Which CLI app/utility you wish there was a GUI for?

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Linux@lemmy.ml – 86 points – 4 months ago

For me it's: Testdisk (and Photorec) Caddy Netstat Dig Aria2

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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.

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/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

@jeena@piefed.jeena.net

Check out openconnect to connect to anyconnect VPNs

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

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

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.