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Useful CLI tools like ffmpeg, ani-cli, yazi, etc.? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by dil@lemmy.zip to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Been using the CLI more and more and for whatever reason it gives me more dopamine than using apps with a GUI and I'm curious about what else is out there since I was a windows user til 6 months ago.

Discovering ish and the ability to use alpine linux on my iphone, also has me curious if there is anything useful/fun out there that isn't openssh, ranger, and ffmpeg. (a-shell is still updated and comes with those two by default but doesn't have access to alpine repo and apk, uses its own iphone based thing) Tho im curious about cli tools/apps in general to use on my pc or over ssh, not just those that could be installed on my phone

I mostly use ffmpeg to convert video and compress stuff for size limits (so I can convert before sftp when away from my pc after the render finishes) Ranger file manager on phone since it can easily exit at a path, and yazi with the shell script that lets it exit at whatever path your on on pc.

Will update this list as people comment.

Conversion/Compression: ffmpeg
Email: mutt, neomut
File management: mc, nnn, ranger, yazi, sfm
File editor: vim, neovim
Git: lazygit
Piracy: ani-cli (anime) rip (music)
Pdf Management: pdftk (pdftk-idk, or stapler)
Python: rich, pythondialog, textual
Docker management : lazydocker
Performance monitor: btop, nvtop (nvidia), ncdu (disk usage)
Network management: nmtui
Web browser : browsh (firefox backend)
Video downloader: yt-dlp
Shell scripts: dialog, whiptail
Misc: netpbm (plaintext image creation) If you can't comment this post seems to be bugged for me at least, says I've deleted it and I can't reply to anyone.

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[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Midnight Commander (mc) is a classic file manager if you grew up in the 90s with Norton Commander on DOS.

For my local Git repositories I prefer lazygit now. There’s also a plethora of other lazy* tools for e.g. Docker.

And you should maybe look at dialog or whiptail to spice up your shell scripts.

If you do Python, there’s the rich library and there’s also pythondialog. Both pretty easy to use. If you want more, there’s textual.

EDIT: mutt for emails is nice once you’ve managed to set it up.

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah i never used norton commander so mc was a bit rough looking for me, but it was the first one I saw and why I found yazi, ranger, etc. There are a ton of them, just listed the few i tried

[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago

Yeah, I’m trying to build some muscle memory in yazi, too, as I like its instant previews.

I’ve also just remembered this website that has lots of other cool terminal tools:

https://terminaltrove.com/