CLI — independent software & tools

8,517 independent CLI listings the big search engines bury.

• whodb-cli

  homebrew · Free

  Database management CLI with TUI interface, MCP server support, AI, and more

• whois

  homebrew · Free

  Lookup tool for domain names and other internet resources

• whosthere

  homebrew · Free

  LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI written in Go

• widelands

  homebrew · Free

  Free real-time strategy game like Settlers II

• wifi-password

  homebrew · Free

  Show the current WiFi network password

• wifitui

  homebrew · Free

  Fast featureful friendly wifi terminal UI

• wiggle

  homebrew · Free

  Program for applying patches with conflicting changes

• wiiuse

  homebrew · Free

  Connect Nintendo Wii Remotes

• wik

  homebrew · Free

  View Wikipedia pages from your terminal

• wiki

  homebrew · Free

  Fetch summaries from MediaWiki wikis, like Wikipedia

• wikibase-cli

  homebrew · Free

  Command-line interface to Wikibase

• wildfly-as

  homebrew · Free

  Managed application runtime for building applications

• wildmidi

  homebrew · Free

  Simple software midi player

• willgit

  homebrew · Free

  William's miscellaneous git tools

• wimlib

  homebrew · Free

  Library to create, extract, and modify Windows Imaging files

• winetricks

  homebrew · Free

  Automatic workarounds for problems in Wine

• wiredtiger

  homebrew · Free

  High performance NoSQL extensible platform for data management

• wireguard-go

  homebrew · Free

  Userspace Go implementation of WireGuard

• wiremock-standalone

  homebrew · Free

  Simulator for HTTP-based APIs

• wireplumber

  homebrew · Free

  Session / policy manager implementation for PipeWire

• wireshark

  homebrew · Free

  Network analyzer and capture tool - without graphical user interface

• wirouter_keyrec

  homebrew · Free

  Recover the default WPA passphrases from supported routers

• wishlist

  homebrew · Free

  Single entrypoint for multiple SSH endpoints

• with-readline

  homebrew · Free

  Allow GNU Readline to be used with arbitrary programs

• witness

  homebrew · Free

  Automates, normalizes, and verifies software artifact provenance

• witr

  homebrew · Free

  Why is this running?

• wl-clipboard

  homebrew · Free

  Command-line copy/paste utilities for Wayland

• wla-dx

  homebrew · Free

  Yet another crossassembler package

• wllvm

  homebrew · Free

  Toolkit for building whole-program LLVM bitcode files

• wmbusmeters

  homebrew · Free

  Read wired or wireless mbus protocol to acquire utility meter readings

• wmctrl

  homebrew · Free

  UNIX/Linux command-line tool to interact with an EWMH/NetWM

• woff2

  homebrew · Free

  Utilities to create and convert Web Open Font File (WOFF) files

• wolfmqtt

  homebrew · Free

  Small, fast, portable MQTT client C implementation

• woob

  homebrew · Free

  Web Outside of Browsers

• woodpecker-cli

  homebrew · Free

  CLI client for the Woodpecker Continuous Integration server

• woof

  homebrew · Free

  Ad-hoc single-file webserver

• woof-doom

  homebrew · Free

  Woof! is a continuation of the Boom/MBF bloodline of Doom source ports

• wordgrinder

  homebrew · Free

  Unicode-aware word processor that runs in a terminal

• wordle

  homebrew · Free

  Play wordle in command-line

• wordnet

  homebrew · Free

  Lexical database for the English language

• wordplay

  homebrew · Free

  Anagram generator

• worktrunk

  homebrew · Free

  CLI for Git worktree management, designed for parallel AI agent workflows

• wormhole-william

  homebrew · Free

  End-to-end encrypted file transfer

• wp-cli

  homebrew · Free

  Command-line interface for WordPress

• wp-cli-completion

  homebrew · Free

  Bash completion for Wpcli

• wput

  homebrew · Free

  Tiny, wget-like FTP client for uploading files

• wren

  homebrew · Free

  Small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language

• wren-cli

  homebrew · Free

  Simple REPL and CLI tool for running Wren scripts

• write-good

  homebrew · Free

  Naive linter for English prose

• writerperfect

  homebrew · Free

  Library for importing WordPerfect documents

• wrk

  homebrew · Free

  HTTP benchmarking tool

• wrkflw

  homebrew · Free

  Validate and execute GitHub Actions workflows locally

• wsk

  homebrew · Free

  OpenWhisk Command-Line Interface (CLI)

• wslay

  homebrew · Free

  C websocket library

• wstunnel

  homebrew · Free

  Tunnel all your traffic over Websocket or HTTP2

• wtf

  homebrew · Free

  Translate common Internet acronyms

• wtfis

  homebrew · Free

  Passive hostname, domain, and IP lookup tool

• wtfutil

  homebrew · Free

  Personal information dashboard for your terminal

• wthrr

  homebrew · Free

  Weather Companion for the Terminal

• wtype

  homebrew · Free

  Xdotool type for wayland