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Browse free open source Command Line Tools and projects for Linux and BSD below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Command Line Tools by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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s3cmd
Command line tool for managing Amazon S3 and CloudFront services
Open-source tool to access Amazon S3 file storage. S3cmd is a free command line tool and client for uploading, retrieving and managing data in Amazon S3 and other cloud storage service providers that use the S3 protocol, such as Google Cloud Storage. Lots of features and options have been added to s3cmd since its very first release in 2008.... we recently counted more than 60 command line options, including multipart uploads, encryption, incremental backup, s3 sync, ACL and Metadata management, S3 bucket size, bucket policies, and more! -
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DB Browser for SQLite
The DB Browser for SQLite
DB Browser for SQLite (DB4S) is a high quality, visual, open source tool to create, design, and edit database files compatible with SQLite. DB4S is for users and developers who want to create, search, and edit databases. DB4S uses a familiar spreadsheet-like interface, and complicated SQL commands do not have to be learned. This program is not a visual shell for the sqlite command line tool, and does not require familiarity with SQL commands. It is a tool to be used by both developers and end users, and must remain as simple to use as possible in order to achieve these goals. Import and export records as text, import and export tables from/to CSV files, import and export databases from/to SQL dump files, issue SQL queries and inspect the results, examine a log of all SQL commands issued by the application, plot simple graphs based on table or query data. -
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pdfsandwich generates "sandwich" OCR pdf files, i.e. pdf files which contain only images (but no editable text) will be processed by optical character recognition (OCR) and the text will be added to each page invisibly "behind" the images. pdfsandwich is a command line tool which is supposed to be useful to OCR scanned books or journals. It is able to recognize the page layout even for multicolumn text. Essentially, pdfsandwich is a wrapper script which calls the following binaries: convert, unpaper, tesseract, gs, and hocr2pdf (if tesseract < 3.03). It is known to run on Unix systems and has been tested on Linux and MacOS X. It supports parallel processing on multiprocessor systems. In contrast to most competing sandwich programs, it performs preprocessing of the scanned images, such as de-skewing or removal of dark edges etc. For further information please read the manual: http://www.tobias-elze.de/pdfsandwich/index.html
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A command line tool to create C files from binary files. It can be used to embed the contents of external files to a C or C++ program.
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ccrypt is a command-line tool for encrypting and decrypting files and streams. It provides strong encryption based on the Rijndael cipher, a version of which is also used in the Advanced Encryption Standard.
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testssl.sh
Testing TLS/SSL encryption anywhere on any port
testssl.sh is a free command-line tool that checks a server's service on any port for the support of TLS/SSL ciphers, protocols as well as recent cryptographic flaws and more. testssl.sh is free and open-source software. You can use it under the terms of GPLv2, please review the License before using it. Works for Linux, Mac OSX, FreeBSD, NetBSD and WSL/MSYS2/Cygwin out of the box, no need to install or configure something, no gems, CPAN, pip or the like. OpenBSD only needs bash to be postinstalled. You can test any SSL/TLS enabled and STARTTLS service, not only webservers at port 443. Several command line options help you to run your test and configure your output. If a particular check cannot be performed because of a missing capability on your client side, you'll get a warning. You can look at the code, see what's going on and you can change it. -
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Claude Code
Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal
Claude Code is an intelligent agentic coding assistant that lives in your terminal and understands your entire codebase. It helps developers code faster by executing routine tasks, explaining complex code snippets, and managing git workflows—all via natural language commands. Claude Code integrates seamlessly into your terminal, IDE, or GitHub by tagging @claude to interact with your code context. The tool is designed to simplify development by automating repetitive work and providing instant clarifications on code behavior. User feedback and usage data are collected responsibly, with strict privacy safeguards and limited retention, ensuring no feedback is used to train generative models. Claude Code is open and actively maintained with community-driven bug reporting and feature requests. Its natural language interface makes advanced coding workflows accessible without leaving your coding environment. -
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blueutil
CLI for bluetooth on OSX: power, discoverable state, list, etc.
blueutil is a command-line utility for managing Bluetooth on macOS. It provides control over Bluetooth connections, device pairing, and power state from the terminal. -
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The project development has been moved on GitHub https://github.com/pcb2gcode/pcb2gcode The GUI for pcb2gcode can be found here https://github.com/pcb2gcode/pcb2gcodeGUI pcb2gcode is a command-line tool for isolation, routing and drilling of PCBs that provides full support for both single- and double-sided boards. For more information, see http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/pcb2gcode/
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SIGAR (System Information Gatherer and Reporter) is a cross-platform, cross-language library and command-line tool for accessing operating system and hardware level information in Java, Perl and .NET.
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aws-cli
Universal Command Line Interface for Amazon Web Services
The AWS CLI is the universal command-line interface for managing AWS services, automating tasks, and scripting cloud workflows. It exposes nearly every public API from EC2 and S3 to IAM, Lambda, and beyond, providing parity with the service SDKs in a tool you can run anywhere. Profiles, regions, single-sign-on, and credential helpers make it straightforward to switch contexts securely across accounts and environments. Its output controls and JMESPath querying let you slice, filter, and transform JSON responses directly in the shell, which is essential for automation. Waiters, paginators, and retries handle long-running or large list operations cleanly so scripts are resilient. The CLI’s stability and extensive documentation make it a cornerstone for CI/CD, incident response, and day-to-day operations. -
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jdbc2csv.jar
Command-line sql JDBC tool
jdbc2csv is a small command-line tool written in JAVA and can be used on all platforms, for which JRE 8 or higher is available. To connect to a specific DBMS the tool uses its JDBC driver. The result of the executed 'select' query is displayed in CSV format ( different standards are supported ). When there is an error the tool stops with exit code 1 and the error message is output on stderr. jdbc2csv is created with a main purpose to be used in shell-scripts. Relatively easy to configurate, this tool is suitable for queries ‘select’, ‘update’ and ‘delete’. I think that is not suitable for a large number of requests, like 'insert'. -
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FractalNow
Fast, advanced, multi-platform fractal generator
FractalNow provides users with tools to generate pictures of various types of fractals quickly and easily. It is made of both a command line tool, FractalNow, and a graphical tool, QFractalNow. The graphical tool, based on Qt library, allows users to explore fractals intuitively and generate pictures. Both tools are entirely multi-threaded and implement advanced algorithms and heuristics that make computation very fast compared to most existing free fractal generators. -
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duff
Command-line tool for finding duplicate files
Duff is a Unix command-line utility for quickly finding duplicates in a given set of files. Duff is written in C and should build and run on most modern Unices. -
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cclive is a command line tool for downloading videos from Youtube and other video websites that require Adobe Flash. It has low memory footprint compared to other similar tools.
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Command Line Progress Bar is a simple command line tool to display information about a data transfer stream. It will display the number of bytes transfered, the speed of the transfer, and if the size of the data stream is known it will display the ETA, p
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csv2odf
csv2odf can convert csv data to formatted spreadsheets and documents.
csv2odf can create business intelligence reports from csv data sources with output to ods, odt, html, xlsx, or docx documents. It uses a template file that you design to control the layout, fonts, and colors. Just query your database with output to csv (or tsv), then use csv2odf to insert the data into your template to produce a nice looking formatted output. It is a command line tool and you can automate the generation of reports by using scripts and cron. It can be used to create spreadsheets and documents for LibreOffice, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office Excel and Word. It is open source GPL v3 and crossplatform, it can run on most operating systems that can run Python (Python is required). More details, example files, and online manual at http://csv2odf.sf.net. -
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a8cas
A portable library and tools for archiving images of Atari 8-bit tapes
A portable library and tools for archiving images of tapes with Atari 8-bit computer software. Provides a common interface for loading and saving tape images in various formats. Designed for use by emulators and Atari<->PC communication software. -
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vcf2csv
(abandoned and outdated project) convert vcard data into csv format
vcf2csv is a command line tool, written in ANSI-C (C90), converts a vcard (vcf) file to csv. Please note: the ability to generate HTML-files will be removed in the near future. -
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Flat file extractor can be used for reading and parsing different flat file structures and printing them in different formats. ffe is a command line tool developed in GNU/Linux environment and it is distributed under GPL. Project moved to https://github.com/igitur/ffe
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srt2vobsub
A command-line tool that converts text subtitles to vobsub
A command line tool for Linux and other Unix-like systems that generates a pair of .idx/.sub vobsub subtitles files from textual subtitles. -
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GitForce
A visual front end to git
Git is a popular source revision control system. GitForce is a GUI front-end for the git command line tool and runs on both Windows and Linux. It is designed to be easy and intuitive to use and yet powerful enough so you don't need to use a command line git. -
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Common Resource Grep - crgrep
Common Resource Grep
CRGREP searches for matching text in databases, various document formats, archives and other difficult to access resources. A command line tool for name and content text matching in database tables, plain files, MS Office documents, PDF, archives, MP3 audio, image meta-data, scanned documents, maven dependencies and web resources. CRGREP will search resources within resources of any arbitrary combination or depth, so text within a document within a zip archive, and so on. Here you will find binary downloads and discussion (https://sourceforge.net/p/crgrep/discussion/) . The actual development and issue tracking can be found here: https://bitbucket.org/cryanfuse/crgrep -
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Live CD With Zerofree Utility i686 32Bit
A Custom Puppy Linux Live CD With Zerofree Utility i686 32 Bit
After Booting with this Live CD, just click on the CDROM icon on the Desktop, to open its folder contents, then Right Click the zerofree.sh file and Choose the "Run in Terminal" option and then follow the instructions shown on the terminal. As you may be aware, Booting with a Live CD, requires that you need to change the Boot Order on your System / Guest BIOS, quickly on startup, by pressing either F2 OR F12 OR F10 OR an equivalent key and then change the Boot Order to boot from the CDROM first. Some Hints: Puppy Linux Live CDs show some dialogs / settings window on first startup / first shutdown. Feel free to dismiss / close them, if you do not want to make any changes, to the live cd's operation, next time, on the same system. This will not affect the zerofree's work in any way. Apart from this, using the Internet Browser, built in, would require a Free Memory of 1 GB or more, for better Performance ( as it is generally a memory intensive activity ) -
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cline
Command line tool for counting source code lines
cline is a command line tool that counts code lines or non-whitespace characters in your project folder. It is designed to recursively find any source file matching specific rules and count the line breaks within that file. You may specify file suffixes to include or exclude as well as regular expressions for code lines that shall be excluded (e.g. to exclude comments). By default a heuristic algorithm skips binary files. You may configure the restrictiveness of this algorithm with command line options.