Top Rust CLI repositories on GitHub
Command-line tools, terminal UIs, and shell utilities. Filtered to projects whose primary language is Rust.
Ranked by stars across 1,129 Rust repositories tagged cli. Refreshed daily.
- 1BurntSushi/ripgrep★ 63,404 · ⑂ 2,542
ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore
- ripgrep
- recursively-search
- search
- regex
- gitignore
- grep
- 2sharkdp/bat★ 58,754 · ⑂ 1,548
A cat(1) clone with wings.
- command-line
- tool
- syntax-highlighting
- git
- terminal
- cli
- 3rtk-ai/rtk★ 43,198 · ⑂ 2,611
CLI proxy that reduces LLM token consumption by 60-90% on common dev commands. Single Rust binary, zero dependencies
- agentic-coding
- ai-coding
- anthropic
- claude-code
- cli
- command-line-tool
- 4sharkdp/fd★ 42,872 · ⑂ 1,060
A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
- command-line
- tool
- filesystem
- search
- regex
- rust
- 5sxyazi/yazi★ 37,682 · ⑂ 847
💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.
- asyncio
- concurrency
- file-manager
- linux
- macos
- rust
- 6ajeetdsouza/zoxide★ 36,372 · ⑂ 816
A smarter cd command. Supports all major shells.
- z
- command-line
- rust
- zsh
- autojump
- bash
- 7sharkdp/hyperfine★ 28,047 · ⑂ 480
A command-line benchmarking tool
- command-line
- tool
- benchmark
- rust
- cli
- terminal
- 8googleworkspace/cli★ 25,853 · ⑂ 1,344
Google Workspace CLI — one command-line tool for Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Chat, Admin, and more. Dynamically built from Google Discovery Service. Includes AI agent skills.
- google-workspace
- agent-skills
- ai-agent
- automation
- cli
- discovery-api
- 9ratatui/ratatui★ 20,231 · ⑂ 648
A Rust crate for cooking up terminal user interfaces (TUIs) 👨🍳🐀 https://ratatui.rs
- rust
- terminal
- tui
- cli
- widgets
- ratatui
- 10Rigellute/spotify-tui★ 19,148 · ⑂ 573
Spotify for the terminal written in Rust 🚀
- spotify
- spotify-api
- spotify-tui
- rust
- terminal-based
- terminal
- 11Orange-OpenSource/hurl★ 18,883 · ⑂ 722
Hurl, run and test HTTP requests with plain text.
- curl
- http
- testing-tools
- cli
- integration-testing
- http-client
- 12asciinema/asciinema★ 17,257 · ⑂ 1,021
Terminal session recorder, streamer and player 📹
- asciicast
- terminal
- recording
- cli
- asciinema
- streaming
- 13denisidoro/navi★ 17,101 · ⑂ 551
An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line
- command-line
- cheatsheets
- terminal
- shell
- snippets
- rust
- 14Hmbown/DeepSeek-TUI★ 15,556 · ⑂ 1,213
Coding agent for DeepSeek models that runs in your terminal
- cli
- deepseek
- llm
- rust
- terminal
- tui
- 15
- 16ClementTsang/bottom★ 13,287 · ⑂ 337
Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.
- top
- terminal
- cli
- tui
- monitoring
- cross-platform
- 17
- 18svenstaro/genact★ 12,030 · ⑂ 491
🌀 A nonsense activity generator
- fake
- nonsense
- useless
- cli
- wasm
- webassembly
- 19o2sh/onefetch★ 11,773 · ⑂ 306
Command-line Git information tool
- cli
- git
- command-line
- tool
- command-line-interface
- rust
- 20
- 21GitoxideLabs/gitoxide★ 11,344 · ⑂ 465
An idiomatic, lean, fast & safe pure Rust implementation of Git
- git
- cli
- blazingly-fast
- built-with-rust
- version-control
- 22ekzhang/bore★ 11,122 · ⑂ 494
🕳 bore is a simple CLI tool for making tunnels to localhost
- cli
- rust
- tunnel
- networking
- tcp
- localhost
- 23BurntSushi/xsv★ 10,758 · ⑂ 328
A fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust.
- csv
- cli
- command-line
- rust
- 24hatoo/oha★ 10,235 · ⑂ 290
Ohayou(おはよう), HTTP load generator, inspired by rakyll/hey with tui animation.
- rust
- load-testing
- benchmark
- http
- load-generator
- command-line
- 25sigoden/aichat★ 9,946 · ⑂ 694
All-in-one LLM CLI tool featuring Shell Assistant, Chat-REPL, RAG, AI Tools & Agents, with access to OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Ollama, Groq, and more.
- claude
- gemini
- ollama
- openai
- function-calling
- cli
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