Terminal Trove – A collection of CLIs, TUIs and all things in the terminal

I wish the one-sentence descriptions were displayed in the lists. When I click through to https://terminaltrove.com/new/, I have to click through every single one of those names to find out what they are. It'd be a lot nicer if I could swoop through and see "grv: git repository viewer. netop: network topology visualizer. dive: tool for exploring each layer in a docker image." etc.

(edit to add: This is already pretty great, I love curated collections like this, I just also see a way to make it even better!)

geekodour · 2 years ago

You might like this list[0] of tools that i find interesting (not cli specific though), this was before github allowed stars to be put in category buckets.

0: https://geekodour.org/docs/tools/secondary_toolchest/

r1cka · 2 years ago

Looks like they took your advice?

saulrh · 2 years ago

They did! Nice! Those definitely weren't there earlier today!

snapplebobapple · 2 years ago

If you cluck the 3 bars and choose list itshows that

siddbudd · 2 years ago

to whoever took your advice: please also add those descriptions to the by-category views (e.g. all macOS terminal tools)

siddbudd · 2 years ago

done. thanks! :)

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I get annoyed by tools like those featured here putting the language they are written in front and center like it's a defining feature about the application. The only thing that should matter (specifically with a compiled binary distributed program) is what it does and how well it does it.

siddbudd · 2 years ago

Disagree, especially in case of open source apps (which several of these are). I found one which I forked because of the language it is in.

citrin_ru · 2 years ago

I dont like when it is implied that a tool is better than existing similar tools because it uses language X (it is, but only fir X enthusiasts) but I want to see the language somewhere on the site front-page. I use an unpopular OS (FreeBSD) and compile a lot of applications from the sources and if I have a toolchain (an interpreter) for a given language installed I may try a new application, if not especially if this toolchain is heavy I would need a stronger motivation to try a new app.

npmaile · 2 years ago

pony4 · 2 years ago

https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps

asicsp · 2 years ago

genman · 2 years ago

What is missing from here as a separate but interesting category is spreadsheet processors. I found two: sc-im and visidata under Text Processing, but I think these deserve a separate category to demonstrate to the range of utility of terminal based tools.

diazc · 2 years ago

I have been seeing recently a lot of TUI and CLIs on HN recently and stumbled across this site which shows more of them in one place.

leonim · 2 years ago

This looks really nice, I hope it does well.

It reminds me that I miss https://inconsolation.wordpress.com/ ended. It had all sorts of great and humorous reviews on terminal based software.

vhodges · 2 years ago

Also see: https://inconsolation.wordpress.com/

rbanffy · 2 years ago

One thing I really want to do is a front-end for Grafana for Tektronix 4014 terminals (and the lesser compatibles).

Not terribly useful, but certainly cool.