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Which CLI app/utility you wish there was a GUI for? (lemdro.id)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by mfat@lemdro.id to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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For me it's: Testdisk (and Photorec) Caddy Netstat Dig Aria2

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[–] mfat@lemdro.id 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Any examples?

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 28 points 4 months ago (4 children)
  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.

[–] nmtake@lemm.ee 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)
  1. 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/

[–] sparr@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 2 points 4 months ago

This is one reason I love FreeCAD. Everything done in the GUI is just a python call

[–] ik5pvx@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

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

[–] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

For Excel there is a PowerShell module called Import-Excel that I use all the time.

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I see, nice, but I'm on Linux, so perhaps I need to run power shell there ^^

[–] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 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

[–] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.procrastinati.org 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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.

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[–] Lydia_K@startrek.website 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Check out openconnect to connect to anyconnect VPNs

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I did, doesn't work with our company setup with 2FA.

[–] ik5pvx@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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 points 4 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 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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@infosec.pub 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah, it changes without skipping a beat for me in pipewire, even in things like zoom/teams.

[–] oo1@lemmings.world 2 points 4 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.