>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!
>4 nosheep @ 2025/06/02 12:41
Do you know calcurse? https://www.calcurse.org/
>5 say @ 2025/06/07 01:13
Maybe not "nice" but I just realised you can paste a list of mp4 urls into a file, then run mpv $(cat file) and it will loop and play all the files from the URL. I'm doing it with recent war videos that are about 8 seconds long each.
>6 shrubbery @ 2025/06/10 19:21
termshark https://github.com/gcla/termshark is super useful if you are troubleshooting you also get cool shark effects when it's idle
>7 rdlmda @ 2025/07/12 03:15
CLI: - ffmpeg is love, ffmpeg is life. TUI: - Spotify-tui: disregarding the fact that Spotify is a propreitary, DRM-ridden platform, this tui utility is quite impressive. (https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui)
>8 proxaimonk @ 2025/07/13 04:54
>>OP sox (it has multiple uses but I motly use for the spectrogram image creation for analyzing audio quality)
>9 sika @ 2025/07/14 13:26
- Soft-Serve - Minimal Git server with TUI https://github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve - btop - A better top/htop https://github.com/aristocratos/btop - ranger - File manager https://github.com/ranger/ranger - aerc - Email client https://aerc-mail.org/
>10 mindhunter @ 2025/07/15 14:31
>>9 I recently also discovered a command line music player called rmpc with kitty image support. Works pretty well in most cases and even supports an audio visualizer. https://github.com/mierak/rmpc
>11 eyayah @ 2025/07/21 14:35
just a quick thank-you to everyone so for who has posted replies! these are some really cool tools that i likely would not have found otherwise ^^
>12 proxaimonk @ 2025/07/22 03:47
>>10 oooh ty for this rec!
>13 ant @ 2025/07/22 21:25
The Traditional Vi,
descending directly form Bill Joy's work at Berkeley:
>14 ant @ 2025/08/03 15:54
par -- an ingenious paragraph formatter:
>15 fenris @ 2025/08/03 16:26
If I didn't overlooked it, 'mc'. It's tui file manager.
>16 ant @ 2025/08/03 17:08
>>15 Yes, mc, or Midnight Commander. My major problem with it is that many of its very useful keybindings are by default not working on the Linux kernel console, so I have to rebind them in /home/ant/.config/mc/mc.keymap : [filemanager] Find = alt-/ SplitEqual = SplitMore = SplitLess = ViewFiltered = PutCurrentPath = alt-a PutOtherPath = ctrl-alt-a PutCurrentSelected = ctrl-n PutCurrentFullSelected = ctrl-f History = ctrl-y EditorViewerHistory = alt-h [panel] # Make room for cntr-n: Down = down; ctrl+j Up = up ; ctrl+k CdParent = ctrl-p History = ctrl-alt-y [editor] History = alt-h
>17 fenris @ 2025/08/03 17:39
>>16 True, the default keybindings do not work very well. But I don't use mc anyway. And if invoked by accident, I always have to exit it with 'exit', since F10 is bound to "volume +" on my machine. Just wanted to put 'mc' on the tui list.
>18 ant @ 2025/08/03 19:01
>>17 Oh, but such global breckage of the Fn keys is a grave disgrace! Did you intentioally configure them that way, or are you tolerating (Gibson forbid enjohing!) this default, niche, and multimedia-prioritising configuration? I am sure the operation of the Fn keys can be restored to their original general-purpose glory by UEFI/BIOS and (or) termina/X11 configuration.
>19 fenris @ 2025/08/03 19:43
>>18 Intentionally. I needed volume-, volume+ and both Fn9 and Fn10 were spare. Plus F12 is mute. I don't use the Fn keys much besides of 'Ctl-Alt Fn1' going to the console, and there Alt-Fn[2-10] to switch them. Everything works smooth on the keyboard whithin X.