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24 alternatives to Funky – Easier, flexible, and more interactive shell functions

Funky takes shell functions to the next level by making them easier to define, more flexible, and more interactive. - bbugyi200/funky

Funky is a tool that makes writing and managing shell functions easier and more interactive. It provides a flexible approach to creating command-line functions with enhanced usability features. The tool is designed for… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Funky – Easier, flexible, and more interactive shell functions launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    An attempt at saner Bash defaults. Contribute to mrzool/bash-sensible development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A smarter shell and scripting environment with advanced features designed for usability, safety and productivity (eg smarter DevOps tooling) - lmorg/murex

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Always Googling those pesky Terminal commands? Use AI to find the commands for you from within the command line.

    2022 · oh-heck.dev · its alternatives →

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    Redo is the ultimate tool to create reusable functions from your history in an interactive way - barthr/redo

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A tool for glamorous shell scripts 🎀. Contribute to charmbracelet/gum development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Turn Your fzf Into a Live REPL

    2019 · paweldu.dev · its alternatives →

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    interactive `git` with the help of `fzf`. Contribute to bigH/git-fuzzy development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A bash-like shell that performs basic functions of a shell. Made as a project for my course of System Software. - skywalker212/tiny-shell

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    shell.how▲300

    Explain how your shell command works

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Common rust command-line macros and utilities, to write shell-script like tasks in a clean, natural and rusty way - rust-shell-script/rust_cmd_lib

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Gum▲152

    A tool for building glamorous shell scripts

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    BashBuddy▲159

    Write bash commands with natural language, fully local.

    2025 · bashbuddy.run · its alternatives →

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    `makedown` allows you to organise your shell scripts in one or several markdown files, by mix and matching different scripting languages for various commands and needs. zsh/bash/sh, python, javascript or anything else available on your system. Handy for replacing one-line-based package.json scripts or shell-based Makefiles. One can also write documentation and explanations to various commands in the same `.md` file. Most editors highlight correctly most languages in the markdown code blocks, even when you use several scripting languages. Here is a demo .md file…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Or more precisely, my little site maker... It is a personal tool that I thoroughly enjoyed making, and enjoy using to write my website . A caveat before any more; nobody was supposed to promote this insanity. Like, terrible things have been done involving inotify and xdotool. But. It showed up on HN some months ago. That too while it was still, shall we say, fermenting. It got "done" some time thence, and of course one could not let the half-past just be. So here we are, for better or worse. Thank you HN mods for helping me repost! _\\// The README explains all, animated GIFs and…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    nlsh▲220

    talk to your terminal in natural language

    Jan 2026 · nlsh.dev · its alternatives →

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    I've built a tool called sol (like "soul") that helps you inspect and format complex shell one-liners. Features: - Choose which transformations you want (break on pipe, args, redirect, whatever) - "Peeks" into stringified commands (think xargs, parallel) and formats those, too - Auto-breaks at a given width (e.g., 80 characters) - Shows you non-standard aliases, functions, files, etc. that you might not have in your shell environment - Breaks up long jq lines with jqfmt because—let's be honest—they're getting out of hand As a security researcher and tool developer, I often encounter (or…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A powerful new shell that uses the janet programming language for both the implementation and repl. - andrewchambers/janetsh

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Blog post: https://guywaldman.com/posts/introducing-magic-cli

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Run a shell script with bash, line-by-line, prompted on each command. Useful for running unknown scripts or debugging. Not a secure substitute for understanding a script beforehand. - LICENSE

    2021 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →

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    This is still WIP, but if anyone is interested, we could develop it much faster and perhaps even with cooler features like TUI graphics etc ... Right now it is all in plain ol bash

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Your wishes are my commands. Contribute to dylanjcastillo/shell-genie development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    In the deep mists of time (circa 2012), I was playing with the Go standard library, and saw how easy it was to stand up a webserver that let you navigate a remote file system, and I thought it was pretty neat. I took a look at my shell history and a frequent pattern of commands was "cd, ls, cd, ls, ...". And I thought "I love my keyboard, but you know, point and click might be nice in this context." And then I thought, "It'd be even cooler if you could run commands there." Skip forward several years, a few earlier implementations, a name change, and now there's Hucksh(ell), a bash-like shell…

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    This is Scriptarious, a little macOS app to create, edit and launch shell scripts from the menubar. Nothing fancy here just a basic application with - Syntax highlighting (using highlight.js) - Shortcuts/Hotkeys to launch shell scripts - Some built-in scripts I use To come: - syncing (without iCloudKit) - sharing - Feedbacks are welcome :-)

    2023 · scriptarious.moxadventu.com · its alternatives →

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    A fully-featured lisp/scheme shell written in Racket. - DexterLagan/lsh

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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