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awesome-cli-apps

🖥 📊 🕹 🛠 A curated list of command line apps

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17Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
20.6KGitHub stars
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What it is

🖥 📊 🕹 🛠 A curated list of command line apps

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Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:03:16 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year17 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-05-08 06:29:45 UTC to 2026-02-25 22:04:28 UTC.

012342018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

17 sources
here is a list of all tools mentioned in the thread. unfortunately, including descriptions and links made the comment to large, so for now just the names. the number in front is the number of mentions. links to other lists: https://beyondgrep.com/feature-comparison/ https://code.kiwi.com/lesser-known-tools-we-love-at-kiwi-com... https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps#terminal-utili... https://github.com/alebcay/awesome-shell#applications https://paste.pound-python.org/raw/Uqc8XTFk73Y3PpbRe9hC/ http://suckless.org/rocks/ https://www.networkworld.com/article/3091139/linux/who-needs... 2048 2fa abcde abook [3] ack (ack-grep) [5] ag (silver searcher) alex [2] alpine [2] amigamml aplay archiver [4] aria2c asciinema [2] asdf atom [2] autojump (aka j)
Read the rest
autossh autosub [3] awk awless [2] bash bash-it bass [5] bat (cat) bcal [3] bc -l [2] beets bitlbee [3] BorgBackup [2] bpython [2] brew btrfs buku [2] byobu calcurse cal cat [2] cd Chocolatey [2] climate (shell utility tools) [3] cmus Coinmon colordiff column comm convert [2] cowsay cp [4] curl GNU datamash ddgr ddrescue dict diff diff2html direnv diskus docker [2] Doom Emacs dosage dstat [2] dtrx [2] duplicacy ed [2] elinks [7] emacs [2] entr [2] exa [2] exiftool fab Farbfeld Utilities [3] fasd [5] fd [5] ffmpeg finch [2] find findutils [8] fish-shell frp fselect [6] fzf gawk [13] git git-annex git-annex assistant git-bulk-toolkit git number [3] gitsh Git Standup glances (top) Goaccess go-jira tuijam [2] googler gpg graphicsmagick [2] grc [5] grep Gron gst123 gzip hangups (instant messaging) hd -c head heirloom-mailx hledger hollywood (tmux UI) howdoi hr [11] htop [4] httpie hub Hugo hyperfine iftop [2] ImageMagick imgpaste imgp import-mailbox-to-gmail inotifywait Insect (unit converter) ip irssi + jmp.chat iw journalctl [7] jq kakoune keysniffer keychain khal khard Kubectx [2] lazygit ledger-cli links2 lnav localhost.run locate [3] ls [2] lsof lumail Ly man mcabber mediainfo [2] megadl mg [4] midnight commander Miller (CSV tool) mkdir mlocate [2] mocp Moon Buggy (game) moreutils [3] mosh [2] most mountsshfs mpv multitail [5] mutt mv [3] mycli [6] nano [3] nc ncat [7] ncdu ncmpcpp neofetch neomutt + notmuch [2] neovim netcat nethogs newsboat [4] Ngrok nload nmap [3] nnn notmuch nyancat od ohmyfish [4] ohmyzsh oh-my-zsh git plugin [2] open p7zip [2] Pandoc GNU parallel [5] pass passgo pass-otp paste pbedit pbpaste pdd pdfgrep peco peerflix [3] perl [3] pgcli pgrep pianobar pine ping pip pipe pkill playmod prettyping prezto progress proselint psql [2] ptpython/ptipython [4] pv [2] pwgen pytest [2] python pythonPackages.powerline qemu [4] ranger rclone recoll [2] remind [2] rename renameutils [2] restic [13] rg (ripgrep) rm [4] rsync rtorrent rtv sage Saw (AWS Cloudwatch) sc-im sclack SCM Breeze [2] Scoop [4] screen [4] sed serve serveo [3] shellcheck SHPaint shuf [3] sl [4] socat solaar sort sox [2] sqlite shell [2] ssh [3] sshfs subliminal supmua surfraw sym systemctl tabview tail [2] tar [3] Taskwarrior tcpdump tee TeX [2] The Fuck [6] tig [4] tldr tmate [21] tmux todo.txt toilet top totp-cli touch [2] tr [2] tree tshark ts ttp ttyclock ttysolitaire rainbowstream unimatrix uniq [2] units up vdirsyncer [2] vi vifm [7] vim [4] Visidata vnstat Vue-cli [2] w3m [6] watch watch (python) watchman wd webcomix [2] websocketd WebTorrent [3] weechat [2] wee-slack [2] wget wordgrinder wttr [2] xargs Xdg xdotool xiki xmlstarlet xrdb [2] xsv XTree Gold xxd xz [6] Youtube-dl youtube-viewer [2] z zamzar-bash zgen zplug [4] zsh
In Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
A few of the ones I use almost daily - Pandoc a handy document format converter: https://pandoc.org/ - Ripgrep, a faster grep: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep - There are quite a few prompt-toolkit based CLI which have been really nice: * mycli (https://github.com/dbcli/mycli), pgcli (https://github.com/dbcli/pgcli) * ptpython/ptipython (https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/ptpython) - Youtube-dl: http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ - fzf a fuzzy finder for the console: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf - jq for JSON manipulation: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/ - Miller for CSV/TSV: https://github.com/johnkerl/miller I would imagine you have already scoured the "awesome" lists: https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps#terminal-utili...
In Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

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