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These are curated/general lists of various tools put together by third parties (meaning they contain tools not developed by the people making the list)

Lists of only/mostly CLI tools:

https://tinyapps.org/ CLI + others
https://www.robvanderwoude.com/
https://cects.com/find-win32-cli-utilities/
https://opensourcepack.blogspot.com/ (mix of first and third party tools)
https://ss64.com/links/windows.html

Specialized Lists:
https://rarewares.org/ (contain some audio conversion tools)
Encode's forum. Contains links to compression-related tools

Other useful Places:

https://scoop.sh/
https://crates.io/
https://chocolatey.org/



From Our Forums:

Great CLI programs

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General Sites:

https://www.softpedia.com
https://www.majorgeeks.com/
...

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Resources:

General Resources:
https://www.reddit.com/r/commandline
https://www.reddit.com/r/tinycode
https://www.reddit.com/r/dailyscripts
https://reddit.com/r/coolgithubprojects
https://www.shellhacks.com/
http://www.elisanet.fi/tsalmi/info/tscmd.html
https://www.dostips.com/
https://steve-jansen.github.io/guides/w ... scripting/


Help and Documentation:

• A tool's help command; e.g. `-?', `/?', `-h', `--help', etc
• A tool package's included help files.
• https://www.computerhope.com
• https://ss64.com/
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• Unix Tool Help/Man pages:
  • tldr
  • https://manpages.debian.org/
  • https://www.unix.com/man-page-repository.php
  • https://linux.die.net/man/
  • https://www.mankier.com/
  • https://manpages.ubuntu.com/
  • https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/ht ... -id-7.html
  • https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/
  • https://man.cx/
• https://ss64.com/bash/
• GNU Manuals Online
• https://fossbytes.com/a-z-list-linux-co ... reference/
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• Help Tools:
  • man
  • whatis
  • apropos
  • tldr
• Also see the resource links in the tips and tricks topic.

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ComputerHope.com isn't specifically about the CLI, but contains many a valuable tip.

Case in point: https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/c/copycon.htm.

Useful resource https://ss64.com/

lintalist wrote: ↑Useful resource https://ss64.com/

Very!

Added!

Just a note that I liked both the computerhope and ss64 -- both are good resources.