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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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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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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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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Command line tool to check whether two images are exactly the same graphically
I need a command line tool that compares 2 images and says if their contents are the same, regardless of encoding - i.e. one might be a *.bmp and the other might be a *.png, so long as all their width,...
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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 dictionary program supporting MDX files on Ubuntu
Is there any free command line dictionary program on Ubuntu that supports .mdx MDict dictionary files?
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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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Convert Office Documents to PDF on Ubuntu Server
I need to merge multiple documents into a single PDF in a web application running on Ubuntu Server. I've merged PDFs in the past so that shouldn't be an issue, but the documents can also contain doc, ...
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Linux command to define ad hoc option/switch overloading in utils
Suppose some favorite util foo has a useful switch -n bar which is almost but not quite what's needed. To get what's needed, one could:
Edit the source code to add what's needed. (Usually not ...
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Command line calculator with good hex support
Is there a command line calculator that will let me do bit operations and has good support for hex. E.g. for operations like:
0xff << 3
(1 << 5) ^ 0x77
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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 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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Light modern DNS benchmarking for linux
I'm currently building and setting up my own Linux router, and one of the advantages of this is the ability to run benchmarks on my router directly.
I'm currently using 8.8.8.8 with dnsmasq for name ...
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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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Search in my Anki collection, via command line
Anki is a flashcards app, for instance to memorize obscure vim tricks.
Sometimes I want to quickly search a fact I don't remember, without having to open the Anki GUI.
Is there a script I could use ...
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Language detection at shell command
I need to detect the language of a huge amount of files, and I was wondering if there is some tool which I could use in a way similar to this, in linux command shell:
langdetector filetodetect > ...
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Shell with undo and full cursor support
I spend a lot of time on OSX in Terminal running Bash on SSH.
Most of the time it's fine, but when writing commands I miss several "standard" text editor features:
undo typing (/redo)
cut ...
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A command line calculator that supports numbers with commas
I often want to copy/paste some numbers from a website into a calculator to do some quick arithmetic. These numbers are typically formatted for display, so they include commas as thousands separators (...
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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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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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Open-source command line application to catalog the files of external hard-drives
I'm looking for a maintained open-source application to catalog the files of many external harddrives from the command line. The app should run on macOS and maybe on Linux too.
I am thinking of the ...
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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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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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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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Set a timed reminder from the terminal
How can I issue a shell command in my terminal that will alert me with a notification once a given time has passed?
To make it a bit more specific, some things I am looking for are:
I only need one ...
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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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Command line file explorer/manager that displays the folder size
I am looking for a command line file explorer/manager that displays the folder size. I am aware of GNU Midnight Commander, Last File Manager and vifm but none of them display the folder sizes (edit as ...
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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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Mobile alerting app
I am looking for solution where I can send message from command line (which I can program) to a mobile device and it will sound alarm like alarm clock - regardless of volume it will be loud and it ...
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CLI text editor for Linux that supports scrolling bar and stdin reading? [closed]
Is there a CLI text editor for Linux that supports a scroll bar useable with the mouse and that can read from stdin ?
If not is there at least a simple GUI text editor that support stdin reading ?
I ...
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CLI library manager for Linux
I use Arch Linux.
I'm looking for something similar to vifm and ncmpcpp to manage my library of books and videos. I like the CLIs with vim bindings.
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CLI. I don't want a GUI.
Customizable ...
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Windows shell that works with Windows and Linux commands
I'm a Linux user forced to work on windows. I want a windows command line that understand Windows and Linux commands. Furthermore:
It has to save history
It has to be able to ssh directly to a server
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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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Determine file type from its content (not trusting the .extension)
I have millions of files like report.bin which are maybe a Word file or maybe a PDF file.
I can not trust the filename extension.
Also, I must distinguish between PDF/A and PDF/X, and other distinct ...
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Command line tool for converting between 3D formats
I am looking for a command line tool (i.e. automatable from the command line) for OS X that can convert between various 3D modelling formats, and satisfies the following:
Supports any of the input ...
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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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Comparing RTF files and returning the difference in an RTF format
I am looking for a STDIN/STDOUT supported program that can return the difference (preferably in RTF format) between two RTF files or strings, similar to how GitHub tracks changes between two text-...
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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
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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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Text based browser that runs JavaScript
I am searching for a text browser running JavaScript. It should be compatible with Linux platform.
Other features:
run JavaScript (this is the most important)
minor CSS rendering (text colors, ...
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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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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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