• Resizing images: mogrify (part of the imagemagick suite)
• ffmpeg
• pdftk is king for rotating/cropping/appending pdfs
• LaTeX everything
• make/shell - to script/automate image and document editing
• pandoc is reasonably good for many things
• latex2rtf - to get plain text for word counts out of LaTeX source
• wc - word count, line count
• ispell -t - does spell check in the terminal. The -t is so that it’ll mostly ignore LaTeX commands in the source

I’m sure there’s more but I don’t memorize them, they kind of get remembered when I need them.

Here is my list:

• emacs - emacs

Rsync for moving files and backing up.

For audio files sox and beets are my live saver.

syncthing to sync my files on all my devices

I use:

• qpdf for mucking around with pdfs, reordering, selecting pages, combining them, etc.
• ffmpeg for video and audio sicing and transcoding. Usually encompassing a command in a script because I forget the precise params every time ;p
• nvim for anything like Markdown (which can be converted to other things like LaTeX or pdf or html, sometimes in multiple stages)
• imagemagick for simple image conversion stuff.
• wget for downloads ^.^
• youtube-dl or yt-dlp for grabbing youtube stuff.

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For me, it’s pretty much just app management via my package manager, some file management, and the big ones are using neovim as a text editor and cmus as my primary music player (I also use emms in emacs sometimes)

You can also use ghostscript (gs) or the image magick convert with PDF.

I use rsync quite often and ssh as well.

I’d add:

• ghostscript - with some basic perl scripts, works great for pdf flattening/compressing, merging, splitting, adding bookmarks etc.
• poppler - pdfseparate, sometimes pdfunite
• zathura - pdf viewing
• feh - images
• sshfs - prefer it to rclone
• cheat
• emacs - org-mode, latex, dired/wdired, capture, eshell, vterm, tramp
• mc/midnight commander

find -exec is essential to process multiple files

7z handles wildcards inside a find -exec so you can save 200 lines of sh compliance

mpv plays online media since it uses yt-dlp

https://github.com/WyattBlue/auto-editor - automatically editing video and audio by analyzing a variety of methods, most notably audio loudness

https://github.com/shssoichiro/oxipng, https://pngquant.org/ and https://github.com/RazrFalcon/svgcleaner for optimizing images

@antihero I use ffmpeg to extract frames from images. Yt-dlp to download youtube videos. Rmlint, to remove duplicates. Gallery-dl to sometimes download from sites like instagram or twitter & finally mpd / ncmpcpp to listen to music…

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.

I download files with axel