Terminals Are Sexy

A curated list of Terminal frameworks, plugins & resources for CLI lovers.

Table of Contents

Shells

Sexy frameworks, plugins and resources for your sexy shell.

Base Shells

Ammonite-Shell - An object shell with a Scala-like scripting language.

bash - GNU Project's shell (Bourne Again SHell).

fish - Smart and user-friendly command line shell.

PowerShell - Automation and configuration tool/framework that is optimized for dealing with structured data.

xonsh - Python-ish, BASHwards-looking shell language and command prompt.

zsh - Powerful shell with scripting language.

ZSH

alf - Out of this world super fast and configurable framework for zsh.

ant-zsh - Tiny and lightweight ZSH configuration environment for special customization needs.

antibody - Faster and simpler antigen written in Golang.

antigen - Plugin manager for zsh, inspired by oh-my-zsh and vundle.

dotzsh - Community driven framework for zsh.

liquidprompt - Full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh.

oh-my-zsh - Delightful community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration.

powerlevel9k - Super flexible awesome powerline ZSH theme.

prezto - Configuration framework for Zsh.

pumice - Lightweight plugin manager for zsh.

pure - Pretty, minimal and fast ZSH prompt.

slimzsh - Small, usable configuration for ZSH.

zeesh - Cross-platform Zsh framework.

zgen - Lightweight and simple plugin manager for ZSH.

zilsh - Zsh config system that aims to appeal more to power-users and follow the simplistic approach of vim-pathogen.

zim - Zsh configuration framework with blazing speed and modular extensions.

zinit - Flexible Zsh plugin manager with clean fpath, reports, completion management, turbo mode, services.

zoppo - Crippled configuration framework for Zsh.

zplug - Next-generation plugin manager for zsh.

zpm - Plugin manager for zsh similar to vim-plug.

zsh-autosuggestions - Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh.

zsh-pony - Covers customizing ZSH without a framework.

zsh-quickstart-kit - Simple zsh quickstart for using zsh and zgen.

zsh-syntax-highlighting - Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh.

zshdb - ZSH debugger.

ztanesh - Aims to improve your UNIX command line experience and productivity with the the configuration provided by the ztanesh project.

zulu - Total environment manager for ZSH 5+.

zunit - Powerful unit testing framework for ZSH.

Bash

aliases - Contextual, dynamic, organized aliases for the bash shell.

bash-it - Collection of community Bash commands and scripts.

bash-powerline - Powerline-style Bash prompt in pure Bash script.

bash-sensible - Attempt at saner Bash defaults.

bashtrap - Quick way to spruce up OSX terminal.

hstr - Bash History Suggest Box.

liquidprompt - Full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh.

Git

bash-git-prompt - Informative and fancy Bash prompt for Git users.

git-extra-commands - Collection of useful extra commands for git

git-prompt - Bash prompt with Git, SVN and HG modules.

git-radar - Heads up display for git

git-sh - Customized Bash environment suitable for Git work.

gittify - Colorful Bash prompt + customized Git aliases.

oh-my-git - Opinionated git prompt for bash and zsh.

sexy-bash-prompt - Bash prompt with colors, Git statuses, and Git branches.

Fish

Fisher - Package manager for the fish shell.

oh-my-fish - The Fishshell Framework.

⬆ back to top

Terminal Emulation Applications

Sexy 3rd party terminal emulation applications.

Alacritty - Cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator.

Cmder - Lovely console emulator package for Windows.

ConEmu - Customizable Windows terminal with tabs, splits, quake-style and more.

ConsoleZ - Windows console window enhancement. It is a fork of Console project.

FluentTerminal - A Terminal Emulator based on UWP and web technologies.

GNOME Terminal - Terminal emulator for GNOME.

GNU Screen - Full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes.

Go2Shell - Opens a terminal window to the current directory in Finder.

Hyper - Terminal built on web technologies.

iTerm2 - Terminal emulator for macOS that does amazing things.

KiTTY - Fork from version 0.70 of PuTTY, the best telnet / SSH client in the world.

Konsole - Terminal emulator for the K Desktop Environment.

MacTerm - Powerful replacement for macOS Terminal.

Mosh - Remote terminal application that allows roaming and supports intermittent connectivity.

PuTTY - SSH and telnet client, developed originally by Simon Tatham for the Windows platform.

Terminator - The robot future of terminals.

Terminology - The best terminal emulator based on the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries.

Terminus - Cross-platform terminal for a more modern age, based on web technologies.

Termite - Keyboard-centric terminal, aimed at use within a tiling window manager.

Tilda - Gtk based drop down terminal for Linux and Unix.

Tilix - Advanced GTK3 tiling terminal emulator that follows the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines.

Xfce Terminal - Modern terminal emulator primarily for the Xfce desktop environment.

xterm - Terminal emulator for the X Window System.

ZOC - SSH/Telnet Client and Terminal Emulator for macOS and Windows.

⬆ back to top

Package Managers

Sexy package managers for your macOS, Linux & Windows CLIs.

Universal

asdf - Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more

basher - Package manager for shell scripts.

bpkg - JavaScript has npm, Ruby has Gems, Python has pip and now Shell has bpkg.

composer - Composer is a package manager for PHP.

guix - Functional package manager for installed software packages and versions.

nix - Powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible.

npmjs - Package manager for JavaScript.

pip - Package management system used to install and manage software packages written in Python.

rubygems - The Ruby community’s gem hosting service.

yarn - New package and dependency manager for javascript.

macOS

fink - Wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and macOS.

homebrew - Missing package manager for macOS.

macports - Package manager that simplifies the installation of software on the macOS and Darwin operating systems.

mas - Mac App Store command line interface.

Linux

linuxbrew - The Homebrew package manager for Linux.

pkgin - Aimed at being an apt / yum like tool for managing pkgsrc binary packages.

ChromeOS

chromebrew - Package manager for Chrome OS.

Windows

chocolatey - Package manager for Windows.

cygwin - Linux-like environment for Windows making it possible to port software running on POSIX systems to Windows.

ninite - Install and Update All Your Programs at Once.

oneget - PackageManagement (aka OneGet) is a package manager for Windows.

ruckzuck - Software Package Manager for Windows, a quick way to install and update Software.

scoop - Package manager for Windows.

wpkg - Automated software deployment, upgrade and removal program for Windows.

⬆ back to top

Text Editors

Sexy text editors for your Command Line Interface.

emacs - Cross-platform text-editor that has both command-line and graphical user interface. spacemacs - Community-driven emacs distribution.

jed - Freely available text editor for Unix, VMS, MSDOS, OS/2, BeOS, QNX, and win9X/NT platforms.

kakoune - Modal editor with multiple selections and orthogonal design.

micro - Modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor.

nano - Text editor for Unix-like computing systems or operating environments using a command line interface.

slap - Sublime-like terminal-based text editor.

vim - Extensively configurable, cross-platform and highly efficient text editor. SpaceVim - Community-driven vim distribution. neovim - Literally the future of vim.

vis - Highly efficient text editor.

⬆ back to top

Sexy Applications for your Command Line Interface.

ack3 - Greplike tool, optimized for programmers.

add-gitignore - An interactive CLI that generates a .gitignore for your project based on your needs.

asciinema - Terminal session recorder.

autojump - cd command that learns

bcal - Storage conversion and expression calculator.

buku - command-line bookmark manager.

byobu - Byobu is an open source text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer.

cointop - The fastest and most interactive terminal based UI application for tracking cryptocurrencies.

colorls - Beautify the terminal's ls command, with color and font-awesome icons.

command, with color and font-awesome icons. ddgr - DuckDuckGo from the terminal.

df-show - Interactive directory and file browser with a similar feel to the ls command.

command. dockly - Docker console UI and Dashboard for quickly managing and inspecting Containers and Services.

dry - Docker manager for the terminal.

exa - Replacement for 'ls' written in Rust.

fselect - 'find' replacement with SQL-like syntax.

fx - Command-line JSON viewer.

fzf - Command-line fuzzy finder.

gcalcli - Google Calendar command line interface.

getnews.tech - Checking the latest news headlines from various news outlets on the web.

glances - top/htop alternative.

googler - Search Google from your terminal.

haxor-news - Browse Hacker News like a haxor.

homebrew-cask - CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries.

howdoi - Instant code answers and examples from the command line

htop - Cool looking and interactive process viewer 'replacement' for the top command.

hub - Command-line wrapper for git that makes working with GitHub easy.

imgp - Multi-core batch image resizer and rotator.

jaymock-cli - Mock an API and generate fake JSON test data, right from the terminal.

jq.node - Command-line JSON/string processor, JavaScript and Lodash in your shell.

jrnl - Simple command line journal application that stores your journal in a plain text file.

k - Directory listings for zsh with git features.

kubebox - Terminal console for Kubernetes.

lexis - word counting made easy. Retrieve the number of words in a string or stdin.

lf - Terminal file manager.

lolcat - Rainbows and unicorns!

lunchy - Friendly wrapper for launchctl.

mps-youtube - Terminal based YouTube player and downloader

navi - An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line.

neofetch - Fetches system/theme information in terminal for Linux desktop screenshots. Alternative to screenfetch.

nnn - Tiny, lightning fast, feature-packed file manager.

ranger - Console file manager with vi key bindings.

rebound - Command-line debugger that instantly fetches Stack Overflow results when you get a compiler error.

reddit terminal viewer - Browse Reddit from your terminal.

ripgrep - Code-searching tool like ack and the_silver_searcher, but faster.

screenfetch - Fetches system/theme information in terminal for Linux desktop screenshots.

shell2http - HTTP-server to execute shell commands. Designed for development, prototyping or remote control.

streamlink - CLI for extracting streams from various websites to a video player of your choosing.

taskell - Command-line Trello-like kanban-board/TODO lists.

taskwarrior - Command-line TODO list manager.

the_silver_searcher - Code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster.

tig - Text mode interface for git.

tiv - Text mode terminal image viewer.

tldr - Simplified and community-driven man pages.

tmux - Terminal multiplexer.

tmuxinator - Manage complex tmux sessions easily.

transfer.sh - Quickly upload and share files from your shell.

tre - Improved tree command that knows git, creates shell alias for quick opening, and more!

command that knows git, creates shell alias for quick opening, and more! vifm - Console file manager with vi key bindings and some ideas from mutt.

wal - generate and change colorschemes on the fly.

whereami - Get your geolocation information from the CLI.

wttr.in - The right way to check the weather.

yadm - Seamless git-based management of your dotfiles.

youtube-dl - download videos from YouTube

z - Tool to jump to folders based on history matching a given regex

z.lua - New cd command that helps you navigate faster by learning your habits.

⬆ back to top

Communication

Sexy Tools for communicating through the Command Line Interface.

bitchx - Feature-rich and highly configurable, terminal based IRC client based on ircII.

centerim - Terminal based, multi-protocol Instant Messaging client with support for IRC.

epic - IRC client that has been under active development for 20+ years in 5 generations.

go-jira - Simple jira command line client in Go.

irssi - Self proclaimed client of the future and my favorite IRC client.

slack-term - Slack client for your terminal.

Slackadaisical - Simple Slack client for the CLI.

weechat - Fast, light and extensible chat client.

⬆ back to top

Other

Community

Join the CLI lover community.

/r/commandline - This is for anything regarding the command line, in any operating system.

/r/osxterminal - Tips for using terminal.app in macOS.

/r/zsh/ - Everything on zsh.

/r/unixporn/ - Everything on unix.

#bash - Bash IRC channel on freenode.

Stack Overflow - Terminal tagged questions.

Other Sexy Lists

Here are some more sexy lists.

Awesome

awesome-devenv - Curated list of delightful Bash scripts and resources.

awesome-emacs - Community driven list of useful Emacs packages, libraries and others.

awesome-sysadmin - Curated list of amazingly awesome open source sysadmin resources.

awesome-zsh-plugins - Collection of ZSH frameworks, plugins & themes inspired by the various awesome list collections out there.

Misc

bash-guide - Guide to learn bash.

the-art-of-command-line - Master the command line, in one page.

⬆ back to top

Contributing

Your contributions are always welcome! Please take a look at our contribution guidelines and code of conduct first.

Pull requests might be kept open if it hasn't been decided whether additions are sexy enough.