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Console Addict

This page contains a list of suggested command-line tools for the console addicted user.

The must-have

GPM

OpenSSH

Screen

Accessories

UNP

  • Description: unp is a small perl script which makes extraction of any archive files a bit easier. It support several compressors and archiver programs
  • Note: Can be used in Thunar as custom action

Email

Fetchmail

Msmtp

Procmail

Mutt

Abook

Network: Mount Remote Files

Fusesmb

sshfs

Network: Internet

Aria2

Lynx

  • Description: A general purpose distributed information browser for the World Wide Web

Links2

Lftp

Finch

Freetalk

MCabber

Snownews

Tin

Irssi

Weechat

Network: Misc

iftop

nethogs

trickle

Multimedia

Dir2ogg

Mocp

MPD

Mpc

Ncmpc

Mplayer

  • Description: Movie player
  • Remarks: mplayer has several output drivers that can play videos in a tty
    • mplayer -vo aa: ascii output with libaa
    • mplayer -vo caca: coloured ascii output with libcaca
    • mplayer -vo directfb: full colours output with frame buffer
    • mplayer -vo fbdev: good option if directfb isn't available, but needs to be tricked to play at a right dimension with -fs -zoom -x 1280 -y 800 for example

Ogg123

Editors/Documents

Catdoc

Vim

Graphics: Gallery Generators

album

Genethumb

Photon

Graphics: Image Manipulation

Caca-utils

ImageMagick