# CLI Tools
Curated, high-quality command-line utilities across sysadmin, security, networking, productivity, and development workflows.

## Shells & Prompting
Interactive shells, enhancers, prompts, plugins, fuzzy finders/jump tools

[**GNU Bash**](https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/) - is an sh-compatible shell that incorporates useful features from the Korn shell and C shell.  
[**Zsh**](https://www.zsh.org/) - is a shell designed for interactive use, although it is also a powerful scripting language.  
[**tclsh**](https://tcl-lang.org/) - is a very powerful cross-platform shell, suitable for a huge range of uses.  
[**bash-it**](https://github.com/Bash-it/bash-it) - is a framework for using, developing and maintaining shell scripts and custom commands.  
[**Oh My ZSH!**](https://ohmyz.sh/) - is the best framework for managing your Zsh configuration.  
[**Oh My Fish**](https://github.com/oh-my-fish/oh-my-fish) - the Fishshell framework.  
[**Starship**](https://github.com/starship/starship) - the cross-shell prompt written in Rust.  
[**powerlevel10k**](https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k) - is a fast reimplementation of Powerlevel9k ZSH theme.

### Shell Plug-ins

[**z**](https://github.com/rupa/z) - tracks the folder you use the most and allow you to jump, without having to type the whole path.  
[**fzf**](https://github.com/junegunn/fzf) - is a general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder.  
[**zsh-autosuggestions**](https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions) - Fish-like autosuggestions for Zsh.  
[**zsh-syntax-highlighting**](https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting) - Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh.  
[**Awesome ZSH Plugins**](https://github.com/unixorn/awesome-zsh-plugins) - A list of frameworks, plugins, themes and tutorials for ZSH.

## Terminal & Multiplexing
- Multiplexers (tmux/screen), terminal emulators/utils, session managers

## Text & File Manipulation
- Editors (vim/neovim/micro), viewers (bat, hexyl), finders (fd, ripgrep), fuzzy (fzf), diff/pretty (delta), file ops (exa/lsd, dust, duf, ncdu)

## Filesystem & Disk
- Disk usage/analyzers, mount/umount helpers, secure delete/wipe, inotify tools

## System Monitoring & Diagnostics
- Process (htop/btop, glances, bottom), memory/CPU (nvtop if GPU), logs (lnav, goaccess), debuggers (strace, ltrace), perf tools

## Networking & Recon
### Core Utilities
- curl, wget, httpie, aria2, transmission-cli

### Scanning & Discovery
- nmap, masscan, RustScan, naabu, zmap

### Traffic Capture & Analysis
- tcpdump, tshark, termshark, wireshark-cli equivalents

### DNS & Subdomain
- subfinder, amass, dnsx, dnstwist, fierce

### Proxy / Tunneling / TOR
- proxychains, redsocks, tor, torsocks, chisel, bore

## Security & Crypto
- openssl, gnupg/gpg, age/sops, hashcat/john (if CLI-focused), secure-delete tools, password managers (pass, bitwarden-cli)

## Databases & Data
- sqlite3 utils, jq/yq (JSON/YAML), miller (CSV/TSV), csvkit, duckdb CLI

## Development & Versioning
- git cli helpers/extras (gh, git-extras, lazygit), diff-so-fancy/delta, tig

## Productivity & Misc
- Task runners (task, just), note-taking (jrnl, taskwarrior), calendars (calcurse), chat/IRC (weechat, irssi), RSS (newsboat)

## Benchmarking & Performance
- wrk, hyperfine, fio, sysbench