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What CLI apps you use to do common tasks like editing (pdf, audio, video, image) files. (social.fossware.space)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Here is my list:

pdf - pdftk
images - imagemagickutilities
audio/video - ffmpeg
documents - libreoffice --headless mode, also pandoc
download files - wget and curl, also ydlp for youtube, reddit
cloud storage - rclone

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Resizing images: mogrify (part of the imagemagick suite)
ffmpeg
pdftk is king for rotating/cropping/appending pdfs
LaTeX everything
make/shell - to script/automate image and document editing
pandoc is reasonably good for many things
latex2rtf - to get plain text for word counts out of LaTeX source
wc - word count, line count
ispell -t - does spell check in the terminal. The -t is so that it'll mostly ignore LaTeX commands in the source

I'm sure there's more but I don't memorize them, they kind of get remembered when I need them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Your list looks like what I'd write anyway, so just commenting; ^ That.