Awesome Shell

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

• Awesome Bash
  • Networking and Servers
  • Customization
  • Package Management and Frameworks
  • Utilities and Tools
• Guides
• Contributing
  • To-do.

Networking and Servers

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

• bashttpd - A web server written in bash
• dokku - Docker powered mini-Heroku in around 100 lines of Bash
• resty - Little command line REST client that you can use in pipelines

Customization

Custom prompts, color themese, etc.

• bashstrap - A quick way to spruce up OSX terminal
• liquidprompt - A full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh
• pure - Pretty, minimal and fast ZSH prompt

Package Management and Frameworks

Tools for managing multiple shell configurations.

• antigen - A plugin manager for zsh, inspired by oh-my-zsh and vundle
• bash-it - A community bash framework
• oh-my-fish - Framework for managing your fish shell configuration inspired by Oh My ZSH
• oh-my-zsh - A community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration
• prezto - The configuration framework for Zsh
• vcsh - config manager based on Git

Writing and Testing Scripts

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

• bashful - A collection of libraries to simplify writing bash scripts
• bats - Bash Automated Testing System
• composure - Compose, document, version and organize your shell functions
• sub - a delicious way to organize programs

Utilities and Tools

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

• ansiweather - Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols
• autoenv - Directory-based environments.
• bashmarks - Directory bookmarks for the shell
• fasd - Command-line productivity booster, offers quick access to files and directories
• git-sh - A customized bash environment suitable for git work
• hr -

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• jrnl - A simple command line journal application that stores your journal in a plain text file
• semver_bash - Semantic Versioning in Bash
• wemux - Multi-User Tmux Made Easy

This entire repo is still under construction.