Open-Shell is a collection of utilities that brings classic features back to Windows, originally created as Classic Shell by Ivo Beltchev. Features include a classic style Start menu for Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10 and 11, a toolbar for Windows Explorer, and an Explorer status bar showing file size and disk space.
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A curated list of command-line frameworks, toolkits, guides and gizmos, inspired by awesome-php. It is organized into sections such as shells, command-line productivity, customization, system utilities and shell script development, and is also available on Unix-Shell.ZEEF.com.
Aylur's GTK Shell is an open source command-line or Unix tool for terminal workflows and system use.
Pop!OS Shell is an open source command-line or Unix tool for terminal workflows and system use.
Shell is a free, open source context menu customizer for Windows File Explorer. It lets users choose items for the context menu, create custom commands, and modify or remove existing items. It is a portable utility configured through a plain text file named shell.nss, and it supports Windows 7, 8, 10 and 11 on x86, x64 and arm64.
shell-scripting-tutorial is an open source command-line or Unix tool for terminal workflows and system use.
The Bash Guide is an open-source guide introducing basic and advanced concepts of the bash shell. It aims to teach newcomers, advanced users and long-time users to write safe and robust bash scripts and interact efficiently with the shell as a command line interface. The guide is a continuing work in progress, with new chapters written and existing chapters updated.
clifm is a shell-like command-line terminal file manager. It is a software project hosted on GitHub. The tool offers a file management interface that resembles a shell, allowing users to navigate and manipulate files via commands.
Job Shell is a miscellaneous web resource for discovery, directories, archives, web culture, or useful tools.
Shell is a context menu extender for Windows File Explorer that lets users choose which items appear in the Explorer context menu, create custom commands for web pages, files and folders, and modify or remove menu items added by the system or third-party software. It requires Windows 7, 8, 10 or 11 and supports nested menus and multiple columns.
Translate Shell helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
Burn My Windows is a GNOME Shell and KWin extension that adds animated effects when windows open and close, such as fire, broken glass and pixelation. Effects are implemented using GLSL shaders. The main branch targets GNOME Shell 45 and later; older versions use the gnome-3.36-44 branch. The code is released under GPL-3.0.
GameShell is a game for learning or teaching how to use standard commands in a Unix shell. It runs a bash session with missions that are checked to progress, and is available in English, French and Italian. It should work on standard Linux systems, macOS and BSD.
Liquidprompt is an adaptive shell prompt for Bash and Zsh. It displays information based on the current system status and is configured by editing a text file of key/value pairs. Predefined themes are enabled through the shell configuration.
Oils is a project that provides an upgrade path from Bash to a better language and runtime. It is also intended for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell scripting. The repository includes source code, contribution guidelines, and development build instructions.
ShellCheck is an open source static analysis tool that automatically finds bugs in shell scripts. It is written in Haskell, licensed under GPLv3, and can be installed locally via cabal, apt, dnf, pkg or brew. A web page allows pasting a script to view its output.
Customizable Skin, also known as Fluent-Metro, is an open source Start menu skin for the Open-Shell project, hosted on GitHub by developer bonzibudd. It is designed to be modern and highly customizable to align with user preferences.
Lobster is an Openclaw-native workflow shell described as a typed, local-first macro engine that turns skills and tools into composable pipelines and automations. Workflows use JSON-first typed pipelines and can include approval and input gates that OpenClaw presents to the user. It requires Node.js 22 or newer and the pnpm version pinned in package.json. Captured process output is unlimited by default unless an output byte limit is set.
apt-fast is an open-source shell script wrapper for the apt package manager, designed to accelerate the download speed of software packages on Debian-based Linux distributions. The project is hosted on GitHub and includes installation instructions for Ubuntu, Debian, and their derivatives.
Awesome for One Liner is an open-source curated list project hosted on GitHub. It compiles useful commands for creating Unix shell one-liners, including references to utilities such as moreutils, dateutils, and uniutils.
Awesome Terminal Recorder is an open source command-line or Unix tool for terminal workflows and system use.
bash-it is an open source command-line or Unix tool for terminal workflows and system use.
Fido is an open-source PowerShell script designed to download Windows and UEFI Shell ISO files. The project is hosted on GitHub under the pbatard user account, and includes documentation covering its functionality, license, requirements, and operational process.
Flow Launcher is a free and open-source file search and app launcher for Windows. A customizable hotkey triggers the search window, and it can open apps, search files and file contents, run web searches, find bookmarks, run system and shell commands, do calculations and search Windows settings. Plugins can be installed from a plugin store or written in C#, F#, Python, JavaScript or TypeScript.