jlevy/the-art-of-command-line

Master the command line, in one page

162.5k stars · 14.8k forks

This repo isn't software code, so code checks are limited.

Caution

Caution: no human commits in a year, and most questions go unanswered.

Why

No human commits since July 2023, and only 0 of 6 recent issues got a maintainer reply. The repository holds mostly documentation, data or model files, so inactivity matters less than for a code library. (source 1, source 2, source 3, source 4)
GitHub found no license file, so the content is not clearly licensed for reuse. (source 1)

What would change this

A release or merged commit from a maintainer, or replies to recent issues.
A license file is added.

Maintenance

Complete

Dormant

Human commits, 30 days: 0
Human commits, 90 days: 0
Human commits, 365 days: 0
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 0%
Last commit: Jul 12, 2023 (3 years ago)
Last human commit: Jul 12, 2023 (3 years ago)
Authors, 90 days: 0
Last release: none found
Median PR merge time: 27 days

Responsiveness: of 6 recent issues, 0% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.

No human commits in 365 days, and most issues go unanswered.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Personal account
Commits sampled: 100 since Nov 11, 2017
Authors for half of commits: 1
Authors for 80% of commits: 7
Contributors: 149

Top committers

jlevy: 61% of commits
LLyaudet: 7% of commits
ericguirbal: 3% of commits
petk: 3% of commits
0xmohit: 2% of commits

No human commits in the last 365 days, so shares use the newest 100 commits back to 2017-11-11T23:22:41Z.

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Mostly organic, confidence high

Bars show stars gained each week. Orange bars overlap a burst.

Bursts

Jun 24, 2015 to Jul 9, 2015: about 3.6k more stars than usual, peak 377 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Nov 24, 2015 to Nov 26, 2015: about 70 more stars than usual, peak 49 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Dec 29, 2015 to Jan 23, 2016: about 3.1k more stars than usual, peak 398 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 20, 2016 to Aug 28, 2016: about 789 more stars than usual, peak 210 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 15, 2018 to Jul 17, 2018: about 80 more stars than usual, peak 57 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Dec 2, 2018 to Dec 6, 2018: about 118 more stars than usual, peak 50 in one day, a shape we can't classify. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Jan 12, 2019 to Jan 14, 2019: about 103 more stars than usual, peak 80 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
May 16, 2019 to Jun 18, 2019: about 15.2k more stars than usual, peak 2.5k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 16, 2019 to Sep 19, 2019: about 319 more stars than usual, peak 177 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Jan 13, 2020 to Jan 20, 2020: about 464 more stars than usual, peak 121 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Feb 13, 2020 to Feb 19, 2020: about 889 more stars than usual, peak 306 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Apr 1, 2020 to Apr 23, 2020: about 3.3k more stars than usual, peak 573 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 25, 2020 to May 29, 2020: about 956 more stars than usual, peak 533 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 12, 2020 to Jul 14, 2020: about 780 more stars than usual, peak 405 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Dec 14, 2020 to Dec 20, 2020: about 619 more stars than usual, peak 327 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 1, 2021 to Mar 4, 2021: about 261 more stars than usual, peak 185 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
May 3, 2021 to May 14, 2021: about 2.7k more stars than usual, peak 491 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 4, 2021 to Jun 11, 2021: about 1.3k more stars than usual, peak 365 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Sep 15, 2021 to Sep 25, 2021: about 2.3k more stars than usual, peak 391 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 26, 2021 to Dec 5, 2021: about 1.4k more stars than usual, peak 253 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 6, 2022 to Mar 17, 2022: about 1.3k more stars than usual, peak 334 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 14, 2022 to Jul 15, 2022: about 240 more stars than usual, peak 238 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 24, 2022 to Aug 25, 2022: about 98 more stars than usual, peak 90 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Sep 20, 2022 to Sep 28, 2022: about 614 more stars than usual, peak 202 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 22, 2022 to Nov 2, 2022: about 2.8k more stars than usual, peak 575 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 7, 2022 to Nov 14, 2022: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 479 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Nov 23, 2022 to Dec 1, 2022: about 3.5k more stars than usual, peak 1k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 14, 2022 to Dec 16, 2022: about 446 more stars than usual, peak 324 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Dec 28, 2022 to Dec 30, 2022: about 319 more stars than usual, peak 268 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Jan 13, 2023 to Jan 19, 2023: about 1.2k more stars than usual, peak 371 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 27, 2023 to Feb 6, 2023: about 1.3k more stars than usual, peak 301 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 20, 2023 to Feb 24, 2023: about 839 more stars than usual, peak 324 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Feb 28, 2023 to Mar 2, 2023: about 246 more stars than usual, peak 232 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Jul 31, 2023 to Aug 1, 2023: about 100 more stars than usual, peak 91 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Nov 2, 2023 to Nov 2, 2023: about 74 more stars than usual, peak 99 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Dec 18, 2023 to Dec 27, 2023: about 760 more stars than usual, peak 266 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 17, 2024 to Feb 22, 2024: about 1.6k more stars than usual, peak 446 in one day, a shape we can't classify. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Mar 21, 2024 to Mar 22, 2024: about 166 more stars than usual, peak 153 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Apr 1, 2024 to Apr 11, 2024: about 1k more stars than usual, peak 265 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 3, 2024 to Sep 8, 2024: about 533 more stars than usual, peak 210 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Jun 26, 2025 to Jun 27, 2025: about 75 more stars than usual, peak 72 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Jul 7, 2025 to Jul 8, 2025: about 60 more stars than usual, peak 57 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Jul 31, 2025 to Aug 3, 2025: about 322 more stars than usual, peak 224 in one day, a shape we can't classify. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Mar 6, 2026 to Mar 10, 2026: about 131 more stars than usual, peak 59 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 16, 2026 to Apr 18, 2026: about 119 more stars than usual, peak 89 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Jul 7, 2026 to Jul 8, 2026: about 64 more stars than usual, peak 64 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.

11 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 13, 2026).

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

Anyone can buy stars for any repo, so this describes the star history only.
Engagement is not compared for non-code or mirror repositories.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Complete

Flags

Warning: GitHub finds no license for this repository, so default copyright rules apply and no reuse is granted. Details
Info: The OpenSSF Scorecard for this project is 3.2 out of 10 (deps.dev). Details

License

Now: No license found
A year ago: Not known

Packages

No published packages found.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 3.2 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: jlevy/the-art-of-command-line

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 14, 2026: Caution
Oct 13, 2026: Caution
Oct 13, 2026: Caution

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