looking for nice cli/tui programs by eyayah | tildeverse BBJ

>0 eyayah @ 2025/05/20 01:05

what are you guys' favorite random/novelty cli and tui programs in general? i'll share some
of my favorites too. maybe someone else will get a kick out of them. all can
be found on github!

- jrnl (command line journal/note tool)
- dooit (tui task manager)
- botany (simple virtual pet plant)
- glow (markdown viewer/formatter)

>1 scarecat @ 2025/05/20 22:59

i don't know how obvious some of these might be but:

- ncdu (tui to analyze disk usage)
- translate-shell (cli google translate tool, uses really nice syntax ex. 'trans en:de Hello'
- jq (CLI json parser, very nice for scripts, esp. when parsing http requests)
- magick (CLI image editing / converting tool) (very useful for converting from one format to another: 'magick convert file.jpeg file.png')
- yt-dlp (download videos from a ton of different websites) 
- nnn / vifm (CLI file managers, i don't really use them but they could be nice for someone)

- obviously tmux, vim, fzf, rg are a must

>2 anthk @ 2025/05/31 11:01

>>OP
- mutt as a mail client
- lynx/sacc for gopher
- gopher://magical.fish as a huge Gopher portal
- mcabber for Jabber, or profanity
- mocp for music
- sxiv for images
- mpv for videos
- yt-dlp for mpv 
- slrn for news
- catgirl for irc
- not TUI, but herbe works for a light vm such as cwm
to show up notifications for catgirl
- mosh for SSH, it uses far less bandwidth against
your tildeverse 
- entr. It watches for files and directories, it something
changes, it can spawn anything. 
- gnuplot for plots
- basic AWK for sums on rows/columns
- nvi for edits
- iomenu instead of fzf, it's far lighter.
A 'holes' shell function:

holes() { cat ~/gopher_sites.txt | iomenu | xargs sacc ; }

content within ~/gopher_sites.txt:
 
gopher:/sdf.org
gopher://magical.fish
gopher://hoi.st
gopher://gopher.icu

>3 eyayah @ 2025/06/01 01:22

these are some really good suggestions, thank you both!