For me it’s: Testdisk (and Photorec) Caddy Netstat Dig Aria2

    • notabot@lemm.ee
      10·
      2 months ago

      It’s been years since I had to admin Windows servers, but I was quite impressed with the number of MS products where the install and configuration tools would output the Powershell commands to carry out the changes you’d asked for. It made it quite a lot easier to automate. I’d love to see that paradigm catch on more widely, with the GUI and CLI having the same functionality and the GUI giving you the commands to run.

      • Jeena@piefed.jeena.net
        24·
        2 months ago
        1. Gimp to batch edit pictures in a script (I know about ImageMagick but still)
        2. Excel to change stuff in excel files quickly (I know about python modules but it’s so complicated to use)
        3. Proprietary VPN software like Cisco AnyConnect, I want to automate the login when I boot, but they don’t let me

        Just from the top of my head.

          • sparr@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            There are many things you can do in the GIMP gui that can’t be done programmatically :(

        • ik5pvx@lemmy.world
          5·
          2 months ago

          For anyconnect: openconnect works perfectly, either as standalone script or via networkmangler.

            • ik5pvx@lemmy.world
              2·
              2 months ago

              What kind of prompt does your company 2FA provide? Using openconnect with networkmangler, I get a pop up to input my pin+totp. I haven’t done the script way in the last few years, but the connection script is plain shell and I was able to handle the 2FA from there too

              • Jeena@piefed.jeena.net
                1·
                2 months ago

                It’s some time ago I dug deeper on what was happening, but openconnect was getting a different response from the server than it expected and it just failed because of that.

      • rescue_toaster@lemm.ee
        4·
        2 months ago

        pavucontrol. I switch between usb headset and my external speakers all the time. Continually going to this gui is kind of annoying.

        • mranderson17@infosec.pub
          5·
          2 months ago

          I use a little oneliner with tofi (rofi/wofi would also work) to select the current output and avoid pavucontrol. It’s mapped to a sway binding but would probably work in any wm/de:

          pactl set-default-sink $(pactl list short sinks |awk '{print $2}' |tofi $tofi_args)

          I’m using pipewire so the functionality of pactl is actually provided through pipewire-pulse I think

          • rescue_toaster@lemm.ee
            2·
            2 months ago

            Does set-default-sink change an already current stream? Or do you need move-sink-input.

            I’ve looked at the manpages but was a bit overwhelmed and didn’t try to make my own script. Your solution gives me motivation to do so. I also use sway and pipewire. Though I use fuzzel for my launcher.

    • Joël de Bruijn@lemmy.ml
      11·
      2 months ago

      This, but for a Fireshot like tool. Screenshot and pdf of webpages in their entirety by scrolling while shotting. In bulk, with CLI.

  • plasticcheese@lemmy.one
    20·
    2 months ago

    Rclone. Not because it’s a complicated tool, but because I would like a history of my file transfers and a few graphs to show we what speeds, files sizes and whether the transfer succeeded. At the moment in order to confirm my home backups have succeeded, I have to run a separate size comparisons between my different datastores.

  • PseudoSpock@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    141·
    2 months ago

    I’d like a GUI app for generating CLI’s for other GUI apps that don’t have them already. An application is never complete unless everything can be done via a CLI and/or API.

    • sparr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      This is an interesting idea. There are some tools out there to auto-generate shell autocompletes based on standardized --help output. Maybe there’s some possibility to GUIfy that sort of thing?

  • monovergent@lemmy.ml
    141·
    2 months ago

    yt-dlp. Too many options to remember and look up every time, but all useful and missing from GUIs when you just want to dowload audio or ‘good enough’ quality video in batches without re-encoding.

    While nmtui is perfectly fine for the CLI-uninitiated, I sometimes wonder why the nm-connection-editor window doesn’t provide the same level of functionality.

    • everett@lemmy.ml
      7·
      2 months ago

      Too many options to remember and look up every time

      This is a good use case for shell aliases. If you can identify a few of your use cases, you can give each bundle of options its own command.

          • amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            This is what I use (with zsh):

            yt-audio() {
	   yt-dlp --no-playlist -f 'ba' -x --audio-format mp3 $1
}
yt-audio-playlist() {
	   yt-dlp -f 'ba' -x --audio-format mp3 $1
}

            It takes the best quality available and downloads it to mp3.

    • dizzy@lemmy.ml
      3·
      2 months ago

      There’s a firefox extension that generates the cli command for whatever video you’re on. Let’s you check boxes for the format, sponsorblock, etc and then copies it to your clipboard.

      Just search the addon store for yt-dlp and it should show up

    • BehindTheBarrier@programming.dev
      2·
      2 months ago

      (Windows only warning, unless someone wants to add Linux support)

      I didn’t really search around for GUIs way back, but ended up making a basic GUI because I wanted to learn programming.

      https://camo.githubusercontent.com/5ecb6cdfb3710e359894b65e42b79c7ab7dd8de55a14cdf34f0f0f37d48c7d04/68747470733a2f2f692e696d6775722e636f6d2f346a46776846652e706e67

      With just having options as checkboxes for YouTube-dl. It has served me well all these years. It was literally the thing I made while learning programming so the code is pretty janky when I look back at it though…

    • rotopenguin@infosec.pubEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      You can have most of the settings pre-loaded in its config file. I mostly let it do my preset -f, or when that fails do a -F to see what encodings are available.

      • rotopenguin@infosec.pubEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Btw, here’s my config file.

        -o "%(title)s (%(uploader_id)s).%(ext)s"
 
-P ~/Videos

-P "temp:/tmp/yt-dlp/"

-f 271+ba[language=en][ext=m4a]/308+ba[language=en][ext=m4a]/137+ba[language=en][ext=m4a]/299+ba[language=en][ext=m4a]/231+ba[language=en][ext=m4a]/http_mp3_128/271+140/308+140/137+140/299+140/231+140
--download-archive ~/.config/yt-dlp/dl-archive
--no-playlist
--write-sub
--no-mtime
--compat-options no-live-chat
    • Kelly Aster 🏳️‍⚧️@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I believe ytDownloader might be what you’re looking for. It’s a yt-dlp frontend, you can export to video/audio pretty easily. And it’s in active development. I’ve used it to export short clips to WAV a few times, nothing too fancy, but so far it works pretty well.

  • Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show
    141·
    2 months ago

    I’d love supported GUI apps for pacman and systemd. I know there are GUI’s out there for them, but they are not supported by the main project, so they don’t count.

  • Yuki@kutsuya.dev
    8·
    2 months ago

    I’ve kinda grown towards CLI the last year or so. I used to make wrappers around CLIs for myself even haha

  • ian@feddit.ukEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    Mount a network share permanently on Kubuntu. Non IT people need to do backups too. And Plasma apps can’t access network shares unless they are mounted.

  • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
    61·
    2 months ago

    I’m surprised at the shortage of good Borg repository visualization tools. There are tools but they’re either incomplete or they try to do too much.

    • unique_hemp@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      2 months ago

      Hmm, I might try to make that. Any particular feature you are looking for, or is just displaying all the events in a table good 'nuff?

  • Handles@leminal.spaceEnglish
    51·
    2 months ago

    Pandoc, for sure. I love its versatility, it’s made it super easy for me to do most of my writing in markdown — and a lot of MD editors have it built-in as an export feature.

    But I use it too rarely to know the CLI commands by heart, and sometimes it would just be super helpful to open a GUI and batch convert (and/or collate) a bunch of files to a new format.

    Tell you what, throw Imagemagick and maybe a light OCR backend into the package as a Swiss Army Knife for document management, I’d probably be happy.

  • ssm@lemmy.sdf.org
    3·
    2 months ago

    w3m, as weird as that sounds, for image drawing. links graphical mode is nice, but I’m not a fan of its keybindings, and w3mimagedisplay is hacky at best, to say the least.

  • Mactan@lemmy.ml
    41·
    2 months ago

    swap and zram configuration. lots of games need more than distro defaults