Projects sharing features with Bottom

Btop is a terminal-based system monitor that tracks and displays real-time hardware performance metrics. It functions as a resource usage dashboard, providing visibility into processor, memory, disk, network, and active process activity directly within a text-based interface. The application utilizes ANSI escape sequences to render complex graphical interfaces and data visualizations within standard terminal emulators. It is designed as a cross-platform performance tool, maintaining consistent monitoring capabilities across various Unix-like operating systems through a platform-agnostic build

htop is a terminal-based system resource monitor and interactive process viewer. It functions as a text-user interface dashboard for overseeing hardware temperatures, load averages, and battery status while providing a comprehensive tool for monitoring and managing system processes. The application distinguishes itself through detailed process lifecycle management, allowing users to kill processes, adjust priorities via renicing, and assign CPU affinity to specific cores. It provides high-level visibility into system behavior through process hierarchy visualization and the ability to inspect

bpytop is a cross-platform terminal system monitor and resource dashboard for Unix-like operating systems. It provides a real-time interface for tracking processor, memory, disk, and network usage across Linux, macOS, and FreeBSD. The tool functions as a process manager, allowing users to filter, sort, and terminate system processes using a tree-view layout. It also serves as a hardware health monitor by tracking battery status and system temperatures. The interface is highly customizable, featuring a theme engine for adjusting color schemes and a layout system to toggle specific resource bo

bandwhich is a command-line network utility and terminal bandwidth monitor designed for real-time traffic analysis. It functions as a process-based traffic tracker that links network bandwidth usage directly to the system processes and remote hosts responsible for the data transfer. The tool provides a terminal user interface for monitoring active connections and identifying data-consuming applications. It performs background reverse DNS lookups to associate remote IP addresses with human-readable hostnames and tracks cumulative data utilization over the duration of a capture session. Its br

This library provides a cross-platform toolkit for retrieving system metrics and managing processes. It functions as a unified interface for accessing low-level hardware and operating system data, allowing developers to monitor CPU, memory, disk, and network usage across diverse computing architectures without requiring external dependencies. The project distinguishes itself through its ability to maintain consistent data structures across different operating systems by parsing native system headers and wrapping low-level system calls. It includes specialized support for containerized environ

Zenith - sort of like top or htop but with zoom-able charts, CPU, GPU, network, and disk usage

A TUI system monitor written in Rust

Rocky is an open-source enterprise operating system designed for server and cloud infrastructure. It is a community-maintained Linux server distribution that provides a platform focused on stability and security. The project is fundamentally a Red Hat Enterprise Linux compatible operating system, maintaining bug-for-bug binary compatibility to ensure identical software behavior. This allows it to serve as an enterprise-grade platform without proprietary licensing. The distribution covers a broad range of system administration capabilities, including package management via modular repository

nvtop is a terminal-based dashboard used for monitoring the performance, memory usage, and temperature of multiple graphics processors and hardware accelerators. It functions as a centralized administration tool to track the health and compute load of several devices across a single system. The tool distinguishes itself by correlating system process IDs with hardware resource consumption, allowing users to identify specific applications consuming GPU resources. It employs a vendor-agnostic abstraction layer to support hardware from multiple different manufacturers within a single interface.

Gotop is a terminal-based system monitor and resource dashboard built with the Go programming language. It serves as a text-based user interface for real-time tracking of hardware resources, network activity, and running processes. The application provides a performance dashboard featuring graphical widgets for CPU and memory metrics. It includes a process manager that allows users to list, sort, and terminate active system processes based on their resource consumption. The interface supports customization through theme styling and layout configurations, enabling users to adjust color scheme

htop is a terminal user interface system monitor for Unix systems. It functions as an interactive process viewer and real-time resource visualizer, providing a dashboard to track CPU, memory, and load average metrics. The tool enables the sorting, filtering, and termination of active system processes and threads. It distinguishes itself through a text-mode interface that can render processes in a hierarchical tree structure to visualize parent-child relationships and allows for the assignment of CPU affinity to specific processor cores. The monitoring surface covers CPU utilization, memory a

vtop is a terminal system monitor and interactive process manager that provides a real-time command line dashboard for tracking system resources. It displays CPU and memory activity through graphical charts and process lists. The tool features a customizable interface that supports predefined and custom visual theme files. It allows for the identification and termination of active system tasks and process groups using keyboard and mouse support.

This project is a comprehensive educational resource and technical guide for Bash shell programming and command-line operations. It serves as a programming guide, scripting reference, and tutorial for navigating Unix-like terminal environments. The documentation covers a broad range of system administration and automation tasks, including remote server administration via secure shell connections and the management of system processes and resources. It provides detailed instructions on executing remote commands and performing secure file transfers between hosts. The guide details core scripti

lsd is a directory listing tool and directory tree visualizer designed as a modern replacement for the standard Unix ls command. It provides a command line interface for listing directory contents and visualizing hierarchical folder structures with enhanced visual formatting. The utility distinguishes itself through customizable themes, allowing users to modify the output appearance by mapping specific colors and icons to file names, types, or extensions. It uses extension-based icon mapping to provide visual file type identification via specific glyphs. The tool covers functional domains in

neohtop is a terminal-based system resource monitor and process manager for Linux. It provides a text-based user interface for tracking CPU and memory usage and managing active system tasks without requiring a graphical desktop environment. The utility functions as a live dashboard for observing hardware performance and resource allocation. It enables users to search, filter, and terminate system processes, with the ability to pin specific entries to ensure they remain visible during monitoring. The tool covers general system observability and process management, allowing users to isolate sp

Stats is a system performance monitor that tracks real-time hardware metrics and resource usage directly from the operating system menu bar. It functions as a hardware control interface, allowing users to adjust fan speeds and thermal settings to maintain optimal performance levels for computing hardware. The application distinguishes itself through kernel-level sensor polling, which retrieves telemetry by interfacing directly with low-level system drivers and power management APIs. It provides remote infrastructure oversight via a web-based telemetry dashboard, enabling users to view live pe

This project provides a command-line interface for managing the lifecycle of applications from the Apple App Store. It functions as a package manager for macOS, enabling users to search for software, install new applications, and maintain existing installations directly through terminal commands. The tool distinguishes itself by wrapping private system APIs to perform store operations that are typically restricted to the graphical user interface. It integrates with the operating system to handle administrative privilege elevation, allowing for secure, automated modifications to protected appl

CopyQ is a cross-platform clipboard manager that tracks, stores, and organizes clipboard history across multiple formats. It functions as a desktop productivity tool that captures text and image data, allowing users to search, filter, and categorize items into tabs for efficient retrieval. The application maintains a persistent history archive and provides tray-based access for quick interaction with stored content. The software distinguishes itself through an extensive automation engine and command-line integration. Users can execute custom scripts to transform, format, or process clipboard

Linux Kernel Manager and Activity Monitor 🐧💻

Zoxide is a terminal utility designed to accelerate filesystem navigation by learning user habits. It functions as a command-line navigation tool that allows users to jump to frequently accessed directories using partial names rather than typing out full file paths. The tool maintains a persistent, atomic file-based database that records navigation history, enabling rapid lookups and safe updates across multiple shell sessions. The project distinguishes itself through a frecency-based ranking algorithm, which calculates directory relevance by combining access frequency with temporal decay. Th

s-tui is a terminal-based CPU monitoring tool and stress testing utility. It provides a real-time interface for tracking processor frequency, temperature, power consumption, and utilization through visual graphs. The project includes a thermal throttling detector that identifies performance drops by analyzing sensor data. It also functions as a metric-based script runner, capable of automatically executing custom shell scripts when monitored hardware metrics exceed predefined numeric thresholds. The tool generates synthetic processor loads to verify thermal stability and hardware performance

Procs is a high-performance system process monitor and viewer written in Rust. It serves as a replacement for the ps command, providing a command-line interface to track active system processes and their associated CPU and memory metrics. The tool is distinguished by its container awareness, which maps system tasks to their corresponding Docker container names. It also features an interactive process tree to visualize parent and child relationships in a hierarchical layout and a JSON exporter for programmatic data analysis and automation. The monitoring surface includes real-time activity tr

A more powerful alternative to sysctl(8) with a terminal user interface 🐧

Dust is a command line disk usage analyzer written in Rust. It functions as a disk space visualization tool and recursive directory size scanner used to identify large files and directories through a formatted list of disk consumption across a filesystem. The tool differentiates itself by providing a recursive tree view to visualize space distribution and the ability to output directory and file size data in machine-readable formats for external processing and analysis. Its broader capabilities include filesystem auditing and storage capacity management. This is achieved through file and dir

:desktop_computer: Command-line system monitoring

Free, open-source terminal SSH manager and SSH config editor in Rust for macOS and Linux that keeps ~/.ssh/config in sync with 16 cloud providers, monitors live SSH tunnels and manages Docker and Podman containers fleet-wide. Plus scp, Vault SSH certs and an MCP server for AI agents.

Exa is a command-line utility designed to replace traditional file listing commands in Unix-like environments. It functions as a terminal-based file explorer that displays directory contents alongside system metadata and file attributes. The tool distinguishes itself by integrating version control information directly into the directory listing, allowing users to view the status of files within a repository alongside standard system data. It utilizes terminal-based styling to provide color-coded output, which helps visually differentiate between file types and metadata. The utility supports