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View 1258 business solutionsBrowse free open source Command Line Tools and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Command Line Tools by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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Comgt is a command line tool for controlling, configuring and interacting with Option Wireless 3G and 2G ( HSDPA, UMTS, EDGE, GPRS, GSM) data devices within the Linux environment.
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cc-switch
A cross-platform desktop All-in-One assistant tool for Claude Code
cc-switch is a cross-platform desktop assistant designed to unify and streamline the management of multiple AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Gemini CLI within a single interface. The application focuses on improving developer productivity by providing centralized configuration, provider switching, and workflow orchestration across different AI backends. Built as a modern desktop app using Tauri and web technologies, it enables users to manage credentials, sessions, and tool settings without manually editing configuration files. The project also includes advanced reliability features such as automatic failover, local proxy routing, and usage monitoring to help maintain stable AI tool operations. With ongoing updates adding session management, backup controls, and expanded provider support, cc-switch is positioned as a power-user control center for AI-assisted development environments. -
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s3cmd
Command line tool for managing Amazon S3 and CloudFront services
Open-source tool to access Amazon S3 file storage. S3cmd is a free command line tool and client for uploading, retrieving and managing data in Amazon S3 and other cloud storage service providers that use the S3 protocol, such as Google Cloud Storage. Lots of features and options have been added to s3cmd since its very first release in 2008.... we recently counted more than 60 command line options, including multipart uploads, encryption, incremental backup, s3 sync, ACL and Metadata management, S3 bucket size, bucket policies, and more! -
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Ganache
Personal blockchain for Ethereum development
Quickly fire up a personal Ethereum blockchain which you can use to run tests, execute commands, and inspect state while controlling how the chain operates. Quickly see the current status of all accounts, including their addresses, private keys, transactions and balances. See the log output of Ganache’s internal blockchain, including responses and other vital debugging information. Configure advanced mining with a single click, setting block times to best suit your development needs. Examine all blocks and transactions to gain insight about what’s happening under the hood. Byzantium comes standard, giving you the latest Ethereum features needed for modern app development. Each platform has an associated npm run configuration to help you build on each platform more easily. Because each platform has different (but similar) build processes, they require different configurations. -
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Nativefier
Make any web page a desktop application
Tired of having to search through numerous open tabs on your browser just to view a web page that you regularly view? Make things easier and more convenient for yourself with Nativefier! Nativefier is a command-line tool that easily creates a desktop app for any web site with minimal configuration. It creates an Electron (which uses Chromium under the hood) based native wrapper in an OS executable (.app, .exe, etc) for use on Windows, macOS and Linux. Using Nativefier is absurdly simple. Just type in: nativefier "web site address" to create a native desktop app for your chosen web site, and Nativefier does the rest. It will automatically retrieve the app icon and name, which you can overwrite. -
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stefanstools
A collection of various tools
This is a collection of various open source tools: StExBar: The ultimate extensions for Windows Explorer or: what Microsoft forgot to implement in the explorer. SKTimeStamp: Adds a new page to the Windows explorer properties where you can manipulate file times AAClr: change Aero colors to match the wallpaper FileTool: a small utility to create files with random data for testing tabspace: a command line tool to change all tabs/spaces to tabs/spaces and vice versa in text/code files. Note: projects moved to GitHub https://github.com/stefankueng/tools -
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DB Browser for SQLite
The DB Browser for SQLite
DB Browser for SQLite (DB4S) is a high quality, visual, open source tool to create, design, and edit database files compatible with SQLite. DB4S is for users and developers who want to create, search, and edit databases. DB4S uses a familiar spreadsheet-like interface, and complicated SQL commands do not have to be learned. This program is not a visual shell for the sqlite command line tool, and does not require familiarity with SQL commands. It is a tool to be used by both developers and end users, and must remain as simple to use as possible in order to achieve these goals. Import and export records as text, import and export tables from/to CSV files, import and export databases from/to SQL dump files, issue SQL queries and inspect the results, examine a log of all SQL commands issued by the application, plot simple graphs based on table or query data. -
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IPATool
Command-line tool that allows searching and downloading app packages
ipatool is a command line tool that allows you to search for iOS apps on the App Store and download a copy of the app package, known as an ipa file. Supported operating system (Windows, Linux or macOS). Apple ID is set up to use the App Store. To authenticate with the App Store, use the auth command. To search for apps on the App Store, use the search command. To obtain a license for an app, use the purchase command. To download a copy of the ipa file, use the download command. -
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Spicetify
Command-line tool to customize Spotify client
Command-line tool to customize the official Spotify client. Supports Windows, MacOS, and Linux. Change the colors whole UI. Inject CSS for advanced customization. Inject Extensions (Javascript script) to extend functionalities, manipulate UI, and control the player. Inject Custom apps. Remove bloated components to improve performance. -
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PDF4QT
Open source PDF editor
PDF4QT is open source PDF editor based on Qt framework. It contains a C++ library, applications for viewing/editing PDF documents, and a command line tool. PDF4QT is an open-source PDF editor for Windows/Linux. It is a modern solution for viewing/editing/rendering PDF documents, for users and developers alike. For developers, there is a C++ library and a command line tool for use in scripts. For users, there are four applications offering many features. The project is hosted on Github and uses the license LGPLv3. The applications are primarily used by target users to view, edit, manipulate or compare PDF documents. Users can preview these applications in the screenshots section of this webpage. Basic browsing and lots of other functionalities, such as encryption, reading a document, verification of digital signatures, editing of annotations, searching for text using regular expressions, drawing pages into an image, and much more. Several plug-ins are available. -
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Spring Boot
Easily create Spring-powered, production-grade applications
Spring Boot lets you create stand-alone, production-grade, Spring-based applications and services with minimal fuss. It offers a radically faster and highly accessible manner for starting all Spring development. By taking an opinionated view of the Spring platform, it enables you to quickly and easily get to the bits you need. Most Spring Boot applications need minimal Spring configuration. You can use it to create a stand-alone Java application or more traditional WAR deployments. A command line tool is also provided that allows you to run spring scripts. -
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gogcli
Google Suite CLI: Gmail, GCal, GDrive, GContacts
gogcli is a command-line interface tool that provides developers and power users with direct terminal access to a wide range of Google services without needing to leave the shell. This CLI tool covers several Google Workspace APIs including Gmail for email management, Google Calendar for scheduling and events, Google Drive for file operations, and Google Contacts for personal and corporate contact management. gogcli makes it possible to script repetitive tasks, automate workflows, and fetch or modify data from Google services in environments where GUI access isn’t practical. It’s particularly useful for developers who want to build integrations, handle bulk operations, or build tooling that interacts with Google APIs in CI/CD pipelines or automation scripts. -
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signal-cli
signal-cli provides a commandline, dbus and JSON-RPC interface
signal-cli is a command line interface for the Signal messenger. It supports registering, verifying, sending and receiving messages. signal-cli uses a patched libsignal-service-java, extracted from the Signal-Android source code. For registering you need a phone number where you can receive SMS or incoming calls. signal-cli is primarily intended to be used on servers to notify admins of important events. For this use-case, it has a daemon mode with D-BUS interface (man page) and JSON-RPC interface (documentation). For the JSON-RPC interface, there's also a simple example client, written in Rust. -
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pdfsandwich generates "sandwich" OCR pdf files, i.e. pdf files which contain only images (but no editable text) will be processed by optical character recognition (OCR) and the text will be added to each page invisibly "behind" the images. pdfsandwich is a command line tool which is supposed to be useful to OCR scanned books or journals. It is able to recognize the page layout even for multicolumn text. Essentially, pdfsandwich is a wrapper script which calls the following binaries: convert, unpaper, tesseract, gs, and hocr2pdf (if tesseract < 3.03). It is known to run on Unix systems and has been tested on Linux and MacOS X. It supports parallel processing on multiprocessor systems. In contrast to most competing sandwich programs, it performs preprocessing of the scanned images, such as de-skewing or removal of dark edges etc. For further information please read the manual: http://www.tobias-elze.de/pdfsandwich/index.html
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A command line tool to create C files from binary files. It can be used to embed the contents of external files to a C or C++ program.
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Scoop Installer
A command-line installer for Windows
Scoop is a command-line installer for Windows. If you have built software that you would like others to use, Scoop is an alternative to building an installer (like MSI or InnoSetup). You just need to compress your app to a .zip file and provide a JSON manifest that describes how to install it. Scoop downloads and manages packages in a portable way, keeping them neatly isolated in ~\scoop. It won't install files outside its home, and you can place a Scoop installation wherever you like. For terminal applications, Scoop creates shims, a kind of command-line shortcut, inside the ~\scoop\shims folder, which is accessible in the PATH. For graphical applications, Scoop creates program shortcuts in a dedicated Start menu folder, called 'Scoop Apps'. This way, packages are always cleanly uninstalled and you can be sure what tools are currently in your PATH and in your Start menu. -
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cli
GitHub’s official command line tool
Work with issues, pull requests, checks, releases and more. Call the GitHub API to script almost any action, and set a custom alias for any command. Connect to GitHub Enterprise Server in addition to GitHub. Allow contributors to easily notify you of changes they've pushed to a repository, with access limited to the contributors you specify. Easily merge changes you accept. Visual Studio Code is backed by high-performance VMs that start in seconds. Get updates on the GitHub activity you've subscribed to. Use the notifications inbox to customize, triage, and manage your updates. Review new code, see visual code changes, and confidently merge code changes with automated status checks. Assign code reviews to make it clear which team members should submit their review for a pull request. Automatically request reviews–or require approval, by selected contributors when changes are made to sections of code that they own. -
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Google Apps Manager
Command line management for Google G Suite
Google Apps Manager or GAM is a free and open source command line tool for Google G Suite Administrators that allows them to manage many aspects of their Google Apps Account quickly and easily. With GAM you can create and manage users, groups and domains; manage email, security and calendar settings; manage admins and organizations and many more. To use GAM Google Apps Business, Education, Partner or Government Edition is required. -
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NextDNS
NextDNS CLI client (DoH Proxy)
NextDNS protects you from all kinds of security threats, blocks ads and trackers on websites and in apps and provides a safe and supervised Internet for kids, on all devices and on all networks. Determine your threat model and fine-tune your security strategy by enabling 10+ different types of protections. Use the most trusted threat intelligence feeds containing millions of malicious domains, all updated in real-time. Go beyond the domain, we analyze DNS questions and answers on-the-fly (in a matter of nanoseconds) in order to detect and block malicious behavior. With usually only a few hours between domain registration and the start of an attack, our threat intelligence system is built to catch malicious domains earlier than classic security solutions. Block ads and trackers on websites and in apps, including the most devious ones. Use the most popular ads & trackers blocklists, millions of domains all updated in real-time. -
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fzf
A command-line fuzzy finder
fzf is a general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder. It's an interactive Unix filter for command-line that can be used with any list; files, command history, processes, hostnames, bookmarks, git commits, etc. fzf will launch an interactive finder, read the list from STDIN, and write the selected item to STDOUT. Without STDIN pipe, fzf will use find command to fetch the list of files excluding hidden ones. (You can override the default command with FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND). fzf by default starts in fullscreen mode, but you can make it start below the cursor with the height option. Unless otherwise specified, fzf starts in "extended-search mode" where you can type in multiple search terms delimited by spaces. Fuzzy completion for files and directories can be triggered if the word before the cursor ends with the trigger sequence, which is by default **. Fuzzy completion for PIDs is provided for the kill command. In this case, there is no trigger sequence. -
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ccrypt is a command-line tool for encrypting and decrypting files and streams. It provides strong encryption based on the Rijndael cipher, a version of which is also used in the Advanced Encryption Standard.
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Filament
Real-time physically based rendering engine for Android, iOS, and more
Filament is a real-time physically-based renderer written in C++. It is mobile-first, but also multi-platform. We are very conscientious about keeping Filament small, fast to load, and focused on rendering. For example, Filament does not compile materials at run time. Instead, we provide a command line tool (matc) that does this offline. Filament is a physically based rendering (PBR) engine for Android. The goal of Filament is to offer a set of tools and APIs for Android developers that will enable them to create high quality 2D and 3D rendering with ease. For both artists and developers, our system will rely on as few parameters as possible to reduce trial and error and allow users to quickly master the material model. A physically based approach must not preclude non-realistic rendering. User interfaces for instance will need unlit materials. Our primary goal is to design and implement a rendering system able to perform efficiently on mobile platforms. -
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GAM
Command line management for Google Workspace
GAM is a command line tool that allows administrators to manage many aspects of their Google Workspace (formerly G Suite / Google Apps) Account. This page provides simple instructions for downloading, installing and starting to use GAM. GAM requires paid (or Education/non-profit) editions of Google Workspace. G Suite Legacy Free Edition has limited API support and not all GAM commands work. While many GAM functions do not require domain administrative privileges, the setup does. Download GAM, then run the MSI installer. By default, GAM will install to C:\GAM but you can change this to wherever you prefer. GAM will also be added to your path so you can run GAM even if you're not in the GAM folder. At the end of the MSI install process, GAM will open a command prompt to allow you to setup a project and authorize GAM for admin management and user data/config access. -
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agent-browser
Browser automation CLI for AI agents
agent-browser is a toolkit that embeds AI agent capabilities directly into the web browser, enabling agents to interact with web content, scripts, and user actions while maintaining security boundaries that respect user privacy and browser constraints. It effectively provides a sandbox where AI agents can read, scroll, click, and interpret pages in context, allowing them to automate workflows, answer questions about page content, or generate structured summaries directly from the user’s current tab. The project emphasizes standards and safety, defining interfaces that let agents access DOM data, interpret events, and generate actionable insights without exposing sensitive credential-level access or violating policy boundaries. Users benefit from a tighter feedback loop: agents can observe user tasks in-situ and respond with contextually relevant actions or suggested steps, like form completion, navigation shortcuts, or detailed explanations of UI elements. -
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arduino-cli
Arduino command line tool
Arduino CLI is an all-in-one solution that provides Boards/Library Managers, sketch builders, board detection, uploader, and many other tools needed to use any Arduino compatible board and platform from the command line or machine interfaces. In addition to being a standalone tool, Arduino CLI is the heart of all official Arduino development software (Arduino IDE, Arduino Web Editor). The script requires sh, which is always available on Linux and macOS. sh is not available by default on Windows, though it is available as part of Git for Windows (Git Bash). If you don't have sh available, use the "Download" installation option. If you would like to use the arduino-cli command from any location, install Arduino CLI to a directory already in your PATH or add the Arduino CLI installation path to your PATH environment variable.
