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eDEX-UI
Customizable science fiction terminal emulator
eDEX-UI is a fullscreen, cross-platform terminal emulator and system monitor designed with a customizable science fiction computer interface. Inspired by the TRON Legacy movie effects, eDEX-UI presents a futuristic look and feel while still being able to function as a full-featured terminal emulator. eDEX-UI offers advanced monitoring support for real-time systems and networks. It also offers full touchscreen support; a directory viewer; and for a completely unique sci-fi experience, advanced customization options via themes, on-screen keyboard layouts, CSS injections, and even optional sound effects. If you’re a science fiction fan or are just looking for something different in a terminal emulator, eDEX-UI will surely satisfy and give you a cool and unique experience. -
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This project provides a proxy that allows telnet/tcp connections to be made to serial ports on a machine.
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electerm
Terminal/SSH/SFTP client (Linux, Mac, Win)
electerm is a terminal/ssh/sftp client (Linux, Mac, Win) based on electron/ssh2/node-pty/xterm/antd/subx and many other libs. Works as a terminal/file manager or ssh/sftp client (similar to xshell). Global hotkey to toggle window visibility (similar to guake, default is ctrl + 2) Multi platform (Linux, Mac, Win). Multi-language support (electerm-locales, contributions/fixes welcome) Double click to directly edit (small) remote files. Edit (small) local files with built-in editor. Auth with publicKey + password. Support Zmodem (rz, sz). Support Trzsz (trz/tsz), similar to rz/sz, and compatible with tmux. Transparent window (Mac, Win). Terminal background image. Global/session proxy. Quick commands. UI/terminal theme. Sync bookmarks/themes/quick commands to GitHub/Gitee secret gist. Support serial Port (version > 1.21.8). Quick input to one or all terminals. -
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Termux
Terminal emulator application for Android OS extendible
Termux is an Android terminal application and Linux environment. At first start a small base system is downloaded, desired packages can then be installed using the apt package manager known from the Debian and Ubuntu Linux distributions. Access the built-in help by long-pressing anywhere on the terminal and selecting the Help menu option to learn more. Allows the app to view information about network connections such as which networks exist and are connected. Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet. Allows an app to ask for permission to ignore battery optimizations for that app. This app can appear on top of other apps or other parts of the screen. This may interfere with normal app usage and change the way that other apps appear. -
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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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WindTerm
A professional cross-platform SSH/Sftp/Shell/Telnet/Serial terminal
A Quicker and better SSH/Telnet/Serial/Shell/Sftp client for DevOps. WindTerm is a partial open source project, and the source will be gradually opened. Open source code includes, but is not limited to, the classes that can be used independently, such as functional, algorithms, GUI widgets, etc., as well as functional libraries, such as networks, protocols, etc., as well as all types that require open source according to the license. SSH v2, Telnet, Raw TCP, Serial, Shell protocols were implemented. Supports SSH auto-execution when the session is authenticated. Integrated local file manager, supports the move to, copy to, copy from, remove, rename, make new file/directory and so on. Supports Windows Cmd, PowerShell and Cmd, PowerShell as administrator. Supports Linux bash, zsh, PowerShell core, and so on. Supports MacOS bash, zsh, PowerShell core, and so on. -
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Free Claude Code
Use claude-code for free in the terminal, VSCode extension
Free Claude Code is a resource repository focused on providing tools, scripts, and workflows for using Claude-based AI coding capabilities without requiring paid subscriptions. It explores methods for integrating Claude into development environments, often through alternative access patterns or automation techniques. The project is aimed at developers who want to experiment with AI-assisted coding while minimizing costs. It includes examples of prompt usage, code generation workflows, and integration setups. The repository emphasizes accessibility, making advanced AI tools more approachable for individual developers and learners. It also encourages experimentation with different coding tasks, from simple scripts to more complex automation. Overall, it acts as a practical toolkit for leveraging Claude’s capabilities in a cost-effective way. -
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iTerm2 Color Schemes
Over 425 terminal color schemes/themes for iTerm/iTerm2
This project curates a large collection of terminal color schemes and makes them available in formats for many terminal emulators, not just iTerm2. You’ll find well-known palettes like Solarized, Dracula, Nord, and hundreds more, each with previews that showcase how code, prompts, and text look under the theme. The repository includes export files for multiple terminals—such as iTerm2, Apple Terminal, Alacritty, Kitty, Windows Terminal, and others—so you can apply the same aesthetic consistently across machines. There are helper tools and conversion scripts to generate or translate schemes, plus instructions for importing them on each supported terminal. Because it’s community-driven, new schemes and updates are added regularly, and issues often include tweaks to improve readability or contrast for different use cases. -
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ArchiSteamFarm
C# application with primary purpose of farming Steam cards
ASF is a C# application with the primary purpose of farming Steam cards from multiple accounts simultaneously. Unlike Idle Master which works only for one account at a given time, while requiring Steam client running in the background and launching additional processes imitating "game-playing" status, ASF doesn't require any Steam client running in the background, doesn't launch any additional processes and is made to handle unlimited Steam accounts at once. In addition to that, it's meant to be run on servers or other desktop-less machines and features full cross-OS support, which makes it possible to launch on any operating system with .NET Core runtime, such as Windows, Linux, and macOS. ASF is possible thanks to the gigantic amount of work done in the marvelous SteamKit2 library. Today, ASF is one of the most versatile Steam power tools, allowing you to make use of many features that were implemented over time. -
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AA means Ascii Art - the AAlib (ascii art GFX library), BB (audiovisual demonstration for your terminal), aview (image browser/animation player), AAvga (SVGAlib wrapper for AA-lib), ttyquake (text mode quake), aa3d (random dot stereogram generator)...
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setserial is a program designed to set and/or report the configuration information associated with a serial port.
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asdf
Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, etc
Manage multiple runtime versions with a single CLI tool. Manage each of your project runtimes with a single CLI tool and command interface. asdf is a CLI tool that can manage multiple language runtime versions on a per-project basis. It is like gvm, nvm, rbenv & pyenv (and more) all in one! Simply install your language's plugin! Large ecosystem of existing runtimes & tools. Simple API to add support for new tools as you need! Support for existing config files .nvmrc, .node-versions, .ruby-version for smooth migration! .tool-versions to manage all your tools, runtimes, and their versions in a single, sharable place. Supports Bash, ZSH, Fish & Elvish with completions available. Provides a GitHub Action to install and utilize your .tool-versions in your CI/CD workflows. -
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SyncTERM
Cross-platform BBS (ANSI) Terminal
A cross-platform ANSI-BBS terminal designed to connect to remote BBSs via telnet, rlogin, or SSH. Supports ANSI music and the IBM charset when possible. Will run from a console, under X11 using XLib, or using SDL. -
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Terminator
multiple GNOME terminals in one window
Terminator was originally developed by Chris Jones in 2007 as a simple, 300-ish line Python script. Since then, it has become The Robot Future of Terminals. Originally inspired by projects like quadkonsole and gnome-multi-term and more recently by projects like Iterm2, and Tilix, It lets you combine and recombine terminals to suit the style you like. If you live at the command line or are logged into 10 different remote machines at once, you should definitely try out Terminator. -
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Harmony
Patching, replacing and decorating .NET and Mono methods
Harmony gives you an elegant and high-level way to alter the functionality in applications written in C#. It works great in games and is well established in titles like 7 Days To Die, BattleTech, Besiege, Cities:Skylines, Kerbal Space Program, Oxygen Not Included, Ravenfield, Rimworld, Sheltered, Stardew Valley, Staxel, Subnautica, The Ultimate Nerd Game, Total Miner, Unturned, SCP: Secret Laboratory and many more. If you develop in C# and your code is loaded as a module/plugin into a host application, you can use Harmony to alter the functionality of all the available assemblies of that application. Where other patch libraries simply allow you to replace the original method, Harmony goes one step further. It is also used in unit testing WPF controls and in many other areas. Installation is done by using 0Harmony.dll in your project or by using the Lib.Harmony nuget package. -
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hwmonitor
Show server load-average chart and run pre-define command remotely
I'm a HW Support and used cacti, zabbix, but they are too "strong", sometimes I just want to know server "worked fine", and show me a basicly load-average chart, that's enough. And the other hand, I need run command (like: "top", "iostat", "date" etc.) remotely and show it out to the webpage. The hwmonitor(writen in C) is a simple daemon, you can define some command-name(like: show_top= top -b -n1), telnet to this daemon and input your def-command(like: show_top), hwmonitor will return the info. And hwclient(include in this project, writen in C) connect to hwmonitor, input a define command-name to get server load-average and IO-idle each 60 seconds(you can change it) into a text file. hwgraphic (include in this project, writen in PHP) read the text file(generated by hwclient) and show the load-average chart and IO-idle chart. -
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Thinstation is a thin client linux distro using std. x86 hw. It can boot from network, pxe, syslinux, CD, floppy or flash-disk and connect to servers using VNC, RDP, XDM, SSH, Telnet, tn5250, tarentella, 2X, NX, Thinlinc, VMWare VDI or ICA.
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empty
Run applications under pseudo-terminal (PTY) sessions
empty - run applications under pseudo-terminal (PTY) sessions to dialogue with interactive programs. Replace TCL/Expect with a simple tool and use your favorite shell (sh, bash, csh, tcsh, ksh, zsh, etc) -
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dtop
Terminal dashboard for Docker monitoring across multiple hosts
dtop is an open-source, terminal-based dashboard for monitoring Docker containers across local and remote hosts. Built with Rust, it provides a lightweight interface for viewing container activity and resource consumption directly from the command line. Users can monitor CPU usage, memory utilization, container status, and other operational metrics in real time. The application supports simultaneous connections to multiple Docker hosts through local sockets, SSH, TCP, and TLS. It integrates with Dozzle to provide convenient access to container logs and related monitoring interfaces. Configuration files allow users to define hosts, apply container filters, and customize monitoring preferences. Its terminal interface gives developers and system administrators centralized visibility into containerized environments without requiring a web dashboard. -
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gh-dash
A beautiful CLI dashboard for GitHub
A GitHub (gh) CLI extension to display a dashboard with pull requests and issues by filters you care about. Write multiple configuration files to easily switch between completely different dashboards. Repo name-to-path mappings can be an exact match (full name, full path) or wildcard matched using the owner and partial path. To override the default set of terminal colors and instead create your own color scheme, you can define one in your config.yml file. If you choose to go this route, you need to specify all of the following keys as colors in hex format (#RRGGBB), otherwise, validation will fail. You can customize each section's layout as well as the global layout. -
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PAC is a Perl/GTK replacement for SecureCRT/Putty/etc (linux ssh/telnet/... gui)... It provides a GUI to configure connections: users, passwords, EXPECT regular expressions, macros, etc. You like 'SecureCRT/SSHMenu'? Check this tool and let me know
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Babashka
Native, fast starting Clojure interpreter for scripting
Avoid switching between Clojure and bash scripts. Enjoy your parens on the command line. Leveraging GraalVM native-image and the Small Clojure Interpreter, babashka is a self-contained and instantly starting scripting environment. Babashka comes with scripting batteries included: tools.cli, cheshire, babashka.fs, babashka.process, java.time and many more libraries and classes. Babashka scripts work on linux, macOS and Windows. Besides the built-in libraries, babashka is able to load libraries from source, tapping into the world of already existing Clojure libraries. Babashka supports real JVM threads and like Clojure, supports futures and dynamic thread-locally bound vars. Babashka features a built-in task runner which covers the most popular use cases of make, just and npm scripts. Babashka can shell out to other CLI programs like you are used to in bash. It goes one step further and offers seamless integration with other binaries using the pod protocol. -
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Streamlink
Streamlink is a CLI utility which pipes video streams
Streamlink is a command-line utility that pipes video streams from various services into a video player, such as VLC. The main purpose of Streamlink is to avoid resource-heavy and unoptimized websites, while still allowing the user to enjoy various streamed content. There is also an API available for developers who want access to the stream data. Streamlink is built upon a plugin system that allows support for new services to be easily added. Most of the big streaming services are supported. Streamlink is made up of two parts, a cli and a library API. See their respective sections for more information on how to use them. The default behavior of Streamlink is to playback streams in the VLC player. Please note that by using this application you're bypassing ads run by sites such as Twitch.tv. Please consider donating or paying for subscription services when they are available for the content you consume and enjoy. -
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monolith
CLI tool for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file
A data hoarder’s dream come true, bundle any web page into a single HTML file. You can finally replace that gazillion of open tabs with a gazillion of .html files stored somewhere on your precious little drive. Unlike the conventional “Save page as”, monolith not only saves the target document, it embeds CSS, image, and JavaScript assets all at once, producing a single HTML5 document that is a joy to store and share. If compared to saving websites with wget -mpk, this tool embeds all assets as data URLs and therefore lets browsers render the saved page exactly the way it was on the Internet, even when no network connection is available. -
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XcodeGen
A Swift command line tool for generating your Xcode project
XcodeGen is a command line tool written in Swift that generates your Xcode project using your folder structure and a project spec. The project spec is a YAML or JSON file that defines your targets, configurations, schemes, custom build settings and many other options. All your source directories are automatically parsed and referenced appropriately while preserving your folder structure. Sensible defaults are used in many places, so you only need to customize what is needed. Very complex projects can also be defined using more advanced features. Generate projects on demand and remove your .xcodeproj from git, which means no more merge conflicts! Automatically generate Schemes for different environments like test and production. Share build settings across multiple targets with build setting groups. Easily copy and paste files and directories without having to edit anything in Xcode.
