Damit sind Werkzeuge gemeint, die sich in erster Linie im Terminal bedienen lassen. Im weitere Sinne nicht nur command line (cli) sondern terminal user interface (tui).

• dtach, a program that emulates the detach feature of screen
• fzf, fuzzy finder for the shell
• pymux a python based terminal multiplexer
• screen, full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes
• tmate, tmate is a fork of tmux for instant terminal sharing
• tmux, a terminal multiplexer ♥

• asciidoc, text based document generation
• sc-im, spreadsheet calculator improvised, curses spreadsheet program for terminal
• discount a C implementation of the Markdown markup language
• docutils, python documentation tools, special reStructured Text, rst
• fla.sh, Paper-light flashcards in under 40 lines of bash.
• nano, text-editor
• tweak, a hex editor
• vim vi improved, text-editor ♥

• feh, a imlib2-based image viewer
• fim, a customizable and scriptable image viewer based on fbi
• imv, image viewer for X11/Wayland
• meh is a image viewer using raw XLib.
• qiv, a gdk/Imlib image viewer.
• sscan, Sean's scanner a TUI-Interface to SANE
• sxiv, Simple (or small or suckless) X Image Viewer ♥
• vimiv, an image viewer with vim-like keybindings
• whiteboardpicturecleaner, bash one-liner to clean pictures taken from whiteboards

• bcp, copy files between terminals or computers on a local network.
• bitpocket, DIY Dropbox or 2-way directory [r]sync with proper deletion
• bmon, bandwidth monitor and rate estimator
• cltwit, command line twitter client
• create_ap, a script that creates a NATed or Bridged WiFi Access Point
• getmail, a mail retriever to get your mail from one or more mail accounts on various mail servers
• glue, a command line tool to generate CSS sprites
• irssi, a terminal based IRC client for UNIX systems. It also supports SILC and ICB protocols via plugins.
• khal, CalDAV based calendar program, allowing syncing of calendars
• mcabber, a Jabber console client.
• newsboat, a RSS/Atom feed reader for text terminals.
• pjsua, command line SIP user agent, softphone
• postman, utility for batch sending email
• ppl, The command line address book
• profanity, a console based XMPP client
• ps_mem.py, displays memory usage nicely
• qataki, a command line Identi.ca/StatusNet/Twitter client
• rsstool, is a tool to read, parse, merge, and write RSS and Atom feeds.
• seren, a VoIP program based on the Opus codec that allows you to create a voice conference from the terminal, with up to 10 participants, without having to register accounts, exchange emails, or add people to contact lists.
• twidge, a tool for interacting with microblogging sites such as Twitter and identi.ca.
• tyrs, ncurses microblogging client
• ttytter, perl based twitter client
• urlwatch,a tool for monitoring webpages for updates
• shic, shellscript Irc Client
• vdirsyncer, synchronizes caldav calendars and carddav addressbooks between two storages
• w3m, a text-based web browser as well as a pager like 'more' or 'less'.
• whatweb, Next generation web scanner. Identify what websites are running.
• xidel ,HTML/XML/JSON data extraction tool

• cone, console newsreader and emailer
• msmtp, is a SMTP client
• mutt, E-Mail Client

• armangil's podcatcher, cli ruby based podcatcher
• castget, podcast client
• marrie, a simple podcast client that runs on the CLI.
• podracer, a podcast aggregator supports torrent as well

• atop, a full-screen performance monitor that is capable of reporting the activity of all processes
• borg, backup tool ♥
• crazydiskinfo, S.M.A.R.T Tui-Tool to check health of devices
• dar, diskarchiver, backup tool
• deer, a file navigator for zsh inspired by ranger.
• dle, directory list edit – edit file structures in your editor
• fsniper, a tool that monitors a given set of directories for new or modified files then applies rule based scripts.
• gpgpwd, a terminal-based password manager.
• hdt, a hardware detection tool
• htop, an interactive process viewer for Linux
• leela, a CLI frontend to the poppler-glib library of PDF functions.
• lsof,list open files, siehe auch
• luksus, tool that creates an encrypted volume and filesystem on storages (luks, truecrypt, geli)
• massren, rename multiple files using your text editor
• mdp, „mot de passe“, password manger, that simple uses GnuPG backend
• multitail, view one or multiple files like the original tail program.
• ncdu, ncurses disk usage
• ohmu, space usage in terminal
• ondir, a program that automatically executes scripts as you traverse directories at a terminal.
• pass, the standard unix password manager ♥
  • passmenu, dmenu interface to pass, the standard Unix password manager
• pws, a command-line password safe/manager written in Ruby
• ranger, is a file manager with VI key bindings ♥
• toast, packageless package manager for Unix systems and non-root users
• tomb, zshell based file encryption with luks-container
• trash-cli - Command Line Interface to FreeDesktop.org Trash.
• cdw - frontend for cdrecord/wodim, mkisofs/genisoimage, growisofs, dvd+rw-mediainfo, dvd+rw-format, xorriso, mkudffs

• beets, organize your music collection with musicbrainz
• cursetag, ncurses based audio file tag editor
• demlo, a dynamic and extensible music library organizer (lua, ffmpeg)
• ecasound, multitrack audio processing tool
• eyed3, editing ID3 metadata
• meterec, console based multitrack recording
• mpg123,console based mp3 audio player and decoder library
• musikcube is a fully functional terminal-based music player
• playalong, music player for musicians
• pmrp, poor man's radio player. verwendet mpg123
• siren, a text-based audio player
• stag@github, ncurses based tagger for flac, opus, ogg, mp3
• trx, realtime audio over ip
• vitunes a curses-based music player and playlist manager for *nix
• webradio.sh, mplayer/dmenu basierters webradio-shellscrip

• soccer-cli, command line interface for all the football scores

• ffcast2, ffmpeg, for screen recording.
• terminalimdb, a command-line interface to imdb
• videotop, console browser for online videos with vim-like keybindings.
• mpv, mplayer fork, basierend auf mplayer und mplayer2