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What CLI apps you use to do common tasks like editing (pdf, audio, video, image) files. (social.fossware.space)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Here is my list:

pdf - pdftk
images - imagemagickutilities
audio/video - ffmpeg
documents - libreoffice --headless mode, also pandoc
download files - wget and curl, also ytdlp for youtube, reddit
cloud storage - rclone

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use most of these that you listed, except that I don't use office apps at all, and do all my documents using LaTeX in neovim.

Also, I have small helper scrips for pdf manipulation for tasks that I do regularly, like making my handwritten notes ready for printing at my office since I don't like the algo my office printer uses to convert them to B&W. I also use sejda-console for merging PDFs as it has nice options for manipulating TOC during the merge.

Another nice utility is ffpb which is basically a wrapper around ffmpeg that gives it a nice progress bar.