Building command line tools in Bash is an extremely tedious and somewhat enigmatic task. There's quite a bit of boilerplate code you're going to have to write if you want your script to do more than just one thing, which will only clutter your script. In addition, your scripts will likely never be able to reference good code you've written from old scripts.

Ash helps you get rid of all of your boilerplate by letting you call functions directly from the command line, while also providing a modular approach to scripting which will allow you to share code between scripts.

You are able to build a module independently that functions as a CLI or as a library (or any combination of the two), and easily share your module with the world.

restic is a program that does backups right.

Features

• Easy: Doing backups should be a frictionless process, otherwise you are tempted to skip it. Restic should be easy to configure and use.
• Fast: Backing up your data with restic should only be limited by your network or hard disk bandwidth so that you can backup your files every day.
• Verifiable: restic enables you to easily verify that all data can be restored.
• Secure: Restic uses cryptography to guarantee confidentiality and integrity of your data. The location where the backup data is stored is assumed to be an untrusted environment.
• Efficient: With the growth of data, additional snapshots should only take the storage of the actual increment.
• Free: restic is free software and licensed under the BSD 2-Clause License and actively developed on GitHub.

TimeShift for Linux is an application that provides functionality similar to the System Restore feature in Windows and the Time Machine tool in Mac OS. TimeShift protects your system by taking incremental snapshots of the file system at regular intervals. These snapshots can be restored at a later date to undo all changes to the system.

Snapshots are taken using rsync and hard-links. Common files are shared between snapshots which saves disk space. Each snapshot is a full system backup that can be browsed with a file manager.

TimeShift is similar to applications like rsnapshot, BackInTime and TimeVault but with different goals. It is designed to protect only system files and settings. User files such as documents, pictures and music are excluded. This ensures that your files remains unchanged when you restore your system to an earlier date. If you need a tool to backup your documents and files please take a look at the excellent BackInTime application which is more configurable and provides options for saving user files.

TimeShift is a system restore tool for Linux. It provides functionality that is quite similar to the System Restore feature in Windows or the Time Machine tool in MacOS. TimeShift protects your system by making incremental snapshots of the file system manually or at regular automated intervals.

A bittorrent filesystem based on FUSE.

With BTFS, you can mount any .torrent file or magnet link and then use it as any read-only directory in your file tree. The contents of the files will be downloaded on-demand as they are read by applications. Tools like ls, cat and cp works as expected. Applications like vlc and mplayer can also work without changes.

An anti-pattern is a common response to a recurring problem that is usually ineffective and risks being highly counterproductive.

The term was popularized three years later by the book AntiPatterns, which extended its use beyond the field of software design to refer informally to any commonly reinvented but bad solution to a problem. Examples include analysis paralysis, cargo cult programming, death march, groupthink and vendor lock-in.

Cat-like program with glitch animation.

Command-line utility for working with Google Drive.

Library for building powerful interactive command line applications in Python.

Command line podcast client.

castero is a command line podcast client. It's designed to be easy to use and targeted at users who want lightweight command line applications instead of bloated GUI-based alternatives.

Create and maintain your own man pages so you can remember how to do stuff.

ranger is a console file manager with VI key bindings. It provides a minimalistic and nice curses interface with a view on the directory hierarchy. It ships with rifle, a file launcher that is good at automatically finding out which program to use for what file type.

Features

• UTF-8 Support (if your python copy supports it)
• Multi-column display
• Preview of the selected file/directory, including images
• Common file operations (create/chmod/copy/delete/...)
• Renaming multiple files at once
• VIM-like console and hotkeys
• Automatically determine file types and run them with correct programs
• Change the directory of your shell after exiting ranger
• Tabs, bookmarks, mouse support

Python Fire is a library for automatically generating command line interfaces (CLIs) from absolutely any Python object.

• is a simple way to create a CLI in Python.
• is a helpful tool for developing and debugging Python code.
• helps with exploring existing code or turning other people's code into a CLI.
• makes transitioning between Bash and Python easier.
• makes using a Python REPL easier by setting up the REPL with the modules and variables you'll need already imported and created.

Python Fire is a library for automatically generating command line interfaces (CLIs) from absolutely any Python object.

• is a simple way to create a CLI in Python.
• is a helpful tool for developing and debugging Python code.
• helps with exploring existing code or turning other people's code into a CLI.
• makes transitioning between Bash and Python easier.
• makes using a Python REPL easier by setting up the REPL with the modules and variables you'll need already imported and created.

git-bug - Distributed bug tracker embedded in Git

If the code isn’t working the way you think it should, then something about your assumptions is wrong. Look through code to ensure that all the pieces work as you expect them to. Step through the code with a debugger if you can and look for any surprises.

Osquery is an open source Operating System monitoring, query, and analytics software. Created by Facebook, it exposes an operating system as a high-performance relational database that can be queried using SQL-based queries.

Osquery is a multi-platform software, can be installed on Linux, Windows, MacOS, and FreeBSD. Osquery allows us to explore the operating system profile, performance, security and many more metrics by using SQL-based queries.

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Free client-side encryption for your cloud files.
Open source software: No backdoors, no registration.

Tool for switching between different versions of commands.

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