For me it’s: Testdisk (and Photorec) Caddy Netstat Dig Aria2
- Jeena ( @jeena@piefed.jeena.net ) English56•2 months ago
For me it’s the other way around I wish there would be better CLI support for GUI apps.
- notabot ( @notabot@lemm.ee ) 11•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.
- Petter1 ( @Petter1@lemm.ee ) 2•2 months ago
I like gui file browser with integrated console window that prints all the commands you trigger by using gui as well.
Any examples?
- Jeena ( @jeena@piefed.jeena.net ) 20•2 months ago
- Gimp to batch edit pictures in a script (I know about ImageMagick but still)
- Excel to change stuff in excel files quickly (I know about python modules but it’s so complicated to use)
- 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.
- nmtake ( @nmtake@lemm.ee ) 11•2 months ago
- Gimp to batch edit pictures in a script (I know about ImageMagick but still)
It seems to exist: https://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Basic_Batch/
- 𝓢𝓮𝓮𝓙𝓪𝔂𝓔𝓶𝓶 ( @SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org ) 2•2 months ago
For Excel there is a PowerShell module called Import-Excel that I use all the time.
- Jeena ( @jeena@piefed.jeena.net ) 3•2 months ago
I see, nice, but I’m on Linux, so perhaps I need to run power shell there ^^
- 𝓢𝓮𝓮𝓙𝓪𝔂𝓔𝓶𝓶 ( @SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org ) 5•2 months ago
I forgot where I was posting. (I use both win and Linux pretty heavily.) I have pwsh, let me see if import-excel works on linux and report back.
- 𝓢𝓮𝓮𝓙𝓪𝔂𝓔𝓶𝓶 ( @SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org ) 7•2 months ago
Appears to work as well as it does on windows. I guess the only downside is learning powershell if you have no previous experience with it.
- yetAnotherUser ( @yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca ) 5•2 months ago
If you don’t want to use PowerShell in Linux, there’s also nushell, which is another (non-POSIX) shell that can process Excel files
- Lydia_K ( @Lydia_K@startrek.website ) English1•2 months ago
Check out openconnect to connect to anyconnect VPNs
- Jeena ( @jeena@piefed.jeena.net ) 2•2 months ago
I did, doesn’t work with our company setup with 2FA.
- rescue_toaster ( @rescue_toaster@lemm.ee ) 3•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 ( @mranderson17@infosec.pub ) 6•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 ( @rescue_toaster@lemm.ee ) 1•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.
- mranderson17 ( @mranderson17@infosec.pub ) 1•2 months ago
Yeah, it changes without skipping a beat for me in pipewire, even in things like zoom/teams.
- oo1 ( @oo1@lemmings.world ) English2•2 months ago
I love programs like freecad despite the really hard/unintuitive gui. 95% of all the modelling i need to do (as an amateur) can be done easily in a python script.
The finishing touches like adding filets and chamfers are the annoying part were gui is easier, due to the way edges are referenced.
Likewise at work, we have to produce a lot of regular reports in excel. All done via python / sql.
- Joël de Bruijn ( @joeldebruijn@lemmy.ml ) 1•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.
- monovergent ( @monovergent@lemmy.ml ) 15•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 ( @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 ( @amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz ) English7•2 months ago
I do exactly this for downloading music, I aliased my preferred options to ‘yt-audio’
Would you mind sharing your command?
- amanneedsamaid ( @amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz ) English2•1 month 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 ( @dizzy@lemmy.ml ) 5•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
- rotopenguin ( @rotopenguin@infosec.pub ) English4•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 ( @rotopenguin@infosec.pub ) English2•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
- BehindTheBarrier ( @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.
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…
Bad link
- BehindTheBarrier ( @BehindTheBarrier@programming.dev ) 2•2 months ago
It’s a link to an image on github not sure why it doesn’t work for you. Try just looking at the repo then:
- Petter1 ( @Petter1@lemm.ee ) 1•2 months ago
I use jdownloader as gui alternative for yt-dlp. 😄 It was easy enough for my mother to understand, apparently.
- plasticcheese ( @plasticcheese@lemmy.one ) 15•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.
- moonpiedumplings ( @moonpiedumplings@programming.dev ) 8•2 months ago
Probably not what you want, but rclone now has a simple web ui built in: https://rclone.org/gui/
- plasticcheese ( @plasticcheese@lemmy.one ) 7•2 months ago
I looked at it a few months back and it didn’t have the history side of things, just the setup and realtime stats which I’d already got through the CLI. Thanks tho!
- Kairos ( @LodeMike@lemmy.today ) 2•2 months ago
I feel like you can parse a --dry-run
- plasticcheese ( @plasticcheese@lemmy.one ) 2•2 months ago
Thanks. I think I looked at doing that when setting it up, and it was more expensive in terms of API calls. With a cloud vendor you have to be careful of that, so I opted for the SIZE command.
- Kairos ( @LodeMike@lemmy.today ) 1•2 months ago
If it works it works
- delirious_owl ( @delirious_owl@discuss.online ) 12•2 months ago
There’s no CLI that k wish I had a GUI for, but there’s many GUIs for which I wish there was a CLI version.
- francois ( @francois@jlai.lu ) 3•2 months ago
The cli controls the computer while the GUI controls the user
- srecko ( @srecko@lemm.ee ) 5•2 months ago
Why would i use something so restrictive as cli tools when i can change the data directly with assembly?
- odd ( @Dungrad@feddit.org ) 4•2 months ago
I issue electricity directly to the pins.
- Malgas ( @Malgas@beehaw.org ) English5•2 months ago
So crude, when you could use a butterfly.
- ian ( @ian@feddit.uk ) English3•2 months ago
Not at all.They are 2 ways do the same thing. The GUI can tell you what options are available. The CLI needs you to memorise them, or go somewhere else to look them up.
- francois ( @francois@jlai.lu ) 1•2 months ago
A lot of GUIs have less options available than their CLI equivalents. Moreover GUIs change more often, requiring you to relearn the actions to get the expected result Shells can remember the commands you used, commands are also way easier to write down on paper than a list of actions to do on a GUI And using man or --help is not going somewhere to know the options, you stay in the shell If you want to know all the features of a tool, reading the manual is also easier than browsing all the GUI
The CLI lets the user automate tasks, giving them more control over their workflow
- ian ( @ian@feddit.uk ) English1•2 months ago
GUIs can have just as many options. Sure there are programs with poor UX. Choose a good one. There are also many GUIs with no CLI alternative, or only a poor UX alternative. As the GUIs guide the user, small changes are understood right away. GUIs remember last settings all the time. Great for reuse. If you have to write a command down, for GUIs it need not be perfect. For CLI one letter wrong and it fails. Using man commands is yet another command to learn and does not work with all CLI commands. It is possible to automate GUI commands.
And even if there was some benefit to a CLI, the entire UX is so poor you can understand why most people prefer GUIs. It’s the dominant way for good reason. And why most CLI users use a web browser and GUI email client.
- Strit ( @Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show ) 12•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.
Yeah I think a good GUI for systemd will be super useful even for people comfortable with command line.
Sometimes you need an overview of what is running on the system.
- JetpackJackson ( @JetpackJackson@feddit.org ) 4•2 months ago
There’s a TUI called sysz for systemd stuff, but I haven’t found a true GUI
- corsicanguppy ( @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ) English1•2 months ago
Systemd’s problems won’t be solved with a GUI. Now that lennart’s gone to Microsoft we can hope they upgrade in rhel10 or 11 to upstart or sysv.
- Skeletonek ( @Skeletonek@lemmy.zip ) English10•2 months ago
I’m missing a good GUI to manage SELinux. It is probably because I don’t know how to handle it but I hate this thing with passion.
- SayCyberOnceMore ( @Cyber@feddit.uk ) English7•2 months ago
A single, decent, maintained one for LVM.
Redhat had a couple of goes at this and they suck ass big time and rely on KDE (so no good for any other DE / WM). I’m not sure anything really works, so I’ll say: none exist.
- rotopenguin ( @rotopenguin@infosec.pub ) English7•2 months ago
systemctl
- ian ( @ian@feddit.uk ) English7•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.
- Joël de Bruijn ( @joeldebruijn@lemmy.ml ) 7•2 months ago
Restic Backup!
- lemmyvore ( @lemmyvore@feddit.nl ) English6•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.
- Yuki ( @Yuki@kutsuya.dev ) 6•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
- Handles ( @halm@leminal.space ) English6•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.
- Mactan ( @mactan@lemmy.ml ) 5•2 months ago
swap and zram configuration. lots of games need more than distro defaults
- Markus ( @markus@hubzilla.markusgarlichs.de ) 3•2 months ago
INOTIFY a GUI for monitor file changes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inotify
- unique_hemp ( @unique_hemp@discuss.tchncs.de ) 1•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?
- ReversalHatchery ( @ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ) English2•2 months ago
I’m not them, but sorting by columns, filtering, searching with highlights would be useful. Also, specifying the columns you wish to see.
After writing it down this sounds just plain spreadsheet operations, so the real value of such a tool would be to do all the above at the same time as watching changes.
There’s also other things that would be useful. Like a feature to select multiple directories for watching. Live output to file in original format. Maybe also JSON for when you would use it from code, but that’s maybe not that useful because then why not just use the API directly… Perhaps some patterns for which ones to send as an audible system notification.