwatch is useful for keeping track of command execution and tracing changes in real-time. This makes it an ideal tool for problem-solving and debugging tasks. Use hwatch when you want more from the original watch command and you want to keep a record of your command executions to review later over time.
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This tool supports various image formats such as BMP, DDS, GIF, PNG, SVG and many others. Advanced features include options for SVG generation and Micro QR code generation.
Beyond basic encoding and decoding, qrtool integrates with other programs and supports reading and writing of many other image formats.
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It accepts input from a file or standard input (stdin) and allows you to edit this by interacting directly with the output. This tool supports various formats and data structures and 'jq'-like filter auto-completion. It also gives you a hint message to guide you through the processing and evaluation of the filter.
jnv is useful to developers or anyone dealing with JSON data on a frequent basis. It can be used whenever you need to view, navigate, and edit JSON data in the terminal.
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This tool includes various word/sentence lists curated from classical books, interactive menus, graphs, cursor aware word lines and an SSH server. Additionally, it allows for the creation of custom word lists.
typioca is particularly suitable for anyone seeking to refine their typing skills with a minimalist, cozy experience in the terminal.
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Apart from performance enhancements, pug also features workspaces and the creation and application of several plans simultaneously in the terminal.
pug works best for those who work as DevOps, SRE or infrastructure engineers as well as hobbyists who have homelab setups. Use pug when you need a terminal tool that visually displays your infrastructure changes and operations in a handy TUI.
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The tool can process various text strings and unveil information that might be hidden within them. It supports JSON format output, allowing for better integration and parsing within other applications or systems.
lemmeknow is beneficial when technical information extraction from text strings is needed. Its quick identification process and support for multiple operating systems makes it a practical addition to your software toolbox.
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This tool connects to an Erlang node to gather various metrics via pre-defined Erlang functions. Primarily, it collects data using erlang:statistics/1, erlang:memory/0 and erlang:system_info/1 functions from Erlang and also allows for cluster cookies (.erlang.cookie) if needed.
erldash serves as a go-to tool for those who work distributed systems with Erlang or Elixir and are in need of a no-fuss metrics dashboard. You can easily record metrics to a file for future reference and it's straightforward TUI makes it useful for ongoing monitoring or quick checks on system functions.
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Extra features include setting up warmup runs and cache-clearing commands, statistical outlier detection and customizable benchmarks. It's not just for plain benchmarking but also lets you export results to various formats like CSV, JSON, Markdown, AsciiDoc.
hyperfine works best for those who work on software performance testing and optimization, especially with large or complex software projects. When you want to benchmark applications, algorithms or when you need to regularly monitor the performance of your software, keep hyperfine in your toolset.
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This tool also features keyboard shortcuts, an archived mode for dealing with backwards searching issues related to piping processes. In archived mode, sig saves the latest N entries and allows searching through them based on given key inputs. This mode also enables users to search through static data, such as files.
sig works best when used in environments where data is streamed, such as the output of kubernetes logs or the output of websocket data.
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It supports multiple persistent chat sessions stored with context embeddings and system prompt customizations in SQLite, copy and pasting blocks of messages or code and keyboard shortcuts. Additionally, any models from ollama or any custom models that you have developed can be run from the oterm TUI.
oterm is beneficial for software engineers or hobbyists who want to try out local LLM models interactively and quickly and are familiar with the terminal.
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This tool includes features such as detection of common prefixes and suffixes, repeated substrings, and much more. Also, grex is capable of converting non-ascii characters, provides case-sensitive and case-insensitive matching, along with capturing and non-capturing groups. The advanced features such as command-line flags or preprocessing methods can be used to create more generalized expressions.
grex could be highly beneficial for those who want to quickly generate precise regular expressions. It's best used when an initial correct regular expression is needed but may need manual inspection for further optimization and refinements.
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The tool is supports multiple keyboard layouts and has an interactive menu, typing feedback is displayed in the terminal within the TUI showing the keys being pressed when you're testing your keyboard keys.
kbt is cross platform on Linux, macOS and Windows. It is particularly helpful when you suspect some keys are not working as intended and need a fast and offline way to perform these checks on your keyboard.
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It detects open-source licenses, provides valuable user information, the logo of your dominant language by default but can be configured to utilize an image or a text input. It reveals data like code distribution, pending changes, number of dependencies, top contributors, disk size, creation date, and lines of code (LOC).
onefetch supports over 100 different programming languages, is highly customizable via command-line flags, can ignore files or directories and print output in multiple formats.
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otti includes the ability to generate OTPs reliably and quickly, a feature particularly valuable for users who frequently authenticate across multiple platforms.
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It allows users to query and view specific details on a wide variety of vulnerabilities displayed in the TUI. You can sync specific years of feeds to a local SQLite database, use the tool offline and also set the TUI to a custom theme of your choosing.
flawz is a very useful tool for security engineers, software engineers and hobbyists who need to access to information about software vulnerabilities quickly in the terminal.
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It provides a visual representation of your file system, allowing you to delete, get an idea of file hierarchy and see files or folders taking up unnecessary space. In terms of features, diskonaut offers live updates while scanning and the ability to delete files or directories directly in the terminal.
It's useful for cleaning up storage by finding and eliminating unnecessary disk consumption and it is handy when you're running low on storage and you want to get a better visual picture of your disk space in the terminal.
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This tool not only lists active containers, but also allows for sorting them using various parameters such as names, ids, or statuses. In the TUI, oxker shows containers, logs, CPU metrics, memory and ports all on one screen which at a glance which is helpful as it saves keystrokes and reduces context switching between different screens.
oxker can pause start, stop or delete containers and also provides intuitive instructions for keyboard and mouse control. It is useful for any software engineer, system administrator or homelab enthusiast looking to manage Docker containers on one screen.
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It supports GPT-3.5 / GPT-4, Gemini models: (Gemini-1.0 / Gemini-1.5), Claude: Claude-3, Mistral, Cohere, Perplexity, Groq and more. It also includes context-aware conversations, image analysis, being an code assistant for pair programming, shell integration + shell auto-completion.
aichat has many commands and a REPL for chatting with LLM models and is worth a look if you're searching for an AI copilot tool suited for the terminal.
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blinkenlights is the terminal UI for debugging x86-64 and x86 (32-bit) programs. It visualizes execution and supports reverse debugging. It uses a unique character set to display memory and execution states.
blink is useful for developers needing cross-platform compatibility for their Linux binaries. Use it to run and debug applications across different operating systems.
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key features include sorting by merge likelihood, abandoning old reviews, querying by author, generating terminal links for quick review access and producing HTML reports.
gri is most beneficial when dealing with extensive codebases and numerous review requests across different platforms.
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Other key features include, code execution, LaTeX rendering, column layouts, special introduction slides and the ability to export these presentations to PDF for wider sharing or printing.
presenterm is for those who need a quick, no-frills method to show presentations in the terminal, it's also particularly useful for tech conferences / meetups, where a terminal is readily accessible.
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flameshow supports keyboard input, zooming and switching sample types, it also accepts profiling data from golang's pprof tool and renders interactive flamegraph visualizations that can be explored directly from the command line interface.
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It offers easy navigation, powerful filtering, search capabilities and keybindings for navigating around the TUI interface.
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It supports various HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, etc.), handles authentication (Basic, Bearer tokens), and can manage request collections. Users can run asynchronous requests, use pre- and post-request scripts, and store data locally in JSON or YAML files.
atac works best for developers needing an offline, cross platform and lightweight API client without a graphical interface or GUI.
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This tool includes features for editing files in various modes such as single, split, and diff. It also supports plugins, allowing users to extend its functionality to fit specific needs.
hexabyte is useful for developers or anyone needing to inspect or edit binary files.
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Key features include listing loaded kernel modules, showing detailed information about them, and managing module parameters. Users can also directly load, unload, and blacklist modules.
This tool is particularly useful for Linux system administrators and advanced users managing kernel modules and offers a convenient way to monitor kernel module activity directly in the terminal.
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It allows users to view JSON files in the terminal, filter and transform JSON data, and more.
fx supports various features like filtering with JavaScript syntax, updating JSON using JS, and piping data in/out.
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The tool’s core functions include quick access to key combinations, customizable hotkey files in YAML format, and the ability to export keybinds for use with other tools like fzf.
keyb is perfect for developers who work extensively in the terminal and need an accessible way to remember complex keybindings.
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It provides a text-based user interface (TUI) and a command-line interface (CLI) for npm, making it easier to manage npm workflows.
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Its core features include adding, editing, and deleting bookmarks, tag suggestions, and search capabilities. It also provides a command palette for easy access to commands and features.
tinboard brings the Pinboard service to the terminal which is useful for those who prefer the TUI experience.
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It surpasses basic tools by providing enhanced interactive features like process sorting, metrics monitoring, and direct process management through signals. nvitop can also be integrated into other applications and tools like Tensorflow and PyTorch making it more than just a monitoring tool.
nvitop is ideal for developers, system administrators and GPU kernel engineers that need to monitor GPU utilization data on NVIDIA devices quickly.
nvtop, a similar tool works best for those that are interested in monitoring different GPU vendors other than NVIDIA.
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The tool's main features include the graphical overview of the Terraform state tree, enabling users to navigate, search, and perform actions like taint, untaint, delete, or directly apply changes to resources.
terraform-tui supports creating and viewing plans in full color within the terminal.
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Features include blocking and allowing stats, detailed traffic reports, historical query counts, performance metrics, and system status indicators. It allows users to track queries, see top requested domains and monitor the performance of their AdGuard Home setup.
adguardian-term provides real-time traffic visualization and statistics directly in the terminal, enabling users to observe and control network activity efficiently.
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It allows users to manage their S3 objects directly from the terminal by copying objects, previewing objects (text only) and their metadata and downloading objects without needing a graphical user interface.
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It operates offline with a TUI interface that includes theme customization and clipboard support for inspecting and debugging JWT tokens.
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It supports various DNS transport protocols such as DNS over HTTPS (DoH), TLS (DoT), QUIC (DoQ), TCP, UDP and DNSCrypt. Other features include supporting multiple resolvers, IPv4 / IPv6 support, reverse DNS lookups and the ability to output queries to JSON.
doggo is a recommended tool for network / system administrators or engineers that work with distributed systems and want a tool that does more than just DNS queries.
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It has the ability to show your computer's clock time in different colors, fonts, gradients and in 3D based fonts. It also has options for a screensaver mode and for the time to be formatted and can show the time with a UTC offset.
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It features syntax highlighting (for code), direct access local directories and cloud storage directories such as AWS, S3, Google Cloud Storage and Azure Blob Storage. It can also navigate directories via SSH and display them in browsr.
browsr is useful for developers and system administrators who need an all in one filesystem browser that supports multiple cloud providers, the S3 protocol and SSH without context switching or CLI commands.
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It enables users to interact with Matrix chat services directly from the command line, supports chat functionalities like sending messages, participating in rooms, and managing profiles within a lightweight, terminal-only environment.
iamb also supports advanced functionalities such as end to end encryption, notifications, read receipts, custom vim-based keyboard bindings for those familiar with vim and for image previews in the terminal.
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It even allows you to hook up a locally running application to a local kubernetes cluster (or k3s cluster) using an ExternalName service during development.
Once your EC2 is exposed, control how it is accessed through your EC2 security groups.
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It includes its ability to generate and handle numerous HTTP requests simultaneously, detailed statistics like request success/failure rates, response times, and server throughput.
oha presents these metrics easily and you can assess performance bottlenecks or failures during load tests and are also helpfully color coded to make response time statuses easily visible, it is useful for developers looking to optimize HTTP based applications and load test them either locally or remotely in a single cross platform binary.
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The core features of sttr include text transformations such as changing case, encoding and decoding (e.g., base64, URL encoding), hashing (e.g., MD5, SHA256), and more. sttr supports both an interactive TUI for ease of use and a CLI which is suitable for scripting.
sttr is useful for those who need to perform quick modifications to strings or files directly from the command line and is also best in the domains of scripting, data processing, and automation tasks.
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It includes functionality for exploring and operating on remote machines, bookmarking favorite hosts, connecting to recent connections and saving credentials securely. Customization options are available for the file explorer and text editor which can be modified through themes.
termscp is cross platform on Windows, macOS, Linux and BSD. It caters to professionals needing efficient and secure file management on remote machines where a TUI is needed.
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It offers a vim-like interface with familiar keybindings, a bookmarking system, configurable settings, browsing history and has additional support for Telnet and opening HTTP links through lynx or w3m.
bombadillo is suitable for those that prefer a distraction free, privacy respecting command line experience and would like to explore different non-web protocols like Gemini and others.
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It scans the current directory and primarily targets dependency folders and build artifacts that accumulate over time, such as node_modules for node.js projects and target for Rust projects. kondo supports over 20 project types including languages and frameworks like CMake (C, C++), .NET (C#) Composer (PHP), Elixir, Maven (Java), Pub (Dart), Python (Pixi), Zig and more.
kondo is cross platform and ensures your development environment remains clean without manual cleanup, which is especially useful for developers handling multiple projects or needing to optimize storage.
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Apart from its fancy TUI, superfile features a clipboard viewer, processes list, a detailed display of metadata attributes associated with a file, themes, custom fonts and the navigation and management of files without leaving the terminal or the superfile file manager, as all this information is displayed within superfile.
superfile is currently available on macOS and Linux and also has support for Vim keybindings which is helpful to those who use and are familiar with the famous editor.
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It features the ability to list hardware interfaces, scan and plot WiFi signals in the terminal, switching interfaces and dumping packets for example TCP, UDP, ICMP and ARP packets.
netscanner is available on macOS and Linux and requires root access to work.
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It has a plethora of features that can be used instead of commands like less, more, tail -f/-F and watch. It works with tabular text, compressed files and supports alternating table rows, filtering, multi color highlighting, mouse support, regular expression search and more. It also can be tuned to load files in a memory efficient manner.
ov is cross platform on Linux, Windows, macOS and FreeBSD and is recommended for those who want a pager that is a drop-in improvement over more or less.
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It also offers a plz subcommand that provides access to a tool's manual page or a cheat sheet, further aiding users in understanding and utilizing CLI tools effectively.
This utility is useful when the normal help flags such as (-h or -v) do not work due to variations in CLI tool conventions.
It runs on top of search tools like fzf, skim, or Alfred, and can also integrate as a shell widget, or even within tmux sessions.
navi dynamically suggests values for command arguments, facilitating the learning of new one-liners and reducing the need for memorization or constant reference to external sources.
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It has first class support for working with email and git, plus built in support for IMAP and SMTP and is able to work with multiple email accounts and email threading, familiar Vim-like keybindings and is able to render HTML emails in a terminal text browser.
aerc is cross platform on macOS & Linux and is preferable for those who want a deeply integrated UNIX-like email client (aerc supports running terminal commands and pipes) with a no-frills productive terminal experience.
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It operates in a safe mode by default, displaying changes without applying them and requires the --do or -d flag to execute renames.
This tool supports various options for customization, including quiet mode, JSON output and filtering to display only errors in JSON format.
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It includes Git integration and can select relevant lints and tests that should be run based on file changes. It also features keyboard and mouse navigation and terminal emulation with scrollback functionality which helps when working with lengthy console output or errors.
fnug is useful to automate linting and test runs locally, particularly good for those who work on projects with frequent changes requiring continuous testing.
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It's capable of highlighting overloaded resources, adjusting display columns and delivering in-depth usage reports.
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It offers functionalities like converting color formats, picking colors from the screen, creating color palettes, a powerful tool for tasks requiring precise color selection and manipulation.
pastel also supports many formats and color spaces such as RGB (sRGB), HSL, ANSI 8-bit and 24-bit representations. making it ideal for developers, designers and color enthusiasts who want to quickly work with colors all in the terminal.
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Suitable for visualizing metrics from commands like ping, snmpget, netstat, and more.
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It supports features often needed when testing APIs including: testing HTTP calls, chaining requests, capturing values and evaluating the response output. Various types of APIs can be tested with hurl such as REST, SOAP, GraphQL and any XML or JSON based API.
hurl is cross platform on Windows, macOS and Linux and is a smart tool for developers and testers, which can be used in development environments and in CI/CD pipelines.
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This tool supports the OpenAPI v3.0 and v3.1 spec, and features API listing, browsing with a terminal-based user interface, executing API calls and displaying webhooks. It also includes advanced functionalities such as nested components, filtering APIs, fullscreen mode and custom keybindings for navigation.
openapi-tui makes it easier to test, debug and interact with API endpoints and is a useful tool for developers and API testers who prefer a TUI interface.
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It allows real-time monitoring, request replay and manipulation of HTTP requests, supporting protocols like HTTP/1, HTTP/2, and websockets.
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It's ideal for those in need of a straightforward, powerful way for downloading managing image collections in an automated and time saving way in the terminal.
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It records network data from a given network interface, displaying the process name, number of connections, bandwidth rate in a TUI, which is perfect for sysadmins and developers who need to identify who and what is consuming the most bandwidth and to troubleshoot networking issues.
bandwhich can output raw data it sniffed to log files, in case you need to save or review the data at a later date, plus it is also cross platform and works on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
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It's an interactive TUI program that displays time across the time zones of your choosing.
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It also highlights directories and paths that either exist or not with a color coded system, which helps you find and delete invalid directories to make your $PATH environment list more cleaner.
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It can used for tech talks, coding tutorials, or any situation where live coding examples which makes it ideal for developers and tech enthusiasts, enhancing presentations for those who like a terminal-based approach to presentations.
It is a simple but a useful utility in monitoring port usage, paired with the use of keyboard navigation to navigate through the ports open and closed on your computer.
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It features keyboard shortcuts, themes, searching, copying cargo add commands and opening crate documentation directly in the browser if needed.
crates-tui is Ideal for new and experienced Rust developers exploring all crates on crates.io, directly in the terminal. It also serves as a testbed for building TUI programs using Ratatui.
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For quick computations, numbat features an interpreter or REPL to test out one off calculations and includes command history, search and tab completion.
numbat is ideal for scientists and engineers requiring accurate, unit-aware computations in their work. It combines the rigor of a statically typed programming language with the flexibility of unit manipulation.
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It retains compatibility with jq for a large subset of functionalities, addressing some of jq's surprising behaviors and aiming for a more predictable implementation.
jaq stands out for its quick startup and execution times, significantly outperforming jq in many benchmarks, making it ideal for tasks involving numerous small or medium sized files.
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It's written in Go and it enables users to see the structure of their S3 buckets directly from the terminal, using color-coded outputs for easy understanding.
stree supports LocalStack for local testing, allowing customization for AWS profiles, regions, and setting directory depth levels.
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It's lightweight yet powerful, providing features like an integrated file finder, easy cursor movement, symbol jumping, and flexible YAML based keymaps for a productive coding environment.
amp combines ease of use with functionality, making it suitable for developers who prefer the terminal without the need for extra plugins or extensive configuration, plus it works well with tmux.
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Once installed, git-split-diffs can be used as the core pager for git diffs, features themes, scrolling, syntax highlighting and displaying inline changes side by side.
This tool is useful for those familiar with GitHub's split diffs but would like this functionality all in the terminal.
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It also has a string-literal mode which simplifies searching and replacing with clear syntax (no backslashes), smart defaults, and performance improvements over "sed," making it an efficient choice for both simple and complex text manipulations.
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Through the use of plugins, age can be extended to use Yubikeys, Apple Secure Enclave and Hardware wallets.
age also supports passphrases, multiple recipients, encrypting with SSH public keys and is cross platform, available on macOS, Windows and Linux and BSD OSes.
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It is designed for easy configuration and operation, ensuring that backups and restorations can be performed without hassle, restic can use SFTP (via SSH), Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, BackBlaze B2, OpenStack Swift and Microsoft Azure Blob Storage and as native backends to backup data. More backends are supported via rclone.
Once all the data is backed up, restic is able to verify the integrity of the backed up data. Restic is cross platform and supports macOS, Windows, Linux and BSD.
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It has the ability to use a configuration YAML file to customize the editor, mousewheel behavior and the starting directory.
For those who want to use the keyboard only, tran also supports short keys for better navigation in the TUI to quickly transfer a file without touching the mouse.
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It enables users to import bookmarks, fetch metadata automatically, and perform advanced searches. It supports encryption, browser integration, and ensures privacy without any tracking.
buku's database is portable and mergeable, facilitating easy synchronization across devices.
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When working with tailspin, it is able recognise and highlight elements such as datetimes, pointer addresses, Unix processes, IP addresses, UUIDs, HTTP Methods, URLs, key-value pairs and more.
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It aims to make command usage easier to understand with concise examples.
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It provides a comprehensive suite of features including hostgroup connections, customizable panels, monitoring SQL commands, replicas with graphical metrics, and encrypted credentials support.
Useful for database administrators to efficiently manage and analyze database performance, ensuring optimal health and operation of MySQL servers, it is written in Python and based on the Textual TUI framework.
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rclone supports a plethora of cloud services such as Backblaze B2, OneDrive, Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Yandex Files and more. rclone also has an ncdu-esque TUI interface with the command rclone ncdu.
It's designed for efficient, secure file transfer and management across a wide range of cloud services.
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It's designed to be straightforward, requiring no configuration files and supporting various databases such as SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Clickhouse, Vertica, DuckDB, TiDB, MSSQL and more.
goose works best for those primarily working with Go, and can be useful for those who work with SQL files in other languages and database systems.
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Core features include color output, diff highlighting, time machine mode to rewind outputs, and vim-like keybindings. It supports text search, suspending execution, and customizing keys and colors.
Use viddy to monitor command outputs over time with enhanced control. Ideal for developers and system administrators who prefer terminal tools.
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The tool includes an import feature, which migrates the management of authentication codes from other services to cotp.
cotp is tailored for users looking for a reliable, command-line-based solution to manage their two-facto authentication codes in the terminal.
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It supports both HTTP and HTTPS, making it versatile for various monitoring needs without requiring complex setup or configuration.
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It supports outputs through ncurses, X11, and SDL, catering to enthusiasts of tracked music and retro computing with a variety of visual and audio experiences.
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It automates the cloning process, categorizes repositories into a structured directory layout, and facilitates easy access and management of multiple projects.
ghq supports various version control systems, making it versatile for developers working with different types of code repositories.
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It provides all the essential features for interacting with other clients on the Matrix network, including general chat, encryption, clipboard copying, room management, media uploading and sending special messages like rainbow text (if you want to get fancy).
gomuks is cross platform and useful if you're one who prefers using the terminal for communication in a lightweight and efficient manner.
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Kalker also can do root finding, piecewise functions, and allows working with different number bases.
Kalker's interface is syntax highlighted and is available on Windows, Mac, Linux and NetBSD.
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It differs from youtube-dl as it introduces several newer functionalities such as improved format sorting, enhanced youtube integration, download time ranges, video chapters, browser cookies support, and enhanced extractor options.
Note that yt-dlp an actively maintained fork and alternative of the original youtube-dl project.
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It quickly analyzes code to provide detailed statistics, including the number of files, total lines, code, comments, and blanks, all grouped by language.
Tokei can output data in multiple formats like CBOR, JSON, and YAML for easy integration and comparison of code statistics.
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It provides both vertical and horizontal views, the ability to pause/continue the stream, scroll, and dynamically add or remove containers.
Additionally, it supports configuration files for custom setups and can output matched lines to dedicated files, offering a consolidated view with highlighted items and a simple bar chart for counts.
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It simplifies the curl command usage with HTTPie-like syntax, aiming to offer the best of both worlds: the extensive capabilities of curl and the simplicity and readability of httpie.
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It features multithreaded indexing and searching, allowing for efficient handling of multiple files or single files with the capability to swap views dynamically.
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It's designed to work with data from CSV and TSV files, which you can visualize data as boxplots, graphs, histograms, line and barplots, scatter plots and more.
YouPlot is useful for data analysis tasks that require immediate visual feedback and is suited for environments where a graphical interface might not be available.
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eddy is also capable of generating secure passphrases.
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It allows users to quickly identify and delete unwanted data, streamlining disk cleanup processes and also parallel by default and will max out your SSD, providing relevant information as fast as possible.
dua is for those who prefer to interactively free up disk space in the terminal.
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It has a TUI interface which allows you to interactively analyze JSON, collapse or expand objects and arrays, perform regular expression based search and use familiar vim-like commands to explore JSON data efficiently in the terminal.
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It visually presents metrics such as temperature, utilization, and power, offering a comprehensive tool for system monitoring and performance evaluation directly in the command line.
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It displays various interesting system stats on your computer or workstation and graphs them in a TUI interface in the terminal.
tiptop is written in Python, uses the Textual framework and works on all operating systems.
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Useful for security and networking administrators who want a minimal lightweight and easy to use port scanner with a binary size of less than 1MB.
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It integrates functionalities such as RPKI validity checks, BGP statistics, IP version support, prefix analysis, URL investigation, ASPath scrutiny, organizational data, IP reputation, geolocation, fingerprinting, and more.
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It's indispensable for those requiring accurate data comparisons in analysis, development, or data integration projects.
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It supports a wide range of formats to compress and decompress files including, ZIP, TAR, ZStandard, LZMA, RAR, Bzip/Bzip2, 7Zip (7Z), Snappy (SZ), LZ4 and more.
Its intuitive command syntax and broad compatibility make it a versatile tool for handling compressed files effortlessly, it's just compress and decompress, no other commands or arguments to learn.
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It features vim-like keybindings for those familiar with vim, table of contents for quick navigation and to jump to different sections, rich search functionality for previewing search results and supports custom themes.
wiki-tui is useful for those who want a no distraction and TUI experience to browsing Wikipedia quickly all in the terminal.
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It's written in Go and can be used to understand memory usage in various programming scenarios.
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It aims to ease the SSH workflow by visualising and listing connections in the terminal via the ~/.ssh/config file, making it easier to see and handle multiple SSH sessions and configurations directly from the terminal.
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qsv supports querying, indexing, slicing, analyzing, filtering, enriching, transforming, sorting, validating & joining CSV files all in the command line with over 50+ composable commands available.
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TextQL supports SQL joins, "short SQL" syntax that simplifies queries, allowing users to omit longform SQL queries and offers options to save the output to a file and modify the output delimiter.
TextQL stands out for its ability to integrate SQL query functionality with common file formats and can even accept unix standard input (stdin) as an import method for advanced usage.
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It offers a user-friendly TUI, enabling users to navigate through a list of logs and includes the ability to highlight and pretty print JSON logs in a colorful format.
Logshark is designed to capture logs through an HTTP port, emulating the Elasticsearch protocol. it integrates with Beats (like Filebeat, Metricbeat, Heartbeat) and Logstash, using their standard Elasticsearch output.
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Trippy features an interactive world map and charts in the terminal, customizable tracing options, network hop privacy statistics themes, and the ability to generate tracing reports.
It's cross platform and supports Windows, macOS, and Linux, providing an interactive way to visualize network diagnostics and helps in network troubleshooting.
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Toot features posting, replying and deleting statuses, switching between multiple accounts, media uploads and sensitive content as well as searching, blocking muting functionalities that exist in the web version.
Using Toot is ideal for those who seek a minimalist, distraction-free way to engage with social media.
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Features of mdcat include rendering basic CommonMark syntax, highlighting code blocks, displaying links, and showing inline images.
To get the best results using mdcat, it optimally works best with iTerm2, WezTerm, and kitty, the best supported terminal emulators.
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lsd is a rewrite of the GNU ls command with lots of features added such as colors, icons, a tree-view, more formatting options and more.
Topgrade detects which tools you use and runs the appropriate commands to update them.
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By taking a Python file written with specific rules, it can convert the contents into a slide show for display. It offers various features like syntax highlighting, slide properties, and more.
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Requires a GitHub OAuth token `GITHUB_OAUTH_TOKEN` to access releases via the GitHub API.
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It searches through GitHub releases for published binary assets and downloads the suitable binary for your platform and can also check the integrity of the binary against a hash when possible.
eget is recommended for installing simple, static prebuilt binaries, where the extracted binary is all that is needed for installation.
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It provides a graphical overview of disk usage showing the largest files and folders, displaying free space and managing them in the terminal.
Recommended for system administrators and users needing to monitor and manage disk space quickly on any platform such as Windows, Mac and Linux.
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Compatible with major shells and Rust-based, It simplifies directory navigation by intelligently ranking frequently used directories, allowing users to switch directories with fewer keystrokes.
zoxide is also cross platform and works on macOS, Windows, Linux and BSD
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neomutt is a highly configurable, focusing on code clarity and feature improvements, is actively developed by a community dedicated to enhancing email management efficiency.
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It provides a command-line interface to ease the process of adhering to conventional commit standards, simplifying commit message formatting and ensuring consistency across commit histories.
git-cc is particularly useful for developers seeking to maintain organized and readable commit logs in collaborative projects.
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It offers essential file operations, customizable keybindings, and integrates with external tools, ideal for command-line enthusiasts.
lf is cross platform, has a TUI and is inspired by ranger another file manager tool for the terminal.
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It offers efficient, user-friendly, and customizable file management.
Features include asynchronous operations, task scheduling, built-in support for multiple image protocols, code highlighting, and more.
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It allows you to view a map of the world right from your terminal. You can zoom in and out and move around the map with the arrow keys.
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It enables the sharing of resources both publicly and privately, including files, web content, and custom resources, without altering security or firewall settings.
Zrok includes features like sharing tunnels for HTTP, TCP, and UDP network resources and is extensible for technical users.
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It supports multiple platforms and is installable on Linux, Windows, macOS (via eget) and Docker.
Ideal for monitoring DNS changes, Dug is user-friendly and customizable.
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It combines the functionalities of awk, sed, cut, join, and sort, and is ideal for tasks in data cleaning and system administration tasks.
Miller also supports streaming data and works efficiently with large files.
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It supports various systems and provides commands like timeline and diff for efficient repository management.
fnc is compatible with various systems like OpenBSD, macOS, and Linux, and supports a range of commands including timeline, diff, tree, blame, branch, and stash.
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It features multiple selections, Tree-sitter integration for syntax trees, and language server support.
Helix also offers modern functionalities like fuzzy finding and project-wide search, with a focus on efficiency and ease of use.
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It supports high-quality audio, large libraries, and offers an Android remote app. Ideal for music enthusiasts and developers.
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Features include repository mapping for contextual prompts automatic git commits, 100+ programming language support, cloud or local model selection including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Groq, LM Studio, xAI, Azure OpenAI, Cohere, DeepSeek, Ollama, generic OpenAI-compatible endpoints, OpenRouter, GitHub Copilot, Vertex AI and Amazon Bedrock.
Additional features aider has are voice-to-code commands, image and webpage context injection, lint-and-test fixing, browser chat copy-paste, CLI scripting, granular diff review, token-efficient context handling, repomap YAML configuration, automatic feature branches, undo via /drop, mid-chat model switching, prompt caching for cost savings, unlimited session history saved in markdown transcripts for review.
This tool works best for developers who have medium to large codebases, contributors seeking guided fixes and learners experimenting with new stacks with aider helping them.
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It allows you to run and manage multiple processes in a single terminal window.
It's similar to tools like tmux or screen, but focused on running processes rather than shell sessions.
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It supports different categories like top stories, new, show, ask, and jobs.
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You can easily update their your font library, search for specific fonts, and preview fonts before installation.
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It operates on plain text files, making it readable, version-controllable, and future-proof.
hledger is ideal for tracking money, time, and any quantifiable commodity, and offers a user-friendly approach to plain text accounting.
hledger-ui is hledger's TUI counterpart.
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dust will list a number of the biggest subdirectories or files and will smartly recurse down the tree to find the larger ones.
No need for a '-d' flag or a '-h' flag. The largest subdirectories will be colored.
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It operates on plain text files, making it readable, version-controllable, and future-proof.
hledger-ui is ideal for tracking money, time, and any quantifiable commodity, and offers a user-friendly approach to plain text accounting in a terminal user interface.
hledger is hledger-ui's CLI counterpart.
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Harlequin also comes with many themes to style your IDE.
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It parses code with tree-sitter, builds syntax trees, matches expressions instead of lines, supports and detects over 50+ programming languages and can be integrated with Git as an alternative diff tool to replace the internal built-in version provided by Git. Many other version control systems (VCSs) is supported with difftastic such as Mercurial, Fossil, and Jujutsu.
difftastic is used by developers, reviewers, and maintainers who read lots of diffs, especially on large codebases when you care about real semantic changes rather than blocks of lines changed in a commit or want cleaner, more focused diffs during development across many complex projects regardless of the programming language.
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It retains vim's core qualities like speed and versatility, while making it more accessible for new contributors and plugin authors.
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It uses colours to differentiate file types and metadata. It knows about symlinks, extended attributes, and Git.
eza is a maintained fork and not to be confused with exa, it's older counterpart.
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It also has a Slack bridge! If you're on the Hack Club Slack, check out the #ssh-chat-bridge channel.
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It assists developers with programming by providing several tools to speed up and make programming easier and a refreshing alternative to heavily bloated and resource hungry editors such as VS Code and JetBrains.
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It allows you to view, create, delete and update issues, list priority tickets, show epics in table view and more, all from the command line.
Jira CLI also supports multiple Jira instances and has a flexible configuration.
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You can also use patat to generate the slides in other formats (e.g., HTML), thanks to Pandoc.
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Zellij includes a layout system, and eventually aims to include a plugin system, making it possible to include rich, terminal-based applications.
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It combines the clarity of a spreadsheet, the efficiency of the terminal, and the power of Python, into a lightweight utility which can handle millions of rows with ease.
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Features include adjustable update cadence, multi‑symbol watchlists, line, candle and kagi charts, optional volume pane, pre‑/post‑market layers, smart time‑frames from one day to five years and a summary mode that collapses graphs into change, bid, ask, and range readouts.
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It supports a wide range of audio formats, has gapless playback and includes features like output plugins and a configurable color scheme.
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The behaviour and style can be customised through configuration. Its feature set includes interactive commands and filters, syntax highlighting, and a query language.
Note: grv is currently an alias used by oh-my-zsh. Add unalias grv to the end of your .zshrc to invoke GRV.
It allows you to connect to your database and perform operations like viewing tables, running SQL queries, etc.
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It provides a list of in-use TCP and UDP sockets with their respective statistics. Its main advantage over ss raw output is a clear and simple Terminal User Interface which allows you to sort, refresh and navigate through results.
It is written in Python and uses signal-cli for its back-end.
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It is written in Go and uses tshark to read and parse packet data, displaying the results in a format similar to Wireshark.
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Requires the pcap library to build if you don't have netop available on your operating system.
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A configurable notification system reminds user of upcoming deadlines, and the curses based interface can be customized to suit user needs.
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It aims to make diffs more readable and less noisy, allowing you to focus on the important changes.
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It has a series of graphs for quick, visual insight into your machine's overall health.
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It comes as one single, batteries-included, static binary with no dependencies, and you can download and use it right now.
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It's a simple, text-based task manager that allows you to add, remove, and list your tasks.
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It features various output methods including an interactive curses user interface and a programmable text output for scripting.
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Suitable for writing git commit messages, editing Markdown, config files, source code, viewing man pages and for quick edit-compile cycles when programming. Has syntax highlighting, jump-to-error, rainbow parentheses, macros, tab completion, cut/paste portals and a simple gdb front-end
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It allows you to test your typing speed with a variety of tests, including random words, programming languages, and from a file.
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It provides a real-time, top-like interface for monitoring system resources.
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Key features include VM status monitoring, CPU usage tracking, and connectivity options via VNC or SPICE. Operations such as like installation, cloning, starting, stopping, and snapshotting, are all available from the nemu's TUI. It also supports USB devices, network interfaces and file sharing between host and guest systems.
Developers, system administrators and those who like running various operating systems will find nemu useful for quick VM management without leaving the terminal. It's particularly handy for those who prefer command-line tools and need to juggle multiple virtual machines efficiently where a GUI may be resource heavy or unavailable.
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Bottom supports Linux, macOS, and Windows.
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In addition to providing a visual gdb environment, CGDB also provides a mode, called the CGDB mode, where users can issue arbitrary gdb and program commands.
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It allows you to compete with others and measure your typing speed in words per minute.
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It uses a colored output to distinguish different categories of bytes (NULL bytes, printable ASCII characters, ASCII whitespace characters, other ASCII characters and non-ASCII).
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Its primary feature is interactive filtering, letting users modify and extract specific JSON data using the same query language as jq. Other features include syntax highlighting, automatic formatting and executing multiple queries interactively, seeing results instantly.
jqp is beneficial for working with APIs, logs, or any JSON data source directly in the terminal.
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Ncdu aims to be fast, simple and easy to use, and should be able to run in any minimal POSIX-like environment with ncurses installed.
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