# Command Line Tools

### CLI tools I love

* [neovim](https://github.com/neovim/neovim) is my default [text-editor](/tools/text-editor.md).
* [git](https://github.com/git/git) for version control.
* [fzf](https://github.com/junegunn/fzf) - command-line fuzzy finder.
* [tmux](https://github.com/tmux/tmux) - terminal multiplexer.
* [Translate Shell](https://github.com/soimort/translate-shell) - easy access to translation engines in your terminal.
* [Todo.txt](https://github.com/todotxt/todo.txt-cli) - simple todo list based on a todo.txt file.
* [bat](https://github.com/sharkdp/bat) - a cat(1) clone with wings.
* [exa](https://github.com/ogham/exa) - a modern replacement for ‘ls’.
* [httpie](https://github.com/httpie/httpie) - a modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era.
* [openvpn](https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn) - an open source VPN daemon.
* [protonvpn-cli-ng](https://github.com/ProtonVPN/protonvpn-cli-ng) - command-line client for ProtonVPN
* [ranger](https://github.com/ranger/ranger) - a VIM-inspired filemanager for the console.
* [tldr](https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr) - simplified and community-driven man pages.
* [transfer.sh](https://transfer.sh/) - easy file sharing from the command line.
* [youtube-dl](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl) to download videos from youtube and other sites.
* [mps-youtube](https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube) - terminal based YouTube player.
* [mpv](https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv) - media player.
* [how2](https://github.com/santinic/how2) - stackoverflow from the terminal.
* [pnpm](https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm) - fast, disk space efficient package manager
* [ddgr](https://github.com/jarun/ddgr) - search DuckDuckGo from the command line.
* [mutt](http://www.mutt.org) - terminal email client.
* [thefuck](https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck) corrects errors in previous console commands.
* [diff-so-fancy](https://github.com/so-fancy/diff-so-fancy) - make your diffs human readable instead of machine readable.
* [btop](https://github.com/aristocratos/btop) - a cool monitor of resources.
* [streamlink](https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink) - a CLI utility which pipes video streams from various services into a video player.

## Links

* [Learn the Command Line](/programming/learn-the-command-line.md)
* [Awesome Command Line Utilities](https://github.com/learn-anything/command-line-tools)
* [Awesome Shell](https://github.com/alebcay/awesome-shell)
* [r/commandline](https://www.reddit.com/r/commandline/) - for questions, tips, and interesting programs.


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