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Top homebrew packages
node: Platform built on V8 to build network applications
git: Distributed revision control system
wget: Internet file retriever
yarn: JavaScript package manager
python3: Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language
coreutils: GNU File, Shell, and Text utilities
pkg-config: Manage compile and link flags for libraries
chromedriver: Tool for automated testing of webapps across many browsers
awscli: Official Amazon AWS command-line interface
automake: Tool for generating GNU Standards-compliant Makefiles
youtube-dl: Download YouTube videos from the command-line
libtool: Generic library support script
cmake: Cross-platform make
readline: Library for command-line editing
maven: Java-based project management
libyaml: YAML Parser
autoconf: Automatic configure script builder
redis: Persistent key-value database, with built-in net interface
heroku: Command-line client for the cloud PaaS
rbenv: Ruby version manager
libksba: X.509 and CMS library
pidof: Display the PID number for a given process name
selenium-server-standalone: Browser automation for testing purposes
carthage: Decentralized dependency manager for Cocoa
tree: Display directories as trees (with optional color/HTML output)
jq: Lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor
docker: Pack, ship and run any application as a lightweight container
nmap: Port scanning utility for large networks
htop: Improved top (interactive process viewer)
nvm: Manage multiple Node.js versions
pyenv: Python version management
ansible: Automate deployment, configuration, and upgrading
sbt: Build tool for Scala projects
terraform: Tool to build, change, and version infrastructure
graphviz: Graph visualization software from AT&T and Bell Labs
zsh-completions: Additional completion definitions for zsh
mercurial: Scalable distributed version control system
unrar: Extract, view, and test RAR archives
git-lfs: Git extension for versioning large files
the_silver_searcher: Code-search similar to ack
kubernetes-cli: Kubernetes command-line interface
bash: Bourne-Again SHell, a UNIX command interpreter
dnsmasq: Lightweight DNS forwarder and DHCP server
mariadb: Drop-in replacement for MySQL
ant: Java build tool
ruby-build: Install various Ruby versions and implementations
gdb: GNU debugger
sqlite: Command-line interface for SQLite
phantomjs: Headless WebKit scriptable with a JavaScript API
hugo: Configurable static site generator
elixir: Functional metaprogramming aware language built on Erlang VM
fish: User-friendly command-line shell for UNIX-like operating systems
watch: Executes a program periodically, showing output fullscreen
swiftlint: Tool to enforce Swift style and conventions
ghostscript: Interpreter for PostScript and PDF
rabbitmq: Messaging broker
p7zip: 7-Zip (high compression file archiver) implementation
flow: Static type checker for JavaScript
httpie: User-friendly cURL replacement (command-line HTTP client)
docker-compose: Isolated development environments using Docker
mono: Cross platform, open source .NET development framework
ctags: Reimplementation of ctags(1)
pandoc: Swiss-army knife of markup format conversion
bazel: Google's own build tool
libpng: Library for manipulating PNG images
libffi: Portable Foreign Function Interface library
tig: Text interface for Git repositories
llvm: Next-gen compiler infrastructure
memcached: High performance, distributed memory object caching system
ack: Search tool like grep, but optimized for programmers
xz: General-purpose data compression with high compression ratio
docker-machine: Create Docker hosts locally and on cloud providers
jpeg: Image manipulation library
sdl2: Low-level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics
midnight-commander: Terminal-based visual file manager
pyenv-virtualenv: Pyenv plugin to manage virtualenv
capstone: Multi-platform, multi-architecture disassembly framework
putty: Implementation of Telnet and SSH
hub: Add GitHub support to git on the command-line
thefuck: Programatically correct mistyped console commands
gnutls: GNU Transport Layer Security (TLS) Library
emacs: GNU Emacs text editor
highlight: Convert source code to formatted text with syntax highlighting
reattach-to-user-namespace: Reattach process (e.g., tmux) to background
ssh-copy-id: Add a public key to a remote machine's authorized_keys file
jenkins: Extendable open source continuous integration server
certbot: Tool to obtain certs from Let's Encrypt and autoenable HTTPS
fzf: Command-line fuzzy finder written in Go
dos2unix: Convert text between DOS, UNIX, and Mac formats
rust: Safe, concurrent, practical language
packer: Tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms
graphicsmagick: Image processing tools collection
libtiff: TIFF library and utilities
cocoapods: Dependency manager for Cocoa projects
mtr: 'traceroute' and 'ping' in a single tool
doxygen: Generate documentation for several programming languages
groovy: Java-based scripting language
winetricks: Download and install various runtime libraries
freetype: Software library to render fonts
apache-spark: Engine for large-scale data processing
pcre: Perl compatible regular expressions library
swig: Generate scripting interfaces to C/C++ code
sdl: Low-level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick and graphics
nginx: HTTP(S) server and reverse proxy, and IMAP/POP3 proxy server
git-flow: Extensions to follow Vincent Driessen's branching model
pv: Monitor data's progress through a pipe
gawk: GNU awk utility
qemu: x86 and PowerPC Emulator
cairo: Vector graphics library with cross-device output support
docker-machine-driver-xhyve: Docker Machine driver for xhyve
zsh-syntax-highlighting: Fish shell like syntax highlighting for zsh
socat: netcat on steroids
zeromq: High-performance, asynchronous messaging library
cask: Emacs dependency management
autojump: Shell extension to jump to frequently used directories
geckodriver: WebDriver <-> Marionette proxy
tbb: Rich and complete approach to parallelism in C++
mobile-shell: Remote terminal application
gettext: GNU internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) library
libxslt: C XSLT library for GNOME
glib: Core application library for C
kotlin: Statically typed programming language for the JVM
gdbm: GNU database manager
hadoop: Framework for distributed processing of large data sets
eigen: C++ template library for linear algebra
kubernetes-helm: The Kubernetes package manager
exiftool: Perl lib for reading and writing EXIF metadata
aria2: Download with resuming and segmented downloading
libevent: Asynchronous event library
binutils: FSF/GNU ld, ar, readelf, etc. for native development
zlib: General-purpose lossless data-compression library
bison: Parser generator
rename: Perl-powered file rename script with many helpful built-ins
snappy: Compression/decompression library aiming for high speed
poppler: PDF rendering library (based on the xpdf-3.0 code base)
lynx: Text-based web browser
erlang: Programming language for highly scalable real-time systems
mitmproxy: Intercept, modify, replay, save HTTP/S traffic
openvpn: SSL/TLS VPN implementing OSI layer 2 or 3 secure network extension
tor: Anonymizing overlay network for TCP
cowsay: Configurable talking characters in ASCII art
icu4c: C/C++ and Java libraries for Unicode and globalization
aws-elasticbeanstalk: Client for Amazon Elastic Beanstalk web service
ios-webkit-debug-proxy: DevTools proxy for iOS devices
jenv: Manage your Java environment
ripgrep: Search tool like grep and The Silver Searcher.
cloc: Statistics utility to count lines of code
sdl_image: Image file loading library
gnu-sed: GNU implementation of the famous stream editor
mas: Mac App Store command-line interface
parallel: Shell command parallelization utility
glog: Application-level logging library
speedtest-cli: Command-line interface for https://speedtest.net bandwidth tests
shellcheck: Static analysis and lint tool, for (ba)sh scripts
sdl_mixer: Sample multi-channel audio mixer library
bower: Package manager for the web
sdl_ttf: Library for using TrueType fonts in SDL applications
glide: Simplified Go project management, dependency management, and vendoring
postgis: Adds support for geographic objects to PostgreSQL
ntfs-3g: Read-write NTFS driver for FUSE
kafka: Publish-subscribe messaging rethought as a distributed commit log
portmidi: Cross-platform library for real-time MIDI I/O
mysql-connector-c: MySQL database connector for C applications
irssi: Modular IRC client
leveldb: Key-value storage library with ordered mapping
exercism: Command-line tool to interact with exercism.io
fswatch: Monitor a directory for changes and run a shell command
yasm: Modular BSD reimplementation of NASM
kibana: Analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch
libdvdcss: Access DVDs as block devices without the decryption
gflags: Library for processing command-line flags
aircrack-ng: Next-generation aircrack with lots of new features
gd: Graphics library to dynamically manipulate images
pango: Framework for layout and rendering of i18n text
portaudio: Cross-platform library for audio I/O
httrack: Website copier/offline browser
boot2docker: Lightweight Linux for Docker
mcrypt: Replacement for the old crypt package and crypt(1) command
cassandra: Eventually consistent, distributed key-value store
clang-format: Formatting tools for C, C++, Obj-C, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript
nodebrew: Node.js version manager
direnv: Load/unload environment variables based on $PWD
s3cmd: Command-line tool for the Amazon S3 service
perl: Highly capable, feature-rich programming language
libusb: Library for USB device access
gdal: Geospatial Data Abstraction Library
leiningen: Build tool for Clojure
git-flow-avh: AVH edition of git-flow
webp: Image format providing lossless and lossy compression for web images
terminal-notifier: Send macOS User Notifications from the command-line
fortune: Infamous electronic fortune-cookie generator
openssh: OpenBSD freely-licensed SSH connectivity tools
lmdb: Lightning memory-mapped database: key-value data store
grafana: Gorgeous metric visualizations and dashboards for timeseries databases.
fontconfig: XML-based font configuration API for X Windows
sox: SOund eXchange: universal sound sample translator
syncthing: Open source continuous file synchronization application
open-mpi: High performance message passing library
colordiff: Color-highlighted diff(1) output
pwgen: Password generator
swagger-codegen: Generation of client and server from Swagger definition
md5sha1sum: Hash utilities
consul: Tool for service discovery, monitoring and configuration
guetzli: Perceptual JPEG encoder
iperf: Tool to measure maximum TCP and UDP bandwidth
watchman: Watch files and take action when they change
libimobiledevice: Library to communicate with iOS devices natively
glfw: Multi-platform library for OpenGL applications
rsync: Utility that provides fast incremental file transfer
gtk+: GUI toolkit
libmagic: Implementation of the file(1) command
gifsicle: GIF image/animation creator/editor
sl: Prints a steam locomotive if you type sl instead of ls
vault: Secures, stores, and tightly controls access to secrets
sshfs: File system client based on SSH File Transfer Protocol
libav: Audio and video processing tools
libunistring: C string library for manipulating Unicode strings
influxdb: Time series, events, and metrics database
iperf3: Update of iperf: measures TCP, UDP, and SCTP bandwidth
scipy: Software for mathematics, science, and engineering
netcat: Utility for managing network connections
peco: Simplistic interactive filtering tool
haskell-stack: The Haskell Tool Stack
unison: File synchronization tool for OSX
nano: Free (GNU) replacement for the Pico text editor
pstree: Show ps output as a tree
logstash: Tool for managing events and logs
gstreamer: Development framework for multimedia applications
glew: OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library
libgcrypt: Cryptographic library based on the code from GnuPG
sdl2_image: Library for loading images as SDL surfaces and textures
rpm: Standard unix software packaging tool
xcproj: Manipulate Xcode project files
gsl: Numerical library for C and C++
opam: Package manager for OCaml
unixodbc: ODBC 3 connectivity for UNIX
sqlmap: Penetration testing for SQL injection and database servers
thrift: Framework for scalable cross-language services development
mplayer: UNIX movie player
z: Tracks most-used directories to make cd smarter
mosquitto: Message broker implementing the MQTT protocol
libzip: C library for reading, creating, and modifying zip archives
gtk+3: Toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces
nkf: Network Kanji code conversion Filter (NKF)
openexr: High dynamic-range image file format
git-extras: Small git utilities
ninja: Small build system for use with gyp or CMake
dpkg: Debian package management system
lftp: Sophisticated file transfer program
bash-git-prompt: Informative, fancy bash prompt for Git users
sdl2_mixer: Sample multi-channel audio mixer library
pass: Password manager
proxychains-ng: Hook preloader
mutt: Mongrel of mail user agents (part elm, pine, mush, mh, etc.)
media-info: Unified display of technical and tag data for audio/video
openconnect: Open client for Cisco AnyConnect VPN
minicom: Menu-driven communications program
npth: New GNU portable threads library
sdl2_ttf: Library for using TrueType fonts in SDL applications
ccache: Object-file caching compiler wrapper
screen: Terminal multiplexer with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
neovim: Ambitious Vim-fork focused on extensibility and agility
ncdu: NCurses Disk Usage
make: Utility for directing compilation
geoip: This library is for the GeoIP Legacy format (dat)
nasm: Netwide Assembler (NASM) is an 80x86 assembler
giflib: Library and utilities for processing GIFs
vagrant-completion: Bash completion for Vagrant
ruby-install: Install Ruby, JRuby, Rubinius, MagLev, or mruby
harfbuzz: OpenType text shaping engine
fontforge: Command-line outline and bitmap font editor/converter
brew-cask-completion: Bash & Fish completion for brew-cask
upx: Compress/expand executable files
apktool: Tool for reverse engineering 3rd party, closed, binary Android apps
rlwrap: Readline wrapper: adds readline support to tools that lack it
lrzsz: Tools for zmodem/xmodem/ymodem file transfer
librsvg: Library to render SVG files using Cairo
szip: Implementation of extended-Rice lossless compression algorithm
wxpython: Python bindings for wxWidgets
moreutils: Collection of tools that nobody wrote when UNIX was young
ghc: Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System
ocaml: General purpose programming language in the ML family
valgrind: Dynamic analysis tools (memory, debug, profiling)
chruby: Ruby environment tool
libiconv: Conversion library
atool: Archival front-end
screenfetch: Generate ASCII art with terminal, shell, and OS info
adns: C/C++ resolver library and DNS resolver utilities
diff-so-fancy: Good-lookin' diffs with diff-highlight and more
siege: HTTP regression testing and benchmarking utility
apr-util: Companion library to apr, the Apache Portable Runtime library
figlet: Banner-like program prints strings as ASCII art
zookeeper: Centralized server for distributed coordination of services
libuv: Multi-platform support library with a focus on asynchronous I/O
crystal-lang: Fast and statically typed, compiled language with Ruby-like syntax
grc: Colorize logfiles and command output
docker-completion: Bash, Zsh and Fish completion for Docker
curl: Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS or FTP server
mysql: Open source relational database management system
sbcl: Steel Bank Common Lisp system
gpg-agent: GPG key agent
fftw: C routines to compute the Discrete Fourier Transform
mycli: CLI for MySQL with auto-completion and syntax highlighting
isl: Integer Set Library for the polyhedral model
asciinema: Record and share terminal sessions
w3m: Pager/text based browser
libmemcached: C and C++ client library to the memcached server
aspell: Spell checker with better logic than ispell
rethinkdb: The open-source database for the realtime web
postgresql: Object-relational database system
little-cms2: Color management engine supporting ICC profiles
xctool: Drop-in replacement for xcodebuild with a few extra features
pypy: Highly performant implementation of Python 2 in Python
opus: Audio codec
neo4j: Robust (fully ACID) transactional property graph database
libvorbis: Vorbis General Audio Compression Codec
apr: Apache Portable Runtime library
dockutil: Tool for managing dock items
pyenv-virtualenvwrapper: Alternative to pyenv for managing virtualenvs
htop-osx: Improved top (interactive process viewer) for macOS
iftop: Display an interface's bandwidth usage
ideviceinstaller: Cross-platform library for communicating with iOS devices
wrk: HTTP benchmarking tool
lame: High quality MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) encoder
spark: Sparklines for the shell
smpeg: SDL MPEG Player Library
ctop: Top-like interface for container metrics
cmatrix: Console Matrix
gnu-tar: GNU version of the tar archiving utility
plantuml: Draw UML diagrams
sphinx-doc: Tool to create intelligent and beautiful documentation
trash: CLI tool that moves files or folder to the trash
neofetch: Fast, highly customisable system info script
pngquant: PNG image optimizing utility
md5deep: Recursively compute digests on files/directories
optipng: PNG file optimizer
cabextract: Extract files from Microsoft cabinet files
findutils: Collection of GNU find, xargs, and locate
you-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web
hydra: Network logon cracker which supports many services
wxmac: Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (wxWidgets for macOS)
libsodium: NaCl networking and cryptography library
pgcli: CLI for Postgres with auto-completion and syntax highlighting
csshx: Cluster ssh tool for Terminal.app
grep: GNU grep, egrep and fgrep
autoenv: Per-project, per-directory shell environments
antigen: Plugin manager for zsh, inspired by oh-my-zsh and vundle.
lolcat: Rainbows and unicorns in your console!
gedit: The GNOME text editor
shadowsocks-libev: Libev port of shadowsocks
swi-prolog: ISO/Edinburgh-style Prolog interpreter
axel: Light UNIX download accelerator
typesafe-activator: Tools for working with Lightbend Reactive Platform
gnu-getopt: Command-line option parsing library
smartmontools: SMART hard drive monitoring
n: Node version management
e2fsprogs: Utilities for the ext2, ext3, and ext4 file systems
iproute2mac: CLI wrapper for basic network utilities on macOS - ip command
dfu-util: USB programmer
pygtk: GTK+ bindings for Python
gobject-introspection: Generate introspection data for GObject libraries
libssh2: C library implementing the SSH2 protocol
casperjs: Navigation scripting and testing tool for PhantomJS
ios-deploy: Install and debug iPhone apps from the command-line
handbrake: Open-source video transcoder available for Linux, Mac, and Windows.
oniguruma: Regular expressions library
etcd: Key value store for shared configuration and service discovery
tidy-html5: Granddaddy of HTML tools, with support for modern standards
flex: Fast Lexical Analyzer, generates Scanners (tokenizers)
hashcat: World's fastest and most advanced password recovery utility
uncrustify: Source code beautifier
bash-completion: Programmable completion for Bash 3.2
sip: Tool to create Python bindings for C and C++ libraries
libusb-compat: Library for USB device access
swiftformat: Formatting tool for reformatting Swift code
pinentry-mac: Pinentry for GPG on Mac
ranger: File browser
geos: Geometry Engine
scons: Substitute for classic 'make' tool with autoconf/automake functionality
mackup: Keep your Mac's application settings in sync
shared-mime-info: Database of common MIME types
jpegoptim: Utility to optimize JPEG files
solr: Enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project
tcptraceroute: Traceroute implementation using TCP packets
tesseract: OCR (Optical Character Recognition) engine
gdk-pixbuf: Toolkit for image loading and pixel buffer manipulation
libplist: Library for Apple Binary- and XML-Property Lists
tmate: Instant terminal sharing
weechat: Extensible IRC client
sshuttle: Proxy server that works as a poor man's VPN
nodenv: Manage multiple NodeJS versions
subversion: Version control system designed to be a better CVS
zsh-autosuggestions: Fish-like fast/unobtrusive autosuggestions for zsh.
gource: Version Control Visualization Tool
wakeonlan: Sends magic packets to wake up network-devices
sonar-scanner: Launcher to analyze a project with SonarQube
azure-cli: Official Azure CLI
bfg: Remove large files or passwords from Git history like git-filter-branch
ext4fuse: Read-only implementation of ext4 for FUSE
webpack: Bundler for JavaScript and friends
openshift-cli: OpenShift command-line interface tools
intltool: String tool
msgpack: Library for a binary-based efficient data interchange format
markdown: Text-to-HTML conversion tool
luajit: Just-In-Time Compiler (JIT) for the Lua programming language
gnuradio: SDK providing the signal processing runtime and processing blocks
cscope: Tool for browsing source code
cabal-install: Command-line interface for Cabal and Hackage
unzip: Extraction utility for .zip compressed archives
algol68g: Algol 68 compiler-interpreter
mecab: Yet another part-of-speech and morphological analyzer
binwalk: Searches a binary image for embedded files and executable code
cpanminus: Get, unpack, build, and install modules from CPAN
autossh: Automatically restart SSH sessions and tunnels
activemq: Apache ActiveMQ: powerful open source messaging server
typescript: Language for application scale JavaScript development
ipcalc: Calculate various network masks, etc. from a given IP address
jpeg-turbo: JPEG image codec that aids compression and decompression
byobu: Text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer
haproxy: Reliable, high performance TCP/HTTP load balancer
hive: Hadoop-based data summarization, query, and analysis
osquery: SQL powered operating system instrumentation and analytics
augeas: Configuration editing tool and API
qcachegrind: Visualize data generated by Cachegrind and Calltree
docker-compose-completion: Docker-compose completion script
jasper: Library for manipulating JPEG-2000 images
pinentry: Passphrase entry dialog utilizing the Assuan protocol
jmeter: Load testing and performance measurement application
arp-scan: ARP scanning and fingerprinting tool
fabric: Library and command-line tool for SSH
links: Lynx-like WWW browser that supports tables, menus, etc.
rbenv-gemset: Adds basic gemset support to rbenv
jansson: C library for encoding, decoding, and manipulating JSON
archey: Graphical system information display for macOS
mecab-ipadic: IPA dictionary compiled for MeCab
libsndfile: C library for files containing sampled sound
ossp-uuid: ISO-C API and CLI for generating UUIDs
sonarqube: Manage code quality
ncurses: Text-based UI library
couchdb: Document database server
git-crypt: Enable transparent encryption/decryption of files in a git repo
fdupes: Identify or delete duplicate files
hping: Command-line oriented TCP/IP packet assembler/analyzer
transmission: Lightweight BitTorrent client
diffutils: File comparison utilities
jemalloc: malloc implementation emphasizing fragmentation avoidance
grpc: Next generation open source RPC library and framework
pigz: Parallel gzip
grails: Web application framework for the Groovy language
dbus: Message bus system, providing inter-application communication
ispell: International Ispell
terragrunt: Thin wrapper for Terraform e.g. for locking state
zenity: GTK+ dialog boxes for the command-line
node-build: Install NodeJS versions
x264: H.264/AVC encoder
avrdude: Atmel AVR MCU programmer
mpg123: MP3 player for Linux and UNIX
flyway: Database version control to control migrations
lz4: Extremely Fast Compression algorithm
xmlstarlet: XML command-line utilities
libdnet: Portable low-level networking library
fping: Scriptable ping program for checking if multiple hosts are up
gnu-which: GNU implementation of which utility
tldr: Simplified and community-driven man pages
numpy: Package for scientific computing with Python
libvpx: VP8/VP9 video codec
libev: Asynchronous event library
dex2jar: Tools to work with Android .dex and Java .class files
gzip: Popular GNU data compression program
boost: Collection of portable C++ source libraries
clisp: GNU CLISP, a Common Lisp implementation
netpbm: Image manipulation
cppcheck: Static analysis of C and C++ code
tcpreplay: Replay saved tcpdump files at arbitrary speeds
caddy: Alternative general-purpose HTTP/2 web server
xpdf: PDF viewer
bazaar: Friendly powerful distributed version control system
clamav: Anti-virus software
stunnel: SSL tunneling program
fasd: CLI tool for quick access to files and directories
usbmuxd: USB multiplexor daemon for iPhone and iPod Touch devices
elinks: Text mode web browser
infer: Static analyzer for Java, C and Objective-C
cryptopp: Free C++ class library of cryptographic schemes
libogg: Ogg Bitstream Library
gmp: GNU multiple precision arithmetic library
mpfr: C library for multiple-precision floating-point computations
flac: Free lossless audio codec
tcl-tk: Tool Command Language
gitlab-ci-multi-runner: The official GitLab CI runner written in Go
pngcrush: Optimizer for PNG files
ddrescue: GNU data recovery tool
zplug: The next-generation plugin manager for zsh
fcrackzip: Zip password cracker
ldid: Lets you manipulate the signature block in a Mach-O binary
kafkacat: Generic command-line non-JVM Apache Kafka producer and consumer
polipo: Web caching proxy
swiftgen: Swift code generator for assets, storyboards, Localizable.strings, …
icdiff: Improved colored diff
glm: C++ mathematics library for graphics software
privoxy: Advanced filtering web proxy
repo: Repository tool for Android development
libmpc: C library for the arithmetic of high precision complex numbers
libassuan: Assuan IPC Library
rclone: Rsync for cloud storage
webkit2png: Create screenshots of webpages from the terminal
nghttp2: HTTP/2 C Library
elm: Functional programming language for building browser-based GUIs
xhyve: xhyve, lightweight macOS virtualization solution based on FreeBSD's bhyve
gperftools: Multi-threaded malloc() and performance analysis tools
oath-toolkit: Tools for one-time password authentication systems
supervisor: Process Control System
chisel: Collection of LLDB commands to assist debugging iOS apps
sourcekitten: Framework and command-line tool for interacting with SourceKit
terminator: Multiple terminals in one window
libsass: C implementation of a Sass compiler
libgpg-error: Common error values for all GnuPG components
x265: H.265/HEVC encoder
c-ares: Asynchronous DNS library
libxmlsec1: XML security library
reaver: Implements brute force attack to recover WPA/WPA2 passkeys
pssh: Parallel versions of OpenSSH and related tools
astyle: Source code beautifier for C, C++, C#, and Java
cvs: Version control system
goaccess: Log analyzer and interactive viewer for the Apache Webserver
libressl: Version of the SSL/TLS protocol forked from OpenSSL
john: Featureful UNIX password cracker
scala: JVM-based programming language
librdkafka: The Apache Kafka C/C++ library
less: Pager program similar to more
conan: Distributed, open source, package manager for C/C++
rtmpdump: Tool for downloading RTMP streaming media
megatools: Command-line client for Mega.co.nz
telegraf: Server-level metric gathering agent for InfluxDB
dialog: Display user-friendly message boxes from shell scripts
testssl: Tool which checks for the support of TLS/SSL ciphers and flaws
jetty: Java servlet engine and webserver
mpich: Implementation of the MPI Message Passing Interface standard
freetds: Libraries to talk to Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase databases
libgit2: C library of Git core methods that is re-entrant and linkable
lzlib: Data compression library
wireshark: Graphical network analyzer and capture tool
gnuplot: Command-driven, interactive function plotting
miniupnpc: UPnP IGD client library and daemon
sslscan: Test SSL/TLS enabled services to discover supported cipher suites.
wdiff: Display word differences between text files
libass: Subtitle renderer for the ASS/SSA subtitle format
ipython: Interactive computing in Python
mongodb: High-performance, schema-free, document-oriented database
gist: Command-line utility for uploading Gists
py2cairo: Python 2 bindings for the Cairo graphics library
pypy3: Implementation of Python 3 in Python
micro: Modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor
calc: Arbitrary precision calculator
gpac: Multimedia framework for research and academic purposes
percona-server: Drop-in MySQL replacement
ammonite-repl: Ammonite is a cleanroom re-implementation of the Scala REPL
pidcat: Colored logcat script to show entries only for specified app
pre-commit: Framework for managing multi-language pre-commit hooks
procmail: Autonomous mail processor
fdk-aac: Standalone library of the Fraunhofer FDK AAC code from Android
pandoc-citeproc: Library and executable for using citeproc with pandoc
makedepend: Creates dependencies in makefiles
qpdf: Tools for and transforming and inspecting PDF files
aws-sdk-cpp: AWS SDK for C++
aws-shell: Integrated shell for working with the AWS CLI.
net-snmp: Implements SNMP v1, v2c, and v3, using IPv4 and IPv6
kops: Production Grade K8s Installation, Upgrades, and Management
dark-mode: Control the macOS dark mode from the command-line
pcre2: Perl compatible regular expressions library with a new API
ettercap: Multipurpose sniffer/interceptor/logger for switched LAN
docker-machine-completion: Docker-machine completion script
pidgin: Multi-protocol chat client
ruby: Powerful, clean, object-oriented scripting language
squid: Advanced proxy caching server for HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and Gopher
mit-scheme: MIT/GNU Scheme development tools and runtime library
task: Feature-rich console based todo list manager
mpv: Media player based on MPlayer and mplayer2
saltstack: Dynamic infrastructure communication bus
elasticsearch: Distributed search & analytics engine
ngrep: Network grep
ipmitool: Utility for IPMI control with kernel driver or LAN interface
pdf2htmlex: PDF to HTML converter
giter8: Generate files and directories from templates in a git repo
m-cli: Swiss Army Knife for macOS
shtool: GNU's portable shell tool
theora: Open video compression format
fltk: Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit
radare2: Reverse engineering framework
tcpflow: TCP flow recorder
source-highlight: Source-code syntax highlighter
imagemagick: Tools and libraries to manipulate images in many formats
gdrive: Google Drive CLI Client
m4: Macro processing language
rbenv-default-gems: Auto-installs gems for Ruby installs
texinfo: Official documentation format of the GNU project
pixman: Low-level library for pixel manipulation
percona-toolkit: Percona Toolkit for MySQL
offlineimap: Synchronizes emails between two repositories
cntlm: NTLM authentication proxy with tunneling
asciidoc: Formatter/translator for text files to numerous formats. Includes a2x.
hyper: Client for HyperHQ's cloud service
libcouchbase: C library for Couchbase
macvim: GUI for vim, made for macOS
git-credential-manager: Stores Git credentials for Visual Studio Team Services
re2c: Generate C-based recognizers from regular expressions
lnav: Curses-based tool for viewing and analyzing log files
tmux: Terminal multiplexer
lua: Powerful, lightweight programming language
guile: GNU Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extensions
zbar: Suite of barcodes-reading tools
cmus: Music player with an ncurses based interface
berkeley-db: High performance key/value database
git-standup: Git extension to generate reports for standup meetings
jruby: Ruby implementation in pure Java
arping: Utility to check whether MAC addresses are already taken on a LAN
imagesnap: Tool to capture still images from an iSight or other video source
grunt-cli: JavaScript Task Runner
libvirt: C virtualization API
stow: Organize software neatly under a single directory tree (e.g. /usr/local)
mysql-utilities: Tools for maintaining and administering MySQL servers
godep: Dependency tool for go
hbase: Hadoop database: a distributed, scalable, big data store
zopfli: New zlib (gzip, deflate) compatible compressor
expect: Program that can automate interactive applications
hunspell: Spell checker and morphological analyzer
filebeat: File harvester to ship log files to Elasticsearch or Logstash
v8: Google's JavaScript engine
libpqxx: C++ connector for PostgreSQL
tomcat: Implementation of Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages
nikto: Web server scanner
cloog: Generate code for scanning Z-polyhedra
googler: Google Search and News from the command-line
libmicrohttpd: Light HTTP/1.1 server library
autoconf-archive: Collection of over 500 reusable autoconf macros
libtasn1: ASN.1 structure parser library
expat: XML 1.0 parser
vegeta: HTTP load testing tool and library
lastpass-cli: LastPass command-line interface tool
mpd: Music Player Daemon
protobuf: Protocol buffers (Google's data interchange format)
rocksdb: Embeddable, persistent key-value store for fast storage
global: Source code tag system
zsh: UNIX shell (command interpreter)
qrencode: QR Code generation
p11-kit: Library to load and enumerate PKCS#11 modules
arangodb: The Multi-Model NoSQL Database.
ccat: Like cat but displays content with syntax highlighting
wine: Run Windows applications without a copy of Microsoft Windows
sassc: Wrapper around libsass that helps to create command-line apps
docker-machine-nfs: Activates NFS on docker-machine
freerdp: X11 implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)
lcov: Graphical front-end for GCC's coverage testing tool (gcov)
lzip: LZMA-based compression program similar to gzip or bzip2
pyqt: Python bindings for v5 of Qt
testdisk: Powerful free data recovery utility
gnupg: GNU Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) package
libpcap: Portable library for network traffic capture
multitail: Tail multiple files in one terminal simultaneously
duti: Select default apps for documents and URL schemes on macOS
libtermkey: Library for processing keyboard entry from the terminal
git-review: Submit git branches to gerrit for review
grace: WYSIWYG 2D plotting tool for X11
jsoncpp: Library for interacting with JSON
autogen: Automated text file generator
sloccount: Count lines of code in many languages
bind: Implementation of the DNS protocols
foremost: Console program to recover files based on their headers and footers
texi2html: Convert TeXinfo files to HTML
gradle: Build system based on the Groovy language
doctl: Command-line tool for DigitalOcean
gst-plugins-good: GStreamer plugins (well-supported, under the LGPL)
nuget: Package manager for Microsoft development platform including .NET
prometheus: Service monitoring system and time series database
gauge: Test automation tool that supports executable documentation
enca: Charset analyzer and converter
qt: Cross-platform application and UI framework
gst-plugins-bad: GStreamer plugins less supported, not fully tested
vim: Vi 'workalike' with many additional features
purescript: Strongly typed programming language that compiles to JavaScript
lzo: Real-time data compression library
ncftp: FTP client with an advanced user interface
atk: GNOME accessibility toolkit
mkvtoolnix: Matroska media files manipulation tools
freeglut: Open-source alternative to the OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) library
git-cola: Highly caffeinated git GUI
ta-lib: Tools for market analysis
libtensorflow: C interface for Google's OS library for Machine Intelligence
assimp: Portable library for importing many well-known 3D model formats
grip: GitHub Markdown previewer
minio: Amazon S3 compatible object storage server
ffmpeg: Play, record, convert, and stream audio and video
libxml2: GNOME XML library
flake8: Lint your Python code for style and logical errors
sysdig: System-level exploration and troubleshooting tool
emscripten: LLVM bytecode to JavaScript compiler
rdesktop: UNIX client for connecting to Windows Remote Desktop Services
planck: Stand-alone ClojureScript REPL
dfu-programmer: Device firmware update based USB programmer for Atmel chips
pygobject3: GNOME Python bindings (based on GObject Introspection)
ipfs: Peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol
openjpeg: Library for JPEG-2000 image manipulation
open-ocd: On-chip debugging, in-system programming and boundary-scan testing
platformio: Ecosystem for IoT development (Arduino and ARM mbed compatible)
gnu-indent: C code prettifier
sfml: Multi-media library with bindings for multiple languages
rhino: JavaScript engine
dmd: D programming language compiler for macOS
minimal-racket: Modern programming language in the Lisp/Scheme family
sysbench: System performance benchmark tool
git-quick-stats: Simple and efficient way to access statistics in git.
go: Open source programming language to build simple/reliable/efficient software
gcc: GNU compiler collection
ios-sim: Command-line application launcher for the iOS Simulator
git-town: High-level command-line interface for Git
rpm2cpio: Tool to convert RPM package to CPIO archive
gibo: Access GitHub's .gitignore boilerplates
rbenv-bundler: Makes shims aware of bundle install paths
python: Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language
cgal: Computational Geometry Algorithm Library
boost-python: C++ library for C++/Python interoperability
ghq: Remote repository management made easy
libconfig: Configuration file processing library
ed: Classic UNIX line editor
openssl: SSL/TLS cryptography library
sphinx: Full-text search engine
mvnvm: Maven version manager
amazon-ecs-cli: CLI for Amazon ECS to manage clusters and tasks for development.
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