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Shells & Prompting

Interactive shells, enhancers, prompts, plugins, fuzzy finders/jump tools

Name Vendor/Webpage GitHub Repo Brief Description Tags Latest Commit
GNU Bash https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/ — sh-compatible shell with ksh/csh-inspired features. shell, bash, cli, scripting 2025-12
Zsh https://www.zsh.org/ — Advanced interactive shell and scripting language. shell, zsh, interactive, cli 2025-11
Starship https://starship.rs starship/starship Fast, minimal, highly customizable cross-shell prompt. prompt, rust, cross-shell, productivity 2026-03-05
powerlevel10k — romkatv/powerlevel10k Very fast Zsh theme with extensive customization. zsh, theme, prompt, performance 2024-01-26
Oh My Zsh https://ohmyz.sh/ ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh Popular framework for Zsh configuration and plugins. zsh, framework, plugins, productivity 2026-02

Shell Plug-ins

Name Vendor/Webpage GitHub Repo Brief Description Tags Latest Commit
z — rupa/z Frecency-based directory jumper using cd history. navigation, jump, shell 2023-12-09
fzf — junegunn/fzf General-purpose fuzzy finder for command-line use. fuzzy, finder, cli, productivity 2026-03
zsh-autosuggestions — zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions Fish-style autosuggestions for Zsh. zsh, plugin, autosuggest 2025-06
zsh-syntax-highlighting — zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting Fish-like syntax highlighting for Zsh. zsh, plugin, highlighting 2025-04

Terminal & Multiplexing

  • Multiplexers (tmux/screen), terminal emulators/utils, session managers
Name Vendor/Webpage GitHub Repo Brief Description Tags Latest Commit
ripgrep — BurntSushi/ripgrep Recursively searches directories very fast (rg). search, grep-alternative, rust 2026-02
fd — sharkdp/fd Simple, fast, user-friendly alternative to find. find, filesystem, rust 2026-01
bat — sharkdp/bat cat clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration. syntax-highlighter, viewer, rust 2026-03
delta — dandavison/delta Beautiful syntax-highlighting pager for git diff. diff, git, pager, rust 2026-02