Command-line tools: M

• m-cli

  Swiss Army Knife for macOS

• m1ddc

  Control external displays (USB-C/DisplayPort Alt Mode) using DDC/CI on M1 Macs

• m4

  Macro processing language

• mac

  Monkey's Audio lossless codec

• mac-cleanup-go

  TUI macOS cleaner that scans caches/logs and lets you select what to delete

• mac-cleanup-py

  Python cleanup script for macOS

• macchanger

  Change your mac address, for macOS

• macchina

  System information fetcher, with an emphasis on performance and minimalism

• mackup

  Keep your Mac's application settings in sync

• macmon

  Sudoless performance monitoring for Apple Silicon processors

• macos-trash

  Move files and folders to the trash

• mactop

  Apple Silicon Monitor Top written in Go Lang

• macvim

  GUI for vim, made for macOS

• mad

  MPEG audio decoder

• mafft

  Multiple alignments with fast Fourier transforms

• mage

  Make/rake-like build tool using Go

• magic-wormhole

  Securely transfers data between computers

• magic-wormhole.rs

  Rust implementation of Magic Wormhole, with new features and enhancements

• magika

  Fast and accurate AI powered file content types detection

• mago

  Toolchain for PHP to help developers write better code

• maigret

  Collect a dossier on a person by username from thousands of sites

• mailpit

  Web and API based SMTP testing

• mailsy

  Quickly generate a temporary email address

• mailutils

  Swiss Army knife of email handling

• make

  Utility for directing compilation

• makedepend

  Creates dependencies in makefiles

• makensis

  System to create Windows installers

• malcontent

  Supply Chain Attack Detection, via context differential analysis and YARA

• mame

  Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator

• man-db

  Unix documentation system

• man2html

  Convert nroff man pages to HTML

• mani

  CLI tool to help you manage repositories

• manim

  Animation engine for explanatory math videos

• manticoresearch

  Open source text search engine

• mapnik

  Toolkit for developing mapping applications

• mapscii

  Whole World In Your Console

• mapserver

  Publish spatial data and interactive mapping apps to the web

• mariadb

  Drop-in replacement for MySQL

• mariadb-connector-c

  MariaDB database connector for C applications

• mariadb-connector-odbc

  Database driver using the industry standard ODBC API

• mariadb@10.11

  Drop-in replacement for MySQL

• mariadb@11.4

  Drop-in replacement for MySQL

• mariadb@11.8

  Drop-in replacement for MySQL

• mark

  Sync your markdown files with Confluence pages

• markdown

  Text-to-HTML conversion tool

• markdown-oxide

  Personal Knowledge Management System for the LSP

• markdownlint-cli

  CLI for Node.js style checker and lint tool for Markdown files

• markdownlint-cli2

  Fast, flexible, config-based cli for linting Markdown/CommonMark files

• marked

  Markdown parser and compiler built for speed

• marp-cli

  Easily convert Marp Markdown files into static HTML/CSS, PDF, PPT and images

• martin

  Blazing fast tile server, tile generation, and mbtiles tooling

• mas

  Mac App Store command-line interface

• mask

  CLI task runner defined by a simple markdown file

• masscan

  TCP port scanner, scans entire Internet in under 5 minutes

• massdns

  High-performance DNS stub resolver

• mat2

  Metadata anonymization toolkit

• maturin

  Build and publish Rust crates as Python packages

• maven

  Java-based project management

• mavsdk

  API and library for MAVLink compatible systems written in C++17

• mawk

  Interpreter for the AWK Programming Language

• maxima

  Computer algebra system

• mbedtls

  Cryptographic & SSL/TLS library

• mbedtls@3

  Cryptographic & SSL/TLS library

• mbpoll

  Command-line utility to communicate with ModBus slave (RTU or TCP)

• mcap

  Serialization-agnostic container file format for pub/sub messages

• mcat

  Terminal image, video, directory, and Markdown viewer

• mcfly

  Fly through your shell history

• mcp-atlassian

  MCP server for Atlassian tools (Confluence, Jira)

• mcp-google-sheets

  MCP server integrates with your Google Drive and Google Sheets

• mcp-grafana

  MCP server for Grafana

• mcp-inspector

  Visual testing tool for MCP servers

• mcp-proxy

  Bridge between Streamable HTTP and stdio MCP transports

• mcp-publisher

  Publisher CLI tool for the Official Model Context Protocol (MCP) Registry

• mcp-server-kubernetes

  MCP Server for kubernetes management commands

• mcp-toolbox

  MCP server for databases

• mcpm

  Open source, community-driven MCP server and client manager

• md-tui

  Markdown renderer in the terminal written in rust

• md2pdf

  CLI utility that generates PDF from Markdown

• md4c

  C Markdown parser. Fast. SAX-like interface

• md5deep

  Recursively compute digests on files/directories

• md5sha1sum

  Hash utilities

• mdbook

  Create modern online books from Markdown files

• mdbtools

  Tools to facilitate the use of Microsoft Access databases

• mdcat

  Show markdown documents on text terminals

• mdf2iso

  Tool to convert MDF (Alcohol 120% images) images to ISO images

• mdfried

  Terminal markdown viewer

• mdless

  Provides a formatted and highlighted view of Markdown files in Terminal

• mdq

  Like jq but for Markdown

• mdv

  Styled terminal markdown viewer

• mecab

  Yet another part-of-speech and morphological analyzer

• mecab-ipadic

  IPA dictionary compiled for MeCab

• media-control

  Control and observe media playback from the command-line

• media-info

  Unified display of technical and tag data for audio/video

• mediamtx

  Zero-dependency real-time media server and media proxy

• medusa

  Solidity smart contract fuzzer powered by go-ethereum

• megatools

  Command-line client for Mega.co.nz

• meilisearch

  Ultra relevant, instant and typo-tolerant full-text search API

• melange

  Build APKs from source code

• memcached

  High performance, distributed memory object caching system

• memex

  Index and search local agent conversation history

• memtester

  Utility for testing the memory subsystem

• mercurial

  Scalable distributed version control system

• mergiraf

  Syntax-aware git merge driver

• mermaid-cli

  CLI for Mermaid library

• merve

  C++ lexer for extracting named exports from CommonJS modules

• mesa

  Graphics Library

• mesa-glu

  Mesa OpenGL Utility library

• mesheryctl

  Command-line utility for Meshery, the cloud native management plane

• meson

  Fast and user friendly build system

• meta-package-manager

  Wrapper around all package managers with a unifying CLI

• metabase

  Business intelligence report server

• metals

  Scala language server

• metis

  Programs that partition graphs and order matrices

• micasa

  TUI for tracking home projects, maintenance schedules, appliances and quotes

• micro

  Modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

• micromamba

  Fast Cross-Platform Package Manager

• micronaut

  Modern JVM-based framework for building modular microservices

• micropython

  Python implementation for microcontrollers and constrained systems

• microsocks

  Tiny, portable SOCKS5 server with very moderate resource usage

• midnight-commander

  Terminal-based visual file manager

• mihomo

  Another rule-based tunnel in Go, formerly known as ClashMeta

• mill

  Fast, scalable JVM build tool

• miller

  Like sed, awk, cut, join & sort for name-indexed data such as CSV

• mimalloc

  Compact general purpose allocator

• mimirtool

  CLI for interacting with Grafana Mimir

• mimo-code

  AI coding agent with cross-session memory

• mingw-w64

  Minimalist GNU for Windows and GCC cross-compilers

• minicom

  Menu-driven communications program

• minidlna

  Media server software, compliant with DLNA/UPnP-AV clients

• minify

  Minifier for HTML, CSS, JS, JSON, SVG, and XML

• minijinja-cli

  Render Jinja2 templates directly from the command-line to stdout

• minikube

  Run a Kubernetes cluster locally

• minimal-racket

  Modern programming language in the Lisp/Scheme family

• minimap2

  Versatile pairwise aligner for genomic and spliced nucleotide sequences

• minipro

  Open controller for the MiniPRO TL866xx series of chip programmers

• miniserve

  High performance static file server

• minisign

  Sign files & verify signatures. Works with signify in OpenBSD

• miniupnpc

  UPnP IGD client library and daemon

• minizinc

  Medium-level constraint modeling language

• minizip

  C library for zip/unzip via zLib

• mint

  Dependency manager that installs and runs Swift command-line tool packages

• mintoolkit

  Minify and secure Docker images

• mise

  Polyglot runtime manager (asdf rust clone)

• mist-cli

  Mac command-line tool that automatically downloads macOS Firmwares / Installers

• mistral-vibe

  Minimal CLI coding agent

• mit-scheme

  MIT/GNU Scheme development tools and runtime library

• mjml

  JavaScript framework that makes responsive-email easy

• mkcert

  Simple tool to make locally trusted development certificates

• mkdocs

  Project documentation with Markdown

• mkdocs-material

  Material Design theme for MkDocs

• mktorrent

  Create BitTorrent metainfo files

• mkvtoolnix

  Matroska media files manipulation tools

• mlt

  Author, manage, and run multitrack audio/video compositions

• mlx

  Array framework for Apple silicon

• mlx-c

  C API for MLX

• mlx-lm

  Run LLMs with MLX

• mmctl

  Remote CLI tool for Mattermost server

• mmdbctl

  MMDB file management CLI supporting various operations on MMDB database files

• mmseqs2

  Software suite for very fast sequence search and clustering

• mob

  Tool for smooth Git handover in mob programming sessions

• mobiledevice

  CLI for Apple's Private (Closed) Mobile Device Framework

• mockery

  Mock code autogenerator for Golang

• mockolo

  Efficient Mock Generator for Swift

• mockserver

  Mock HTTP server and proxy

• models

  Fast TUI and CLI for browsing AI models, benchmarks, and coding agents

• mogenerator

  Generate Objective-C & Swift classes from your Core Data model

• mold

  Modern Linker

• mole

  Deep clean and optimize your Mac

• molecule

  Automated testing for Ansible roles

• molten-vk

  Implementation of the Vulkan graphics and compute API on top of Metal

• monero

  Official Monero wallet and CPU miner

• mongo-c-driver

  C driver for MongoDB

• mongocli

  MongoDB CLI enables you to manage your MongoDB in the Cloud

• mongodb-atlas-cli

  Atlas CLI enables you to manage your MongoDB Atlas

• mongosh

  MongoDB Shell to connect, configure, query, and work with your MongoDB database

• mono

  Cross platform, open source .NET development framework

• mono-libgdiplus

  GDI+-compatible API on non-Windows operating systems

• monolith

  CLI tool for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file

• moon

  Task runner and repo management tool for the web ecosystem, written in Rust

• moon-buggy

  Drive some car across the moon

• moor

  Nice to use pager for humans

• moreutils

  Collection of tools that nobody wrote when UNIX was young

• mosh

  Remote terminal application

• mosquitto

  Message broker implementing the MQTT protocol

• most

  Powerful paging program

• moto

  Mock AWS services

• mozjpeg

  Improved JPEG encoder

• mp4v2

  Read, create, and modify MP4 files

• mpc

  Command-line music player client for mpd

• mpd

  Music Player Daemon

• mpdecimal

  Library for decimal floating point arithmetic

• mpfr

  C library for multiple-precision floating-point computations

• mpg123

  MP3 player for Linux and UNIX

• mpi4py

  Python bindings for MPI

• mpich

  Implementation of the MPI Message Passing Interface standard

• mplayer

  UNIX movie player

• mpremote

  Tool for interacting remotely with MicroPython devices

• mpv

  Media player based on MPlayer and mplayer2

• mq

  Jq-like command-line tool for markdown processing

• mqttui

  Subscribe to a MQTT Topic or publish something quickly from the terminal

• mruby

  Lightweight implementation of the Ruby language

• mscgen

  Parses Message Sequence Chart descriptions and produces images

• msedit

  Simple text editor with clickable interface

• msgpack

  Library for a binary-based efficient data interchange format

• msgpack-cxx

  MessagePack implementation for C++ / msgpack.org[C++]

• msitools

  Windows installer (.MSI) tool

• msmtp

  SMTP client that can be used as an SMTP plugin for Mutt

• mtools

  Tools for manipulating MSDOS files

• mtr

  'traceroute' and 'ping' in a single tool

• mu

  Tool for searching e-mail messages stored in the maildir-format

• muffet

  Fast website link checker in Go

• mujs

  Embeddable Javascript interpreter

• multimarkdown

  Turn marked-up plain text into well-formatted documents

• multitail

  Tail multiple files in one terminal simultaneously

• mupdf

  Lightweight PDF and XPS viewer

• mupdf-tools

  Lightweight PDF and XPS viewer

• musikcube

  Terminal-based audio engine, library, player and server

• mutt

  Mongrel of mail user agents (part elm, pine, mush, mh, etc.)

• mvfst

  QUIC transport protocol implementation

• mx

  Command-line tool used for the development of Graal projects

• mycli

  CLI for MySQL with auto-completion and syntax highlighting

• mydumper

  MySQL logical backup tool

• mypy

  Experimental optional static type checker for Python

• mysql

  Open source relational database management system

• mysql-client

  Open source relational database management system

• mysql-client@8.4

  Open source relational database management system

• mysql-connector-c++

  MySQL database connector for C++ applications

• mysql@8.4

  Open source relational database management system

• mysql@9.7

  Open source relational database management system

• mysqltuner

  Increase performance and stability of a MySQL installation

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