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Posix projects on GitHub

Portable shell scripting and tools that follow POSIX standards.

As of , the most-starred Posix projects on GitHub are nvm (95.6K stars), acme.sh (47.8K stars) and cobra (44.7K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 13 Posix repositories with 402.1K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was seaweedfs, with +24 stars in a day.

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402.1KStars in total
+104Stars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+24

seaweedfs

seaweedfs/seaweedfs · ★ 35.5K

SeaweedFS is a distributed storage system that serves billions of small and large files with O(1) disk access, exposing the same data as an S3 object store, a POSIX file system, and an Iceberg/Lance data lakehouse through one binary.

+16

nvm

nvm-sh/nvm · ★ 95.6K

nvm (Node Version Manager) is a POSIX-compliant bash script that lets you install, switch between, and manage multiple versions of Node.js on the same machine.

+13

acme.sh

acmesh-official/acme.sh · ★ 47.8K

acme.sh is a pure Unix shell script client for the ACME protocol that automatically issues, renews, and installs free SSL/TLS certificates from CAs like Let's Encrypt or ZeroSSL.

+10

vim

vim/vim · ★ 41.1K

Vim (Vi IMproved) is a greatly improved version of the classic UNIX editor Vi - a text editor geared to editing programs and other plain text files. The current release is version 9.2.

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13 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · nvm-sh/nvm

    nvm

    nvm (Node Version Manager) is a POSIX-compliant bash script that lets you install, switch between, and manage multiple versions of Node.js on the same machine.

    95.6K
  2. #2 · acmesh-official/acme.sh

    acme.sh

    acme.sh is a pure Unix shell script client for the ACME protocol that automatically issues, renews, and installs free SSL/TLS certificates from CAs like Let's Encrypt or ZeroSSL.

    47.8K
  3. #3 · spf13/cobra

    cobra

    Cobra is a Go library for building modern CLI applications with subcommands, like git or go tools. It powers CLIs in Kubernetes, Hugo, and GitHub CLI.

    44.7K
  1. 4

    vim

    41.1Kvim/vim · Vim Script

    Vim (Vi IMproved) is a greatly improved version of the classic UNIX editor Vi - a text editor geared to editing programs and other plain text files. The current release is version 9.2.

  2. 5

    seaweedfs

    35.5Kseaweedfs/seaweedfs · Go

    SeaweedFS is a distributed storage system that serves billions of small and large files with O(1) disk access, exposing the same data as an S3 object store, a POSIX file system, and an Iceberg/Lance data lakehouse through one binary.

  3. 6

    serenity

    33.9KSerenityOS/serenity · C++

    SerenityOS is a graphical Unix-like operating system for 64-bit x86, Arm, and RISC-V computers, built entirely from scratch.

  4. 7

    coreutils

    24.3Kuutils/coreutils · Rust

    A Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils — the classic command-line utilities like ls, cp, cat and sort — aiming to be a drop-in replacement with output matching GNU exactly.

  5. 8

    ceph

    17.1Kceph/ceph · C++

    Ceph is an open-source distributed storage platform: it pools a cluster of servers into one scalable storage system that serves object, block, and file storage at the same time.

  6. 9

    redox

    16.6Kredox-os/redox · Rust

    Redox is an open-source operating system written in Rust that uses a microkernel architecture, aiming to be reliable, secure and usable while providing a full set of components like a file system, display server and core utilities.

  7. 10

    juicefs

    14.5Kjuicedata/juicefs · Go

    JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system that stores data in object storage (like S3) and metadata in a database engine (like Redis), letting you use massive cloud storage as if it were a local disk.

  8. 11

    ani-cli

    14Kpystardust/ani-cli · Shell

    ani-cli is a command-line tool that scrapes an anime streaming site and lets you search for and play anime episodes directly from the terminal, alone or with friends via syncplay.

  9. 12

    distrobox

    13.1K89luca89/distrobox · Go

    Distrobox lets you run any Linux distribution inside your terminal using containers, giving you backward and forward software compatibility while keeping the environment tightly integrated with your host system.

  10. 13

    coursebook

    3.8Kcs341-illinois/coursebook · TeX

    This is an open-source introductory systems programming textbook (the Coursebook) used by the CS 341: System Programming course at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, covering low-level C programming and Linux internals.

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