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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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[–] monovergent@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 months ago (12 children)

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 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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.xyz 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I do exactly this for downloading music, I aliased my preferred options to 'yt-audio'

[–] mfat@lemdro.id 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Would you mind sharing your command?

[–] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 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.

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