List of your linux commands Apps

[bester69]

pdfposter
Pdfposter can be used to create a large poster by building it from multiple pages and/or printing it on large media. It expects as input a PDF file, normally printing on a single page. The output is again a PDF file, maybe containing multiple pages together building the poster. The input page will be scaled to obtain the desired size.
https://pdfposter.readthedocs.io/en/stable/Usage.html
https://pdfposter.readthedocs.io/en/sta ... mples.html

Examples.:
pdfposter -mA3 -pA0 a4.pdf out.pdf:
Prints an A4 input file on 8 A3 pages, forming an A0 poster.
pdfposter -p3x3Let a4.pdf out.pdf:
Prints an inputfile on a poster of 3x3 Letter pages.
pdfposter -mA0 input.pdf out.pdf:
Enlarges an inputfile to print on a large-media A0 capable device.
pdfposter -s4 input.pdf out.pdf:
Enlarge an inputfile exactly 4 times, print on the default A4 media, and let pdfposter determine the number of pages required.
pdfposter -m10x10cm -pa0 a4.pdf out.pdf:
Just to show how efficient pdfposter is: This will create a file containing 192 pages, but only 15 times as big as the single page. With a4.pdf being a quite empty page, this ratio should be even better for filled pages.

[Deb-fan]

ALL OF EM ...

One cool one I'd found not long ago came to mind when read this threads title, it's called ncdu. ie: Try "ncdu /var/log" think it's cool. Haven't really gotten around to learning or using it much.

[Cyborg]

I quite like tldr (sudo apt install tldr). It gives you a summary of the man page of most commands, with some typical examples.
Keep it up-to-date by running tldr --update

[wizard10000]

ALL OF EM ...

One cool one I'd found not long ago came to mind when read this threads title, it's called ncdu. ie: Try "ncdu /var/log" think it's cool. Haven't really gotten around to learning or using it much.

ncdu has been my go-to for awhile. There really isn't much to learn and it's pretty darn handy

[Head_on_a_Stick]

https://www.wezm.net/technical/2019/10/ ... ine-tools/

[Deb-fan]

Wizard10000 , another I find myself using often is mlocate ... for the locate cmd. ie: "locate lightdm |grep config" etc etc. One thing recently discovered about it I don't so much like is the thing has been set in Stretch and Buster to update it's database daily. Noted updatedb and find were smashing my cpu(s), while was dorking around. So ended up tracking it down to cron.daily and just chmod'ed it's file so it's no longer executable. Just run "updatedb" manually as needed, don't need it doing it ... itself daily. Noticed often you have to do itself yourself anyway, install something, start trying to find its config files and locate won't cause it hasn't updated recently enough.

[arzgi]

I almost only boot to xfce, but have at least one terminal open in each workspace. It's nice to see, that new editors and other programs for cli are still developed.

So please share, what programs do you use at terminal window!

My editor of choice is vim.

ranger is an excellent filemanager, can preview many formats, I have configured it to preview epub, odt, pdf and even some simple docs with some other apps (epr.py (https:// github.com/wustho/epr), odt2txt, catdoc, antiword), pictures with feh.

feh cli picture viewer works also on its own, can even do some simple editing: mirror, rotate. Also the others in the above list do not need ranger to work.

mc is great two-panel filemanager, since I installed ranger I don't need it much, only use it to sync my phone with laptop.

cmus I use to listen music.

I use elinks to read news. Firefox for other browsing

tmux ('terminal multiplier') looks interesting, but have not installed because the monitor of this laptop is 11.5". Tried, but terminals went too small.

[arzgi]

trans cli google translator

Buster package translate-shell

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$ trans en:fi 'red herring'
red herring

punainen silli

Määritelmät kohteelle red herring
[ English -> Suomi ]

lauseke
    harhautus
        red herring
    harhautusyritys
        red herring

red herring
    punainen silli, harhautus
arto@acer:~$ trans en:de 'red herring'
red herring

Ablenkungsmanöver

Määritelmät kohteelle red herring
[ English -> Deutsch ]

substantiivi
    (das) Ablenkungsmanöver
        diversionary tactic, red herring, diversion

red herring
    Ablenkungsmanöver, roter Hering


[Head_on_a_Stick]

Bottom

A cross-platform graphical process/system monitor with a customisable interface and a multitude of features. Supports Linux, macOS, and Windows. Inspired by both gtop and gotop.



https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom

[Head_on_a_Stick]

sysmgr

A POSIX sh system-supervisor meant to take away the complexity of today's alternatives.

https://github.com/cemkeylan/sysmgr

The author describes runit as "too complex"

[bester69]

tizonia (Music Player) + SoundCloud (GREAT PLAYER!!!
A command-line streaming music client/server for Linux.
- Support for Spotify (Premium),
- Google Play Music (free and paid tiers),
- YouTube, SoundCloud,
- Dirble, Plex servers and Chromecast devices.
http://tizonia.org

snap install tizonia
edit tizonia.conf and add Auth_token
Tip.: You can get one SoundCloud token by installing Auryo and copy/use that one)

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# SoundCloud configuration
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------
soundcloud.oauth_token =1-27xxx-20xx77614-de2187bcb0ad7
# soundcloud.buffer_seconds = size of the audio buffer (in seconds) to use


let you here a script for listenning my favourite Artist ( its wort it!!, hundreths of melodic hours ).:
mario.sh

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#!/bin/bash
#
clear && killall tizonia
tizonia --help soundcloud
tizonia --soundcloud-creator JoseMarioMusik  --shuffle


tizonia --help keyboard
Keyboard control:
[p] skip to previous file.
[n] skip to next file.
[SPACE] pause playback.
[+/-] increase/decrease volume.
[m] mute.
[q] quit.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

GitHub CLI

GitHub CLI brings GitHub to your terminal. Nice.

EDIT: the packaging isn't the best but they have a Debian buster repository.

[bester69]

nconvert (xnconvert command line)
NConvert is a powerful command line multi-platform batch image processor with more than 80 commands. Compatible with 500 image formats.
NConvert is Multi-platform, it is available for Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD, OS/2, DOS32 LE, MSDOS, ATARi,BeOS x86, QNX, Irix, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, etc..
https://www.xnview.com/en/nconvert/
**NConvert is provided as FREEWARE (NO Adware, NO Spyware) for private or educational use (including non-profit organizations).
If you enjoy using NConvert, feel free to help the developer with a small donation.


Features:
Metadata Editing.
Transforms: Rotate, Crop, Resize, ...
Adjustments: Brightness, Contrast, saturation, ...
Filters: Blur, Emboss, Sharpen, ...
Effects: Masking, Watermark, Vignetting,

Examples.:
nconvert -info sal.jpg

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nconvert -info sal_1.jpg
** NCONVERT v7.39 (c) 1991-2019 Pierre-E Gougelet (Feb 25 2020/13:19:45) **
        Version for Linux x86 (X11)  (All rights reserved)
** This is freeware software (for non-commercial use)

sal_1.jpg : Success
    Format               : JPEG TrueColor (v1.1)
    Name                 : jpeg
    Compression          : JPEG
    Width                : 456
    Height               : 296
    Components per pixel : 3
    Bits per component   : 8
    Depth                : 24
    # colors             : 16777216
    Color model          : RGB
    Bytes Per Plane      : 1368
    Orientation          : Top Left
    Xdpi                 : 72
    Ydpi                 : 72
    Page(s)              : 1


nconvert -out jpeg -q 75 -o myresult sourcefile.bmp
nconvert -sepia 52 -blur 28 -out jpeg -q 80 sourcefile.bmp (Sepia filter + bur)
nconvert -wmopacity 25 -wmflag bottom-left-wmsize 28 -wmfile "/home/user/watermark.png" -out jpeg -q 75 -o myresult sourcefile.bmp (watermark mask)

[sickpig]

I am waiting for the post announcing Microsoft Edge as someone's linux app. That should be fun

[bester69]

I am waiting for the post announcing Microsoft Edge as someone's linux app. That should be fun

No way, that never would happend..even me, have some scruples
but hey, some friendly or great close code apps deserve to coexists with linux i think..
and nconvert is an amazing friendly and powefull image edition tool.. and furthermore is freeware and free of spyware.. this close application deserve a tiny place in linux hearts