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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Description: Lightweight and fast IRC client
• Website: http://weechat.flashtux.org/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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