🐚 Awesome CLI tools for One Liner

This is a list of useful commands in the Unix shell one liner. Contributions are welcome!

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Utilities

moreutils

moreutils - moreutils is a growing collection of the unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago when unix was young.

• chronic : runs a command quietly unless it fails
• combine : combine the lines in two files using boolean operations
• errno : look up errno names and descriptions
• ifdata : get network interface info without parsing ifconfig output
• ifne : run a program if the standard input is not empty
• isutf8 : check if a file or standard input is utf-8
• lckdo : execute a program with a lock held
• mispipe : pipe two commands, returning the exit status of the first
• parallel : run multiple jobs at once
• pee : tee standard input to pipes
• sponge : soak up standard input and write to a file
• ts : timestamp standard input
• vidir : edit a directory in your text editor
• vipe : insert a text editor into a pipe
• zrun : automatically uncompress arguments to command

dateutils

dateutils - nifty command line date and time utilities; fast date calculations and conversion in the shell

• strptime : Command line version of the C function
• dateadd : Add durations to dates or times
• dateconv : Convert dates or times between calendars
• datediff : Compute durations between dates or times
• dategrep : Grep dates or times in input streams
• dateround : Round dates or times to "fuller" values
• dateseq : Generate sequences of dates or times
• datesort : Sort chronologically.
• datetest : Compare dates or times
• datezone : Convert date/times to timezones in bulk

uniutils

uniutils - Programs for manipulating and analyzing Unicode text.

Open USP Tsukubai

Open USP Tsukubai - Unix-style commands for corporate systems written in Python

• About Open USP Tsukubai
• Manual

JSON

• dasel - Query and update data structures using selectors from the command line. Comparable to jq - yq but supports JSON, YAML, TOML and XML with zero runtime dependencies.
• jo - A small utility to create JSON objects from command-line arguments
• rjo - A small utility to create JSON objects from command-line arguments written in Rust
• jq - A JSON Query Language tool
• jql - A JSON Query Language tool written in Rust
• gojq -A JSON Query Language tool written in Go
• tv - A command to format JSON into table view
• tvgo - A command to format JSON into table view written in Go

CSV

• csvq - SQL-like query language for csv

HTML

• htmlq - like jq but for HTML
• emmet-cli - A command to expand emmet expression

YAML/XML/TOML

• yq - Command-line YAML, XML, TOML processor - jq wrapper for YAML/XML/TOML documents

Excel

• cell - Command-line xlsx processor

Sed Replacement

• sad - sed replacement written in Rust
• sd - Intuitive find & replace CLI (sed alternative)

Grep Replacement

• ripgrep - recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore. (The name of command: rg)
• the_silver_searcher - A code searching tool similar to ack, with a focus on speed. (The name of command: ag)

Find Replacement

• fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find

AWK-like Tools

• opy - A Python wrapper which works like AWK
  • To know how to use opy, see EXAMPLES.md
• hawk - Haskell text processor for the command-line
• frawk - An efficient AWK like language written in Rust

Xargs-like Tools

• rargs - xargs + awk with pattern matching support ls *.bak | rargs -p '(.*)\.bak' mv {0} {1}
• teip - Select partial standard input and replace with the result of another command efficiently

Text Editing

• tate - A command to convert text to vertical writing
• align - Simple text align CLI
• forest - A command that formats and outputs text that represents a line-oriented structured tree structure.

Regular Expression

• grex - A command-line tool and library for generating regular expressions from user-provided test cases

Unicode

• chr - A command-line tool that gives information about Unicode characters
• uni - Query the Unicode database from the commandline, with good support for emojis

Translate

• translate-shell - Command-line translation tool written in AWK
• deepl-cli - DeepL Translator CLI written in Python
• translate - A module grouping multiple translation APIs written in Python

Document Converter

• pandoc - Universal markup converter written in Haskell

PDF

• cpdf - A command-line tool to manipulate PDF files.
• pdftotext - Simple PDF text extraction

Color

• pastel - A command-line tool to generate, convert and manipulate colors

Image Processing

• imagemagick - A tool to create, edit, compose, or convert digital images

• textimg - Command to convert from color text (ANSI or 256) to image

Execution Environment

• websh - A web shell execution environment
  • Repository
  • API Reference
  • CLI clients
    • jiro4989/websh-go - Go
    • Khronos31/scripts/websh - bash
    • eggplants/websh - bash
    • yuu528/sgb - bash
    • sheepla/PSWebsh - PowerShell Module
    • sheepla/pywebsh - Python

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Related Awesome Repositories

• awesome-shell
• command-line-tools
• awesome-cli-apps

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