Awesome Terminal Tools
This article recommends awesome (and even funny) terminal tools, both executables and libraries.
I first posted this on Oct 22th, 2015. And it is renewed on Jun 9th, 2017.
MAS
Mac App Store command line interface.
It is designed for scripting and automation. However, I really like and need this awesome tool to update with terminal instead of the AppStore GUI, which fails frequently in China mainland.
$ mas list724472954 Manico (2.3.2)
623795237 Ulysses (2.8.2)
411246225 Caffeine (1.1.1)
409203825 Numbers (4.1.1)
836500024 WeChat (2.2.8)
928871589 Noizio (1.5)
409201541 Pages (6.1.1)
784801555 Microsoft OneNote (15.34)
409183694 Keynote (7.1.1)
410628904 Wunderlist (3.4.6)
973134470 Be Focused (1.6.2)$ mas upgradeUpgrading 1 outdated application: WeChat (2.2.8)==> Downloading WeChat
==> Installed WeChat
Terminal Table
Terminal Table is a fast and simple, yet feature rich ASCII table generator written in Ruby.
Simple but useful gem for Ruby. terminal-table is really powerful and easy-to-use to build and display tables in console based GUI.
This is the official example of terminal-table:
rows = []
rows << ['One', 1]
rows << ['Two', 2]
rows << ['Three', 3]
table = Terminal::Table.new :rows => rows # > puts table
#
# +-------+---+
# | One | 1 |
# | Two | 2 |
# | Three | 3 |
# +-------+---+
m-cli
Swiss Army Knife for macOS! By m-cli, it enables you to control everything of Mac with commands.
$ m battery status
Now drawing from 'AC Power' -InternalBattery-0 (id=3997795) 100%; charged; 0:00 remaining present: trueProxyChains
Socks and HTTP proxy for terminal. And we can use proxychains to boost speed of some services and get across the wall.
Douban.fm
Console based Douban FM client, written in Node.js. It runs on Mac but not very stable.
Gotty
An awesome live broadcasting tool, which output your terminal, written with Go.
Wego
Weather forecasting with ASCII GUI written in Go.
Qrcode-terminal
Generate and display QR code with Node.js.
Originally published at crispgm.com.
