====== Console Addict ======

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


===== The must-have =====

==== GPM ====

  * Description: A mouse inside your tty's
  * Website: http://unix.schottelius.org/gpm/

==== OpenSSH ====

  * Description: A free version of the SSH connectivity tools
  * Website: http://www.openssh.com/

==== Screen ====

  * Description: Screen manager with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
  * Website: http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/


===== Email =====

==== Fetchmail ====

  * Description: Fetch mail from a POP, IMAP, ETRN, or ODMR-capable server
  * Website: http://fetchmail.berlios.de/

==== Msmtp ====

  * Description: An SMTP client
  * Website: http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/

==== Procmail ====

  * Description: Autonomous mail processor
  * Website: http://www.procmail.org/

==== Mutt ====

  * Description: The Mutt Mail User Agent
  * Website: http://www.mutt.org/

==== Abook ====

  * Description: Text-based address book program
  * Website: http://abook.sourceforge.net/



===== Network: Mount Remote Files =====

==== Fusesmb ====

  * Description: Browse your network shares like your own filesystem
  * Website: http://www.ricardis.tudelft.nl/~vincent/fusesmb/

==== sshfs ====

  * Description: Mount filesystems of an ssh-host to your local file system
  * Website: http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html



===== Network: Internet =====

==== Aria2 ====
  * Description: Lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source download utility 
  * Website: http://aria2.sourceforge.net/

==== Lynx ====

  * Description: A general purpose distributed information browser for the World Wide Web
  * Website: http://lynx.isc.org/

==== Links2 ====

  * Description: Lynx-like alternative character mode WWW browser with ncurses and graphics mode
  * Website: http://links.twibright.com/

==== Lftp ====

  * Description: Sophisticated file transfer program
  * Website: http://lftp.yar.ru/

==== Finch ====

  * Description: A Pimpin' Penguin console frontend to libpurple
  * Website: http://developer.pidgin.im/
  * Manpage: http://man.cx/finch

==== Freetalk ====

  * Description: A Jabber client that features a readline interface with completion of buddy names and commands
  * Website: http://www.gnu.org/software/freetalk/
==== MCabber ====

  * Description: A small Jabber client that features a ncurses interface with history logging, command complement, and openpgp
  * Website: http://www.lilotux.net/~mikael/mcabber/

==== Tin ====

  * Description: A Usenet newsreader
  * Website: http://www.tin.org/

==== Irssi ====

  * Description: A modular IRC client for UNIX
  * Website: http://irssi.org/

==== Weechat ====

  * Description: Lightweight and fast IRC client
  * Website: [[http://weechat.flashtux.org/index.php?lang=en|http://weechat.flashtux.org/]]



===== Network: Misc =====


==== iftop ====

  * Description: Network trafic monitoring
  * Website: http://www.ex-parrot.com/pdw/iftop/

==== nethogs ====

  * Description: Network trafic monitoring by grouping bandwidth per processes
  * Website: http://nethogs.sourceforge.net/
==== trickle ====

  * Description: Lightweight userspace bandwidth shaper
  * Website: http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle

===== Multimedia =====

==== Dir2ogg ====

  * Description: audio file converter into ogg-vorbis format
  * Website: http://jak-linux.org/projects/dir2ogg/

==== Mocp ====

  * Description: Console audio player
  * Website: http://moc.daper.net/


==== MPD ====

  * Description: A daemon for playing music
  * Website: http://www.musicpd.org/

=== Mpc ===

  * Description: Program for controlling Music Player Daemon (MPD)
  * Website: http://www.musicpd.org/mpc.shtml

=== Ncmpc ===

  * Description: Curses Music Player Daemon (MPD) client
  * Website: http://hem.bredband.net/kaw/ncmpc/

==== Mplayer ====

  * Description: Movie player
  * Website: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
  * 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 ====

  * Description: Plays Ogg Vorbis files and streams
  * Website: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vorbis-tools/



===== Editors/Documents =====

==== Catdoc ====

  * Description: Extract text from Word files
  * Website: http://www.wagner.pp.ru/~vitus/software/catdoc/

==== Vim ====

  * Description: An advanced text editor
  * Website: http://www.vim.org/



===== Graphics: Gallery Generators =====

==== Genethumb ====

  * Description: A quick and dirty shell script aimed at generating HTML indexes with thumbnails
  * Website: http://sam.zoy.org/projects/genethumb/

==== Photon ====

  * Description: A static HTML gallery generator
  * Website: http://www.saillard.org/programs_and_patches/photon/

===== Graphics: Image Manipulation =====

==== Caca-utils ====

  * Description: Text mode graphics utilities
  * Website: http://libcaca.zoy.org/

==== ImageMagick ====

  * Description: A software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images
  * Website: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/command-line-tools.php