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🖥 📊 🕹 🛠 A curated list of command line apps

17 mentions on Hacker News by 17 people: 3 stories, 14 comments · first 2018-05-08 · latest 2026-02-25

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  1. …has lots both CLI and TUI apps. Awesome TUIs: https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis Awesome CLIs: https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps Terminal Trove: https://terminaltrove.com/ I guess this is another one shows that the CLI and…
    comment by pelcg · 2026-02-25 · in Making MCP cheaper via CLI
  2. The "awesome" lists on Github can be useful for discovery. Ex.: https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps
    comment by kermatt · 2025-10-08 · in Bat: Cat with syntax highlighting
  3. The term CLI has just come to mean "in a terminal" for a certain subculture, e.g. https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps People do know the technical difference, it's just a shorthand
    comment by rozab · 2025-06-22 · in Using Microsoft's New CLI Text Editor on Ubuntu
  4. Here is a more fully featured list: https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps
    comment by shaishavparekh · 2024-12-24 · in Show HN: Cli.club – Command Line Interface Tools and Alternatives
  5. …way to find out about them is to randomly explore, check out projects. I.e. take anything from here https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps Most people call that procrastinating though ◉ ‿ ◉
    comment by ffsm8 · 2024-08-11 · in Black Hat 2024: Secure Shells in Shambles [pdf]
  6. https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps
    comment by pony4 · 2023-12-11 · in Terminal Trove – A collection of CLIs, TUIs and all things in the terminal
  7. …already know. For things you may not have by default, there's a few "awesome" lists available, like https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps
    comment by viraptor · 2023-04-25 · in Show HN: Killport – CLI tool to kill processes running on a specified port
  8. …There is also this nice awesome list with a more extensive collection. https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps
    comment by yewenjie · 2022-09-04 · in Tips and Tools for Text Mode Lovers
  9. Here is one for CLI utilties. https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps
    comment by tux · 2020-12-23 · in Open Source Stash – Privacy-focused, powerful, secure open-source alternatives
  10. This might be the sort of thing you're looking for: https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps
    comment by ac29 · 2019-05-21 · in Lsd: The next gen ls command
  11. …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/Uqc8X
    comment by em-bee · 2018-11-25 · in Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
  12. …https://github.com/johnkerl/miller I would imagine you have already scoured the "awesome" lists: https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps#terminal-utili...
    comment by artwr · 2018-11-19 · in Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
  13. https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps
    comment by fiatjaf · 2018-09-30 · in Show HN: Cliapp.store – An App Store for CLI Apps
  14. …ttps://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/List_of_applications - https://github.com/alebcay/awesome-shell - https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps - https://github.com/herrbischoff/awesome-command-line-apps (The github links seems…
    comment by O_H_E · 2018-05-08 · in Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?