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Command-line interface

Before there were graphical user interfaces, command-line interfaces were used to issue commands to a computer. Programs that handle the user interface are called command language interpreters, often known as a shell. A CLI may give a user more control over the computer and programs they wish to execute.

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goaccess

allinurl / goaccess

GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.

Updated Oct 26, 2025
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jarun / nnn

n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager

Updated Nov 8, 2025
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microsoft / ProcDump-for-Linux

A Linux version of the ProcDump Sysinternals tool

cli sysinternals debugging-tool

Updated Oct 13, 2025
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neomutt / neomutt

✉️ Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks -- IRC: #neomutt on irc.libera.chat

c cli mail email imap pgp ncurses nntp mime mutt smtp maildir pop3 mbox mua notmuch neomutt

Updated Nov 6, 2025
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hstr

dvorka / hstr

bash and zsh shell history suggest box - easily view, navigate, search and manage your command history.

c linux bash zsh cli ubuntu history command-history

Updated May 21, 2025
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mevdschee / 2048.c

Console version of the game "2048" for GNU/Linux

game c linux cli command-line ansi-colors 2048 2048-game 2048-clone

Updated Jul 20, 2025
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mempodippy / vlany

Linux LD_PRELOAD rootkit (x86 and x86_64 architectures)

c linux cli library debian rootkit ldpreload dynamic linker userland preload tui libc reboot libpcap libdl libpam libssl shared

Updated Dec 11, 2020
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tio / tio

A serial device I/O tool

Updated Aug 7, 2025
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tukaani-project / xz

XZ Utils

c cli library compression

Updated Nov 7, 2025
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emersion / mako

A lightweight Wayland notification daemon

notifications cli wayland swaywm

Updated Oct 16, 2025
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fzy

jhawthorn / fzy

🔍 A simple, fast fuzzy finder for the terminal

c vim cli unix fuzzy-search fuzzy fuzzyfinder fzy fuzzy-finders

Updated Jul 29, 2025
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notcurses

dankamongmen / notcurses

blingful character graphics/TUI library. definitely not curses.

c cli terminal ncurses terminal-emulators

Updated Nov 3, 2025
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cofyc / argparse

Command-line arguments parsing library.

c cli argument-parsing argparse

Updated Sep 26, 2025
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altdesktop / playerctl

🎧 mpris media player command-line controller for vlc, mpv, RhythmBox, web browsers, cmus, mpd, spotify and others.

c cli mpd mopidy mpris cmus vlc rhythmbox audacious mediaplayer

Updated Jun 13, 2024
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njh / mqtt-sn-tools

Command line tools written in C for the MQTT-SN (MQTT for Sensor Networks) protocol

c cli mqtt mqtt-sn

Updated Nov 6, 2025
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chafa

hpjansson / chafa

📺🗿 Terminal graphics for the 21st century.

cli terminal iterm2 powershell graphics images image-processing ansi image-viewer terminal-based graphics-library terminal-graphics kitty sixel

Updated Nov 7, 2025
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sunnyyoung / WeChatTweak-CLI

A command line utility to work with WeChatTweak-macOS - WeChatTweak 命令行工具

macos cli command-line wechat command-line-tool wechattweak-macos wechattweak wechattweak-cli

Updated Jul 13, 2023
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emersion / slurp

Select a region in a Wayland compositor

cli screenshot wayland

Updated Oct 18, 2025
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scrot

resurrecting-open-source-projects / scrot

SCReenshOT - command line screen capture utility

cli screenshots picture x11 screen-capture screenshot-utility

Updated Jul 8, 2025
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p-gen / smenu

smenu started as a lightweight and flexible terminal menu generator, but quickly evolved into a powerful and versatile CLI selection tool for interactive or scripting use.

c shell cli console terminal command-line interactive tui menus selection shell-scripts command-line-interface

Updated Sep 29, 2025
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Created by Glenda Schroeder

Released 1965

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