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Terminal Trove – A collection of CLIs, TUIs and all things in the terminal

by diazc on 12/11/23, 9:02 PM with 25 comments

  • by saulrh on 12/11/23, 10:57 PM

    I wish the one-sentence descriptions were displayed in the lists. When I click through to https://terminaltrove.com/new/, I have to click through every single one of those names to find out what they are. It'd be a lot nicer if I could swoop through and see "grv: git repository viewer. netop: network topology visualizer. dive: tool for exploring each layer in a docker image." etc.

    (edit to add: This is already pretty great, I love curated collections like this, I just also see a way to make it even better!)

  • by npmaile on 12/12/23, 2:29 AM

    I get annoyed by tools like those featured here putting the language they are written in front and center like it's a defining feature about the application. The only thing that should matter (specifically with a compiled binary distributed program) is what it does and how well it does it.

  • by pony4 on 12/11/23, 11:27 PM

  • by genman on 12/11/23, 11:15 PM

    What is missing from here as a separate but interesting category is spreadsheet processors. I found two: sc-im and visidata under Text Processing, but I think these deserve a separate category to demonstrate to the range of utility of terminal based tools.

  • by diazc on 12/11/23, 9:14 PM

    I have been seeing recently a lot of TUI and CLIs on HN recently and stumbled across this site which shows more of them in one place.

  • by leonim on 12/12/23, 8:47 PM

    This looks really nice, I hope it does well.

    It reminds me that I miss https://inconsolation.wordpress.com/ ended. It had all sorts of great and humorous reviews on terminal based software.

  • by vhodges on 12/12/23, 12:01 AM

  • by rbanffy on 12/11/23, 11:49 PM

    One thing I really want to do is a front-end for Grafana for Tektronix 4014 terminals (and the lesser compatibles).

    Not terribly useful, but certainly cool.

  • by _fs on 12/11/23, 11:56 PM

    ChatGPT to the rescue. Not going to verify each of these, but a 5 word or less description helped me

      bbcli - Basic BBC News interface.
  bmon - Bandwidth monitoring and debugging tool.
  bottom - System resource monitoring utility.
  broot - Tree view file explorer.
  btop - Resource monitor, process manager.
  byobu - Text-based window manager, multiplexer.
  calcurse - Command-line calendar and scheduling.
  cava - Console-based audio visualizer.
  cgdb - Curses-based interface for GDB.
  cloc - Count lines of code.
  cmus - Console-based music player.
  ctop - Container monitoring tool.
  delta - Advanced viewer for git.
  devzat - Chat over SSH.
  dive - Docker image explorer.
  dooit - Interactive to-do list.
  dry - Docker container manager.
  duf - Disk usage utility.
  dunk - Code review in terminal.
  elia - Encrypt, decrypt, sign files.
  emacs - Extensible text editor.
  frogmouth - CLI Reddit client.
  gh-dash - GitHub dashboard.
  gitui - Terminal UI for git.
  glances - System monitoring tool.
  glow - Render markdown files.
  goaccess - Real-time web log analyzer.
  gobang - MySQL database CLI.
  gotop - Terminal-based system monitor.
  gpg-tui - GPG key management.
  gping - Ping with graph.
  gpterminator - Terminal emulator.
  grv - Git repository viewer.
  gtop - System monitoring dashboard.
  gtt - Git time tracker.
  hexyl - Hexadecimal file viewer.
  hnterm - Hacker News terminal client.
  htop - Interactive process viewer.
  humble-explorer - File manager.
  irssi - IRC chat client.
  jira-cli - Jira command-line interface.
  jq - JSON processor.
  jqp - JSON query processor.
  k9s - Kubernetes CLI.
  kupo - File transfer tool.
  lazydocker - Docker management UI.
  lazygit - Simple git interface.
  lynx - Text-based web browser.
  mc - File manager, editor.
  mdp - Markdown presentation tool.
  meli - Email client.
  micro - Terminal text editor.
  moc - Music on console.
  mtr - Network diagnostic tool.
  ncdu - Disk usage analyzer.
  nemu - Network emulator.
  neoss - OSS emulation.
  netop - Network performance tool.
  newsboat - Text-based RSS reader.
  nnn - File browser.
  noping - Enhanced ping tool.
  nvtop - NVIDIA system monitor.
  orbiton - Terminal-based browser.
  ox - Rust text editor.
  patat - Presentation tool.
  pctrl - Process control tool.
  planor - Planetary orbital calculator.
  procs - Modern process viewer.
  projectable - Project management tool.
  ranger - Console file manager.
  ripgrep - Fast file search.
  sc-im - Spreadsheet calculator.
  scli - Slack CLI client.
  slack-term - Slack terminal client.
  slurm - Network interface monitor.
  sntop - Network status monitor.
  spotify-tui - Spotify terminal interface.
  taskwarrior-tui - Task management tool.
  tcpterm - TCP connection viewer.
  tempy - Temporary email generator.
  termshark - Terminal Wireshark interface.
  textual-astview - AST viewer.
  tickrs - Real-time stock ticker.
  tig - Text-mode interface git.
  tmux - Terminal multiplexer.
  tproxy - Transparent proxy tool.
  ttyper - Terminal-based typing tester.
  tut - TUI for Mastodon.
  twitch-tui - Twitch terminal interface.
  typespeed - Typing speed test.
  vim - Powerful text editor.
  visidata - Interactive data exploration.
  vtop - Visual process manager.
  weechat - Chat client.
  wiki-tui - Terminal Wikipedia browser.
  wordgrinder - Distraction-free writing tool.
  xplr - Hackable file explorer.
  yai - Yet another installer.
  youtube-tui - Terminal YouTube client.
  zeit - Time tracking tool.