A stylish command-line dictionary tool that fetches definitions, pronunciations, and examples.

Bash strict mode refers to a set of options and practices used in Bash scripting to make scripts more robust, reliable, and easier to debug. By enabling strict mode, you can prevent common scripting errors, detect issues early, and make your scripts fail in a controlled way when something unexpected happens.

Stop switching contexts. Many AI CLI tools are heavy, Node.js-based, and trap you in their interface. They might go back and forth just to run a simple ls, cutting off real access to your command line.

pls is different: lightweight, fast, and built for everyday CLI tasks, keeping you fully in the command line while letting you seamlessly switch between AI and shell commands.

A terminal-based markdown editor built with Textual (Python TUI framework).

PingDog is an application for monitoring HTTP services and website availability that runs in your console! It provides real-time status monitoring with a clean, interactive interface.

A vim-style terminal calendar built with Go, Bubble Tea, and Lip Gloss.

Navigate, create, move, search, and customize events entirely from the keyboard with familiar vim motions.

A feature-rich terminal interface for Gmail, combining the efficiency of CLI with the familiarity of Gmail's core functionality. Built with Go and Bubble Tea for a fast, keyboard-driven experience.

leadr is a customizable CLI command manager inspired by the leader key concept in (Neo)Vim. Use memorable key sequences to quickly execute or insert commands in your terminal.

CJ's Shell (cjsh) POSIX shell scripting meets modern shell features.

Built in is a POSIX shell interpreter with bash extensions, customizable keybindings, customizable syntax highlighting, advanced learning completions, advanced history search, native multiline editing, spell corrections, typeahead, and good, out-of-the-box prompts.

The OpenCLI specification (OCS) defines a standard, platform and language agnostic interface to CLI applications which allows both humans and computers to understand how a CLI tool should be invoked without access to source code or documentation.

An OpenCLI Description can be used by documentation software to display usage of a tool, or code generation tools to create clients for interoping with a CLI tool.

Move files like an old text adventure.

Occasionally an SSH session times out or somehow freezes. Often this leaves the terminal window in a frozen state, requiring a forced closure.

Except a forced closure might not be needed. There is a built-in SSH escape trigger.

Press the ~ (tilde) key. Notice that the ~ won’t appear on screen when the character is the very first character typed. The character prints on screen normally when not the first character.

One of the main tool I use daily for any project is the fantastic tmux. It will change your terminal experience. What it is? How does it work? How to configure it?

I’ve helped thousands learn tmux through my free resource under the name The Tao of tmux, which I kept as part of the documentation for the tmuxp session manager. And now, it’s been expanded into a full-blown book with refined graphics, examples, and much more.

Some examples of using unix tools in a pipeline.