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Linux-like terminal for Windows

I've been using Cygwin for some time now and it seems to do the job. It was very easy to install and I could choose from many different packages to install like vim, wget, etc. Cygwin Get that Linux ...
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Linux-like terminal for Windows

CMDer It combines ConEmu, a Windows console emulator augmented with bash-like capabilities by Clink and msysgit. Some notable features include: Bash shell, through msysGit GNU C Compiler & GNU ...
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See CPU use history as a graph in a Linux shell

You can use s-tui: free and open source (GNU General Public License v2.0, written in Python) allows to monitor CPU temperature, frequency, power and utilization in a graphical way from the terminal: ...
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See CPU use history as a graph in a Linux shell

tload (from the procps package on Debian and Ubuntu) provides a basic system load graph: You can set the scale with -s and the delay (in seconds) with -d. Symbols: * represents the level of [load ...
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Linux-like terminal for Windows

Cygwin, already listed is a good solution. However, there is another alternative: MSYS. MSYS is much lighter weight than Cygwin, however it might not have everything you need. Obviously, you will ...
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Linux-like terminal for Windows

Babun I'm surprised nobody mentioned Babun, "a windows shell you will love". It's a preconfigured Cygwin that "just works", generally quite awesome out of the box. For a long time ...
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Linux-like terminal for Windows

Windows 10, with the 2016 anniversary update, now provides a Bash Linux binary running on Windows itself. It can be accessed through any command prompt and can run UNIX-style commands (like ls) as it ...
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No-GUI tool to take screenshots of websites

Sindreshorus's pageres Support multiple resolutions CLI support $ pageres <url> <resolution> ... $ pageres todomvc.com 1024x768 1366x768 # 2 screenshots $ pageres todomvc.com yeoman.io ...
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Linux-like terminal for Windows

What I use is a combination of Git Bash, which comes when you install Git, and ConEmu. Git Bash uses MinGW, and ConEmu provides the option to have multiple tabs and good colour schemes, the option to ...
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What library should I use for handling CLI arguments for my Java program?

picocli is different from other Java CLI libraries: It is designed to be included in source form. This lets users run picocli-based applications without requiring picocli as an external dependency. ...
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Linux-like terminal for Windows

MSYS2 is a fork of Cygwin created with the intention of being an updated environment to support building with MinGW. (That is, it's meant to serve as a better maintained alternative to the ever more ...
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Text based browser that runs JavaScript

// , Consider brow.sh, because of its low bandwidth but extremely flexible support for different kinds of web pages: https://www.brow.sh It also has a clever way of using True color support in ...
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Command-line PDF optimizer (linearizer)

I personally use Ghostscript to optimize the size of my PDF files. You can specify an optimization level and it will shrink the pictures. This also has the (IMHO desirable) side-effect of removing ...
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See CPU use history as a graph in a Linux shell

ttyload has a Debian package available. (More screenshots) ttyload shows an asterix graph of CPU usage averages taken 1 minute at a time in red, 5 minutes at a time in green, and 15 minutes at a ...
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What library should I use for handling CLI arguments for my Java program?

I recommend JOpt Simple. It 'attempts to honor the command line option syntaxes of POSIX getopt() and GNU getopt_long().' It has community traction and notably is the command line parsing lib of ...
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Automatically remove white borders from pdfs, no OCR, command line

pdfcrop Have you checked out pdfcrop? See: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/gutsy/man1/pdfcrop.1.html It is described in more details here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/124692/command-line-...
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No-GUI tool to take screenshots of websites

I know about a bunch of tools which claim to be able to do that. Out of curiosity I just tried all of them. I've listed the IMHO best working tools first, but YMMV: gnome-web-photo gnome-web-photo ...
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Command line tool to check whether two images are exactly the same graphically

ImageMagick compare -metric AE exit status is non-zero if at least one pixel color differs. Let’s say you have a folder named before which contains original images, and a folder after which should ...
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Trello Command Line

One of these might be what you’re looking for: trello_cli Usage: trello card [create] [options] -b, --board [BOARD] Trello Board Id -d, --description [DESCRIPTION] Description ...
6 votes

Linux-like terminal for Windows

MobaXTerm Gratis: yes. It has Personal and Professional Edition. The professional edition mostly just adds a support contract and deployment tools AFAICT). You can use the personal edition at your ...
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Curses-based SQLite console browser

My choice for browsing tabular data in the console or terminal is [Visidata] (https://www.visidata.org). It works well with SQLite and a variety of other data sources. It does allow editing data in ...
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DNS query tool (host(1) or nslookup(1) replacement)

You can use getent. See getent --help. $ getent hosts google.com 172.217.194.139 google.com 172.217.194.102 google.com 172.217.194.100 google.com 172.217.194.101 google.com 172.217.194.138 google.com ...
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Text based browser that runs JavaScript

2017 solution: Here's a solution for rendering html+js in the terminal: Required: Chrome 59 or greater Using chrome in headless mode allows you to render a page with javascript through the terminal! (...
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Linux: Command-line tool to quick-change the actual wireless "connected to" network?

(Answer found at the Unix & Linux StackExchange site) Solution using the nmcli tool, included in most distros or easily installable via apt-get, yum ... etc : To show already-stored WiFi ...
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Looking for a command line tool to celebrate programming success

Cowsay is a classic, although it's a lot more tame than fireworks — it isn't even animated. You could take it up a notch with Ponysay. On the animation side, asciiquarium, which uses the Term::...
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Linux-like terminal for Windows

As of 2015 and Python 3.4's release, there's now a reasonably complete user-interactive shell available at: http://xon.sh/ The demonstration video does not show pipes being used, but they ARE ...
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Linux-like terminal for Windows

Windows Terminal Although it does not include a true bash shell by default, I have found windows terminal to be the best Microsoft created, officially windows supported, terminal for Windows 10. ...
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Audio editing CLI application that can fuse multiple wav files into a new one?

If you really would like to save some effort, install python, use pip install pydub to add pydub and then use os.walk something like: import os from pydub import AudioSegment OUTNAME = "Mixed.wav" ...
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Curses-based SQLite console browser

Check the sqlectron. It comes both in GUI and in Term version. Also there is sqlcrush.
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Convert JSON to CSV

Python is: Free, Gratis & Open Source including commercial use Available for windows, along with just about everything else, although recent versions (post 2.5.4) have dropped Windows XP support ...
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