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24 alternatives to Proc CLI

Semantic CLI tool for process management

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Hi HN, I built a small Linux CLI tool called witr (Why Is This Running?). The idea came from a situation most of us have hit: you log into a machine, see a process or port running, and immediately wonder why it exists, who started it, and what is keeping it alive right now. witr traces a process, service, or port back to its origin and responsibility chain and explains it in a way that’s quick to read, especially when you’re debugging under pressure. This is v0.1.0. It’s intentionally small and focused. Feedback, criticism, and edge cases are very welcome. Repo:…

    Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A command-line tool to kill processes and containers running on specified ports. - jkfran/killport

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    LLM 0.26 is out with the biggest new feature since I started the project: support for tools. You can now use the LLM CLI tool—and Python library—to grant LLMs from …

    2025 · simonwillison.net · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN — I’m learning Rust and decided to build a universal CLI for running code in many languages. The tool, Run, aims to be a single, minimal dependency utility for: running one-off snippets (from CLI flags), running files, reading and executing piped stdin, and providing language-specific REPLs that you can switch between interactively. I designed it to support both interpreted languages (Python, JS, Ruby, etc.) and compiled languages (Rust, Go, C/C++). It detects languages from flags or file extensions, can compile temporary files for compiled languages, and exposes a unified REPL…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A global server network in your command line

    2018 · perfops.net · its alternatives →

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    AI-first CLI for task management and documentation.

    Jan 2026 · its alternatives →

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    CLI tool for inspecting and managing services listening on localhost ports - raskrebs/sonar

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Lightweight time management CLI tool . Contribute to liviu-/ding development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    An experimental programming language for data flow - calebwin/pipelines

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Create a new production-ready project by one CLI command

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Last month, I started learning a Python TUI framework called Textual. After working on a 4x4 board game, I made an interactive app to test your CLI text processing skills with 40 beginner to intermediate level exercises. The app is fairly basic in terms of features — only single input file, so no stdin data, multiple files, etc. Most of the exercises in this app is based on my Computing from the Command Line ebook (https://learnbyexample.github.io/cli-computing/preface.html). I hope to improve the TUI app to support all the 200+ exercises sometime next year.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Process manager & log viewer for dev.

    2021 · exo.deref.io · its alternatives →

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    CLI tool for developers, helps you accomplish tasks faster

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    N▲75

    A cli tool that notifies when programs executions complete

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Metana▲59

    Task migration tool written in Go for Golang services

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Runs your tasks at maximum concurrency. Contribute to cirocosta/cr development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Interactive cli tool that lists and run package.json scripts

    2019 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →

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    compile/run for the lazy. Contribute to alcover/lacy development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A CLI tool to build beautiful rich text command-line interfaces with type validation. - Andarius/piou

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    _idk ai▲15

    Execute CLI commands 10x quicker ⚡

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Self-contained C/C++ profiler library for Linux. Contribute to cyrus-and/prof development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! My name is Marko and I am working on a CI/CD system at harmont.dev, a CI/CD system that sucks slightly less. As I've been working on the cloud, I realized that the CLI might be generally useful as a task runner, even if you don't care for our CI/CD, and that's what I'm sharing here! Every CI system I've used at Tesla, Bun, and mesa.dev has had the same problems: stateless and slow (GHA), or stateful and horizontally unscalable (Jenkins), with YAML on top of either. The straw that broke the camel's back for me was the realization that all my Claudes are waiting upwards…

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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