Questions tagged [command-line]
Software to be used from the command-line or in shell scripts.
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TTY-based big-picture system status overview for Linux
I'm currently trying to set up a Kubernetes cluster with Rancher on my vSphere/ESXi instance. In vSphere, there's a list of VMs, and when you click on one, the page that opens has a thumbnail of what ...
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Multi-file diff'ing - program, plug-in, or just algorithm
I'm finding myself in a workflow where I need to keep track of the differences of several very similar but not exactly same files. The diff command, as well as the mode of the same name in GNU Emacs ...
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Command-line tool to change the "size" of an SVG file?
This question may seem like a misnomer, because SVG files contain vector graphics that can be scaled to any arbitrary size. You generally wouldn't say that an SVG has a resolution of 300x400 pixels, ...
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A Tool to Load/Unload aliases and functions when cd'ing?
Does anyone know a tool (not a script) that automatically loads shell aliases and functions when I cd into a directory and unloads them when I leave?
By unloading, I mean restoring what got ...
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When awk becomes too cumbersome, what is the next classic Unix tool to consider to deal with text transformation?
Awk is invaluable for many purposes where text filter logic spans multiple lines and you need to maintain state (unlike grep and sed), but as I'm finding lately there may be cases where you need ...
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CLI tool to find the best match of a reference image in a directory
I am looking for a Linux CLI software which can print a "similarity score" of a given reference picture compared to all pictures within a folder.
The reference picture is a resized, low-...
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Is there a yaml diff tool whose output can be used as input to a yaml patch tool?
There are various yaml-patching tools, e.g. ytt, cels, yamlpatch, and yq. These take as input a yaml document and a patch specification, and output the yaml document that results from applying the ...
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Command line Archiving utility for Windows
I currently use an archive utility in the command line to create an archive zip file.
I need to have a specific folder structure within the archive file so when it's extracted all data is in the ...
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Terminal emulator with line numbers?
They can be useful when doing a lot of scrolling back and forth between command outputs.
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CLI Software used by professionals instead of OBS
Time ago I went on a website of this super broadcast software that could be ran via command line and used by various professionals on the field. Searching via gpt or google don't bring any good result....
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Free 2D nesting software for commandline/toolchain use
I'm looking for software for nesting 2D shapes for laser cutting. I would like to use this software to combine multiple shapes into a single sheet for cutting, as part of an automated Makefile-based ...
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Reusable command-console widget library or app
I'm developing a Windows-based, C++ app, for which I want to add a command console. The app is a toy 3d editor.
I have a basic console running using ImGui, but it's got some issues that are difficult ...
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Command-line tool for flattening directories
Examples:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52366028/auto-overwrite-when-flattening-file-structure-in-osx
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20211911/find-all-files-and-copy-them-to-a-folder-...
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Is there a (command line) tool to calculate percentage change between two files of the same format full of numbers?
Is there a (command line) tool to calculate percentage change between two files of the same format full of numbers?
Example:
File A:
100 100
File B:
150 70
Invocation:
$ calc_perc_change A B
+50% -...
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Straightforwardly convert dxf to gcode from command-line?
I have a CAD-produced dxf file containing the design of a 2d part to be cut using CNC. I'm looking for a software that can do the in-between CAM step of converting that dxf to gcode.
I see something ...
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Workflow: git status & git diff in command-line
This question was rejected at in the Software Engineering StackExchange, I was pointed here.
I use git entirely in the command-line and I look for ways to speed up my workflow.
Many times a day, I ...
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Command line tool to track time spent and traffic volume on visited websites
I am interested in knowing what are the top websites I visit with respect to:
the time spent on the website
the traffic volume of the website
The monitoring should be at the computer level (so ...
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Simple offline translation software with command line control (Windows)
I'm looking for a translation software that I can use completely offline. I have searched the web but most things I found were focused on online translators (google, deepl, ...). The few things I ...
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Is there a Windows command-line utility to convert saved "Webpage. HTML Only" files to "Webpage, Complete" files?
I have many locally-saved .HTML files that have links to remote images. I am looking for a command-line utility that would batch convert these "HTML Only" files to "Webpage, Complete&...
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Format HTML file(s) from the command line
I want to format HTML source files from the command line, one file at a time or in bulk.
Tool requirements
Should be installable on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
Must be capable of formatting in place, ...
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Windows CLI tool to take full ownership of a file
I do auditing of Windows Systems, I need a simple and robust CLI tool that can take ownership of any file to the full extent.
I've dabbled with takeown and icacls but they seem to be quite limited, ...
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What widely-available cross-platform command line program can I use to render a string containing color emoji
I have a program which allows users to create gifs from youtube videos using yt-dlp and ffmpeg. Unfortunately, ffmpeg does not support color emojis.
Here's what it looks like when you try:
ffmpeg -ss ...
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Generate private key from insecure public key
Supposing I have a 512-bit RSA public key (insecure by modern standards), how can I brute force to obtain a valid, corresponding private key assuming I have infinite time?
Suppose:
I generate an ...
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Is there a terminal-based image viewer that enables directory browsing after viewing a single file?
I am searching for a lightweight terminal image viewer like feh,meh, sxiv, pqiv, or qiv, with the end objective of having a terminal image viewer that allows you to explore all pictures in a folder ...
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Commandline config manager
Is there a tool for managing entries of a config file? E.g: by toggling comments, or setting some keys to some values. I know, for a one-time configuration it's easy to just use sed or awk like:
awk '/...
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Lightweight CLI Website Uptime Monitoring
I'm looking for a very lightweight, open-source, linux CLI tool for monitoring the uptime of a set of websites.
I do not want a tool that includes a web server. I'm thinking of something like mon, but ...
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grep tool that colorizes matches and (C) code comments?
This is somewhat similar to the question in https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/33131/how-to-grep-on-source-code-without-catching-comments - however, what I actually want, is this: provided a C ...
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Tool for storing and easy executing command lines (Windows)
Do you know any tool that allows you to store command lines and easy execute them (maybe even supporting parameters)? Something like:
c:\foo\bar\baz.exe --foo [play]
c:\foo\bar\qux.exe --bzz [play]
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Where can I fund a Windows OS GUI interface that would be a file manager to results output from the GNU find command?
I am very adept at using the GNU (Unix / Linux) find command.
Now I am looking for a GUI UI tool where I can run any find command I want, or point it to a script and have the results displayed in a ...
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Linux CLI Tool to batch convert PDFs to default to Continuous Page Display
I have googled this extensively, but not had any luck. I have a large selection of .pdf files, some of which default to displaying discrete pages or facing pages, and some of which default to ...
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Free terminal based dictionary for Linux
I'm looking for a dictionary that can be used from the terminal. I'm expecting something like dictionary <word-in-double-quotes>. Should be installable from apt and should be free.
PS: OS - Kali ...
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How to add GPS data to audio files
I want to geotag my audio files, but unfortunatly exiftool doesn't manage geotags for audio files.
I'm on linux, and I need a command line solution.
How can I do it?
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Tool to keep duplicate information in source code repository consistent
Sometimes it can't be avoided to duplicate information in a source code repository: E.g. parts of the README file will often be duplicated in the full documentation, the current version will often be ...
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Is there a Linux tool for creating a DataURI of a given file?
How can I easily obtain the DataURI of a file in a terminal-based environment? The tool should be installable via apt-get and feature simple syntax. Could you suggest some suitable options? Thank you ...
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Is there an alternative to grc (CLI output colorizer) for Windows?
I'm wondering if there's any Windows CLI tool that can easily colorize popular command output, such as log file contents and some commonly used CLI commands like ping. I'm looking for something that's ...
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CLI or scripting language library of Adobe illustrator
I have tons of Adobe Illustrator files (ai files).
These have all same layers structure.
I want to create SVG files from each of them.
Like, a.ai => a_Layer1.svg, a_Layer2.svg, a_Layer3.svg...
b.ai ...
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Web App or command line code to search a wordlist for specific letters
I'm a teacher in primary school. There is a list of words my pupils will have to learn during their first 2 years. But of course in the beginning they only know a handful of letters. So I'm looking ...
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Opening a TCP port and returning an HTTP error
I need a gratis tool for Windows which opens a specific TCP port (configurable, e.g. Port 80) and returns an HTTP error code (configurable, e.g. HTTP 503).
It must have a command line version. It ...
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elementwise-diff utility for (simple) structures of data
Suppose I have a data structure made up of, say, a 32-bit floating-point value and a 32-bit integer values. Now suppose I have two files with a million of these structures in each. For simplicity let'...
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Word separation sensitive text replacement CLI tool
I am looking for a Linux command-line utility that can do text replacement (think sed or sd) and is able to automatically extend your search-and-replace pattern to strings that have different word ...
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Less in terminal with fonts (Markdown viewing)?
I have just started looking into options for reading Markdown files in the terminal, and I've consulted these resources:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4140/markdown-viewer
https://www....
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A tool to edit .dynsym symbols in ELF files
objcopy(1) can edit .symtab (among many other things), but not .dynsym.
elfedit(1) can modify small amount of header values
patchelf(1) can modify other dynamic information (interpreter, libraries, ...
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A utility to demultiplex/extract tracks from an MP4 file
I'm using Linux. If I want to demultiplex a Matroska file, I can use mkvextract to do so. But what if I want to do this with an MPEG4 file (.mp4)? Is there an equivalent or similar utility for ...
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Command line tool that validates YAML file against a JSON schema written in YAML
I'm looking for a YAML validator that can validate YAML files against a JSON schema written in YAML.
I found Yamale - but this tool does not use the JSON schema standard but its own schema definition.
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Command line tools to do a diff of csv/tsv files?
I work on a bioinformatics tool that produces large TSV files with many (~100) and long (~5-200 char) columns. Getting a whole line from a normal diff is overwhelming. It's more important to have the ...
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Render HTML + CSS + JS to Image File
Does there exist a tool that can render HTML code to an image file? I'm writing a scifi novel and I have an idea to include images of social media threads as chapter headings. I have some experience ...
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How to host Java application package similar to Python's pypi.org?
I have a Java application which I would like to host on some sort of free hosting website. Later, users can install that application via a command-line tool and use it easily.
While searching, I found ...
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What command-line software is there for fully automatic image morphing? [closed]
I would like to create morphing animations (transition of shape and color) of a set of images and I would like to do it from the command-line. Also, I don't want to specify keypoints or such because I ...
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Is there a modern cross platform task runner, like make, for running simple scripts?
I have some build, test, etc scripts written in various interpreted languages but in Windows Powershell or cmd you cannot invoke a script directly from the command line.
# Rather than
./build
# On ...
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CLI interactive merge tool
I'm looking for a CLI (or more accurately TUI), interactive merge tool that can work on any arbitrary pair of files.
Ideally it would have a UX similar to git add --patch - diff the files, chunk the ...
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