A curated list of awesome command-line software for macOS.
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Password Managers
- 1pass
A command line interface for 1Password.
- Ironclad
A command line password manager.
- onepw
A command line tool for managing passwords.
- pass
The standard unix password manager.
- pass-tomb
Store password encrypted inside a tomb.
- pick
Minimal password manager for OS X and Linux.
Shell Utilities
- alacritty
A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator.
- bat
OSS cat replacement.
- bottom
Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.
- bpytop
macOS resource monitor.
- colorls
Beautify the terminal
- dat
Distributed data sharing tool.
Automation
- Ansible
Simple IT Automation.
- Capistrano
Remote multi-server automation tool.
- Chef
IT Automation Tool.
- Molecule
Automated testing for Ansible roles.
- Posixcube
Shell script-based server automation framework.
- Saltstack
Control and secure your digital infrastructure.
Networking
- Armor
Uncomplicated, modern HTTP server.
- Caddy
Caddy is the HTTP/2 web server with automatic HTTPS.
- Croc
Securely send things from one computer to another.
- Duck
Cyberduck for the command line interface (CLI).
- Hget
Rocket fast download accelerator.
- hippo
Host configuration file management based on git.
Security
- bcrypt
Bcrypt is a cross platform file encryption utility.
- Ciphey
Decrypt data without knowing the key or cipher. Uses ML.
- hashcat
World's fastest password cracker.
- Knox
A secret management service.
- MacOS Auditor
A free MacOS computer forensics tool.
- Safe
A CLI front-end for the Vault app.
Version Control
- Bit
Bit is a modern Git CLI.
- dolt
It's Git for Data.
- GitFresh
Keep your Git repo fresh.
- Gitless
A simple version control system built on top of Git.
- LazyGit
Simple terminal UI for git commands.
- Legit
Legit is a complementary command-line interface for Git.
System
- CollectD
System statistics collection daemon.
- Conky
Light-weight system monitor for X.
- cpufetch
Simple yet fancy CPU architecture fetching tool.
- Email Archiver Pro
Archiving made simple.
- fDupes
Identifying and/or deleting duplicate files.
- finicky
Customize which browser to start.
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